This is pretty astonishing.
The victory for the Yes Equality side in the recent marriage referendum in Ireland has resonated with a lot of people around the world.
The Australian opposition party have used Ireland as a catalyst to get a vote going on gay marriage Down Under.
However, an advisor to the ruling Australian Liberal Party, Grahame Morris, reacted to the move and was not too complimentary about Ireland.
He told Sky News Australia, “The trigger was a vote in Ireland – I love the Irish and half the parliament’s full of Irishmen, but these are people who can’t grow potatoes, they’ve got a mutant lawn weed as their national symbol and they can’t verbalise the differentiate between a tree and the number three,” he said.
A classic ‘I don’t mean this in a bad way, but…’ if ever there was one.
Let’s hope the Irish in the parliament let him know how they felt about his racist bile.
Image via @GrahameMorris2
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