“What will happen in this room over the next two days is very significant from a national perspective,” Eddie Hobbs told hundreds of delegates at the “Irlforum” conference last weekend.

Hobbs – once Ireland’s best-known financial adviser and now a podcaster (who isn’t?) and critic of immigration, globalisation, the political establishment and the mainstream media – is one of the leading figures in the political world that exists to the right of any of the parties represented in the Dáil. It ranges from those who are quite right wing to those who are, by any fair definition, far right.

Many of them hate being labelled far right. Maybe that’s understandable. It’s a subjective definition. And to have concerns about immigration doesn’t make you far right.

But if you’re going around warning people that the government is trying to replace the indigenous Irish population with foreigners so it can control them more easily and it’s all happening on the instructions of a shadowy international elite, then, I’m sorry, but you’re not just on the far right, you’re a far-right conspiracy theorist.

You have every, er, right to be far right and to advocate for your views. You are entitled to believe what you want. But if this is what you believe then don’t complain when someone calls your views far right.

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