This is a Government – and in fact an entire political class – with very low levels of respect and admiration from the public by historical standards.
Councillor Walsh told this reporter yesterday that he firmly believes the raids this weekend had a political motive.
Dutch research
Leo Varadkar says it’s a “far-right myth” and “misinformation” to claim that refugees in Europe have to stop at the first safe country they enter. But numerous politicians from his own government have been saying this for years. Ben Scallan comments #gript
The Government, in building new accommodation centres for migrants, is setting a precedent that essentially admits that building such centres is an obligation of the state without any defined limit
The state, however, can hardly turn around and bleat about misinformation and rumour when its own communication strategy in relation to migrant accommodation is practically designed to encourage misinformation and rumour
In a referendum campaign, the side that tells the better story usually wins.
Doomed from the start.
The significance of 2023 is that it is the year when “far right” stopped being a label people feared, and began to become a standing joke.
Quota
If you didn’t know who she was, you might think you’d woken up from a coma, and were listening to John Bruton or Bertie Ahern, circa 1997.
Macon under fire