Leo Sherlock - Ireland's far-right Walter Mitty

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Despite their Catholicism, they do remind me very much of US Evangelicals. All politics eventually comes back to religion with them. It's a very harsh, 19th century type worldview. 

There is definitely a still small, but growing and most importantly vocal attempt to impose regressive US-style culture wars into Irish society from the outside. 

The "IONA Institute" is the most obvious example of that. 

The Sherlock family is cut from the same cloth. 

They ally with professional contrarian journalists such as Ian O'Doherty, Brenda Power and George Hook from the mainstream media, then on the more alt-right nutty fringes you have the likes of Keith Mills, Paddy Manning, John McGuirk etc. 

All of these copy the tactics of the alt-right and UK professional contrarians like Kelvin Mackenzie, Richard Littlejohn and Katie Hopkins. And it barely needs to be said that they have a tendency to speak almost entirely in cliches, such as "liberal elites", "wealth creators", "holding the state to ransom", "small government", "sack the lot of them", "the establishment" (because this brand of conservatism is anti-establishment?) "sneering liberals", "common sense", "you couldn't make it up" (oh yes you could, which is what they generally do), "tell it like it is" and of course their favourite, "political correctness" (boy are they offended by political correctness) and their favourite target of offended opprobrium, "the PC brigade". 

It's quite noticeable how Independent newspapers give such a platform to these type of views. The Sunday Indo has been a mouthpiece for orthodox pro-big business, contrarian Unionist opinion for years but seems very taken with the alt-right these days.

What I'd really love to know is if Mr. Sherlock is being funded by US-based conservatives, or whether he has other sources of funding other than advertising clicks driven by traffic from his fake competitions.

Edited by Sham157 - 15 Mar 2017 at 8:29pm

Leo Sherlock - Ireland's far-right Walter Mitty

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