The Labour party is currently polling at 4.2% in the polls and the idiotic carry-on at their campaign launch in Dublin yesterday does a lot to explain why.
It’s not just the cringe slogan – Together we Thrive – and the general self-satisfied smugness and awful air of superiority that permeates everything these caviar socialists do, but the fact that they are perfectly willing to make life for Irish people even harder by spinning some nonsensical yarn about Ireland ‘needing refugees’.
On a day when Irish people were desperately scrambling to fill their fuel tanks, and the BPFI revealed that new housing commencements had fallen by an alarming 76% in 2025, this crowd are out preaching at the vast majority of Irish people who know that the sky-high rates of immigration we’ve had foisted on us in recent years has been a disaster.
Every person who is currently worried sick about finding a home, or experiencing homelessness, or living with their parents because there is nothing remotely affordable to rent, or undertaking an exhausting commute every day because a house in the Midlands and a job in Dublin is the new normal, or heartbroken because their children are emigrating because they can’t see a future here in their own country, should know that this is Labour’s policy: more refugees and more immigrants.
The Labour candidate does not say why Ireland needs refugees. Presumably we don’t welcome wars which cause genuine refugees to flee, though as we know most of the people rocking up to Mount Street are actually economic migrants. We certainly don’t need the fake refugees whose crimes are clogging up the courts even as the government continues to refuse to produce crime data based on ethnicity. Perhaps Labour needs refugees so that they can feel more virtuous than the great unwashed who have an issue with hundreds of strange men being dumped in their village or community.
Only the very stupid could seriously believe that bringing hundreds of thousands of people to a small island in the middle of already severe housing shortage would not make the crisis infinitely worse. Yet the government keeps handing out work permits and student visas like snuff at a wake, while the huge spillover from the IPAS centres means the state is quietly bagging privately rented accommodation for asylum seekers and competing with Irish people for same. Labour, with as great deal of self-conscious swagger, is effectively giving the Irish people the finger and saying to bring even more immigrants to the mix.
But not even Labour is entirely made up of very stupid people, of course, so what’s mostly happening here is that the party is pitching for immigrant votes, noting, as its candidate does that Dublin Central is now the most diverse constituency in the country.
Opinion polls persistently show that a huge majority of people in Ireland believe there has been too much immigration and want numbers reduced. They are all likely guilty of wrongthink in the rarefied atmosphere of Labour’s higher echelons.
Yesterday, the always unsufferable Aodhán Ó Riordán, Labour’s MEP, was bigging up his party (and himself presumably) for being so brave and wonderful in taking a stand for “being pro-immigration”. This is a fairly common theme amongst the entirely-deluded, endlessly virtue-signalling, managerial class, who cast themselves in the role of some sort of reverse Horatio at the Gate except that they are opening the bridge rather than protecting the citizens already living in the city.
He also praised the candidate Ruth O’Dea for her great work on abortion, (Aodhán is a big fan), another on-demand policy that is shoring up devastating consequences for the birth rate, the economy, and in the first instance for unborn babies and women.
Interestingly, Labour’s Facebook page (they have flounced off X along with all the other people living in their own special middle-class bubble) didn’t feature the bould Aodhán’s video and O’Dea’s pitch for more refugees. The party reined it in a bit for the official video, huddling under red umbrellas while insisting that the country would fall apart without the migrants they are so keen to welcome in increasing numbers while Irish people emigrate for Australia and elsewhere.
As I have written previously, the reality is that the Irish government is spending millions recruiting staff for the healthcare service abroad while our own highly-trained medics are being driven out of the country by the never-ending housing and cost-of-living crisis. The argument being made by Labour is spurious and it is increasingly difficult to believe that they are not simply being wilfully blind to these facts.
The party’s founder, James Connolly, is rarely cited by Labour these days, since the concerns of working class people, in particular in regard to wages and services and housing, are of no real concern to modern socialists who see themselves instead as champions of the kind of diversity that happily also provides cheap baristas and childminders for their middle-class comfort.
Speaking in 1914, Connolly warned against bringing huge numbers of Belgian refugees to Ireland after the outbreak of the war because that would supplant Irish workers, and for Connolly Irish people always came first. What would he make of the shower of useful idiots whose immigration policies enable Big Capital to use Ireland as a mere staging post for profit accumulation, while also filling the pockets of opportunists sharing the billions being squandered providing IPAS accommodation?
Ireland does not need more refugees or immigration. And we need real political change before Labour et al succeed in pushing further rapid demographic change that best suits their political agenda.