Northern Ireland 2125?

The UFF had enough weapon to be effective, the real jewel they had was British Intelligence or directed by British Intelligence. But I would agree Loyalism is a waining force in the Unionist community. Most of the players of that time are dead or on a backward footing (Mike Stone, Billy Wright, Johnny Adair).

I think that British Intelligence service/British Army Intelligence were a fairly perverse lot (as opposed to common british solider who didnt understand the conflict fully). I think much like Vietnam, the war was against the general populations as it was against identified players. I dont think either IRA or Loyalists are gone from training and engineering and diversified into protection and drug dealing. I do think there are massive IRA caches that have never seen the light of day and counter sunk in grease …….just in case.

I did see one interview with Northern Irish teenagers and they were asked questions. They saw the future as more of gender identity, social equality and things like that.

Most likely from being indoctrinated as a child, this is way deeper that a few nights out on a college bended with INLA-youth wing.

Other way around, the British are cutting you loose. You will have to pay taxes to the EU, like real taxes. If you think UK

bureaucracy was bad wait until you hear about this bigger machine with less accountability further away in Brussels. Them cushy civil service jobs are over, those stupid small business grants are gone and you will have to pay real taxes.

Seems like the Troubles are still going on in your mind…..

That "we" seems only be one person, yourself. And if it were more than yourself, people like myself would say No again and again.

I'd say Ireland isn't ready for a unification. But until 2125 that's all in it's own good time…..

Current calculations do indeed mention a very huge price tag for Dublin and the ROI. It's to the tune that the ROI couldn't handle unless raising taxes. ( sure the SF won't object….)

However this can change if say NI had a very very strong economy and is taking in enough taxes to fund all the public services.

I doubt that this can be achieved easily and quickly. By 2125 it could be achievable but it's a long term plan.

And then there is the distrust towards the SF. The SF is a high taxation political party, they'd hardly help on economic matters.

I tend to compare the situation with NI very much like South Tyrol in Italy, a region which was formerly part of Austria. Similar to the plantation, the Austrians were ill-treated, had to leave and give up their farms, had to speak Italian, had their children to be educated in Italian. At the same time Italians from Sicily were settled in cities and were to be given preferential treatment for jobs. The Italians even changed names of cities and towns and even names on grave stones to Italian sounding names. The Italians also insisten on Italian looking archtecture when building houses and buildings. They also built Italian war and military memorials where no battle was ever fought…..

As you can expect this didn't go down too well and resulted into certain troubles. This was only resolved in the 70ies when language rights were accepted and guaranteed.

Today South Tyrol has a way stronger economy than average Italy. They theoretically have the right to hold a referendum, but there is no majority in doing so. South Tyrol never had a referendum whilst NI had two I believe. They seem to be doing better as part of Italy as opposed to Austria and a strong majority wants to keep the status quo.

It's now been more than 100 years and Austria would even feel overwhelmed if Austria had to integrate South Tyrol, as expectations of both sides would be too different.

Both part of the EU, also religion is the same. Real issues don't exist. It's possible NI would go the same way one day, in say 2125….

Remember you are dealing with the Irish government. If they make their own population homeless, imagine what they will do to the Northern Irish population?