EU ‘It captures something we’ve been sleepwalking towards for years’ – Image of burning migrant boat atop Moygashel Bonfire a ‘turning point’ in immigrat - The effigies of migrants being burned at the bonfire have been widely condemned


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Effigies of migrants in a boat burn atop a bonfire at Moygashel, Co Tyrone

The image of a burning boat atop a Co Tyrone bonfire has been described as a “turning point” in the wider debate on immigration.

On Thursday, a boat with mannequins depicting refugees crossing the English Channel, dressed in lifejackets, was engulfed in flames atop a bonfire in Moygashel.

Accompanied by ‘Stop the Boats’ sign, the effigy has been at the centre of widespread condemnation from politicians and groups.

Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty’s NI director, said that it was “shameful” that the “despicable display of hate” had been allowed to go ahead and added that it represented “a chilling pattern of escalating hostility” following June’s series of racist attacks.

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Crowds gathered as the bonfire was set alight on Thursday night

However, it has also attracted attention from further afield – including far-right figures such as EDL founder Tommy Robinson.

Anti-immigration movements have been growing in both Ireland and the UK over the past number of years, with incidents of violent outbursts taking place in Dublin in November 2023 last year and across the UK in 2024.

Speaking to The Irish News, London-based political activist Jack Dart said that the image of the burning boat was potentially a watershed moment.

“[It] isn’t just a moment of hate, it’s the inevitable result of a political climate that has treated refugees as something to be feared rather than protected,” he said.

“When a group of people burn a boat to cheers and fireworks, it isn’t just a sign of public frustration, it’s the fire at the end of a long political fuse.

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London-based political activist Jack Dart said that the image of the burning boat was a potentially watershed moment.

“This image already feels like a turning point, because it captures something we’ve been sleepwalking towards for years.

“It will be remembered, perhaps as the moment we truly saw what happens when hate is allowed to go unchecked.”

Mr Dart criticised the wider UK debate on immigration and Labour’s failure to tackle the narratives pushed by parties such as Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

He added that the legacy of the boat burning atop the Moygashel bonfire “depends on whether we let this pass, or whether we decide that this is the moment we finally said, ‘No More’”.

The phrase ‘Stop the Boats’, which was placed below the mock migrant boat, was popularised under former Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in 2023.

Upon his election victory in 2024, Keir Starmer said his Labour government would “smash the gangs to stop these crossings”.

This week, he agreed a deal with French President Macron that would see those crossing on small boats detained and returned to France for the first time.

As of Friday, the the UK Prime Minister had not acknowledged the burning of the effigy.


Looks like the Irish have found the nerve that the English are sorely missing, good on them.




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MongInTheMirror said:
It literally is - unionists (the orange leprechaun in The Simpsons) have been doing this in working-class areas for decades if not centuries. These are the crowd that want NI to remain part of Britain, so they also almost always feature some variation on "Fuck the Pope", several Irish tricolors, plus a whole charming local vocabulary of slurs for Catholics, so it's hysterical to see the journo note 'Kill All Taigs' (one of the aforementioned local slurs) as if that is even unusual. Heaven forbid someone might ask why they didn't write these breathless, pained soliloquys about all the bigotry every single other year when this crowd were only dunking on other poor white people. I'm sure I can't possibly imagine why.
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That was also pretty insightful, I didn't know there are Irish loyalists in northern Ireland.

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MongInTheMirror said:
It literally is - unionists (the orange leprechaun in The Simpsons) have been doing this in working-class areas for decades if not centuries. These are the crowd that want NI to remain part of Britain, so they also almost always feature some variation on "Fuck the Pope", several Irish tricolors, plus a whole charming local vocabulary of slurs for Catholics, so it's hysterical to see the journo note 'Kill All Taigs' (one of the aforementioned local slurs) as if that is even unusual. Heaven forbid someone might ask why they didn't write these breathless, pained soliloquys about all the bigotry every single other year when this crowd were only dunking on other poor white people. I'm sure I can't possibly imagine why.
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I know that these shitfuck morons are obligated to be as thick as pig shit about intra-white hate, and all brown-on-white hate, but I really, really, really want to ask one of these shitlib leftist retards what they think about the children/grandchildren of the Irish Bloods and Crips (the Unionist vs. Republican militiamen from the Troubles) uniting in the streets to protest these boats and their shitlib politics.

