Prime Time: Ireland's Call - Tonight at 22:35 p.m. (RTE & BBC 1 NI)

alaimacerc

Skid X wrote: »

They should have tossed a coin for home advantage, and based everyone in the same studio in either Dublin or Belfast.

Is there nothing to be said for having a debate at the centre of Lifford Bridge?

Duggie2012

as some of the commentators said on the night the questions asked were daft. like for example if you had to pay more tax for a united ireland what did they think the response would be. its like asking someone if they had to pay 100euro for an apple or 1euro for an apple what would you choose? stupid question. not sure the whole thing actually achieved much in the end.

alaimacerc

Duggie2012 wrote: »

as some of the commentators said on the night the questions asked were daft. like for example if you had to pay more tax for a united ireland what did they think the response would be.

Why's that a daft question? NI's a money pit due to its feeble economy, and yet has vast spending on public services that doesn't happen in the RoI. Question naturally arises whether there would be levelling up, levelling down, or a "two-speed Ireland". Or indeed, whether the whole thing's a ball of smoke SF just feels obliged to make empty noises about, lest its entire "strategy" seem far too pie-in-the-sky for its core support base.

its like asking someone if they had to pay 100euro for an apple or 1euro for an apple what would you choose? stupid question.

It would be perhaps more accurately be like asking people to choose between a €1 apple and a €1.10 apple, with people having spent the preceding number of decades going on about how the €1 apple represented 800 years of oppression, and the €1.10 apple represented all that was good and right in the world.

not sure the whole thing actually achieved much in the end.

A certain amount of Republican embarrassed coughing and looking at shoes, followed up by compensatory point and shouting, mainly, I think.

Duggie2012

would you be willing to pay more tax for a united ireland? that was the question. now you go out and survey 10 people on the street today and what do you think the main response would be? i suggest we both know the answer to that question so what is the point of asking a question like that. none in my opinion.

alaimacerc

Duggie2012 wrote: »

would you be willing to pay more tax for a united ireland? that was the question. now you go out and survey 10 people on the street today and what do you think the main response would be?

Now that is a silly question, because we've actually just asked 1000. Which however flawed an exercise, is certainly more informative than hypothetically repeating it with a vastly increased margin of error.

i suggest we both know the answer to that question so what is the point of asking a question like that.

So your thinking is that although a UI will cost money, and you think that no-one would opt for that -- despite a significant slice of people saying they would -- we should politely gloss over that aspect, and discuss it purely in an ideological vacuum?

Mr E

If you have anything else to say about the show itself, go ahead. However this isn't the place for a political discussion - this thread will be locked if that continues.