Leo Varadkar has resigned as Ireland’s Prime Minister and leader of his Fine Gael party following his shock defeat in two ‘progressive’ constitutional referendums. The Telegraph has the story.
The Taoiseach made the announcement at Government Buildings in Dublin on Wednesday, bringing an end to his second stint as Ireland’s leader.
“After careful consideration and soul searching,” he said, “I don’t feel I’m the best person for the job anymore.”
Mr. Varadkar, 45, said there were “personal and political” reasons for standing down, without elaborating.
“There is never a right time to stand down. Politicians are human beings, we give everything we can until we can’t anymore.”
He added: “I have nothing else lined up.”
Mr. Varadkar will step down after suffering defeat in a referendum held to remove sexist [sic] language about women’s duties in the home from the Irish Constitution.
It came after the first meeting of the Cabinet held after the double referendum, in which voters also refused to expand the constitutional definition of the family beyond married couples.
But Mr. Varadkar will also be aware that his centre-Right Fine Gael and coalition partners Fianna Fail have long lagged far behind Left-wing Sinn Fein in the polls.
Ireland must hold its next General Election, which Sinn Fein is expected to win, by March 2025.
The latest victim of go woke, go broke, it seems.
Worth reading in full.
Voters are strange creatures: they vote down the two ‘progressive’ constitutional changes but then back Sinn Fein – a radical Leftist neo-Marxist party that would do far more than remove constitutional references to women and redefine the family.
But then again, does it not just show the lack of real choice given to voters at elections, pushing them into parties with agendas and policies they completely disagree with. Every major party in Ireland backed the referendums, yet the voters clearly didn’t.
An obvious solution to this gulf between the political class and the people they are supposed to represent would be to be more like Switzerland and hold many more referendums, breaking the monopoly on political power held by the major parties.
On the other hand, don’t assume that referendums would always favour freedom and common sense. The Swiss infamously backed draconian Covid emergency measures in several referendums. There is no perfect solution. But, to channel Winston Churchill for a moment, there are some less bad solutions that it might be worth trying from time to time.
Stop Press: On X, Michael Shellenberger notes Varadkar’s Government “is still demanding the power to send police into homes to confiscate computers and cell phones in a bid to censor the entire internet, worldwide”.
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The first good news in a long time!
I was going to say good f- c- in riddance!
Maybe the WEF thought that having four “national leaders” without roots in the countries they were “leading” was a bit too obvious.
And London – 10 million by itself, bigger than Wales, Scotland, NI, or Ireland. All 5 run by White-Christian-Western hating supremacist-globalists. In the case of Jihadi Khan a Muslim totalitarian. His Muzzie cult member now in charge of Scotland. I am sure Khan is targeting the UK PM job.
Hard to believe that in 30 years all this came to pass so quickly.
All planned. Just like Corona.
London has a higher population than the sum of Wales and Scotland. If you add Northern Ireland to the total, it’s almost the same as London.
When you take freedom for granted it gets swiftly removed. ——Freedom is currently in the process of being removed. —Wakey wakey people. There is only one way to STOP it. No longer vote for the political establishment handwringing UN puppets.
….and that must includes Mogg, Redwood, McVey, Davies, Davis, Redwood, Patel, Braverman, Truss, Badenoch et al. This tyranny has flourished on their watch. They are Tory establishment MPs and despite declaring their opposition to the leftwards lurch of their party they remain loyal to this wretched party. Nothing less than a wipe out of the Tory party in the GE can save conservatism.
Ah yes, and he was another one who was complaining about the place being ”very white”, as I recall;
https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1770429263700791536
And speaking of ”radical Leftist neo-Marxists”, this from the U.S, straight from the horse’s mouth really. And of course, this particular ‘horse’ wears the universal symbol which screams, ”I’m a deluded, traitorous freaktard!” across his mush. No surprises there then because I too would want to hide my identity if I held these views. It’s like subconsciously these unpleasant, spineless worm people know exactly what they are, hence the perma-face coverings. Lots of comments below sharing the ‘Cloward-Piven strategy’, but I’ll have to look that one up later when I’ve got more time….
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1770171578736627997
It is woke to recognise that there families which are not based on marriage and that it is not always the woman who provides care in the home?
It’s woke to care enough about it to launch a referendum to change it, for ‘feelz’.
We had a referendum on Brexit but I don’t think it was woke – or maybe it was – the term seems to cover everything these days.
Yes.
