When I went to school, this was called “Irony”. In the 19th century, 2 million Irish people, a quarter of the population, left their homes, in the wake of the famine engineered by the British Empire in order to steal their lands. They settled mainly in the USA and Canada, bringing diversity to those new lands. The current population is still lower than the 19th century peak, at about 5.3 million. Last year, acording to official government figures, “People coming into the country (legally) consisted of 30,000 returning Irish citizens, 27,000 other EU citizens, 5,400 UK citizens, and 86,800 other citizens including Ukrainians”. Illegal imigration is estimated at 30,000, or .5% of the total, hardly “swamping” the existing people. And for the Irish to be opposing mass migration seems ridiculous. It’s just another example of the rich villainizing the poor, and encouraging nationalist nonsense so they can distract people from the real issues and seize everything. It’s the 1870s meets the 1930s all over again.

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