One subject will not be seriously dealt with by any of the major parties as a general election nears, yet it has been on everybody’s lips for the past year: immigration. About one in five of the Irish population is an immigrant, affecting housing, schools and hospitals, yet the subject may not enter the official national discourse. Indeed, it has taken the place of contraception in Irish public life as a taboo for our political classes. Where once they lived in fear of the Catholic hierarchy, today they are terrified of our new hierarchy, the state-sponsored, sabre-toothed quangos and their allies in the media.
Keir Starmer’s 1984ish Britain is now the template for Ireland’s future, as a politicised magistracy in lynch-mode hurl illiterate and baffled white working-class protesters into the jug for rioting. Meanwhile, anti-Semitic mobs who took over English cities and who attacked people who “seemed” Jewish were then treated by the Old Bill like a Women’s Institute day-trip to Brighton. Look at Rotherham, where some fifty people have gone through a conveyer-belt legal system following recent riots. A Peter Lynch, (63) ailing with kidney and heart conditions, got nearly three years in the slammer for, well, it’s not clear what for. The judge said, “You did not attack any police officer…but encouraged others to behave violently.”
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