That wasn’t the point of the referendum. The point was to change wording that the state should try hard to enable women to avoid having to work for money just to make ends meet instead of caring for children and home to the state should strive to support family members caring for other family members in some unspecified way. Ie, this was specifically about doing away with some women’s rights, namely, the right to be recognized and supported as valuable contributors to society even when not working for the man. That’s woke because eliminating women’s rights is (for some bizarre reason).
Hmmh I wonder if like La Sturgeon something is about to seep put from underneath the rug. Either that os he is off to join the WEF/WHO/U.N/Bliar foundation. OR the E.U, Advisor to a Bank or big Pharma. You just know these people resign for only one of 2 reasons, they have been caight doing something they shouldn’t or a big wodgeof cash has been waived to sell access.
Was it a flounce?
If someone is flounced, they are totally beaten at some event,sport or election etc
Not heard that one; unless you mean ‘trounced’.
Where I’m from someone who flounces out, leaves a room with “an exaggerated action intended to express annoyance or impatience” and with more than a hint of camp, effeminacy.
. . . and the frog dies in the process.
Boiled slowly I surmise?
No, that’s ‘trounced’. People often confuse the meanings of ‘flounce’ and ‘flout’ and ‘flaunt’, too.
[Sorry, can’t help it, used to teach English.]
“On the other hand, don’t assume that referendums would always favour freedom and common sense. ”
A democracy can’t be any better than the voters are – especially if they are lied to by the powers that be. However, it can be worse.
On balance, a combination of direct democracy with strong constitutional protections against state abuse of power is preferable.
The constitutional protections need to have wide popular support though. The UK seems to have missed the boat in that regard – hardly anyone I know really believes in freedom of speech. Suspect this is different in the US.
We were lied to all through the Brexit campaign by Remainiacs, including Cameron’s government. But 17.4 million saw through the lies.
Referenda are superior democratic tools compared to an undemocratic electoral system that results in undemocratic decisions made by hypocritical politicians who break all promises once they’re in power and taking their orders from the UN and other globalist bodies.
Another WEF young Global leader who has been parachuted by his handlers out of the unpopular mess he has got himself into, awaiting a profitable sinecure. Like Ardern, Rutte, Marin et al
**Off-topic incoming** More power to our Andrew’s elbow;
”Former health secretary Matt Hancock has lost a bid to have a libel claim brought against him by MP Andrew Bridgen thrown out by a High Court judge.
Mr Bridgen wants to “clear his name” after allegedly being accused of antisemitism in a “malicious” social media post by Mr Hancock, the court was previously told.
In a ruling on Wednesday, Mrs Justice Steyn “struck out” certain parts of Mr Bridgen’s case but did not dismiss the whole claim, instead giving the MP the opportunity to make amendments and “remedy the deficiencies”.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/matt-hancock-andrew-bridgen-high-court-london-twitter-b1146480.html
“He added: “I have nothing else lined up.”
He’ll collect his reward as an EU Commissioner and possibly a future President of something. The EC has loads of those.
President of ireland most likely, he’s had his eye on that one for a while
“does it not show the real choice give to voters at elections”? ——The Irish had voted to leave the EU and then fell for the bribe and changed their mind. You reap what you sow. Their country is now being over run by millions of migrants and turning into something that isn’t Ireland. ——Europe is sleepwalking to multicultural disaster but pockets of people are starting to wake up out of their slumber. Progressives refer to them as “far right” ——The only problem is that it might be too late. They overslept.
Totally agree
, unfortunately, he’ll probably be replaced by Micheal Martin who had the job before him and who is no different politically from Varadkar, so another of the same Brussels and Wef pandering puppets, although, it could be worse, it could be Eamon Ryan!! He’s not had his turn yet!. He’s leader of the green party and third member of the coalition who only has 12 seats in the Dail (parliament) and only won the leader ship with an internal vote not public.
It is a timing thing too. It isn’t rocket science. Lets say you had a ‘progressive’ agenda being persued in a time of prosperity. And then the same agenda in a time of economic woes. People tend to associate things or tend to be apathetic when their mouths are stuffed with gold. In a time of dire need all of the nonsense is stripped away, no atheists in the trenches they say. A part of having the moral authority to confront this evil is the admittance of how we were complicit or at least asleep during its nascency and growth. As Jefferson said, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and I can say with certainty that we weren’t vigilant.
Binding citizen initiated referendums would reduce greatly the ability of the political class to impose their will on the public. Although more direct democracy would carry some risks, members of the public are much more trustworthy in general than the politicians, bureaucrats, and judges who comprise the political class which is intent on destroying western civilisation. The less power the political class has the better.
