A Two Fingered No No Vote in the Referendum
Two reasons I am rejecting the proposed constitutional changes
The referendum taking place on Friday 8th of March is a politically correct mess. I will be voting No No.
Why? Two reasons.
Firstly, the implications of the proposed constitutional changes are contrary to the wellbeing of the Irish People. Here are a few resources that may be of use in understanding why:
Senator Michael McDowell has been a rock of sense on many thorny issues in recent years. His organisation, Lawyers for No, have grave concerns about the proposed changes.
David Quinn of the Irish Independent, one of few journalists here consistently willing to stick his head above the politically correct parapet, has also voiced serious concerns. His appearance on Newstalk last week provides a useful summary.
An English writer living in Mayo, Paul Kingsnorth, outlines some concerns I share in his essay, What is a Mother? Kingsnorth points to the insidious nature of the proposed changes:
The narrative being sold by the government and its supporters - which, as ever, means most of the country’s political, cultural and media elites - is that the constitution as it stands is a misogynist relic. The notion that ‘mothers’ should put their ‘duties in the home’ above their right to economic independence is the kind of prehistoric notion that should have gone the way of the dodo by now. Just as we know that families do not have to be based on marriage, and that marriage can be ‘non-binary’, so we know that the state has no right to insist that a woman puts her ‘duties in the home’ above her right to choose how to live her life.
If the constitution did, in fact, oblige woman to stay at home rather than working, then some of these points would be fair. But it doesn’t, as any visit to Ireland will swiftly make clear. Women here, as in any other Western liberal country, can do pretty much what they like. Ireland has had two female presidents already, and they doubtless won’t be the last. The constitution doesn’t limit the choices of women in any way. In fact, it does the opposite.
Which is the real problem.
Secondly, this government have done a lot to suggest they do not care for the wellbeing of the People of Ireland. They have been making a total mess of our beautiful country and, given the sinister ambiguity of the proposed changes to our constitution, have not earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to assessing the nobility of their intentions.
In an essay for Gript.ie from late last year — Ireland Needs New Elites: A Long, Foul Rant on Why — I demonstrate the disaster that is our current government. Despite being Europe’s second richest country on paper, in reality things are falling apart. Some key points:
The government made such a shambolic mess of the Covid pandemic, that monthly excess death rates were often far higher in 2023 than across the three pandemic years of 2020-22.
Our energy and food security situation is a joke at a time of increasing geopolitical instability and threats to global supply chains.
98.7% of Gardaí do not support Garda leadership at a time of increasing crime of the worst kinds.
Our health system is crumbling.
Our housing situation is getting worse and worse.
Our military is tiny and neglected as the world is becoming increasingly dangerous. No reality illustrates this better than the fact the Irish NGO blob gets 5 times the funding of our entire defence forces.
Ireland’s mass immigration policy is an obviously disastrous and inhuman mess, and a mess we are not allowed to question at the risk of being called “far right”. (Note: tell that to the Left Wing Danish government who preside over some of the strictest and most sensible immigration policies in Europe).
Our children are being indoctrinated by a victimist ideology which, in the European Parliament, was convincingly described as “Maoism with American Characteristics”.
They are ramming totalitarian “hate speech” laws down our throats which don’t even define what “hate” is, which will allow Gardaí to search one’s home and seize all devices found, and which will reverse the burden of proof as if one were found with a load of drugs. Helen Joyce, former editor at the Economist and author of Trans, has described these laws as “literally Orwellian”. The Irish Independent’s Ian O’Doherty straightforwardly described how this “completely bonkers” bill is “bad law with bad intentions and will have terrible consequences for Irish democracy and freedom.” And despite 73% of respondents to government consultation not supporting these laws, the kindly-tyrants are driving on.
Here are a few more key examples of treacherous governance which have arisen since publication of that piece:
A few days after the November 23rd riot in Dublin, at a full meeting of Limerick City and County Council on November 27th, Fianna Fáil Councillor Abul Kalam Azad Talukder, Limerick’s first ever Muslim Councillor, told the council chamber that “I’d like to see them shot in the head or bring the public in and beat them until they die”. He was initially understood to have been referring to the Irish rioters, yet later backtracked and claimed he was in fact referring to the Algerian stabber of three children. The party of Ireland’s second in command, Táiniste Micheál Martin, apparently think calls for execution by gun or mob are ok; at the time of writing, Talukder is still on the main Fianna Fáil website.
Irish farmers have finally started to join their European counterparts and rise in revolt against fully idiot green policy.
A government minister, Catherine Martin, has been found to be spreading misinformation about her own government’s upcoming referendum.
Former members of Irelands most elite fighting unit, the Army Ranger Wing, have claimed they needed to change careers as they couldn’t pay their bills. As the world is becoming more and more dangerous, this situation exemplifies a suicidal disregard by the Irish government for our military defence capability.
In summary, not only are the proposed constitutional changes quite sinister, but this government have consistently demonstrated they do not really care about the People of Ireland.
Both of these proposed constitutional changes deserve emphatic rejection, and the government parties deserve electoral demolition when the opportunity arises.
A No No vote will be a long overdue two fingered salute to ruling elites we cannot trust and, hopefully, if enough of us wake up in time, a sign of change to come.
