Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 11/5/24*

I would imagine the rise of the “far right” is because of what the people can see with their own eyes in terms of much higher criminality and sex attacks, rather than the public being manipulated by a small minority?

Why are you bringing racism into this? The most dubious asylum seekers of them all are the Albanian and Georgians - ie Europeans.

Asylum seekers are people who have left their home country as political refugees and are seeking asylum in another.

Just so there's no confusion in the future that's the definition

Yes but as our Chief of Police said they have watched this and learned.

Like the extremists at other marches and protests who do their utmost to create a situation where the police have to react and then record the police action " as if..look , they are beating the hell out of these 'poor fxcjers ' unprovoked ."

The reactions of the normally very easygoing police and government to the situations provoked by those fascists in Sweden did not help their situation.

People there were played .

Hyping up fears about services which were in decline prior to this ,and guncrime , which was largely gang/ drug related , a government comprised of 3 centre right groups and one far right have a majority of 3 seats in their present parliament . Not a far right government so . However the Swedish Democrat party are and make up the government coalition having gained 20% of the vote , have a neo nazi background , and are not allowed to hold any ministerial seats unlike its 3 coalition parties.

Countries all over Europe, not just Ireland , are watching this as the far right try to rebrand themselves from vicious thugs and anarchists to now apparently sensible and caring supporters of the common people .

Left wing politicians are being targeted for abuse and intimidation all over Europe and centre left governments are being smeared in right wing media and every thing they do minutely criticised and undermined .

And yet the backgrounds of these 'activists 'are kept secret .

What if they are leaving due to climate change?

Or religious beliefs?

Or a war breaks out?

You are really struggling here.

You don't seem to realize that when people get here they tell their friends how to play the system.

Then they tell their friends and it begins to snowball.

There's no accomodation here so they will end up in tents all over the place, is that the scenario you hope plays out?

Um.. I don't think you understand what racism is if the post you quoted was your example.

It's also misused to where it's completely ineffective at trying to stifle the discussion or make the "accused" slink away (which was the real intent, right?)

But for a real example of racism, how about the fact that we have a Government that seems to be prioritising everyone else except the citizens who they are actually meant to be representing with no expense or effort spared on issues that for decades they told those same citizens couldn't be easily fixed.

That's not just racist, it's far more insidious and dangerous to our supposed republic and political system.

Called into my ma's yesterday, she gets the Sunday Indo religiously. I lost track of the number of far right, moral duty, paddy once emigrated articles

Maybe next week they will look at the situation from the other side- didn't see any mention of that tho (maybe I missed it!)

I never said they were not legitimate. The uneducated Red Silurian gave us the wrong definition, as usual, so I had to correct him, again.

To answer your claim they are not playing the system, just because somebody is granted asylum doesn't mean they told the truth to get it granted either.

David Cullinane was on yesterday and he basically said people need to just suck it up when these young men are bussed into their communities.

But that policy is coming from the top, MacDonald is a private schooled lib from a wealthy backround, I've seen the videos and she isn't very popular with people in poorer parts of the city because they have copped on that even more would be coming in under SF

Can someone please point out the far right bogeyman from this picture of the Clare, inch protesters?

I want to know who my local far right enemy is so I can condemn their existence

Oh like the IT being massively embarrassed by running an AI-generated article about the usage of fake tan being a "problematic" example of cultural appropriation 2 weeks back?

Yea thank god for those last few bastions of journalistic integrity eh?

I think you might want to read some of the coverage of the event, or even the thread here.

They were pushed into an embarrassing climbdown after others did the "research for accuracy" you were on about for them. So much so that they went and issued a mailshot to anyone on their list about it.

You could also ask (as many did) how such an article was greenlit for publication in the first place of course, but sure... go them!

If people are turning to SF because they feel the Govt is too lax on immigration then they would seem to be barking up a whole forest of wrong trees.

Except you didn’t give the right definition either.