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

Not many od these sorts of candidates in Dublin AFAIK, or ones with a snowball's chance of being elected anyway...

Yeah, so I'm not really quite sure where you or anyone else took issue with the point I originally made. I remarked as to how people will say "I'm not far right" but will then, as you are doing here, declare that they would vote for a Far Right party on this single issue — noting that it's more or less the single issue that defines far right ideology. So I don't see how or why there often appears to be a hesitancy among people with clear far right sympathies to actually just say "yes, maybe I actually am far right".

As for the whole "destroying the country" theatrics — well — go ahead, stick the far right guys in power and watch them turn Ireland into a real-life Tír na nÓg of homogenous perfection where everyone is happy and immigration/refugee policy is absolutely perfect and no foreign national is physically capable of wrongdoing.

Given the number of "far right sweeping to power in Europe" where have they destroyed the country?

This is not a comparable analogy. The comparable analogy is someone with left leaning views voting for a communist party because they align with them on one or two issues.

And what have they done and what are they doing? Are they delivering the promises that swept them to power?

The British have been dancing to the Right's tune for close to a decade at this stage. They left the EU, ended free movement, never stop banging on about immigration — and the result? The number of EU migrants has dramatically decreased but net migration continues upwards as the downturn in EU migrants has been compensated by a sharp upturn of non-EU migrants. Well done to UK right wing politics for failing to achieve the one thing that has been its raison d'etre.

In Italy, the country's right wing leader track record so far? Promised a naval blockade to block boats from North Africa. Didn't implement it and has largely not achieved much in reducing migration. In France, the would-be saviour of the French people, Marine Le Pen has been carefully reformulating her old "blame the EU" vitriol into something even more vague since Brexit exposed some of the simplistic lies behind anti-immigration rhetoric. Oh, and whatever happened to Trump's wall?

The fact is, many of these right wing parties aren't going to destroy their countries because, like Trump and like the Brexiteers, when in power their big simplistic promises slap head first into the thick concrete slab of the realities of the modern globalised world.

“Trumps wall” has become Bidens wall. Construction ongoing.