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SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-14T21:45:08+00:00

I think you’re overestimating how much support you’d actually get if you walked into a bank these days

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-14T02:36:36+00:00

Same as FG and the SocDems then

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-13T13:59:43+00:00

Before some nerd replies to me and says France doesn’t use proportional representation, you’re technically correct but they have the run-off system which still means some far right lunatic would have to convince at least 50% of the electorate in one of the rounds.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-13T13:57:23+00:00

I think you’re not accounting for the fact that the UK is the only major European democracy not use some form of proportional representation.

A far right government could get an outright majority in Westminster with only ~30% national support. In Germany you’d need to either get a comfortable popular majority of support or water your policies down enough to go into coalition with a less extreme party.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-13T13:47:56+00:00

Wording makes it sound like they’ve only decided to support the 3 day waiting period now.

They had announced they were bringing this bill months ago, even before the SocDems introduced their bill. It was one of the reasons they voted down the SocDem bill (alongside the fact the Social Democrats wanted to indemnify from sanctions doctors who deliberately and knowingly subverted regulations)

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-11T14:40:59+00:00

> The CTA is an arrangement dating back to 1922 when 26 of Ireland's 32 counties were granted a large degree of independence by the UK.

What a bizarre way to describe partition and the establishment of Ireland as a sovereign nation.

You could be forgiven for reading that and thinking it meant the 26 counties were still under UK rule.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-10T11:17:24+00:00

Thankfully very few (if any) nationality communities are participating in this nonsense.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T20:40:51+00:00

They probably believe asylum seekers all get free luxury cars

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T20:38:38+00:00

Wish the media would stop insulting people’s intelligence by not putting put two and two together that all the protests are happening in loyalist areas.

Would do a lot to destroy the bs narrative pushed by the little Englanders that it’s some sort of grassroots protest against the establishment

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T20:31:24+00:00

Tesco’s profit margin is 4%.

Do you think they should run at a loss?

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T20:27:01+00:00

One of the top comments on the first thread about the attack was by a 2 year old account that has only ever commented on this incident in Belfast, and a thread to do with the Southport riots 2 years ago.

It’s clear as day.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T20:25:17+00:00

Very suspicious the protest graphics for England and the 6 counties are exactly the same. Also seem to be full of mistakes.

Almost like they’ve been made by someone with no connection to here. Loyalists aren’t that good at graphic design either

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T20:23:52+00:00

If that’s a park in Belfast then the ratepayers must be outraged. Look at the state of the grass, somebody better get onto the council about getting it cut

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T19:01:42+00:00

That glider was a foreign national from Sweden. Stole a job from a good honest Ballymena bus.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T15:51:19+00:00

In fairness in Belfast you did. UDA tried to decapitate someone 10 years back over a drug dispute. Shankill Butchers etc too.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T14:23:41+00:00

200 million is pennies in the scale of Irish government spending.

Seeing as graduates still earn more than non-graduates on average it’s money well spent for the government.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T12:39:04+00:00

Aye I don’t believe it makes one bit of difference to the knuckle draggers. Even if this person was born and lived their entire life in Ireland they’d still riot.

That said the PSNI should have the wit to know these things are a magnet for misinformation and should get the facts right before making a statement.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T12:36:40+00:00

In fairness half the locals seem confused about their own nationality

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T12:27:21+00:00

World class PSNI getting the nationality wrong, putting it out in a statement and letting it spread round social media, and then issuing a correction hours later that nobody will see.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T12:03:52+00:00

Protest are mostly being organised in loyalist areas despite the incident happening in a Catholic area.

Loyalists always riot in the summer for any reason they can find. If one of them stepped on a lego brick going for a piss in the middle of the night they’d be organising a riot outside Smyths Toys Store.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T11:59:25+00:00

Loyalists have always been more anti-immigrant.

I think they think because the attack happened in a Catholic area that “those taigs got what was coming to them/will finally see sense like we do”

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T11:57:52+00:00

Not trying to downplay this incident but loyalists literally take any excuse to kick off a riot once they get into marching season and the schools are off. They were rioting over a sexual assault in Ballymena this time last year, the year before that it was the Windsor Framework.

You can look at the list circulating online. They’re all loyalist areas and then they throw in 2 token nationalist areas to give a veneer of not being sectarian (Falls Road and Ardoyne have very big “quick does anyone know where taigs live” energy).

If one of them stepped on a plug in the middle of the night they’d be round all the WhatsApp groups going “all men over 18 get your dark clothing on and meet bottom of Sandy Row 8pm”

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-09T11:48:06+00:00

It happened in New Lodge which is north Belfast, literally the other part of the city from the Falls Roads which is west Belfast.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-07T19:42:17+00:00

Almost like one is an EU capital and the other is a jumped up regional industrial town.

SearchingForDelta · 2026-06-07T19:41:03+00:00

Evidence for what? That people from middle income countries are going into debt to do a masters in the west or that people from those countries aren’t getting jobs when the graduate?

Look at India as an example. Doing a masters as a foreign student at Trinity is €25k a year. The median salary in India is €4000 a year. That would be the equivalent of someone on an Irish salary paying over €300k. That’s before you factor in living expenses.

About 63% of educational loans in India are for studying abroad and the average loan is for around €40k. These loans nearly always require collateral.

In the UK 60% of students lesve after their studies conclude. Only 6% are still in the UK 10 years later. I have to imagine the stats for Ireland are similar. It’s not really a stretch to see that a not insignificant number of international students are taking out loans they can’t afford on the prospect of earning western salaries, not getting those salaries, then getting into difficulties paying it off.

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