Tip - 'People who can’t grow potatoes': Former Howard staffer unleashes Irish insults

The former chief of staff to Prime Minister John Howard dismissed the Irish as “people who can’t grow potatoes” during a discussion on same-sex marriage on Sky News on Monday. [youtube video="fuwlpQUyKTg"] Speaking on the bill put forward by the Labor Party, Mr Morris cited Ireland’s referendum as the trigger. “I love the Irish - the parliament is full of Irishmen - but these are people who can’t grow potatoes, who have a mutant lawn weed as their national symbol and they can’t verbalise the difference between tree and the number three,” he said.
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