Dutch Freedom Party wins general election. *Read OP before posting*

a collapse of the eu would end badly for us all, only numpties think its a great idea to cause the collapse of economies, including ours, but this sentiment is growing rapidly, including here, so we better get ready for it.....

We will see I suppose, time will tell.

It will have been 5 years since last election when next one rolls round, public opinion has changed vastly in my opinion. Pendulum has swung way too far for some people and I’d imagine public opinion of the political options currently available is very low.

it’s ripe for a party of the ilk of the Dutch Freedom Party to drive in I think.

Check back with me in 30 years or so.

One fifth of everyone who lives here today was born abroad. This happened in just the past twenty years or so. Let's give it another twenty years and see what the fraction is then. The boats keep coming, at an ever accelerating rate.

shaking up the overlords, the wealthy and powerful are doing just fine in all of this, they ll probably be never over thrown, and if you think politicians are truly a part of that, we got problems....

...very little power resides within our political institutions now, its been de-centralised, hence why very little is changing, when the guard changes, wes got problems!

....yea disturbingly, history does seem to be repeating, rhyming, and everything else at the moment, the rest of this decade is gonna be stormy to say the least.....

...more bullsh1t is on the way, be ready!

...at the moment yes, but i suspect these extreme views are on the way for us to, i think we ll end up in trouble in the new decade, regard these type of numpties, we ll see...

...you do realise the boats arent rocking up to our shores, yea? yes, immigration is gonna increase here, fact, but currently our control measures are working reasonably well, with issues of course, will we be over run, at the moment, very unlikely, you also realise we never built enough homes over the last few years, and this isnt gonna change anytime soon, so.....

The EU is becoming increasingly anti farmer in tone . Farmers are being taken to court at a whim in this country by various powerful organisations and guys with clipboards and yellow vests for doing work that was perfectly legal a few years ago. This is causing incredible resentment in rural Ireland and feels as oppressive as any authoritarian regime couple that with the erosion of the rural society and culture and nothing in the pipeline to replace our work and restore our society only to herd us into the city. it is easy understand why the mainstream parties are losing the vote in rural Ireland.

what's rural culture?

people are taken to court for breaching environmental rules. look what happened to lough neagh, and is happening all over this island, i mean if we were to things like that unchecked, which irish politicians would gladly do instead of rocking the boat, the whole country would be a polluted cesspit eventually. this is why EU directives are good for us sometimes, keeps us in check for things that irish TDs don't want to go anywhere near for fear of losing votes.

Well I think you're catastrophising, but society and cultures change either way. Harking back to when everything was better is Brexit speak 101. Ireland is completely different to how it was 50 years ago, mostly for the better, and will be completely different in 50 years time one way or another.

I agree that Islamic immigration is much more problematic than say, Indian or Filipino immigration. But the volumes are such that there is no need for any immigrant cohort to integrate with the native Irish. Filipinos will mainly socialize with other Filipinos, Indians with Indians, Zimbabweans with Zimbabweans. We will end up with parallel societies not necessarily hostile to each other. Indifferent to each other would also be bad. What made Ireland Ireland, will be gone at some point. The solidarity and cohesion of shared ethnicity, shared cultural memory and traditions, will be lost.

In a fantasy world perhaps, polling indicates we're swinging more to the left. We've had numerous failed right wing parties and there's no sudden growth for Aontu or Renua on display. 😂

Change is inevitable and often desirable. But the change we are experiencing now is unnecessary, reckless, radical, unprecedented. It will end badly.

The Ireland of 50, 60, 100 years ago is gone, but it is not forgotten. Those people were our roots, our lineage - our parents, our grandparents, our great-grandparents. We can relate to that past because it is our past. We know that our ancestors walked the same country lanes we walk; they farmed the same fields we farm, they saw the same hills in the distance that we see; used the same placenames that we use. Irish people today are connected to Irish people from centuries ago by name, by lineage.

But fifty years from now, when 50% of people living in Ireland think about their grandparents and great-grandparents, they'll be thinking of Muslims from Pakistan, Hindus from India, Visayans from Cebu. Their roots have no contact with Irish soil.