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Jim Power

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1810 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

And it's all very exciting.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

But still, if you stand back and look at it, it was a pretty grim landscape.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

And these populists like Farage that are telling us they want us to take us back there, that things were much better.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

It's utter bullshit.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

But that's the nature of populism.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

Yeah, almost.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

Chris, I would just like to point out you talk about the way money has destroyed politics.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

That is not the case in Ireland.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

Good.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

You know, I think Ireland is still very much immune from those sorts of forces.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

And as I see it,

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

Virtually every politician that's in the DΓ‘il that I would be aware of and some I would vehemently disagree with, but I would struggle to identify somebody

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

you know, of that, that's so heavily influenced by finances in the way that Farage, Trump.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

So I think Ireland, we may criticize the political system in terms of its incompetence in some ways.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

But at the end of the day, I think there are a lot of decent people still involved in Irish politics who actually want to do the right thing.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

As I say, I may fundamentally disagree with,

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

with their definition of what the right thing is, but that's the nature of democracy.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

But I think Ireland is lucky in that regard.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

In the context of the UK, I know you are no fan of Keir Starmer, but I have to say, at the end of the day, I think he's a decent guy.

The Other Hand
The past ain't what many of us remember. Populists promise a return to the good old days.

He's, I would say...