Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 02/09/25*

You wouldn’t hate them so much if they weren’t so hypocritical. Blatant disinformation from the party that wants to combat disinformation.

I see the Sunday Times article from 2023 refers to “illegal immigrants”. They were talking about Gerry Hutch on the Irish Times podcast last week, who, needless to say, is a gangster and a scumbag. Jack Horgan-Jones said: “Hutch made some comments about immigration, saying he felt that “illegal” immigrants - and he didn’t really expand upon on what he considered an “illegal” immigrant…”, derision dripping from every mention of illegal.

That is now par for the course: the pretence of misunderstanding what illegal immigrant could mean; the denial that someone who has come to Ireland by illegal means could ever be considered illegal. As the Sunday Times article shows, we all knew what it meant only a few years ago. It is the kind of sophistry popularised by the left, and it is so destructive to public trust in politics and the media.

Horgan-Jones went on to say: “He also specifically mentioned Somalis, for some reason, as being persona non grata and set for the boat home.” For some reason… He feigns ignorance about why people from a literal failed state - bottom of the human development index - might be thought unsuitable for our country. That would have been considered radically left wing ten years ago. Incredible how far the tectonic plates have shifted that it is now being said by an Irish Times reporter without blushing.

• Indian
• Transgender
• Goes by the name Q, as in queer
• In Scotland on a student visa
• Advocates his host country pay reparations
• Elected to parliament!

You cannot satirise this. If you had predicted it ten years ago, you would have been laughed out of public life. But now that it’s happened, it’s perfectly normal and you’re a racist for objecting.

I’m not playing your game, Boggles. But I take great pleasure from the knowledge that European countries are now reversing the immigration policy that you so admire. You are going to be increasingly angry with your government and society. Let us know how it feels, won’t you?