On the question of whether there should be 'much stricter controls on foreigners coming into Ireland' 59% agree and 37% disagree with 65% of No voters agreeing.
By political party those who strongly agree and agree were: SF 78%; FG + LAB 60%; FF 57%.
There are a number of articles dealing with immigration with as the 'elephant in the room' of the referendum.
It points to Dublin West where tallies showed that Castleknock voted 71% Yes but Blakestown/Mulhuddart voted 83.4% No.
More details later.
Any word on whether SF has gained from the Lisbon campaign?
If this really was a big factor in the no vote, then no amount of optouts will necessarily help.
Probably correct, but, while it might be the 'elephant in the room', my anecdotal experience pointed to the 'loss' of the Commissioner as being a particularly prominent reason given. I was slightly disheartened by that, considering that we were just rotating, not losing, a Commissioner, but the underlying fear of lack of influence at the table has been borne out by the lack of weight given to the Irish 'No' compared to the French and Dutch ones.
Interesting how SF voters have perfected the art of ignoring their party's open door policy on imigration.
The Mahon Tribunal found Olivia Mitchell to have received an inappropriate payment from Frank Dunlop at the time of the 1992 Election. F.G. Gael has taken no action against her.
There is rakes of other poll data that I could not be bothered attempting to post. Check it up on online yourself tonight.
Suffice to say that it confirms the EU barometer poll that the No side won the arguments.
They have a very different message when canvassing door-to-door; and, anyway, the open-door policy is a very soft whisper.Originally Posted by Keith-M
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Emigration? Are you proposing an East European closed door on people wanting to leave?
RIRA not in my name-Traitors to Ireland MMcGuinness; People are entitled to cultural & social equality MLMcDonald; We have a length to go understanding unionism GAdams
Blakestown/Mulhuddart voted 83.4%
I wonder what the 78% of Sinn Fein voters who want tighter controls on immigration would make of the comments of Mr Aengus O’ Snodaigh TD who in this weeks edition of Metro Eireann states on the Letters page that in his opinion the Citizenship Referendum was a ‘racist referendum’.
He also stated that:
‘We have consistently taken the most progressive, rights based stance of any party in the Dáil on immigration and integration issues.’
I can well believe him but will SF be flying their support for immigration come the Locals and Euros next year – will we see this flagged on posters – will we *&^% !
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Catalpa, you don't by any chance have that leaflet from Varadkar last year giving out about immigration at last years election? Because he could be shown to be one hell of a hypocrite as he is attacking SF on stoking up immigration fears in the SBP.
Well I didn't throw it out but its locating it under hundreds of books, thousands of photo copies and scores of magazines that's the problem.
Gladly share it with you when I do mind!
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