Ireland Decides

As Ireland approaches a general election on November 29th it is worth considering the state of its politics and of the country. Ireland is currently governed by a Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil-Green coalition government. This government is by any comparative standard very left-wing. Its main policies have been to pursue elevated levels of immigration, hate crime laws, harsh covid lockdowns, massive increases in public expenditure, and extremely permissive “sex-education” in schools.

Despite there being a housing crisis whereby there is a general shortage of availability and exceedingly high rents, government policy has been to pursue elevated levels of immigration. Most coverage of this pertains to the increase in asylum claims, including from applicants who are present in the country without a passport after having discarded it on the aeroplane from which they disembarked.

However, most immigration comes in the form of legal immigration by virtue of government-issued work or study permits. That this policy is pursued during a housing shortage demonstrates that the government prefers ostensible economic growth rather than a decent standard of living for its own citizens.
The government has recently introduced a hate-crime law, while previous draft hate-speech provisions were abandoned after public opposition, though it is clear that some in government would like to see these re-introduced.

While an inquiry into Ireland’s covid lockdowns has recently been announced, it will have no statutory powers to compel witnesses or documents or make findings of fact. Ireland had among the harshest of lockdowns anywhere in the world. It was the only country in Europe to close its construction industry, cancel the secondary school-leaving exam, and coerce the public to take vaccinations. Ireland was also the only country which licenced the Janssen vaccine to the entire population despite its known risks.

There has been a massive increase in public expenditure with a doubling of nominal public expenditure over the last five years. Ireland has in recent years been in receipt of huge tax receipts from multinational corporate windfall profits which are being wasted by a spendthrift government in competition with opposition parties in a game of auction politics. What is really needed is a zero-based budgeting of all public expenditure.

Another aspect of the current government is their introduction of an extreme form of child indoctrination and sexualisation through the education system. This includes the infamous representation of Irish culture as backward and undesirable compared to multiculturalism. They have also introduced perverse and pornographic “sex education” into schools.

The outgoing government also attempted in constitutional referendums to redefine the family and remove the right of mothers to work in the home. These were defeated by the public with massive majorities. The overarching reason behind the aforementioned policies is the prevalence of Government-Organised Non-Governmental Organisations (GONGOs). These taxpayer-funded activist groups have become quasi-official policy advisors.

There are many parties competing in this election, but most are ideologically interchangeable with each other. The parties are as follows, with their most recently polled support levels in parentheses: Fine Gael — formerly a liberal-conservative party, now a woke neo-liberal party (22%); Fianna Fáil — formerly a conservative, social corporatist party, now led by a woke leader despite retaining a conservative membership (20%); Sinn Féin — formerly a socialist, nationalist party, now a woke social democratic party (20%); Labour Party — a woke, social democratic party (4%); Social Democrats — a woke, social democratic party (5%); Green Party — a woke, environmentalist party (3%); Aontú — an anti-woke, social democratic party (5%); Independent Ireland — an anti-woke, pro-business party (N/A); and Solidarity-People Before Profit — a woke, Trotskyist party (2%). There are many independent candidates, most of whom are conservative and pro-business. These are currently polling 19%.

The election campaign has been uninteresting because of the lack of serious alternatives on offer; however, the results could produce interesting outcomes. It is probable that Labour and the Greens could lose all of their seats which would call into question the future existence of those parties.

If the current government parties were to win a majority of seats, then they would form a government. However, the prospect of these parties winning a majority is seemingly unlikely. The makeup of the government after the election is not clear. It will almost certainly have to be composed of two out of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, and Sinn Féin, along with additional smaller parties.

A likely government formation is a Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil-Independent Ireland coalition. If these three would not entail a majority, they could be supported by independents. Such a government could be the most right-wing Ireland has had in living memory if Independent Ireland and the independents achieved reduced immigration levels, the defunding of of the activist GONGOs, and a general de-wokeification of public institutions.

If such a government did not materialise, the most likely alternative would be a Fianna Fáil-Sinn Féin-Social Democrats coalition. This could also require the support of left-wing independents. Such a putative government would be the most left-wing in the history of the State. If no government could easily be formed, another general election would be another possibility.

It is therefore the case that what has been a dull election campaign may produce interesting results which could lead to starkly different potential governments. This election will become interesting only when the votes have been counted.