Michael D Higgins insists he is President of Ireland, refuses to commemorate partition

Don't have to prove dishonesty, just lack of transparency, as I have already explained.

Yes it was unknown prior to the GFA how would partition end. All we knew is we factually happened.

Now we know it is only the people of Ireland that will have a say and not people of Britain or their politicians. We also know from the GFA that the boundary line of the NI jurisdiction can't be changed to suit partitionists should the present NI vote to unite. In the 90's there had been a call by Sammy Wilson of the DUP that the boundary of NI should be changed to give unionists a stronger majority and to further prevent a UI of happening. Thankfully more gerrymandering breaks the GFA.

You are mixing up the specifics of a border poll under the GFA with the general context of elections/border polls.

An election at any time or a referendum at any time is always democratic.

However, there are exceptions and a border poll under the GFA is one. The GFA put certain democratic controls on the holding of border polls which were key protections. A minimum period of seven years between them and a requirement that the SoS reasonably hold the opinion that one was likely to succeed were limits agreed democratically. It means that an SoS hostile to unionism (say Jeremy Corbyn) couldn't keep holding a border poll every month until the people got too tired and gave in. Such actions would be anti-democratic in nature. So in actual fact, a person who calls for a GFA border poll when the conditions set down by the GFA have not been met is the one acting undemocratically. It is no surprise to me to see Mary-Lou in that position. Why do you think that the more honest and more reasonable political leaders down here such as Martin and Varadkar have refused to call for a border poll. They know that it is undemocratic to do so in the current circumstances.

Yes, but that isn't a GFA poll.

What?

Talk of a “middle ground” in the context of a border poll is nonsense really. It’s a binary choice, stay within the UK or vote for a United Ireland, there is no third way. Now you may be right and significant people within what would traditionally have been thought of as nationalists may well decide to accept the status quo, but that’s not middle ground, that’s making a choice for one option over the other, as everyone will have to if and when it comes to a poll.

A border poll next summer, so that the UI crowd can lose? Sure work away! ROFL

The only dissident Republicans on this thread are those who deny that partition is a fact of life and will rather stick their heads in the sand regarding that reality.

The same talking points about partition, the GFA are those extolled by Republican SF.

A majority Catholic/Nationalist population in the North?

Say what? What utter rubbish is this? Stop lying and making stuff up, even your supporters on this thread won't be thanking you for it, as it will make them also look bad.

The feedback thread was about name calling for the sake of it. I gave my feedback because well, and here is a hint, it was called the feedback forum.....

You can call me whatever thing you want. But it shows up the people doing the name-calling tbh.