From top: January 2020 edition of The Economist; writer Michael O’Loughlin
This morning.
What do we want?
You’d want to be zipping it.
Via The Irish Times:
We all know, though some pretend not to, that Northern Ireland is not, and never has been, and never will be, an integral part of the UK in the way that Tunbridge Wells is. Why else did the British government give unionists their own government and state in 1921, and not the Scots and the Welsh? But the fact that unionists are so delusional about the past century does not invalidate their emotions. They have a right not to live in a united Ireland.
When Irish nationalists talk about “reuniting” Ireland, what do they mean? When was Ireland ever “united” except in the context of British rule? So what would a united Ireland actually look like? A Republic writ large? A Christy Moore fantasy of Irish ways and Irish laws? At this stage so many people have killed for, or been killed for, a united Ireland that it has become a tainted concept.
If you really want a united Ireland, based on unity rather than head counts, now is the time to stop talking about it.
Um.
FIGHT!
We Need To Stop Talking About A United Ireland (Michael Loughlin, Irish Times)
The wishes of all those that identify as British in North of Ireland must be respected.
I hope they get as much respect as they have given.
What if those conflict directly with those that don’t?
Therein lies the difficulty.
How do we respect the wishes of those that identify as British AND those that identify as Irish in North of Ireland?
and that is what the article is talking about.
Send the loyalists/unionists back whence they came.. simples
there might be an upside to the mandatory vaccination thing here. give them all a ‘paddyvax’ and watch them turn into guinness-slurping, turf-burning, ballad-singing gobsheens overnight. a united ireland will just fix itself eventually..
So your solution is: ethnic cleansing.
Jesus wept, what a fupping moron… Well, when all of the tens of millions of Irish diaspora in America, Britain and Australia are sent back to Ireland, they can stay at your house, so.
As opposed to lager-slurping, coal burning, ballad-singing gobsheens, I suppose.
…when you can’t stop laughing
Leave the Loyalists alone.
Give them a break.
Haven’t they suffered enough already?
They voted for Brexit.
Lord make us united, but not yet. Any chance of home rule for Yorkshire?