Twenty years ago, these people would be as likely to shank each other in the streets as look at each other. How badly do you have to fuck everything up where a centuries-old blood feud can be forgotten by the people who grew up in households scarred and shaped by the last of the violence? Who probably beat the shit out of each other in school over last names, or catching a glimpse of a cross necklace?

That is what I want my fellow Burgerfats to marvel at: the Orange (Protestants) and the Green (Catholic) fucking militias are banding together to protest this shit. Imagine the Klan and the Black Hebrew Israelites joining forces to crack spic skulls in Los Angeles and you might approach the level of "the fuck is this shit?!" that we are seeing from the Irish.
 
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Abradolfus_Linclerson said:
Twenty years ago, these people would be as likely to shank each other in the streets as look at each other. How badly do you have to fuck everything up where a centuries-old blood feud can be forgotten by the people who grew up in households scarred and shaped by the last of the violence? Who probably beat the shit out of each other in school over last names, or catching a glimpse of a cross necklace?
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This, x100.

I am merely a tourist when it comes to Irish history, been doing some more reading about it and it's really fascinating to think that this is the ONE THING that has both sides agreeing with each other. Truly marvelous to think about. Still, they couldn't help but slip in that KAT flag right next to the boat.
 
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Abradolfus_Linclerson said:
I really, really, really want to ask one of these shitlib leftist retards what they think about the children/grandchildren of the Irish Bloods and Crips (the Unionist vs. Republican militiamen from the Troubles) uniting in the streets to protest these boats and their shitlib politics
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From what I've seen (admittedly limited) on social media, the general cope seems to be about what you'd expect - 'it's just a few bad apples, muh far right, muh poor people are retarded' etc., etc. Basically, if you don't have a toilet paper humanities degree you couldn't possibly have a flicker of insight worth acknowledging.

I think a lot of Americans forget just how rife with classism the British isles in general are, more so than racism I think. For all of their leftist posturing about Gaza, IMO the Irish arriviste middle class are as bad or worse for it than their English counterparts. They are the worst type of national quislings, TBH, and they will pretty much ignore anything the unwashed working classes have to say right until there's Molotovs being thrown through windows in south Dublin.

I have absolutely fuck all faith in the political establishment of either Ireland or Britain to do anything constructive, TBH, but I'll give credit where it's due and say you can't accuse the people there of not... ummm, taking things into their own hands when dissatisfied with the political status quo, relative to the rest of Europe.

Edit to add: forgot to note on the political establishment - it doesn't help that the Catholic middle class and Irish nationalist parties like Sinn Fein have also drifted into buying the EU neoliberal migrant consensus alongside their Unionist sellout peers. So basically, the working class on both sides of this conflict have little to no options in terms of legit political representation. Leaving the only option being... violence.

Hmmmmmm... :thinking:

In Northern Ireland, of all places. I wonder where on earth this might lead.
 
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For everyone here, this is a yearly tradition for ULSTERMEN, it is NOT Irish, these are not Irish people building these and the two groups still don't get along despite what slopmongers on Xitter might say. Combined with the earlier riots in Ballymena, it does mark an anti-migration shift in Northern Ireland, Northern Irish groups are also generally more organised and more belligerent than their English counterparts, which can be seen in how militarised the PSNI is in comparison to the plods in Great Britain.

All this to say that Northern Ireland now always runs the risk of exploding into spontaneous and violent anti-immigrant action. (You love to see it.)
 
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For everyone here, this is a yearly tradition for ULSTERMEN, it is NOT Irish, these are not Irish people building these and the two groups still don't get along despite what slopmongers on Xitter might say.
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Does it change the message..?
 
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has been described as a “turning point” in the wider debate on immigration.
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Its a turning point alright, but there's no "debate" retard, there never was because you shitheads refused to listen to even the most sensible criticism of unlimited unverified uncontrolled migration, and now as this shows there wont be a debate, we are THIS CLOSE to shit getting out of control, all it takes is the right man in the wrong place with enough ordinance to start.

Of course when this happens all you neolib shits will either flee or pretend you never supported this shit, and all migrants even the ones who did everything by the book and never bothered anyone will end in a mass grave thanks to you, not that you ever cared, it was all about power and money for eurocrats like you.
 
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Notice that for all the kvetching and moaning about hate, when push came to shove the bonfire DID go up in flames with the rapefugee boat on top.

Despite a almost united response from the entire government, they couldn't actually do anything. In the end they were relying on browbeating and verbal shaming to try and get the unionists to not do it. And it failed.

They knew that if they sent the police it would start a fight they can't win.
 
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