Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 14/08/25*

Completely agree. But you know the economy… nothing else matters.

How many of the major media outlets reported on the very pertinent questions asked by Carol Nolan regarding the massive percentage of non-irish born people on the live register?

Speaking of we have a massive storm coming our way in the form of immigration. You thought Rwanda was bad? Starmer will come down harder on immigration, not because he wants to but because he has to if they stand any chance in the elections.

I think reform might be first past the post in the next election and that's where the fun begins. We could see a point where the boats leaving from France might start landing in Ireland if the UK start deporting everyone who lands and reform might just do that.

As for Sinn Fein they're well down my voting order. Even if they change policy I wouldn't trust them. Mary Lou needs to be replaced and they'd need to run new figures who never shared the crazy ideologies the current crop does.

It's already hit us. I should have said hurricane. Will the government get ahead of the problem? Probably not because their main rival SF is more in favour of this mass immigration then FFG so it'll just hurt SF more in the election.

Starmer will come down harder on immigration, not because he wants to but because he has to if they stand any chance in the elections.

What elections?

His party just got voted into power by an overwhelming majority. The traditional opposition are an absolute mess and their base has fractured.

The most important thing facing Starmer and his party is fixing the absolute mess left over from Brexit, which they are at least attempting to do.

On the other hand, he inherited a difficult economic situation and there isn't a huge amount of money available to spend. Therefore he'll need to do things that are popular with the public to get reelected.

I wouldn't be getting overly excited about local elections, the same noises were being made about UKIP 12 years ago.

A general election is a long way off, they have time to fix the absolute mess of the public finances they inherited.

Also Reform have plenty time to prove they have absolute no substance and blaming all societies ills on foreign people will not make anyones lives better.

Why aren't they credible ( dunno much about GB news tbh as I don't have it, I saw that link on Twitter)

75% of people polled here last year said we had too much immigration, God knows the percentage if they asked about refugees. The vast majority of articles on immigration on irish MSM do not represent that 75%.

Reforms goal is to get into government and after dominating the local elections they're in pole position.

According to who?

Labours opposition is fractured, they won a majority not seen since Blair when they stayed in power for 13 odd years.

At this moment in time Labour in terms of the next general election are in pole position.

Gript is obviously ideologically motivated, it's very clear. But the decline in journalism after decades of cuts has left the door open to the likes of Gript.

If people are reading biased shoite in previously respected publications many are going to be more open to biased shoite than they would otherwise be.

While we look down on the Brits in Ireland, I think the BBC has allowed them to have some proper discussion of immigration. RTE hasn't played as positive a role here. The British print media is of course very biased, but it's not hard to see left leaning bias in a lot of the Irish print media also.

Anyway, the bigger picture is that the continued decline of journalism is an utter disaster for western societies. And the significance of it is almost totally unappreciated.

Every news organisation is agenda driven and biased. Why only call out Gript? Is it because it exposes things you’d prefer were hidden??