There is something tragically irrelevant about the elections taking place this weekend in Ireland. In recent months, Ireland has felt less like a country and more like the first acquisition of the Reborn Frankish Empire, after the Central European Bank and the IMF in effect took over day-to-day management of Irish affairs. The effect of this is to so reduce the significance of the general election that it’s more like appointing the staff of a small post office, in which the Taoiseach is actually just a shop steward negotiating tea breaks. The incoming Irish government will be merely administering the country as a satrapy of Brussels and the European Bank.
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So, just as Irish self-destructiveness was the prelude to Irish independence, so was it also the prelude to the formal end of that self-government, when Irish banks borrowed billions from the world in order to buy and rebuy from one another what they already owned. Budding empires like the European Union have seldom found would-be colonies with such an agreeably suicidal disposition.
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No matter. Whoever wins the Irish general election — Kenny, probably — will have to doff his cap daily to the neatly suited ECB/IMF inspectors (‘Germans’, as they are generically called) who now cruise Irish government corridors. His glorious prime ministerial duties will largely consist of him licking EU stamps, and asking if the staff can have Saturday afternoon off, bitte. He will also default on the repayments of Irish debt, because it is impossible for Ireland to meet the multi-billion-euro demands of the European banks and bond-holders. No one can rescue Ireland now, save the empire to which it has so abjectly surrendered its soul.
Via Spectator
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