Proposed referenda in Ireland, supported by elites, faced backlash for attempting to embed 'woke' values. Dissatisfaction on immigration highlighted as breaking cultural consensus. Sinn Féin struggles to retain support post-referendum loss. Democratic Unionist Party faces new political landscape.
"Across Europe, the ongoing failure of the elite class to respond to voters—their desire for lower immigration, slower change, stronger borders, institutions which represent a wider range of views— is reflected in rising support for national populists" https://t.co/pSM8w2YMxq
Ireland’s devolved government has come and gone before. This time, however, the Democratic Unionist Party returned to a very different political landscape https://t.co/HStJqq2Moo 👇
Sinn Féin struggles to keep ‘angry vote’ after referendum loss https://t.co/ujsC4ZFDp0 via @ft
Sinn Féin struggles to keep ‘angry vote’ after referendum loss https://t.co/D1iT4Tq2r7
For @thecritic I wrote about a lesson from the referendum many have missed. Politicians know that dissatisfaction on immigration has broken Ireland’s machinery for the management of cultural consensus. That’s a seismic change https://t.co/ogMDdIzZL9
The proposed referenda altering Ireland's constitution enjoyed the support of the country's elites, but the attempt to embed woke values in it has backfired. | Barry O'Halloran https://t.co/8nIKNPYfJS
#Ireland is an interesting country & a very revealing political 'laboratory' for the entire West. Let's have a quick thread on that. Ireland came into this century on foot of being a failed state in the 1980s. As such, its younger generations grew up in an environment of rapid+