Brexit Impact on Northern Ireland

Confirmed Givan has resigned..

Mary Lou pushing for an election as expected

I'm not sure they really know. They have decided on a course of action regarding Brexit and now have to double down on it at every opportunity by making headlines, even if they know it's probably wrong and self destroying. The admittance of failure, a change of direction and a nationalist FM is too much for them, so they'd go down with the ship instead, with everyone tied to the deck chairs....

The DUP also want an early election. One opinion is that the DUP want to try and cash in on the maximum unionist vote that is disgruntled with the NIP, judging by polls that they have conducted within their own community. I guess they figure it's now or never and the only way they might help boost their share of the vote, which is slipping away.

I was listening to the UUP leader Doug Beattie being interviewed on Talkback earlier and he also wouldn't give an answer either as to whether he would go into government with a SF First Minister. Sad state of affairs but not surprising.

It's worth remembering that a lot of the DUP vote is actually just an anti Sinn Fein vote from Unionists.

So a UUP leader coming out and saying they'd definitely go into power sharing with a Sinn Fein First Minister would put off a considerable amount of the people they'll be hoping to take votes off of from the DUP.

Whether the UUP actually would or not, I've no idea.

An old fallacious argument that Ireland as a whole can not afford to reunite. Dail Eireann have been working on elements of a reunification paper through its 'Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement'. They produced a paper called 'Uniting Ireland & its People in Peace & Prosperity'. The Irish Government says we can reunify our country - and Ireland north and south, will be better off as a result.

what was going on that lead him to do that?

Previously the belligerent wing of Unionism was able to bully most of the rest at times of perceived constitutional peril. I think this is why the DUP are lurching open armed to the TUV position.

Expect an onslaught of 'Lundy' 'traitor' campaigning as they once again try to bully through fear and scaremongering. I am not altogether convinced it won't work. They may succeed.

Trust me, the election will be about saving the Union and people will be Lundied and called traitors. See what they are doing to Beattie...that will intensify.

I still think it might just work for them, or enough to keep them top dog.

There iction coming, I think only for that you may have seen the UUP behave differently.

Not sure what happened with my post, meant to read:

'There is an election coming. I think only for that you may have seen the UUP behave differently.'