You may recall a recent press conference that was held by the new anti-immigration party, Identity Ireland, at Dublin’s Buswells Hotel.
The launch was disrupted by protesters who accused Identity Ireland of choosing July 22 to launch the party, in order to coincide with the fourth anniversary of Anders Breivik’s massacre of 77 people in Norway.
Mark Malone videoed a large portion of the press conference.
He writes:
“At a recent press launch of the right wing Identity Ireland the discussion meandered from bizarre understandings of how wealth is created; pondering of selling paper airplanes to Chinese state; white supremacist mantras on Irish ethnicity complete with fabricated immigration and demographic statistics; an unintended unveiling of internal fights between Peter O’Loughlin and Paul Ryder for party leadership; and finally how Identity Ireland members cope seeing the “thought processes of family and friends” thinking they are racist.”
“Internal party discipline is non-existent with members shouting over each other when asked questions they don’t like, to the extent that journalists present have to keep reminding O’Loughlin and Ryder how to run a press conference.”
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Meanwhile, in the Guardian, comedian and writer Frankie Boyle writes:
“Of course, these poor migrants are being used as a distraction by a media and political class (I now use this term instead of government, because the government and opposition seem to be in consensus) that know Calais is an insignificant element of illegal immigration, and suspect that many of the refugees have a good claim to asylum. It’s silly season and they want to spin out a story that is essentially about aggressive hitch-hiking until the bread and circuses of the new football season and The Great British Bake Off get into their stride.”
“That’s not to say it isn’t hellish for the people living it. We invade their countries and justify it by saying that our way of life is better, then boggle at the idea they might think living here is great. We pay no attention to how our actions in other countries have precipitated this situation. There has to be something wrong with a world where the best employment option for a farmer in sub-Saharan Africa isn’t being a farmer in sub-Saharan Africa, but crossing the Mediterranean on a punctured lilo, only to spend days dangling under a lorry so that he can end up selling lollipops in a nightclub toilet. Our indifference is staggering. For a lot of these people, their best chance of survival may be to dress up as a leopard and hope to get Twitter onside.”
