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If you really, really wanted to reignite #theTroubles without firing a shot, a very good way would be to tell Irish Nationalists and Republicans that, actually, a border poll will now require the support of a majority PLUS 10 or 20% more of the votes.
It would be a breach of the Good Friday Agreement and it would show that the English will not permit democratic constitutional change. It would smack of the gerrymandering that led us here.
BBC News · SDLP rejects any change to Irish unity poll rules - BBC NewsIt follows remarks attributed to a minister that a united Ireland should need a super-majority vote.
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It is probably fair to say that #NorthernIreland has always seemed like a cold house for the young and liberal. Certainly very many of us moved away.
However, for much of that time, the censorious anti-feminist Catholic conservatism of the 26 counties seemed no better.
Now that #Ireland has taken several grand and rightly-celebrated steps away from that legacy, whilst still imperfect, it offers a much warmer welcome home.
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The term "a cold house" is frequently used in NI politics, with David Trimble conceding in his Nobel acceptance speech that Northern Ireland had for much of the time since partition been "a cold house for Catholics".
It's interesting now that #NorthernIreland feels like a cold house for the young and progressive.
Whilst it might be naïve to think that a #UnitedIreland will be a utopia in that respect, at least the DUP and English #Tories would no longer be able to blockade the thermostat.
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Interesting quote from the #DUP's #JeffreyDonaldson
“...the people of #NorthernIreland will continue to vote to remain part of the sixth largest economy in the world”.
Except that post-Brexit UK is slipping down the rankings, Germany alone is the fourth largest economy, and the EU economy taken as a whole is only exceeded by the US.
So, on economic grounds alone, why would the people of Northern Ireland not vote to join the *second largest* economy in the world? #UnitedIreland
#EmmaDeSouza: "#NorthernIreland’s peace babies have their focus trained on climate crisis, human rights, education and mental health [...]
"The stark difference is due to a tectonic shift in societal consciousness and a growing appetite for progressive politics.
"This appetite is fundamentally incompatible with the regressive unionist ideology rooted in cultural dominance and conservatism."
#UnitedIreland #Ireland #NorthernIreland
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/25/uk-young-people-united-ireland-stormont-brexit
The Guardian · ‘Why would we want to be part of the UK?’ Young people will probably soon deliver a united Ireland
Best to take the wind out of their sails and go for a #UnitedIreland lads....
#PSNI #UKPOL #Ireland
https://inews.co.uk/news/psni-data-breach-dissident-republicans-leaked-information-chief-constable-2538201
inews.co.ukDissident republicans claim possession of leaked PSNI information, chief constable admitsNorthern Ireland's police chief said that he was 'deeply sorry' for the 'industrial scale' leak
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@onthisday -
Freaking DON'T remind me please!! 
Still waiting for a #BrexitDisaster benefit & I may be a skeleton before I see one 
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Although, there is a rising probability of #UnitedIreland! 
I'll take that!
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charade of the #preciousunion - we are not equal parts, we are not all the same and we don't have a say in the rules that govern us.
The last seven years turned me from a contented #unionist to a passionate supporter of a #UnitedIreland.
I want the same right to self determination that we were told we had to respect when the outcome of that 2016 vote.
Also, the day the result was announced was my 40th Birthday! What a fecking birthday present that was...
#Brexit was and still an bad idea.