https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Irish_general_election#Opinion_polls

At least some of this will be other parties wedging SF over refugee flows into Ireland from NI.

Helen McEntee (FG, Minister for Justice) has doubled down on the claim 80% of Ireland's asylum seekers are coming over the Northern Irish border from Britain.

SF's voters want land border controls, SF leaders don't want that. Similar to how Brexit wedged DUP into a crisis over the Irish sea border being needed for trade in goods, SF in NI are about to be wedged over the Brexit withdrawal agreement not having covered asylum seeker movements.

by BorderTrader

16 comments

  1. >SF’s voters want sea border controls

    Fixed it for you, OP. xx

  2. Not sure I’ve ever seen ‘independents/others’ come out on top in a poll before, but that’s 2 this weekend where that’s happened!

  3. >the claim 80% of Ireland’s asylum seekers are coming over the Northern Irish border

    Asylum seekers **at the IPO in Dublin**. Asylum can be claimed at any Irish port or airport and her statement excludes those.

  4. 50 were returned from Ireland last week to the mainland.

  5. SF have no intention of ever tackling mass immigration. Same as every other establishment party. 

    All that struggle for an Ireland free from foreign occupation actually seems laughable now. It’s all been for nothing. 

  6. They are in major trouble now. For all you Northerners that aren’t as tuned into the political situation in the south:

    1) SF have been outmanouvered lately by much of the major FG / FF figures. Simon Harris has become far more pragmatic and hostile in his dealings with SF. Michael Martin is running a dying political power in FF but he is very popular himself.
    2) The Southern media are doing NOTHING to help the SF cause and actively do not want them to gain power.
    3) The Southern establishment/civil service etc were terrified of SF for years and now are on the offensive, subtly, hand in hand with the media to discredit SF.
    4) Smaller left wing parties such as the Soc Dems, Labour and PBP are taking more idealistic left votes.
    5) The fledgling right wing (Aontu, others) are taking more traditional catholic votes.

    They are sank. They may still acheive government, however they will be equal partners with FF, methinks. FG are realingning for opposition.

  8. Support for Sinn Féin in the South is mainly a mercurial protest vote.

    The angry and disillusioned swathe of the electorate are as likely to shift to whichever local maverick/independent is thumbing their nose at the Dublin metropolitan elites. And SF are now very much part of the globalist wokerati milieu.

  9. It really feels like this immigrant crisis was created to deflect from housing and to attack SF.

  10. no wonder SF are doing badly. I saw a clip on YTube recently of one of their election workers having a tug of war with some blind guy over election posters. Might have been in Dundalk from memory. Not a good look.

  11. In my area they have been pretty open about not wanting immigrants or asylum seekers, presumably to flirt with the eejit voters. It has backfired.

  14. Has their decision to go to Washington in March affected their support at all?

  15. Disappointed this is not about the popularity of Science Fiction

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