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.
Amid an immigration surge, a shortfall of 250,000 homes and soaring rents, the Irish Government has sent in riot police to Tipperary where locals are protesting the closure of the last hotel to accommodate asylum seekers.
Steven Tucker wonders whether sanctimonious, oikophobic elites like Leo Varadkar and Paul Lynch might one day develop the wisdom to stop and ask themselves: "Are we the baddies?"
