Question and Answer session with Irish Times.
Could I get your views generally on the East Wall protest, there has been some criticism from politicians that people were protesting the wrong target, ie, the refugees, instead of the Govt. Do you agree?
How would the Irish Freedom Party describe itself politically?
I was interested to hear a lot of anger at Sinn Fein at that protest, why do you think this is?
Do you think the IFP has an opportunity to take in some of those potentially disaffected SF-leaning voters?
What would you say to the charge that refusing to accept more refugees (I know your party uses the term Ireland is Full) is a human rights failure?
Answers:
1. The people of East Wall are right to protest and it’s the politicians who have the wrong target. Establishment politicos should be answering the question - When are you going to stop young men without passports, of whom we don’t know their name, origin or criminal record, just waltzing into Ireland and the East Wall? Why are people without passports not being stopped before they disembark the plane and even set foot in Ireland?
Instead of the women and children we were told, 40% of asylum claimants from Ukraine are actually young males. Doesn’t this show we are all being taken for a ride? What are politicians going to do about that?
Over 200,000 new PPS numbers were given out this year by the end of August, only 23% were given to people born in Ireland.
What are politicians going to do to stop the huge wave of unvetted migrants walking into Ireland, incentivised by the offer of free housing, welfare and legal aid?
Irish Freedom party would assert the resources of Ireland should be for the Irish people, we have no duty to house the world, especially as we can’t even house our own people.
2. The Irish Freedom Party is nationalist, Eurosceptic and believes in putting the national interests first.
We are a small state, low tax, pro-family, pro work and enterprise party which wants free speech, in a clean and green Ireland which takes back meaningful military neutrality. We oppose any ideas of racism or the Big State corporately getting together with Big Tech to take freedoms off the families and people of Ireland. We are the very opposite of far-right and strongly object to creeping state or corporate diminution of individual freedoms.
3. Sinn Fein IS a European Unionist party whose immigration policy is ‘Brits out, everybody else in’. It’s ordinary Irish people who must suffer the consequences, with higher house prices, less apartments to rent and lower wages because of oversupply of labour. Sinn Fein are not the vanguard of the working class but the mudguard of woke multinational corporations.
High euro money-supply and low euro interest rates pre and during the lockdown gave us inflation from which working people suffer the most. Working people know that a mass immigration party like Sinn Fein will decrease their chances of ever buying an affordable house. If SF listened to their own members on immigration they probably wouldn’t be booed by the working class people of East Wall.
4. Irish Freedom Party indeed has an opportunity to take votes from woke, mass immigration, multi-culti parties like Sinn Fein, and Labour etc. We also want to appeal to nationalist people across the board, the type who voted No to Nice 1 and Lisbon 1, ie those who might believe Irish people are good enough to make their own laws.
5. The Irish people have no moral duty to house the rest of the world.
Many of the people applying for asylum are economic migrants who are coming from designated safe countries for free stuff. The number of Non - Ukrainian claimants is 515% more in 2022 than there were in 2021.
The first duty of the Irish state is to the security, and prosperity of the Irish people. Allowing hundreds of thousands of people unknown and unvetted into our state is a dereliction of duty by the political class.
