FrancieBrady wrote: » How so? Both are anonymous. You claim people will make a different decision in the polling booth because it is anonymous, yet here on an anonymous forum the yes side is showing a strong lead. BTW reticence about revealing your voting intentions cuts both ways. Many Unionists may do the same in the anonymity of a polling booth. Probably balance one and other out.
downcow wrote: » I think this is a mad counterproductive idea like something the dup would come up with. I am so glad it will not apply to ni. Would only wind up the many traditional nationalists who currently support the union.
JimmyVik wrote: » No, its not the equivalent. Nowhere near it
FrancieBrady wrote: » Fly the flag to strengthen the Union and fight Scottish Independence except in NI...Jim Allister will burst. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-waves-flags-fight-scottish-independence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1616619758
Rodin wrote: » He means no physical border. As you know. The accents don't change when one steps over the border. Regional accents aren't boundary obeying.
FrancieBrady wrote: » This is the equivalent of a polling booth...you are anonymous. Surprised the Yes vote is so far ahead here given the nature of the forum.
Rodin wrote: » Because GB don't give a f.u.ck about NI.... NI are like a jilted lover. There'll be a lot of hurt and pain but they'll end up in a better, more loving relationship with the next one. Maybe their one true love is right under their nose.
JimmyVik wrote: » That will be what swings it. It matters more to ordinary tax payers than anything else does. I know there are passionate people but they need to see what the real issue is with an all island poll. People saying in 10 years time are the equivalent of the people when polled in public will say "Oh i'll vote yes. Just so they dont get an earfull". ITs just easier to say you will vote yes to others. Then you can stick your real preference down in the polling booth.
bonzothedog wrote: » But wouldn't Boards be fairly reflective of the wider public? I have no political affiliation and am a bit on the fence about re-unification but find the subject kind of compelling the way it seems to have just morphed into the conversation and even unionists seem to accept that a border poll is inevitable. This is a massive shift brought about primarily by Brexit. I think you are wrong saying that it is like taking a poll at a SF ard fheis or a DUP equivalent. The early voting and commentary on the poll thread seems to indicate a lot more nuance actually. Most of the "No" vote is hardly coming from unionists but people who are worried about propping up the north financially or delaing with the fallout from unification. The majority so far of the Yes vote seems to be going the way of the "Yes -in 10 years time" option which would suggest they aren't Sinn Fein voters who would probably for the "Yes - ASAP " option.
Fionn1952 wrote: » It isn't that I expect to see it going one way or the other, it's that I don't expect it to be reflective of the general public, and it'll be down to the general public to vote. You have a huge selection bias; people that care enough about it to discuss it on an online forum. The bias cuts both ways, you'll get people who strongly oppose it and people who strongly favour it.....Great, what useful information can we gain from finding out that people who care enough to discuss unification on an online forum and enough to vote on a poll on said forum have strong opinions on Unification? My point is that it isn't indicative of the great number of people who occupy the grey area between, 'I'd vote for Unification no matter what' and, 'I'll oppose Unification no matter what'.....and it is the people in that grey area who will ultimately decide. You've done the equivalent of taking a poll at a DUP AGM and a SF Ard Fheis....you'll certainly get some numbers out of it, you could examine trends in those numbers and make projections based on them, but the polling method is so flawed to render the analysis and projections entirely useless.
Rodin wrote: » Because GB don't give a f.u.ck about NI....NI are like a jilted lover. There'll be a lot of hurt and pain but they'll end up in a better, more loving relationship with the next one. Maybe their one true love is right under their nose.
FrancieBrady wrote: » He knows that. He has no answer to why the border with the EU is in the Irish Sea and is staying there and why NI has been effectively sundered from the UK, I suspect.
Rodin wrote: » He means no physical border. As you know. .
FrancieBrady wrote: » The border between the UK and the EU is in the Irish Sea downcow, it was NEVER going to be on the land. We had the power to ensure that. Unionism didn't have the power to stop the sea border and haven't as we have seen. The protocol is staying.
downcow wrote: » Do you live on some alternative universe Francie. No land border? Separate currency, separate tax regime, separate governments, different flags, anthems, official languages. Different school systems, different accents, do I need to go on? You really do love in a fantasy land.
FrancieBrady wrote: » There was never going to be a land border for a host of reasons the primary one being that we were not going to take the hit for Brexiteers foolishness. We had the power to see to it that a sea border was the chosen option. Brexiteers had no power to resist if they wanted Brexit and Unionists had no power at all to resist it...as we have seen.
downcow wrote: » Leo has a two-year start. So I have no idea if their threats will work as well
bonzothedog wrote: » Hey downcow - while I think what you say is true to an extent there is definitely another tranche of people in the south who would be very open to bringing 2 countries together and your history/culture into a new country. I for one bristle at overt nationalism of any kind - I support the Irish rugby team, I would shout for Northern ireland in any game except playing us. I would shout for Ulster rugby all day long, I do a lot of business with a prominent protestant family in the North who I would consider friends. I am a gaeilic Irish speaker at the same time and love hurling also, I detest Sinn Fein and their anti business rhetoric and so do alot of people in the South - I'm very mixed up as you can see --there is room for us all here on this island.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Hasn't the DUP (Edwin Poots) and Jamie Bryson tried those threats? Didn't work. The protocol remains.
Fionn1952 wrote: » That poster set up another thread for the poll.
Rodin wrote: » Unionists only care about 'democracy' when they're in the majority. They don't actually believe in democracy at all.
eire4 wrote: » After ignoring the 1918 election results which saw a clear majority voting for independence. Democracy not in action!
maestroamado wrote: » I cannot see the poll that is being talked about, i am just interested in the consensus here. Am i doing something wrong....
bonzothedog wrote: » The poll isn't binding legally!! Actually the results of the poll are quite interesting and anyone that thought that this was a dead cert either way may be surprised...
Fionn1952 wrote: » Threads and fora like this provide a sample with inherently strong bias to both extremes on the topic; posters on these topics tend to be those with particularly strong feelings on the subject. Given that we are all aware there is a significant middle ground who aren't so passionately committed one way or another, I'd say there would be incredibly limited insight to be gained from a poll that has such a strong selection bias to ignore that middle ground who are much less likely to comment on a topic such as this.
