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

All talk as usual from him... expect nothing to be done.

If you said it a few months back you were ‘far right’ or racist.

His backbenchers (the few who are running again) are obviously getting onto him, hence the noise.

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The GDP will likely be lower from reduced multi national tax which has happened in last few months .The Irish stock market has also reacted with a decline .A government that will opt in to this resettlement of asylum seekers cannot see beyond their nose.

I must've those funny glasses on swell... as I walk down O'Connell Street I have to check where I actually am.

I don't understand why some people think the EU are forcing us to take so many UKR refugees?

AFAIK, it is all our own choice.

The same goes for the really slow asylum process. AFAIK, that is all our own choice.

100% our choice, but if we don’t, those choices will have consequences. Like it was our choice to bail out the Unsecured EU bond holders. And 100% our choice to revote on Nice and Lisbon.

Ah bless.

The concentration of refugees in the city is because of the concentration of accomodation in those areas. Also many have to go into the city to collect benefits and attend IPO.

There has always been a large concentration of various people collecting benefits etc in town and others mainly Irish participating in criminal activities and drug taking. Well documented.

People here only noticing that now? And of course as this thread is so adept at, blaming it all on our foreign guests!

I suggest all the snowflakes worrying about themselves on their once or twice a year visit to the Big City cocoon themselves in Kildare Village or Dundrum or the like outside the city and they won't have to look at ordinary daily life around them in all its messiness.

If you have spent your life working in the city centre as I have, and travelling in and out on public transport / cycling/walking, you will know that Dublin is a far, far better place to live and work than it was even 10 or 20 years ago.

Still a long way to go but not being painted correctly here.

Its just a nonsense to claim that the population of Dublin is predominantly non Irish which if you had read anything was the silly remark I was originally replying to.

Ah bless. Ok then.

"Rush for kudos from the EU" is completely overstating things - they genuinely wanted to do the right thing by Ukraine (and an SF government would have done the same thing). Look at the current support for the Palestinians from all parties, that's pretty much coming from the same place and is actually going against the mainstream EU position.

They have a much stronger far right over there for many years. National Front being one.

We have had these types trying to influence our politics here for many decades now.

Their interest in keeping British White is not the same as our interests. Nor is it Anti British to have an issue with that sort of 'politics' if you can call it that .

There would be a lot of British people who have problems with it too. As evidenced by these activists being outlawed and some of those grouos being proscribed.

The fact that you misconstrue or don't understand that does not surprise me. As I said it is evident from some of the bile being spewed here that there are some people in sympathy with those characters posting here.

Also bit of a red herring there as we have people travelling in the opposite direction just as much if not moreso from the UK so that should be do we have security issues from the CTA with the UK?

Don:t think anybody (with any sense) would want to get rid of the freedom of travel between UK and Ireland now.

Have to say, i haven't seen any National Front types here in Ireland. But it is rather stereotyping and hyperbolic of you to try and brush all anti-refugee sentiment as "far right".

Yeah, it must be 'British activists', American internet nazis and shady local right-wing opportunists (so popular and persuasive that they can't even score a single county counsel seat in the entire country) who must be responsible!

It certainly can't be people looking around with their own two eyes, at the obvious and inevitable consequences that mass immigration and a broken asylum system has wrought on the infrastructure, social cohesion and culture of their cities and small towns and deciding, 'feck this!'.

No, you're right, it must be the foreign activists! If we can just censor them and push through 'hate speech legislation' to stop people questioning the value of multiculturalism or even discussing it, then surely everything will be utopian!

Haven’t seen any bile myself but plenty of posts suggesting people who query if we have enough resources to take in unlimited refugees as racists