Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

The SoS theorising has been debunked so many times with links to the courts rulings this is an out and out desperate lie now.
The SoS can decide to call a poll if he/she so decides and without having to evidence why he/she called it. The highest court found he/she cannot be constrained.

She/He is not constrained.

A judicial review will fail for that reason even if somebody is foolish enough to waste their money as we have seen before

There's a huge number of issues that woukd need to be ironed out and how that happens is very hard to tell. But the reality is a United Ireland is pretty much guaranteed to happen.

"Opinion polls on a United Ireland don't matter when determining whether there should be a vote on a United Ireland." That's a truly fascinating take.

Again, that a idea that a decision to have a vote on a United Ireland based on a poll that stated the majority of people would want a United Ireland would be deemed "irrational" in a judicial review makes no sense at all. "I've made a decision to hold a referendum on a United Ireland because it's clear in polls that the majority of people want this to happen" is pretty much about as rational as a decision one can get. The irrational decision would be not to allow it in fact.

A further analysis of the 2022 results actually paints a better picture for the Nationalists, or parties that are in favour of a United Ireland.

SF - 29%

SDLP - 9%

Aontu - 1%

People before Profit - 1%

A 40% vote for Nationalist parties. I'll be very surprised if that isn't closer to 50% in 25 years. SDLP performance is a worry though and they are leaking votes from nationalists to the Alliance party due to their poor performances.

Any decision can be challenged but no lawyer is going to unlock ‘she/he is not constrained’ and does not need to evidence why they made the decision.

I think you need to relax and be aware that you are being ribbed not by a normal non SF’er here but by an internet bubble non SF’er

You are doing the same back

Most people in the 26 counties regardless of party support a UI

Period

Plus they will not support if the hint of violence will start again, so that’s why bridges need to be built

Something which SF have clearly shown they are totally incapable of doing, either side of border

How are they supposed to do that when you have hypocrites reaching out to the DUP, no questions asked about their past or present connections to still active paramilitary groups or the fact they still haven't signed up to the GFA and actively tried to wreck it?

”A” poll. I see you’ve been on Wikipedia (is that really the extent of what our Republican Nua kids who glorify murder etc. reach for? You’ll note (not mentioned on your post) there was a singular poll in 1998 and you of course are comparing it to the highest one you can of the various ones taken these days. FYI the last few years have ranged wildly, being as low as 27%.

The point you are missing (as you don’t have much depth) is the Census. This is the time for Catholics to be ahead, and they are in NI as predicted by the Census in 1991. This shows that the substantial increase in the nationalist base as a % has not transferred to votes in the way that they should have. This is more stark on identity - “Northern Irish” is peeling off over half of any gains from demographic changes and the “loss of Britishness”.

What you have is not only favourable demographics, but a Unionist movement failing too to appeal to sane individuals. Add to that we have a Southern Economy roaring where incomes and QoL has dramatically improved and exceeded the U.K..

So tell me how SF are to be patted on the back? For trashing the south with one side of their mouth but then talking about it on the other? For expending their energy into divisive matters? SF finish number #1 in the sectarian carve up and the likes of you think that is advancing a UI.

Do you honestly think a relative child like you, pig ignorant of the past but with a mistaken confidence in themselves, is convincing anyone? Whatever about Adams and co., you are the problem. You mudguard for the older generation and still do it today for the latest batch and it is so transparent. You aren’t convincing those you need to with a faux schtick of nicey nicey liberalism on the one hand but cheerleading bombmakers on the other.

I used the only available data from 1998. There was another poll in 2001 that had support for a United Ireland at 27%. In 2003 it was 26% and in 2013 it was 17%. Then the first poll post Brexit in 2016 had support at 22%. The most recent poll carried out is the one I used, which had it an 39%.

As for the census data, and I appreciate this following piece was just too advanced for you to figure out, but in the 65+ age bracket only 35% of people identify as catholics. It's 48% in the 0-14 age bracket. On the protestant side the numbers are basically the opposite with only 32% identifying as protestant in the 0-14 age bracket where as as in the 65+ age bracket 60% identify as protestant. There's a reason why the census figures don't fully correlate with voting figures, because not everyone can vote but everyone is accounted for on a census. As I said previously, the demographics will again be significantly different in 25 years.

However, I've also never claimed there won't be challenges to a United Ireland, a huge amount of work needs to be put in to convince the people who have turned away from the idea of Northern Ireland being British. That was always the first step and the next logical step is they'll see Northern Ireland as being on its own. The reality is, that just isn't a feasible option though. I think it will take people time to accept and realise it.

They aren't trashing the south, they are trashing the government in the South. Unless you're telling me that everything FG/FF trash SF they are trashing Northern Ireland?

Unlike you and some other FGers, I'm happy to leave the past in the past. I'm happy to work with the Unionist and Loyalists and the British government and acknowledge their Head of State in a respectful manner. The party and most supporters who aren't willing to be respectful and move on from the past is FG and FF. As I've said,those two parties, especially FG, have little to no interest in a United Ireland and it's shown in their attitude towards SF and their supporters.

What a ridiculous statement. That is like saying the Republic of Ireland (26 counties) never worked and never will because it was an artificial construct to begin with.

Pre Irish independence, the British Isles worked as well as any other country in the world at the time, and better than most. Even nowadays most groups of islands in the world are united. Tasmania with Australia : the islands of Japan : the Canaries : the Hawaiian islands for example.

Fine, and fair enough, if a century ago many people in Ireland wanted independence ; but to avoid total civil war then it was correct to have some border in the island, to keep most of those in the 6 counties happy at the time and most of those in the 26 counties happy at the time. For the next half a century N.I. was arguably more prosperous, and contributed more to world order through its contribution in WW2 etc, than the 26 counties.

Maybe you think Ukraine is an artificial construct and should be invaded by Russia. And the people of Haiti should take over the Dominican Republic, or vice versa : that they cannot or should not share an island.