“The other side are worse” cannot be an excuse for bad behaviour on your own side.
You wouldn’t get a platform on RTE to say what he just said. And neither, you’ll note, will he.
Meanwhile, over 70% of Americans say they would prefer literally any other choice than Trump versus Biden, round two.
Why shouldn’t policy, rather than encouraging and incentivising two-income households, work more towards making one-income families viable?
Eventually, the scale of the problems created by liberalism and its prejudices allow people to overcome their fears about being called “far right”.
This, I’m afraid, is what most organisations, and the country, would look like in a United Ireland. And yet for some reason, the most devoted nationalists are very upset by it.
The simple fact that such claims are being made – not by activists, but by a very senior doctor – should be one of the top political issues this week. Will it be? Not likely.
But hold it alongside European elections, and the vote might become an afterthought, sneaking through with a yes vote because of a lack of debate, rather than because of a thorough debate.
If this is the level of opposition that the Government, and its co-believers, face, then it is not opposition at all.
The episode has been withdrawn from the RTE player.
Rollback.
Pro Lifers, under the bus.