Mr. Champagne Socialist

In common with most European countries Ireland has – thankfully – begun taking a tougher approach to the “asylum seekers” flooding the Continent like a plague of locusts. Rumour has it that the Irish Naval Service would no longer act as an unpaid shuttle service between Africa and Italy, instead becoming much more selective. Gratified by this I was nonetheless disturbed to learn from Parliamentarian Mick Wallace how things were actually starting to play out down there.

“We’re literally killing them! Actually drowning them” he raged as he returned from the scene of a tragedy, eventually dissolving into tears at his country’s shame. I had to admit that I also felt a pang of guilt at the thought of our sailors holding the heads of hapless migrants under the Mediterranean waves while machine-gunning the survivors, cackling maniacally as they did so.

But not for the first time Mick was engaging in a bit of hyperbole. In fact make that grotesque misrepresentation. Let me explain. He visited Calais where he met – wait for it – an unfortunate boy whose whole family died horribly. So he was now alone in the world, just waiting to reach safety in Ireland. Actually I think I’ve heard from this guy before now. About a thousand times in fact.

And how was Ireland ‘actually killing them’? Well it seems the fact that Ireland isn’t accepting this poor orphan (and everyone else who feels like roosting here) means that we’re ‘actually killing them’. Yeah, Mick, right. Someone said that if you can fake sincerity you got it made. Well if that’s true Mick does not have it made because his performance brought down a tirade of abuse and ridicule on his head (on which he wears a dead ostrich, as you can see from the pic).

This guy is the quintessential champagne socialist SJW. Although making millions from property development during the boom he nonetheless held his street cred, at least with the chattering classes, by espousing fashionable causes that cost him nothing. (‘Paging Bono, paging Bono’). Always while the cameras were rolling of course. Things like refusing to eat Israeli or South African oranges, chaining himself to bankers’ cars, getting arrested for protesting American military landings at Shannon.

Although an avowed anti-capitalist this horny-handed son of the soil was quick to avail of bankruptcy laws when his firm went down the tube, adroitly switching ownership of assets, leaving the taxman, creditors and his workers in the lurch before heading off to Italy to inspect his vineyards there. Another passion of his is Ireland’s homeless. Whose numbers would be tripled were his proposals to let everyone from the Third World settle here.

But with the ‘liberal’ Left what you say matters more than what you do. Which is another way of saying the lot of them are two-faced hypocrites.

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