Keir Starmer, in his recent and implicit rejection of immigrationist Britain, has intellectually ended a catastrophic era in his country’s history. However, it is unlikely that the many liberal-indoctrinated judges or politicians in either Britain or Ireland will follow his example.
Ireland seems determined follow the same ghastly path as the British, assured by the false prophets of the left that immigrationism is of itself good for a society, and its opponents are fascists, racists and loathsome bigots. When self-pleasuring moral sanctimony is the basis for an argument, historical empiricists cannot possibly win. This is especially so in a society like Ireland’s, whose virulent secularity has faithfully emulated the episcopal and authoritarian traditions of the post-Penal Laws Catholic Church whose imperium essentially lasted from Catholic Emancipation in1829 to the legal lynching of the innocent nun Nora Wall in 1999. That poor creature was virulently denounced by the National Women’s Council and defended by just one journalist. No, not McCafferty or O Faolain. Me.
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