Destroyed their own people and constitution during the Covid years. Once you break it then it can’t be fixed because you’ve shown how far you will go. Sad for me and many Irish I’m sure but then you Irish need to understand on every level that you are occupied and you need to learn how to eject them.
To call these twerps “progressive” is an insult to all “correct” thinking people
Progressive sounds nice, but progressing to what?——–The answer is more government control of every aspect of your life.
‘the lack of real choice given to voters at elections, pushing them into parties with agendas and policies they completely disagree with’
Beware, this will also happen here in the U.K. at our next general election. It is really important to go to the ballot box. Do not stay at home and not vote and thus become part of the too-apathetic-to-vote statistics, thereby passively agreeing to whatever happens. We must cross through the candidates and write ‘I do not consent’ or ‘none of the above who betrayed democracy’ or whatever you fancy. Apparently all ballot papers are reviewed and if enough of us spoiled our papers it might make an impact – and at least prevent ‘them’ including us in their statistics (as agreeing to ‘their’ policies).
The outcome of this course of action is you being included in the aggregate count of people who broadly agree with the system but who are too thick to understand how to use a ballot paper. If you absolutely think you must make a cross on a piece of paper, vote for some party the system has declared off-limits. This sends a message. Or don’t vote – the by far better choice – as the claim that the system is democractic rests on people actually participating in these meaningless pseudo-participation rituals.
What you suggest is completely at odds with what others, including some very well informed people, have been saying.
I’m going to try to make an argument for that.
One statistic which is always presented is voter turnout, ie, the percentage of people who actually voted. Clearly, for a so-called democracy to be governed in accordance with decisions of the so-called demos (Greek for the people), the demos must actually have made a decision, ie, enough people must have voted for the turnout to be a comfortable majority of the number of voters. Otherwise, the system cannot be democratic. Hence, they want you to turn up because they need your vote for the turnout which legitimizes the system. That’s one point.
The other is: If you don’t vote for them, ie, the libgreen labcons in the UK, they want you to spoil your ballot paper. That way, your vote doesn’t count against the votes of the people who did vote for the labgreen libcons. It’s just part of a summary statistic of invalid ballot papers which have no political effect.
Hence: Turn up and deliver an invalid ballot paper. Expect yourself to become part of some new year’s honors list as Sir Maximally Convenient. Turnout is up because of you, hence, the system is democratic. But your vote didn’t count and hence, couldn’t get in the way.
I really don’t know what to say. I hope you sent this to pamela preedy too!! All I know is that you are a lone voice saying this and that many others say quite the reverse.
I’ve just thought of sending you this link to an interview with Jonathan Tilt: https://miriaf.co.uk/miri-meets-jonathan-tilt/
See my reply to Pilla.
True. I have been present at counts for local and general elections, as well as the 2016 Referendum. The ‘spoiled’ ballot papers are all held up for the watching party members and the reason for their exclusion explained by election officials. These papers are also counted and the total number published along with the other results of the count.
Some are spoiled by placing too many crosses; there is no way of knowing if this is accidental or deliberate unless a derogatory comment is added. Many spoilt papers are written across rejecting all the candidates as ‘None of the above’ or words (some abusive) to that effect.
It is my view that the spoilt ballots should be analysed as to reasons given for spoilage and reported as deliberate rejections of the parties and/or the system rather than just lumped in with ‘mistakes’. This would give a clearer picture of the number of people so dissatisfied with the regime that they used their ballot paper to express that dissatisfaction; and perhaps encourage more voters to participate rather than staying at home. An easier method would be to add a tickbox entitled ‘None of the above’ with space to add reasons for that choice. Again, results published.
Thank you for that information, Pamela. Good idea about a tickbox as you suggest. I will try and add something short as to why I can’t vote for any of them.
Schwab certainly moves quickly to remove Puppets who fail.
He gave Leo the bum’s rush?
That was my idea as well: Getting rid of someone who failed to deliver.
Varadkar isn’t 100% Irish as you can tell from his name. And he doesn’t want Ireland to be 100% Irish either, any more than the leaders of England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland want Britain to be 100% British.
Or perhaps it’s more correct to say that their globalist masters don’t want any EUROPEAN country to be a homeland for its true people. They don’t care about the rest of the world – India can be Indian, China can be Chinese, Japan can be Japanese, African nations can be African through and through.
No, it’s European white nations they’ve got it in for, especially the UN. The evidence is staring us in the face.