by Rachel Stewart

So much is going on in Ireland that you’re probably not hearing about. You’ll be hearing the sanitised version if you’re still bothering with the msm.

I’ve covered the problems in Ireland before – notably rampant illegal migration – but this is a new fight and it’s in full passionate swing as we speak. So, what’s going on?

Well, taking a leaf out of Canada’s trucking protest during Covid, the Irish truck drivers, farmers, fishers, and ag contractors have gridlocked major arterial routes, ports, blockaded Ireland’s only oil refinery in County Cork (at least they have one), as well as fuel depots in Limerick and Galway with massive trucks, tractors and machinery to make the point to the Government that the recent hikes in gas prices needs to be balanced with a drop in fuel tax.

While ministers denigrated their actions by calling them “wrong” and a threat to national security and critical supplies, the public appear to be with them, according to polls conducted recently.

The protesters stress that they are struggling to make any profits, and while the Government has responded by  dropping a few cents off per litre, they’ve also responded with naked state violence which, as we all well know, never improves the situation. It just hardens resolve and recruits more citizens to the cause. And, if you know your history, the Irish don’t need any lessons on how to rise up. It’s in their DNA.

Here’s popular podcaster and tradie John McGrath – who never records anything remotely political – putting his view out there.

And, of course, the usual casual denigration of the protesters – even of individuals – has been carried out by the usual lackeys. Here’s the ever-reliable Guardian right on cue, for one.  “There were speakers at the fuel protest in Dublin known for promoting anti-immigrant conspiracies, as well as for misogynistic, violent rhetoric, such as talking about Irish women needing to “breed” more. It emerged that one of the protest spokespeople has convictions for cruelty and neglect of farm animals.”

Where have we seen this kind of stigmatisation before? Ask the Canadian truckies about these tactics used on them. Ask the Wellington mandate protesters too.

Ireland’s reliance on fossil fuels to run their economy – just like the rest of the world – is hugely exacerbated by the Irish government currently taking over 57 per cent of the price of petrol and 48% of the price of diesel in tax. That’s off the charts.

In response to the pressure, a few days ago the Irish Government announced a support package to try to end the stand-off. Despite a suite of measures – including a relatively tiny reduction in their own tax take on fuel and deferring an upcoming carbon tax increase – the protesters say it doesn’t address the underlying structural issues of fuel pricing. So, the disruption continues.

The Irish media have come in for huge criticism. Their state broadcaster RTE and the Irish Times have consistently backed the Government line, of course, and going so far as to ask why the Government didn’t crackdown on the protesters earlier and harder. So much for caring for the working people who provide their food and bring it to them.

The media also provides amplification of certain Irish politicians opining about outside influencers being part of the problem.  Here’s the Government’s Justice Minister doing the dirty work of guilt by association.

Again, it’s the new playbook of left-wing governments around the world. Claim it’s the “far right” stuffing up everything rather than taking any accountability for what they are doing. Think Labour and Chris Hipkins here. It’s cheap, it’s dirty, and it’s effective.

Look at this numpty speaking of being “terrified” of her own nation’s flag. She wouldn’t know her arse from elbow. Somehow she’s mixed out of control immigration with the fuel protesters. How do these idiots get elected?

UK PM Keir Starmer uses the tactic relentlessly, especially around immigration. Former Canadian PM tried it about the truckers during Covid calling them “racists and misogynists”, and he said basically the same thing about anyone who wouldn’t take the jab. Nice guy.

Bottom line is this. If you don’t support these globalist puppet governments 100 per cent then you are all of these hurty words. Once can only hope the people see through the rhetoric more and more and more.

Because Ireland’s woes are the world’s woes. And the usual suspects have not let a decent crisis – as in the war against Iran – go to waste. This looks, smells, and feels like another opportunity to take away our freedoms, and increase their power over us. The peasants.

But I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The peasants have a penchant for rising up. Whaddyathink pitchforks were invented for?

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