The Lotus Eaters discuss the Irish protests against mass migration, the local elections in the UK, and the tragic car-ramming incident in Vancouver, Canada, which took place on the 28th of April, 25th, 2025.
00:01:35.820If you constantly look about Ireland and Irish news and talk about migration, you always see Ireland has had enough.
00:01:43.080Ireland has had enough. Ireland has had enough.
00:01:46.200And that reminds me of the Samuel Jackson quote from Snakes of an Airplane that enough is enough.
00:01:51.900I've had it with ease. I can't say for YouTube, but right.
00:01:56.060So in the previous days, there was a massive protest against mass migration.
00:02:01.600And we can have here several. We have here several footage. You see people with Irish flags marching down the street.
00:02:13.100It's plenty of people. You see, you don't see any other flag. It's just Irish flags.
00:02:19.060There were some counter-protests. I think there was one from an NGO, something called Unity Against Racism, which didn't receive that much attention.
00:02:29.520And as you would expect, it was people trying to say that these demonstrations were entirely foreign funded.
00:02:43.660It's an evil plan to destroy the EU, which it could make sense in some countries, but I don't think in Ireland.
00:02:54.720But I do think that one of the main things that people in this protest are saying is absolutely correct,
00:03:00.900is that a lot of the politicians are constantly talking about the EU's problems and foreign problems.
00:03:06.720And there's a question of, you know, what about us?
00:03:10.600And I think that the same thing that happens in Ireland, the same question that arises in Ireland, is a question that arises everywhere in the West, especially in Europe.
00:03:18.560I always find Ireland a funny, not funny, ha-ha, funny, interesting example.
00:03:25.120Because in England, or Britain rather, they always use the example that, you know, it's colonialism, there's the stain of the Atlantic slave trade, it's payback in some way for colonialism.
00:04:02.600One, I hear some people who are saying that there were lots of Irish people involved in the British Empire and therefore it's payback time because it's payback against the British Empire.
00:05:00.140So you can imagine if you were a globalist, you would look at Ireland, the Irish people, and say there are people that need to be sort of stamped down because they've got a strong identity, a strong national identity.
00:06:24.460It's less than the greater London metropolitan area.
00:06:27.400The whole of the Republic of Ireland is less than that.
00:06:30.340So it makes the, population-wise, yeah.
00:06:32.160So it makes the, it makes the crime being committed against them sort of more egregious in a way, more, no, it's all the same on a moral level.
00:06:44.520It's all the same, but still, it's happening more quickly to them because it's a smaller, easier pocket of people to water down.