Northern Ireland 2125?

That is all made up.

I hold the British responsible for allowing the society to degrade to the point that violence broke out and for trying to shore up the sectarian bigoted one party state. As Hume said they did not remove the Unionist veto until the Anglo Irish Agreement and took another 16 years to sign the GFA. Something that could have been delivered decades earlier had they believed in democracy.

I do NOT and never blamed them for ALL the violence…neither here or by whisper. They are to blame for the violence they colluded in and did themselves as are all the other groups who engaged in it.

I ignored downcow’s question because it’s not relevant. It is HE who is proposing that Loyalists who have no hinterland like the IRA, no supply lines and who never mounted much more than a random killing of catholics spree will wage an island wide war.
Away with the fairies stuff tbh.

Because it has failed at tremendous expense to people and because a UI offers a fairer more democratic system for everybody who believes in democracy.
Pandering to a minorities anger or intransigence won’t fix anything it just can kicks the problem down the road.

NI was a sectarian bigoted one party state for 50 years and the British, talking shite about being upholders of democracy allowed it to operate and tried to uphold it after it went up in flames. A sectarian police force, sectarian UDR and an iron fist on the CNR community.

Of course there will be a backlash, there are those on the other side who are still active. Are you seriously suggesting you hadn’t considered that?

I am not suggesting as you do that something should be accepted or else. That’s your implied threat here.

All the violence will be put down very quickly, supply lines will be shut to any loyalists in a heartbeat because everything that comes into NI by air or road has to come through the new border and loyalists do not have the coastline to land armaments the way the IRA could. They’ll be hemmed into their own areas and the British not wanting a mess will shut down activity in GB. US will see to it as well.

Snookered is the popular term. Bryson tried and could only muster mostly old people to his rallies in tiny numbers.

RE: "neighbours".

Foreign ethnic British Unionists (census) are not our neighbours - they are squatting in our house.

Depends on which "Patrick" is the actual Naomh Pádraig.

Palladius was from Gaul - Pope Celestine I sent him to Ireland "to the Scotti believing in Christ" (Scotti being us native Irish, the Gaels - Scotland is named after us Irish).

Pātricius was from Britain. A lot of nonsense written about this "Patrick" (not by him).

Both have been referred to as the "Patrick".

Don't be really stupid if you can. We Irish in the 'Southern Ireland' State live in a Republic. We are Republicans - we are not slime.

And I'm stating a historical fact re the foreign ethnic British Unionists (census), not disputed.

Why wouldn't the foreign ethnic British Unionists (census) be safe when Ireland is reunified?

I know what I wrote but you don't seem to understand what I wrote - do you have a problem with comprehension?

The foreign ethnic British Unionists (census) are not our neighbours - they are squatting in our house. Meaning they are foreign British in Ireland. Are you attempting to deny reality?

As for you writing "Last time a lot were intimidated out, shot, burnt out, disappeared". Such is war. Why do you think that would happen when we Irish are allowed by the foreign British to vote for the reunification of our own country Ireland?

Unionists are signed up to the GFA reunification of Ireland process, are they not? Either Unionists subscribe to the tenets of democracy or they do not - which is it???

If idiot Unionists cause trouble - we Irish will let the brits clean up their own mess during the transition period - before the actual hand back of the occupied 6 counties to the Irish people.

As for what you wrote at the end "By the way, last time Ireland was unified was when we were part of the UK". Here is some more news for you - man landed on the moon.

And just so you know. England/Britain had no mandate in Ireland - it never did. England illegally invaded and fraudulently occupied Ireland.

As for the so-called UK State - we native Irish people never voted to join the foreign Union in the very first instance.

Ireland was shanghaied into it by a foreign British Parliament in Ireland full of foreign ethnic British Unionists, under the control of Dublin Castle, England's real power in Ireland - and we native Irish people have been trying to get our country Ireland out of it ever since!

Even the foreign British PM Gladstone said on 28th of June 1886 :-

"There is no blacker or fouler transaction in the history of man than the making of the union between Great Britain and Ireland. The carrying of it was nothing in the world but an artful combination of fraud and force, applied in the basest manner to the attainment of an end which all Ireland detested. A more base proceeding, a more vile proceeding, is not recorded, in my judgment, in any page of history."

Do you think British violence would have stopped in 72? Do you think RUC violence would have stopped? B Special/UDR violence would have stopped or the violence of the various unionist/Loyalist paramilitary groups?

What about NI society back then convinces you that anyone who put their head above the parapet looking for equal rights and an end to the sectarian bigoted state would have had any success?

The parliament in Belfast was stood down because the supremacist Unionist party would not hand over security matters to Westminster. Given that Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy happened that year what makes you think that would have been a 'better' arrangement for the CNR community?
It is a very easy thing to say 'the IRA should have stopped' (and I wish they had) but that is just simplistic hindsight sadly. When parliament was stood down and 60,000 were brought out on the streets to be told by William Craig the Ulster Unionist leader that

if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy

do you think Unionism was ready to be democratic? The fact is, that 'us', that refused to share 'Our' wee country was not ready to be democrats, and the British were not ready to remove their veto either although it had that power at any time.

The bloodiest year in NI followed with the British and Loyalists killing over 200 and the various Republican groups killing around the same, in total 480 people died and thousands were injured.