Northern Ireland is now Catholic Majority

I mentioned the Utopia asI read plenty of posts here and on other platforms that promote the idea that the population in Northern Ireland receive better social protections and benefits than in Ireland.

It's easy to pick obvious outliers like NHS and free GPs but why ignore how the social welfare system is way ahead of the UK?

Also picking out headliners like schoolbooks which is not that big but ignore other facts such as social welfare payments being much higher in Northern Ireland than in the North.

You mention taxation, but taxation is much more progressive and fair, especially since last Friday in Ireland than in the UK

Also, this taxation is redistributed by the taxation and social protection system in much fairer way resulting in lower levels of poverty in Ireland than in the UK.

I don't understand why people ignore these?

Yeah, Bryson is some clown.

He seems to think it’s 1910 or something. Expects a quick online rant to have Ulster Covenant Mark II on the way.

Few in the PUL community give a toss about him.

A poor man’s Ian Paisley.

An "all inclusive unified Ireland" is the belligerent exclusionary nationalist's way of excluding unionists.

that's not really the reality at all.

most of the cost of northern ireland is the subsidizing of it's contributions to the british institutions, with that cost gone the cost is very low and would not require higher taxes over all since the people of northern ireland would now be contributing to the tax take here.

in reality it isn't as belligerent exclusionary nationalists don't exist and unionists will automatically be included within a UI the same as everyone else.

you know this, so why do you keep stating factual inaccuracies?

your sectarian statelet in all possible forms is on the way to being killed off, it will be a full on UI.

If there is a UI then unionists wont live within the union. They are going to have to get over it just like currently nationalist in the north have to except they live within the UK. Once all of ireland is out of the union there will be no need for NI. The whole point of NI was to have a gerrymandered part of Ireland within the UK. It does not need to exist after a UI as none of ireland will be in the UK. It has a toxic history has to be the first thing that goes in a UI. Set up a new re branded devolved Ireland if you genuinely want a devolved system and not just an excuse to keep the social disaster of NI going.

What extra cost would the government be under to take on and run the six counties ? I’m trying to find that information now… but not much success… all the public services from policing, healthcare, social welfare, even public transport which is state owned and run by and under the umbrella of Translink…

im reading that usually there is a deficit of around 10 billion for the running of Northern Ireland…which is more than one third of Northern Ireland's annual fiscal budget currently.

No Ukraine is not part of russia.

You dont know the meaning of a nation. There is an irish nation of people. I am part of it like most people from Ireland.

There is a difference between the terms nation, state, and country, even though the words are often used interchangeably. Country and State are synonymous terms that both apply to self-governing political entities. A nation, however, is a group of people who share the same culture but do not have sovereignty.

I'm very much in favour of Unification, but the study that showed it as cash positive was very questionable.

Serious economic reform will be needed to make NI cash positive, it won't just be a case of, 'right turf British rule out and wait a few years'.

Complete underestimation.

I don't think any nationalist can ignore the census results which now clearly show three minorities in Northern Ireland.

Northern irish is not a nation tho your ideology may wish it was. It is a subset of the irish and British nations. Give me what culture is unique to the 6 counties that could make it considered a nation? If someone drew a line around cork and waterford and called it southen Ireland you would not create a Southern irish nation of people overnight.

Of course there is hundreds of different nations living in Ireland. What is your piont?

Maybe you could answer the question in my previous post about social welfare harmonisation.

We could produce some answers to the costs then, depending on whether you favour upward harmonisation.

What is a nation of people? Who are you to tell anyone who they can identify as?

2 minorities.

northern irish is irish, it's same as an individual identifying themselves as being from a county such as a dubliner.

There is no concept of a United Ireland, never has been a united Ireland, probably never will be, and not a single poster on here or person in the wider world has ever been able to put forward a coherent explanation of the concept of a United Ireland.

I share the wish of the Constitution to unite all the people who share the territory of the island of Ireland, in all the diversity of their identities and traditions, but also recognise that this aspiration does not require constitutional change in Northern Ireland, neither does it require unity.

It never fails to amaze me how exclusionary nationalists can support minority rights in Northern Ireland with power-sharing Assemblies but pivot the day after a border poll to an exclusionary 50% plus one viewpoint that overrides everything.

There is nothing inherently correct about a united Ireland that improves democratic rights any more than the current situation.

I dont have a subjective version of it. I quoted what the factual definition of it already a few posts ago .

Considering you think NI as a nation of people what is their unique culture to make them one?

"There is a difference between the terms nation, state, and country, even though the words are often used interchangeably. Country and State are synonymous terms that both apply to self-governing political entities. A nation, however, is a group of people who share the same culture but do not have sovereignty."

You only have to spend time in Northern Ireland to realise that there has been cultural divergence from the South over the last 100 years.

Despite my very differing outlook to Blanch, on the NI nationhood question I'd be more aligned with his thinking than yours, which I think takes a very black and white view of Nationhood.

I'd consider myself Northern Irish and Irish, I recognise that there are aspects of NI culture that, while initially seeded from just a mixture of British (particularly Scottish) and Irish cultures has over 100 years come to form an amalgamation that is distinct from both, and not all of it is just rioting, petrol bombs and flegs.

There are certainly areas where I would have more in common with an NI Unionist than an average fella from Cork, or that said NI Unionist would have more in common with me than an average fella from Glasgow.

Ah yes, the Houses of Parliament.....where one half of NI has zero representation and where FPTP voting means governments can routinely command huge seat majorities with a ridiculously low number of votes, where a huge number of constituencies are safe seats that essentially make the vote of a huge number of constituents worthless, where the voting decisions of one country out of a four part Union count for more than the other three put together? Where the parties who have been at the helm don't even bother to try get votes in NI because it is so insignificant?

Aye Blanch, the bar is still low enough to step over.

Is the culture specific to NI or is it the north of Ireland. You are from a border county? In any cultural rather than political view do you think a person from lets say Derry is going to have a similar culture with a person from Antrim but not Donegal?