„Simon Harris sagt, die Regierung müsse Irlands Migrationszahlen berücksichtigen“ (Irish Independent)
Von standard_pie314
„Simon Harris sagt, die Regierung müsse Irlands Migrationszahlen berücksichtigen“ (Irish Independent)
Von standard_pie314
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Simon Harris re-invents himself as the hurler-on-the-ditch now?
And he accuses Sinn Fein of populism? What the hell is this?
God, I hate this prick.
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They could start with asylum, two-thirds of asylum seekers have applied for asylum in a different EU member state before applying in Ireland. There’s probably a case to be made for reducing the number of language students as well.
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Serious latency issues in this Government.
Harris I think needs to give up the Foreign Affairs Ministerial portfolio. Having the Taoiseach in waiting focusing on countries other than Ireland makes little sense.
What a twat
Deport. Deport. Deport.
Rules must be followed, enforce the law.
“We’ve done nothing and we’re all out of ideas”
Obviously everyone who thinks there should be more government-built housing should now go out and riot, as it seem to be the only way to get FFG to change their stance on anything.
Ah yes. Copy paste of Labour UK tactics, just echo the far right talking points.
The classic Leo move of stating an obvious issue, pretending that he’s not the one in charge and doing nothing about it.
*Simon Harris, looking at Starmer becoming the most unpopular PM in British history*
„I like the cut of this young man’s gib.“
Failed asylum seekers should be deported. No more self deportations. I say this as a left winger.
Also Simon Harris is just saying this because he is absolutely rattled by the Presidential Election result.
Fine Gael could deport every single non-national in this country and conservative to far-right still wouldn’t vote for him
Sensible migration creates prosperous societies. It’s about find balance!
Goes to show the serious effect that spoiling your votes by rejecting all candidates but still showing you’re politically engaged can have.
Talk about closing the stable door after the horse has bolted .
This is absolutely insane. “The migration figures are too high”? And then he talks about asylum seekers?
So 150k people came here last year and he’s talking about just the 20k asylum seekers is too high?
How about the amount of international students that you’re giving steadily increasing amounts of visas to every year Simon? There’s 40k of them, up from 30k just 2 years ago. That’s something you can very easily control, as opposed to asylum seekers, which as we can see across Europe is extremely difficult to control.
What an absolute wanker.
Lads, there only are two options here:
1. Progressives actively reduce immigration numbers in the most humane and non-violent manner possible.
2. Progressives ignore the massively growing anti-immigrant sentiment, the riots, the effects on housing, etc., which leads to the far-right reducing immigration in the least humane manner possible. There will be immense violence first at the local level (already begun, think Josip Strok + the riots of 2023 and recently in Citywest), then in about a decade the far-right come to power in the state and enact enormous amounts of state violence against immigrants. Think gunning down boats (Italy atm) and the atrocities committed by ICE (USA atm).
Either we reduce the numbers humanely, or monsters will reduce the numbers inhumanely. We’ve seen both options played out all over the western world. I say this as a socialist, a progressive, and a lifelong internationalist. We need to get real about this.
He then went on to say „we are not going to do anything about it however, because if we did then what excuses could we use for our failings as a government?“..
/s. In all seriousness though, I sincerely this is a logistical realisation that he has made that we have finite resources that cant currently cope with the levels coming in, and not a dog whistle that will ultimately only serve to deflect from the failings of govt
„It’s the first I’m hearing about this“
No shit Simon, if only you were in power and could do something about it.
Some timely research [released today](https://www.cer.eu/insights/policy-accommodate-populist-voters-wont-work)
> The political difficulty is that immigration crack-downs by moderate parties do not appear to reduce support for the far right. Werner Krause and colleagues found that **when moderate parties adopt far-right policies on immigration, they attracted some voters from far-right parties, but, if anything, more moved from moderate parties to the far-right**. The net effect was small and statistically insignificant, but the research suggests that accommodating the far-right on immigration can backfire: similar findings have been found in other studies. That might be because voters choose the original over the copycat, and believe their opposition to immigration is more legitimate if moderate politicians agree with them. They then decide to support the most anti-immigration party who in most cases will have been advocating for such policies from their inception.
Same playbook as the UK.
You had the Conservative government in power for over a decade. High levels of immigration.
And like a light switch billionaire tax evading scumbag Sunak, Braverman and the Conservatives turned to talk about the „problems“ of the small boats.
Iv been saying it years that FF/FG will do a similar switch. It serves to distract from other issues and their own failings and lack of vision. I’d expect SF to be sucked into that vortex aswell unless they do a Zack Polanski.