Far down the ballot paper, it’s more about keeping people out than it is voting people in.
Odds and ends from the Editor.
The country is rarely able to have more than one major issue debated concurrently. Right now, immigration is the issue dominating the airwaves.
Voters, in a democracy, have a duty to themselves and their fellow citizens to be deeply skeptical.
Journalists should probably be fairer to such characters than we are.
Looking at the tents in Dublin, one gets a sense of national helplessness. A sort of “somebody else has to fix this” attitude that permeates the Dublin establishment.
I fear, looking at the mess in this one EU constituency, that a hard lesson is going to be learned by many people on June 7th.
As salesmen for what life in an Independent Scotland would be like, the SNP have done a better job of warning against it than any Englishman could.
At present, Ireland has voluntarily chosen to be a more attractive destination than our nearest neighbour. That is our choice, not theirs. Everything else is noise, bullshit, and spin.
Faced with the threat of a worse outcome, a lot of rational people who should not be in the UK have chosen to self-deport themselves to Ireland.
I am right and Mrs. McGuirk, for the first time since about 1987 (at least in her view), is entirely wrong.
Deploying armed officers was a reasonable and obvious decision, in the interests of public safety.