It’s Settled. Steenson > Hutch

An appeal to the people of the North Inner City

Although I am massively intrigued by the emergence of a figure like Gerrard Hutch into Irish politics, the fact that he has emerged right now in the same constituency as perhaps the most capable natural leader we have seen in years in Malachy Steenson is getting to me. It has been been preying on my mind for the last few days now that the media has fallen over themselves to interview this guy. They have reserved terms like “domestic terrorist” and other terms like it in favour of a wait and see approach. What is it that the media was waiting for? Why is it that they are preserving this man’s character in ways that have not been afforded to Steenson and the rest of us? Have terms like “allegedly” ever been afforded to Malachy or the rest of Irelands nationalist movement when accusations and demonisation are thrown around like confetti? I ask again, what is it that the media was waiting for when Gerrard Hutch announced his candidacy? The answer as far as I can see is obvious. The MSM was holding back the executioners sword in anticipation of Hutch’s views on immigration. And we now know what those views are.

It appears that some level of signalling between the Hutch camp and the establishment media may have occurred before, during, or shortly after Hutch’s arrest to indicate a willingness to play ball on immigration. A recent interview with the Sunday independent reveals Hutch’s ignorance to the plight of Ireland under this current plantation.

“This country needs immigration. It always has. I remember as a kid, immigration up in Summerhill, the fish and chip shops. There’s a guy there, [he] gives free chips to people who are hungry. He’s immigration. He’s more Irish now than he is Italian.

“I welcome integration and immigrants coming into Ireland, but bring your toolbox with you and bring your skills. Don’t come into Ireland and expect to sponge off the dole.”

Hutch added that “we can make an allowance” for people coming in from Ukraine, but said he felt some asylum-seekers coming into Ireland from elsewhere are “not being vetted” and that they are regularly housed in underprivileged areas rather than in “D4”.

Although Hutch finishes his statement on immigration with a nod to the working class vs D4 trope, him stating in any way that the country needs immigration and not addressing the November 2023 child stabbings and the East Wall/national protests is criminal. What a fucking let down. The establishment are now set to treat this man like some misunderstood street urchin and whitewash the gangland thug image they have so carefully constructed for him him over decades. Forty plus years of criminal gang journalism are set to be ret-conned in order to split the inner city anti-establishment vote, such is the threat of Malachy Steenson. After you have thought about the peculiarity of the reporting, ask yourself this; where is the far left’s attacks on Hutch? There is none. A literal domestic terrorist, allegedly, and ethnically Irish to boot. Arguably the best to ever do it. Hutch surely fits the narrative for the “The Irish are worse than the foreigners” crowd. Is he not the gift horse Newstalk and RTE need to smear the Irish? Merrion Street Memo’s seem to have gone out to the Trotskyists and informed them not to shoot. Friendly fire.

If I am being honest, I was nervous that this would be the ultimate outcome of Gerry Hutch. If Hutch cannot stand, firmly, with the people on the issue of mass immigration then he must be identified as a non entity in terms of our energy and support. Malachy Steenson has stood with the people of the inner city from day one of this plantation. He has campaigned for years as a republican and for the pro life cause. He has also shown over his time as a councillor thus far, that he is exactly the same man inside the council chamber as he is out on the street with a megaphone. The issue of immigration is one of survival for the Irish people. Any candidate that cannot grasp this issue, or chooses to forgo it to gain an easy ride from the MSM is not our friend. It is as simple as that. I held a very heavy door open in my mind for Hutch to shine. I am always ready to defend misunderstood people of any description as long as the end result is redemption or Valour. Based on Hutch’s immigration stance, what difference can you find between him and and a crew like the Healy Rae’s? A Local dynasty prepared to go easy on the foreigners for an easy ride with the media? It’s a no from me. No second chances. The hand has been shown.

