"There's an awful lot of people out there who don't like it, who feel uncomfortable with it, who are anti-racist - but do have a problem with the way the Government has handled everything," she said."This also has to come back to the Government's door; because if we didn't have a housing crisis in the first place, there would have been no... hate for the situation people are in.
"I have people coming to me every day of the week who are 14, 16, 18, 20 years on a housing list and then they see people coming in and they feel resentful".Put to her that the rhetoric around housing - and framing everything as a 'crisis' - has been hijacked by the far-right and is polarising, she denied this was the case."We all know how well-paid their spin doctors are."Actually I think we have to make a distinction.
"It's pure spin... it's one that the Government has been informed to use, because you can see them all one after the other repeating the same mantra".Asked if Taoiseach Leo Varadkar would be welcome on this march, she said:"I doubt if he's going to come, but nobody would throw him off either."One of the demands of the demonstration is housing for all, health service for all and public services for all - which is what this Government has failed to deliver.
"In particular Fine Gael, who have been in power for the last 10 years and they've failed on all those delivery of proper services for everybody," she added. Main image: Brid Smith speaking to the media outside Leinster House in May 2020. Picture by: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie
The protest should be headed to the Dáil, not the North Inner city. If you want to tell people to stop protesting at asylum centres & to take it to the Dáil, you need to do that yourselves bridsmithTD pb4p paulmurphy_TD RBoydBarrett Ginosocialist
Isn't it a pity we could not have a single united march against racism & welcoming refugees
She has a problem for every solution...populist bullshitter ,her party wouldn't have talks with SF after the last GE because they have absolutely nothing to contribute in politics other than populism rubbish
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