The good, right-thinking Irish citizen is expected to publicly profess – even if they do not privately believe – that immigration and the housing crisis are two separate issues.
He has implemented more of his policy than any other politician of his era. And he has done it all while half the country or more sees him as a slightly harmless eejit.
In short, the ECB’s plan is to nudge the economy in the direction of a recession, in order to combat inflation.
Senator Keogan said that she would “stand up and object to this person” during the meeting, and planned to “remove herself from the chamber while they speak.”
Aside from offering generational change on the left, Cairns offers something else that nobody else can: Purity.
It was Saul Alinsky, I think, who wrote in the book “rules for radicals” that the enemy should always be accused first of that which you are considering yourself.
Most politicians, at this stage, are just hoping that someone else is in power when it does come.
In the Pandemic, we were precisely as well off, in democratic terms, as Stalin’s Russia.
Up until Monday, I’d have said Nationalists had a pretty strong argument to make on that front.
Just because something can be defended, that does not make it a good or a sharp political idea
This policy should have never been adopted, and it should be abandoned.
Having financial interests – once they are disclosed – is not corruption. But it is also not irrelevant.