No clearer could the grounds be for holding the above stance on Hutch, than in comparing and contrasting the media coverage given to Hutch and and Nationalist candidates, namely by state asset Ali Bracken. In an article about Hutch, where Bracken interviews him in an intimate rooftop setting, the worst words used by Bracken to describe Hutch are “Veteran Criminal”. The man has over 30 convictions and therefore this is justified. The rest of the article is a complete softball affair with nigh on glorification taking place throughout. At the end, when asked about comparisons between him and Donald Trump he states “Don’t go there, There’s no comparison".

So, to summarise, Hutch, possibly suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, is given objectivity and fair, non adversarial coverage by the MSM. The man has been at the heart of gangland for 40+ years. Not an extremist.

Comparing the above to this coverage by Ali Bracken of Nationalist candidates and the movement post local elections, is about as suspect and as damning as it gets. Ali Bracken effectively allows herself to become a conduit of the partisan NGO, the Institute of Strategic Dialog, allowing Ciaran O’Connor to proxy-post an article into the independent using her name as a hall pass. The ISD who receive funding from the British Home Office, effectively took possession of Brackens platform and used it to refer to Gavin Pepper and the rest of us as “Extremists” after Pepper, Glen Moore, Patrick Quinlan, Malach Steenson and Tom McDonall won a seat each at council level. The clear bias of the partisan group is not only present, but is the spine of the article. Bracken refers to O’Connor’s words as if they are sermon from the mount. Her use of the ISD as a point of authority is an endorsement of them and their British backed bollox acting in this country.

To summarise, when dealing with nationalists the media shows no objectivity. Gavin Pepper and the rest of us are extremists.

Why does Ali Bracken want you to be more afraid of Gavin Pepper than Gerry Hutch? Why is the Institute of Strategic Dialog not quoted or invoked when speaking about people like Hutch? The likelihood that the ISD were involved in the article and that they were part of Hutch’s prepared responses where immigration is concerned is high. The ISD are literally employed by our government to keep the far right out of politics so there is no way in hell that Ali Bracken is involved without the ISD all over it. The responses from Hutch on immigration we far too college-liberal, far too ignorant to be his own words. The immigration narrative is their obsession now. Giving Hutch a clear run for a seat by way favourable coverage seems to be the objective of the state. Soft on immigration is the price. The video you are about to watch of Hutch, has been produced by the MSM. They have not produced anything like this for Derek Blighe, Steenson, Pepper or anyone else. I have been more than fair about Hutch, even excited and supportive, but I cannot watch this farce and not pass remark.

See for yourself below:

My appeal to my readers, if any of you are in that area, is to give Malachy Steenson your number 1. Hutch unquestionably loves his home patch but he is too far away from acceptable on the topic of immigration. Save your home and our capital city by voting in Steenson, who will not cow toe to the media and establishment on immigration as Hutch has in exchange for favourable coverage. Hutch has been sold to you as anti-Mary Lou yet in the above articles he is on the record as saying that he is not and that he is prepared to work with her or Michael Martin. These are not the words of an anti establishment candidate. We can not afford to allow a Ciaran Mulooly situation happen with inner city Dublin. I hope my concerns are wrong, I hope he turns out to be the man of the people he himself claims to be but I fear that Hutch’s troubled life can be used against him to shape his rhetoric. We have come too far and through too much to stand back and wait in line while Gerrard Hutch sucks us into 5 years of political nothingness that serves only to fill out that last chapter in the inevitable, ghostwritten autobiography that will surely follow.

For me, Malachy Steenson wins the number one vote on the back of a clarification he made on Niall Boylan’s Podcast. On the topic of past convictions in relation to Hutch running for the Dail, Steenson states the following:

“There is a difference Niall, the people you listed there where in for criminal offences, and I despise the provisionals but the provisionals and people like me served time for political activity, not for self serving, doing something for yourself so there is a difference.”

After listening to Hutch, knowing his lifestyle, moving to Clontarf and living it up in Lanzarote, ignorant of the feud between the Irish people and their government over the amount of criminal foreigners in this country, it remains to be seen why anyone would do anything other than vote in Steenson, a true Nationalist.