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Vote YES or NO here for a United Ireland.

  • 19-04-2011 10:51am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭


    Just picking up on a line of discussion elsewhere. As we all have our reasons and I want to keep this simple, please don't write anything except a Yes or No. Voting closes at 1.00 a.m tonight. Cheers!:D

    What say you? 1121 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    52% 587 votes
    Ataru Jaguar/neither/whatever like
    47% 534 votes


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Comments

  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Pie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Eh a poll would be handier than counting the 'Yes' & 'no' posts :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Is this legally binding?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Dear After Hours,

    Until a neutral poll is added in a secure neutral location neither I nor any of the representatives of my party will be able to participate in this discussion. We have made many many compromises on the road to this table and this is one we are not prepared to take.

    This SIT-CHEW-ATION will not be tolerated.

    Sincerely,

    Northern Politicians.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Norn Iron


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Adrian009


    Four spoiled votes so far ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Maybe.


    Problem?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭The Waltzing Consumer


    No


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    Not one of these fucking things again.

    NOBODY GIVES A TOSS


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i vote maybe.
    which side has more chicks?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    30% of employees in NI work in the public sector. we've enough overly unionized entitlement focus cnuts on the payroll in this broke-ass country as it is so that'd be...

    no.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Not one of these fucking things again.

    NOBODY GIVES A TOSS

    Threads like these normally reach about 100 pages unless they are closed earlier


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,661 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    What does a United Ireland mean?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Adrian009


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Not one of these fucking things again.

    NOBODY GIVES A TOSS

    I have much sympathy with your point of view. This was just set up to see what support there actually is, at least on boards. So far, NO - 1, YES - 0, and several spoiled votes. Just like the real thing!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    faceman wrote: »
    What does a United Ireland mean?

    Think it is some new fangled Soccer team thingy...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    Add a poll ffs and stop poking the bear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭deman


    Ok. Where do I vote???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    YES.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Can't vote without a poll poindexter!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,764 ✭✭✭cml387


    Uber thead-fail.


    It's a pity,because maybe if we voted in favour of a United Ireland,there'd really be one.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭mgmt


    cml387 wrote: »
    It's a pity,because maybe if we voted in favour of a United Ireland,there'd really be one.

    lol, thats why Michael Collins failed in the London talks. He forgot to bring the After Hours thread with him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭Notorious97


    Im guessing its ground hog day today?

    Im a Yes anyway, but i look forward to the sh*t storm coming our way as per usual.

    Wheres that popcorn and beer sales man when you need him........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭D1976


    monty-brewster-1.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Poll added


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    biko wrote: »
    Poll added
    Yay


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    biko wrote: »
    Poll added

    NERD!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    I say we have a united Ireland under the rule of a Kaiser. The current shower we have in politics (both north and south) are incapable of managing a good sh.it let alone an entire country


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,135 ✭✭✭POINTBREAK


    30% of employees in NI work in the public sector. we've enough overly unionized entitlement focus cnuts on the payroll in this broke-ass country as it is so that'd be...

    no.
    65% of people in work in NI work for the Government and a large number of those employed in the private sector rely on government contracts to stay afloat.
    Last year the government in NI spent £12 billion more that they earned. The £12 billion deficit was made up by the UK subvention (block grant)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,124 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I think it would be disastrous at this point in time, for people on both sides of the border.
    Though I do hope that some day it is achieved through universal consensus.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Cú Giobach


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Not one of these fucking things again.

    NOBODY GIVES A TOSS
    Judging by the numerous polls out there and the number of people in NI and the republic who would like to see a UI, which would be at the very least greater than the number of people living in Dublin, then by the using the same logic that you did with your statement, I can state, NOBODY LIVES IN DUBLIN.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    No, don't want the Nordies.
    Bunch of angry loonies in fairness.

    If the Brits want to give us back the North, then I think we'd deserve serious compensation/war reparations to take responsibility for it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    A United Ireland would mean the end of cross-border shopping trips that's for sure.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,469 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I've lived in the North, nice country so I'm voting no.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭raymann


    i think it would be the thing that finnaly did us in. lets get the 26 counties sorted first and worry about the rest later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    I'd like a United Ireland, but can't see it happening.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Adrian009


    wow, its just like a real election, watching the votes rise and rise, and putting bets on who wins!:D I oughta do a poll thread every day!;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,592 ✭✭✭GerM


    We can't take care of ourselves. Why would we want another 1.8m people? And 1.8m people who are accustomed to being extremely well funded by their government at that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Apart from not losing out on money for people shopping up north, i honestly cant think of one good reason for it to happen. I cant see how it can possibly benefit us.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


    Red diesel, Windsor Park, Joey Dunlop, cattle rustling, Julian Simmonds, Give My Head Peace, Jonny Adairs celebrity Alsation etc.

    Same island, different folks, more in common with eachother than with us or those in mainland Britain.


    *waits for the mainland britain point of order.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Pretty sure we did this before...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭spider guardian


    I would like to see it happen some day but at the moment we don't even have the money to change all the road-signs into irish!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Adrian009


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Pretty sure we did this before...

    oowwww wow! what was the result?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Adrian009 wrote: »
    oowwww wow! what was the result?
    100 pages of the same arguments we had before, pretty sure a majority said they would like a UI.


    Regardless, if a referendum was held on an all island basis, we would have a UI.

    AH has a disproportionate amount of what I can only describe as "Irish unionists" and if such a referendum where to held in the 26 the "yes" side would easily win. Unification is a stated aim of every major political party.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Adrian009


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    100 pages of the same arguments we had before, pretty sure a majority said they would like a UI.


    Regardless, if a referendum was held on an all island basis, we would have a UI.

    AH has a disproportionate amount of what I can only describe as "Irish unionists" and if such a referendum where to held in the 26 the "yes" side would easily win. Unification is a stated aim of every major political party.

    When it comes to voing for UI, I really wonder do people vote because they actually have thought about it, or because "its tradition"? Remember, a substancial number of these people once voted Fianna Fail.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    100 pages of the same arguments we had before, pretty sure a majority said they would like a UI.


    Regardless, if a referendum was held on an all island basis, we would have a UI.

    AH has a disproportionate amount of what I can only describe as "Irish unionists" and if such a referendum where to held in the 26 the "yes" side would easily win. Unification is a stated aim of every major political party.

    I'd disagree, there is a higher proportion of republicans on here than in general society.

    Also technically shouldnt the ones who want unity with northern ireland be referred to as the "irish unionists"?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Adrian009 wrote: »
    When it comes to voing for UI, I really wonder do people vote because they actually have thought about it, or because "its tradition"? Remember, a substancial number of these people once voted Fianna Fail.

    whats traditional about a uterine infection?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Why does no one ever consider making Norn Iron a sovereign country of it's own?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Why does no one ever consider making Norn Iron a sovereign country of it's own?

    It probably wouldnt do well on its own.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    In theory, yes. I would like a united Ireland but only if it was achieved through peaceful means without anymore bloodshed. And that's never going to happen.

    So ideally, yes. But realistically, no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,763 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    A United Ireland would mean the end of cross-border shopping trips that's for sure.

    They would just be called shopping trips :(


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