In the event of united Ireland could DUP attract a significant vote in the Republic / 26 Counties ?

Whereas you're saying that people like Garret Fitzgerald supposedly had an "affinity with unionism" based on absolutely nothing at all.

This is getting tiresome in the extreme.

His 'Constitutional Crusade' was designed for them (unionists) principally

Laughable nonsense.

I don't think going forward towards a UI,narratives villifying being accomadating towards unionism should be espoused,more especially because increasingly it's more and more what we are going to have to be looking at

overtures/niceties extended to unionists historically or now should not be dissed,its on doing so,you enter the territory of disrespect imho

For the record (again) I didn't make assumptions earlier on religion,I gave anecdote that countered yours and I know my understanding to be true

You seem to think my description of protestant affinity down south with their brethern up north is casting aspersions when I clearly stated the opposite

(i'm frankly quite surprised your experience closer to the border is different tbh but there may be a different dynamic in play)

As we don't know each other I'll put earlier differences down to yet another internet misunderstanding and leave it at that

Readers can make of it what they will

How has this obvious attempt at a wind up got 10 pages?

You are trying to undermine what I say by stereotyping religions and by insinuation:

(i'm frankly quite surprised your experience closer to the border is different tbh but there may be a different dynamic in play)

Classic tit for tatting.
For the record, my experience close to the border sees some Protestants with an affinity to Unionism but not all of them. I don't, like you, make assumptions. Insinuating that there is a different dynamic at play is pathetic.
Again for the record, I don't have issue with people having Unionist sympathies (I know and deal with such people everday) but I do have a different political outlook.

There is no different dynamic other than the truth versus stereotype.
I contest your 'experience' - not all protestants are aligned/sympathetic to unionism and never were here or in any other part of the country. You assessment is lazy.

No monopoly, I know that Protestant does not automatically equal unionist and never did here.

Apparently it does where you live and in your version of history.

Aww don't be a spoilsport. He hates when people prevent him from adding yet another notch to his bedpost.

Whatever about the future which none of us can be sure of it is absolutely gas to witness the denial of the past.

Works both ways mac, if the kids can forget and vote for SF they can forget and vote for the DUP just as easy.
How many applauding Jeffrey Robinson 'forgot', willfully or otherwise, the DUP's involvement in paramilitarism for instance.

Is that another way of agreeing that the DUP won't gain support if they continue as they are today? You believe they'd have to be a different party, with different goals and different priorities?

For the anti immigrant point - that's still demonstrably false. No anti immigrant party has done well to date, and long may that continue.

FG: We will never and should never forget what IRA/SF did.

Also FG: Howya Jeffrey, wanna address our convention, nobody will question you on the past of your party and what your party did nor about the extremes you are still connected to, who knows we might even give you an ovation?

The southern parties have realistically failed in any attempts to enter politics in NI, and most of them *have* tried. PBP have one assembly seat. Labour had one MP in the 60s.

FF tried to Borg the SDLP quite recently and while the leadership was OK with it, the members absolutely weren't

The southern parties have realistically failed in any attempts to enter politics in NI

Sinn Fein seem to have done well.