“The big structural issues, like planning backlogs or health capacity crises, or wider EU migration policy, are viewed consistently as being above the political pay grade.”
“return applicants who fail”
The structure of the electorate is a problem for parties of the right across Europe and the West.
First 40 tents to be on Thornton Hall site this month
“Independent Ireland TDs and MEPs will vote in accordance with the party’s policies, as they are the people who developed, negotiated, and adopted said policies”
Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman announced “additional funding” to help “receive and accommodate” asylum seekers in #Budget2025. Asked how much the State has spent already on asylum accommodation since the start of the Ukraine war, he replied: “I can get that for you.”
Lie about the small things consistently, and people will eventually start to assume you are lying about everything.
Thus is the Government operating on immigration: Having started the fire, they now stand before you promising to douse the flames and get matters back under control.
“too fast”
Recently Taoiseach Simon Harris and Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien said that there’s a link between housing issues, homelessness and immigration. Minister Roderic O’Gorman pushed back on this notion, but refused to outright say his colleagues were wrong.
We are either faced with a moment of breathtaking political dishonesty, or a moment of breathtaking political incompetence.
Simply put, Israel cannot – as its current Government seems to believe – solve every problem with force.