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

Centre right!!? Are you having a laugh.
Do you really want to me to list the rogues gallery of newly elected ''vetted'' Reform councillors who recently resigned/were fired for a myriad of reasons including but not limited to racism/bigotry/homophobia/misogyny, fraternising with Nazis etc. They really are just the BNP in a suit and their masks have definitely come off in recent months.

Online safety bill introduced in the UK is already being used to stop videos of protests at migrants accommodation centres being shown on twitter in UK.

Guaranteed that our government are looking at this and think "mmm that's a good idea" they'll be planning their version of it right now.

And “Retribution”? Really? You’re not just giving off anti-immigrant vibes, now you’re flirting with incitement. That’s not passionate debate, that’s dangerous talk. There's nothing patriotic about threatening people for having different views, and it’s definitely not helping anything. Just makes you sound unhinged.

Retribution - yes a strong word. Seeming as consequences and accountability are clearly absent in the room now when it comes to this topic. Retribution needs to be dished out in the form of severe financial penalties for those who have demonstrated continuous lack of judgement in their roles.

A charge of negligence in their roles as minister, where established, should warrant a removal of or a penalty tax in ministerial pensions might focus the minds of those in power to deliver appropriate results in keeping with their promises to the electorate.

Another words, feck up in your role - and I mean, royally feck up - pay the price. You ain't swanning off into the sunset with a full back pocket at our expense.

Spot on. Welfare in this country is too generous in the sense that the longer one is in the welfare trap, the better the conditions get. So, if Patrick Irishman or Mary Irishwoman feel they're too good to slum it out cleaning offices/hotel rooms/etc… then they need a little needle to pop their balloon of an ego.

Instead of simply 'giving up' on a cohort of society who simply "won't work and never will work" they need the screw tightened much harder than is currently demonstrated to force their hand into adapting into the real world where working hard is the only prospect of meaningful survival.

The idea that some industries are bringing in non-EU labour because our welfare system is far too generous is a massive canary in the coal-mine. You are simply putting a plaster over the cracks. Bring in non-EU nationals to fill these roles because Government is too lazy to chase Irish people off the dole is simply kicking a can down the road.

Bringing in non-EU workers to satisfy industry that is all to eager to direct reap the quick rewards of physical labour and funnel those rewards into shareholder dividends and generous C-Suite bonuses is the end game, a short end-game. What many fail to realise is that when these non-EU workers settle and have children is, that these second-generation children won't work the roles their parent(s) did.

Now we arrive at the situation where multi-culturalism ultimately fails. The descendants of non-EU workers will have lived and grown up with native peers whose native parents never did physical labour or worked in truly hard conditions. They will also feel that if they "won't work and never will" the system will 'give up on them' as the system gave up on natives previously.

Now, we're into a very different realm. We don't just have a generation of natives who won't work and never will, we now have a new cohort to add into the mix. Second generation migrants who feel their share of the welfare pie is just as equal as the natives. A nasty concoction of social conflict that will not end well - and enact all the hate speech laws and ASBOS laws, etc all you want, you won't stop that strife.

But, but, but the Irish left and the progressives cheer this on despite the warnings, despite the evidence of where other European nations are at further down this road of failure.

Some? Most are. Speaking locally to residents who I would consider quite liberal in their political views, have had enough. They are finally getting up off their backsides and rolling their sleeves up ready to stop what is happening.

By the day it's becoming more and more acceptable to hold hostile views against mass-immigration to this country. People on the ground are talking, one-to-one, mothers, fathers, grandparents - all cohorts.

The gig is up. There is a seismic change underway. Anyone denying this is no longer living in reality.

We have a significant amount of EU nationals living here on welfare some who never paid tax here.

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So now the political sea change is going to come at the presidential election.

Seeing as the silent majority was more of a silent fart at the last general election.

Of course when this silent majority elects a racist president they are going to equip them with magic powers they don't have.

Like refusing to sign an act for anything other than constitutional concerns.

F'ing delusional.

The only reason FFG are in government is quite simply because the offerings and utterings of the opposition is much worse. Remember that. FFG's share of the Irish electorates vote is at an all time low combined.

If anyone somehow thinks the fact that this crowd are in government is some sort of 'endorsement' of the current carry-on surrounding immigration then they are even more deluded than many have given credit for.

As for the Presidential Election, it's a side-show. The role is pretty much ceremonial. Voting in a crank isn't going to change diddly squat. Anyone worth their salt knows that.

Fantastic, great to know you got out and saved on C02 emissions. Nothing like walking the walk instead of talking the talk.

It does read more like a victim complex to say Irish people are second class citizens.

A migrant staying at the Royal Beach Hotel in Southsea, Portsmouth, was jailed for 10 years after a violent sex attack on a woman in her 40s. Rabie Knissi, 33, pushed the woman against a parked car and tried to rape her.He was convicted of attempted rape, assault by penetration, and actual bodily harm.The case is one of over 700 serious crimes linked to asylum seekers in UK hotels in the past three years, raising fresh concerns over migrant housing and public safety.

Of course it will never happen here, it's starting to sound like Jim Power & the crash will never happen here, guess what.