You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

Ironic then, that a good chunk of those wannabe nazis are all tax dodgers. If they paid their way there wouldn't be such a drain on the resources they claim are being stolen by de immigrinz.

Now, as for the rest of your spiel, you provide no evidence whatsoever for your theories of 'displacement'. You are literally being hysterical. And yes, if you define a group by negatively stereotyping them, that's racism.

Since 1992 it was legal for an Irish woman to travel for an abortion. Even if it wasn't, it isn't exactly comparable to arson attacks which absolutely has the potential to kill a random person. An abortion was a necessity for those women, burning down a building is wanton destruction by thugs. So the point stands, repeal was peaceful and met its goals because of public support. You seem to want to make decisions through intimidation. If they kill somebody, do you plan to justify that too?

We don't have referenda on silly things, we have them when there's a proposed change to the constitution, this was not required by the migration pact therefore there was no referendum, its quite a simple concept to grasp for those who were paying attention in CSPE.

Should the government consult the people on every single issue of the day that comes up? If not then where is the bar exactly?

Alright off you go and get 100 people to agree on what a major issue is and how to consistently define with absolute certainty what does and doesn't qualify as a major issue and would require a non binding referendum be held.

Then do it for 1000, then do it for 100,000…. do you see where im going with this? I will grant immigration is important but so is health, housing, crime, taxes, climate change, education, financial regulation, state pensions, childcare etc etc. There will always be someone or a group of someones who thinks their issue is the most major and should be given priority which is why General Elections are how we vote on major issues.

The problem with that argument is immigration is not the main cause of the problems we face in those areas, its simply another stressor on top of what was already there and stopping all immigration tomorrow wont make the issues for those areas go away overnight. Housing, health, crime and all the others have been issues for a good while prior to 2022 which is when immigration policy and concerns moved properly into the forefront of peoples minds mainly due to Ukraine overwhelming our immigration systems even more than they already were. In fact if we solved one or more of the problems in those sectors,housing specifically, I would bet good money the current anger levels over immigration wouldn't be anywhere near as tense.

Immigration is the most important issue to YOU but arguing it is THE most important issue is pretty naive and slightly narcissistic.

Personally i think housing, healthcare and crime are at the very least 3 issues that are more important than immigration currently.

Repeal campaigners broke no law, and women travelling to the UK for abortions were not breaking any law - we had a referendum in 1992 to give women a constitutional right to travel for an abortion - but even before that referendum there was no law against it, as the Supreme Court ruled in the X case.

These posts (even the ones not condoning arson) are very very silly indeed.

The faux concern for the health service is one of the right's most dishonest moves (along with the faux concern for women)

Huge numbers of healthcare workers are immigrants.

My GP is an immigrant.

This is irrelevant, the campaign to repeal was used as some kind of stupid justification for engaging in arson by a previous poster and that was what was being responded to. You're oddly enough not calling out the poster who is justifying arson and violence.