What's the Gaelic for "Ouch, that Brexit just bit me in the arse!"

A fascinating, and amusing, article at The Coffee House by Brendan O'Neil on the folly of the EU-besotted, ex-Prime Minister of Ireland, Leo Varadka, who has just had his silly arse handed to him by the 'Paddies'.  According to Mr. O'Neil:

Over the past couple of years, Varadkar allowed himself to become a patsy of the EU. He turned Ireland into little more than a battering ram against Brexit. With no sense of shame, he reduced himself to a pliant tool of the EU establishment, continually doing its bidding against Brexit by obsessing over (and exaggerating) the impact Brexit would have on the border in Ireland and on economic life in Ireland.

For this, he was celebrated in Brussels and Paris. He was cheered by European technocrats. He became a hero of Remainers in the UK. He was applauded by establishment lackeys at the Irish Times. And he got so carried away with being fawned over by foreign bureaucrats and pro-EU luvvies that he forgot about, or simply ignored, his own people and the issues they consider to be important.

The problem for Varadka was that the Irish 'peeps', you know, those irritating voters who needs must have their say every so often, did not give a flying fig about Brexit.  In their usual, self-centred way, they were much more concerned with housing shortages, hospital and medical services and pensions.

Here is the most staggering statistic from the Irish election: just one per cent of voters said Brexit was a deciding factor in how they voted.

Mini-Macron 'et al' should take note!

 

 

Comments

[Whitewall]

Unwashed peasants seem to be getting in the way of all the proper people? It's not just Europe either.

[Whitewall]

Or, Gàidhlig for "ouch".

[missred]

Damn voters, getting in the way again.

[Wigner’s Friend]

Varadka will be crying all the way to his EU sinecure.