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

The roads are getting so busy compared to twenty years ago. Driving through anything larger than a small town is getting rage inducing. Really if the population hits pre famine levels it's going to be insane.

That's quite clearly directed at what I wrote but you and I both know that shows no real resemblance to what I actually said.

I have to ask why?

What do you get out of that?

There seems to be an attempt to portray Irish people in some kind of victim role? Why?

Parts of Ireland are turning into a third world kip. Import the third world… you know the rest

Whats the point of one arm of our government giving out tents and another arm spending a fortune putting up barriers to stop tents when they are now just putting the tents behind the barriers?

Relevance??

Would a one parent family policy work?

Good weather for blight...

Jaysus, this thread.

I will continue to read this thread but thanks for the suggestion

I wasn’t suggesting you don’t contribute. I was suggesting that this thread might not be the place for cheery morning posts. The whole situation is pretty depressing

He is the green party leader and therefore a coalition leader. You are correct though that everything he does is approved by cabinet. They are all in this together. If anyone from government comes out to say we must make it harder like Harris did before the local and European elections , they are only saying it to get votes. They are all to blame and if we had a half decent opposition these parties should be looking at being wiped out in the next election but instead 2 of the 3 will be back in government.

Yes, statistics from the period in question tell us Irish people were the most violent in Australia.

Personally I'd think that unrepresentative of Irish people in general and it would make me wonder what factors lead to such a statistical picture. I'd assume it was due to demographic overrepresentation whereby young people in their twenties are more likely to be involved in violence, and a lot of young Irish people in this age group move to Australia.

Maybe some people have to draw simplistic conclusions from statistics like this and conclude that Irish people are violent, Iraqi's are sexual offenders etc but in an age where there's a lot of misleading statistics available online, these people really have to learn the basics of things like causation and correlation.

And in August 2024 there is well over 120,000 now

FF missed a trick that could've had them top dog again imo. What they should have done was - Around the end of Q2 2023, made very subtle but continuous public mutterings about what the justice minister should be doing (it's known that FF are unhappy with McEntee, who isn't in fairness) - By the end of Q3 2023 these public comments increase and any subtlety goes out the window.

Q4 2023 has budget, recess, Christmas hols etc, so a lot going on - Start of Q1 2024 they get very vocal and start to personally attack both Justice and Integration ministers and their Dept's, whilst simultaneously indicating that they [FF] will sort it out - Feb 2024, withdraw from the coalition citing no confidence in McEntee/O'Gorman, collapse the Govt and a GE called for the end of March 24 with FF becoming the lead party.

But they blew it so that's all irrelevant

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We simply can't have another 5 years of this - The country will be destroyed beyond all recognition - If FG gets re-elected, they will take it as an endorsement of their policies by the electorate and continue as is or even increase it claiming they have a mandate from the people to do so

We all know that there's no credible opposition party but don't despair - In the next GE we can actually do something and it's not a fait au complet for FFG - We should cram the Dáil to the rafters with independants leading to a Dáil the likes of which has never been seen before in the history of the state - It will be unprecedented, it will be absolute chaos, it will be like herding cats down the M50 - Perfection

Depending on exactly the numbers involved, the big 2 will scramble about trying to cobble together some sort of a coalition desperately trying to cling to power - I know the fear exists that maybe your independent of choice will be tempted by offers of positions etc, but the key to this is to have too many in there. The whole plan revolves on instability and also with the possibility of a new election being held, due to the inability to form a working Govt or, the fact that any coalition cobbled together could easily collapse within 2 years, thus keeping the independents on their toes, mindful that they haven't reached the pension time served yet and they better keep the promises they made pre election

This strategy will put a rocket up the swiss of the big 2 as the electorate deliver a message that cannot be ignored (unlike the many, many polls)

Watch the current players in the Govt now, suddenly find new ways of actually tackling/solving the immigration/fake asylum seekers issues if that happened - International obligations will be turfed right out the window

I should add, the SocDems (as it stands now) have some sort of potential of having a say in Govt formation which would be a disaster as they're as bad as the greens - they must never get that chance

To sum up: Don't think about putting a Govt in for 5 years - Think about giving a massive kicking to FG for what they've done/failed to do and the utter contempt they've shown to the people — the rest will work itself out

Every independant in has the potential of taking a FG/GP/PBP/SD/L/FF/SF out