Please Google and find that source.
The complaint was mainly that it was being applied very one sidedly, which is of course true, but even that can be justified; loyalists were not a threat to the state
So if you met a FF or FG activist and got into a discussion with them in a pub about their respective parties and spoke in a strongly negative way about their party and leadership would you be afraid that you or your property would be attacked afterwards?So ideally, if I had my way, justice would be served without fear or favour across the board.
I have to agree with you there and they were the first to threaten civil war in the late 60's.I would have to respectfully disagree with that sentiment. Loyalists may not have been intent on threatening the NI state, but their actions certainly had the effect of destabilizing the very state that they were committed to upholding.
My concern is that if SF did get elected to government, they’d invade NI
I think that is a misread of the GFA. But you are right that a 50% +1 vote for a UI would be unlikely to be accepted by a shrug of the shoulders by our Unionist brethren.If they did get into government, with a majority, I have no doubt they would invoke the border poll referendum as agreed to in the GFA. If levels of support in NI remain the same for them, the British government would be under pressure to facilitate a border poll too. Depending on the result of that, would bring about the test of commitment to constitutional democratic politics. Not just for SF, but for Ulster Unionism and the British Government also.
The Unionists have long ago established their views on constitutional democracy; as long as they have the majority they are all for it but when the threat of a popular vote going against them is on the horizon they will bomb and shoot as well as anyone.I think that is a misread of the GFA. But you are right that a 50% +1 vote for a UI would be unlikely to be accepted by a shrug of the shoulders by our Unionist bethren.
I agree with you right up to Covid19 changing my mind. As well as the economic destruction of taking on what is a failed economic entity, their rubbish education system and the potential for terrorism what really turns me off the idea is the levels of racism, homophobia and general bigotry amongst the Unionist and Nationalist tribes. I like the fact that we live in a liberal inclusive country, generally freed from the cancer of religion. I fear that influence in my country again.I may as well declare my own feelings on a United Ireland. I’ve never been that pushed about it. I think it’s a great romantic notion. But it would be so financially crippling for the RoI. And I’d fear loyalist reprisals, akin to the IRA’s bombing campaign on mainland Britain.
Brexit didn’t change my mind.
But COVID-19 has. A united island would be a lot easier to manage in terms of this pandemic. And any further crises in the future.
United by consent, or even by a Green March.
I’m in.
United Ireland will result in many people dying and anyone who thinks otherwise is a naive deluded fool. The unionists are not going to go "grand so". There will be violence on a scale not seen on this island since the early 70's and probably much worse.
Secondly, we can't afford it. NI is bank rolled by their Government in London, who will pay for it- we will have to
The Shinners define themselves as being enemies of part of the population.
Stephen Collins said:...the country may well find itself being ruled by the IRA army council after the next election.
He was a key member of a terrorist organisation which murdered children.
They most certainly do not. Their founding purpose is to 'unite Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter in the common name of Irishman'.
That they have failed to do so is obvious, that much of their past activity hindered this objective is clear. But you are simply wrong to say that they define themselves as enemies of part of the population.
Their more recent rhetoric on equality and respect provides an outlet in NI for political views on gay rights and abortion that unites people from surprising backgrounds.
Is he running for elected office? Does he have aspirations to run the country?And Dermot Martin is a key member of an organisation 10% of whose clergy raped children.
You'll not see me defending it just as you'll not see me defending the child killers, and their apologists, in Sinn Fein.
Why? Are you suggesting that Unionists are not Democrats? Are you suggesting they are in fact terrorists?
As it stands, a UI can only come about through peaceful, democratic activity. In other words, a majority of people in NI.
Now assuming such a vote didn't produce a contentious 50%+1 return, but rather a substantive, say, 55% in favour of UI, what makes you think people will die?
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