Suzanne Harrington: Why people, high on hate, blame desperate people in tents for the housing crisis

"Can’t get affordable housing? Blame Mohammad from Afghanistan, not the fact that the only housing regularly being built is luxury apartments for the rich."

Pictured are tents belonging to people seeking international protection which have been set up along the Grand Canal in Dublin, only one day after a different section of the canal was emptied of tents and barricaded to prevent their return. Photograph: Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie

The greatest con ever pulled off by the ruling classes is to convince the rest of us that all our problems stem from those worse off than us; that it’s the people on dinghies, not super-yachts, who are to blame.

How else to explain that a handful of desperate people in tents are somehow to blame for the Irish housing crisis? And yet these extreme Ireland-for-the-Irish, Irish-Lives-Matter, Ireland-Is-Full, flag-shaggers are on our streets, convinced of such.