Northern Ireland 2125?

I think UI will happen when it doesn’t matter any more, when we have escaped from our tribal obsessions. The South is a lot farther along on this journey; people from up North have a fair bit of work to do yet. UI is not an issue that comes up every day in the South and I think that’s how we like it. If it did happen, we could be in for some turbulence as a country. Say that serious disorder broke out in the former NI that the former PSNI couldn’t handle. What would we do? Send in the guards? Have the elite units of our amazing army throw a ring of steel around the terrorists? Let’s face it - we’d be on the phone to London begging them to sort it out for us. It is odd that the party devoted to UI down here has been none too keen on having a real army in the South capable of enforcing order up there.

As said in that German television clip I posted, you need to be prepared for violence.
That means assessing the threat level regularly and investing in what is needed to contain it.

Personally I think loyalism is so weakened and lacking in wider unionist support that it would be impossible to sustain a ‘campaign’.
Why we would not be able to deal with thugs as a UI escapes me tbh.

I agree with you on current feeling in the south. But that is mainly because FF and FG and FF/FG governments have sidelined it. If a political party gets the formulation of a Plan into a programme for government all will change very quickly.

I won’t be blowing smoke up folks proverbial just because they can’t cope with the truth.

Whoever taught some people here history has a lot to answer for.

I’m afraid your whole argument has revealed you wouldn’t vote for a UI anyway so I won’t be crying myself to sleep.
Take care.

Well sure look at the UK, one state four teams? Again its not ideal and not what id be campaigning for but if you gave me a vote tomorrow on unity and the deal was we could unite the country but NI would have a federal devolved element from Dublin where the PUL community might retain some things like this I would happily vote for it.

Id be all for joining the commonwealth, Irish athletes North and South competing together for example in commonwealth games could only help in the establishment of the country. Relations with other commonwealth nations.

These are all things we really need to thrash out and discuss. I dont know If I am right or wrong but just thinking logically it seems the types of steps that would help to deliver a smooth constitutional change.

I know many already do compete for Ireland but I think the gesture of being open to the commonwealth would be received well be some of the more reasonable PUL people.

Just let the Irish FA going back to running the irish national team and dissolve the FAI. FAI only popped up because of partition while the Irish FA pre existed partition hence its name and why NI also plays in green.

Last time I checked I am in Ireland and follow Irish laws.
If the British want to make a law that makes Irish people British, bully for them, nothing to do with me.

And when I was at school the people born on the island of North America are North Americans.
If Hawaiian people identify as Americans, good on them, I respect identities.

As to your other posts about ‘my armed struggles’ don’t waste your time ryping them. Not debating with that nonsense.