Northern Ireland 2125?

How many pages of arguments have we had about signs in Belfast? Going round and round in circles. Dont see the relevence to this thread - which is about 2125.

Yes, the argument is over.
Signs will continue to go up across NI.

Absolutely. The best way out of this social mess is social intergretation. If there had been intergratation from the beginning there wouldn't have been this mess. But london never really cared to step in and every unionist party and SF up untill recently supported sectarian divides.

With the fall of religion is helping. Mixed marriages went from less than 5% pre 98 to around 20% today and still growing.

The 2022 Integrated Education Act was supported by Alliance, SF and SDLP. Notable during debates was that SF allowed their minds to be changed on it.

The Bill was not supported by UUP, DUP and TUV and the DUP and TUV tried to use the Petition Of Concern to block it. they failed.

That still rankles with them and the latest manifestation of their resistance was this 'win' in the courts.

The opinion of those educators and parents are notable though.

It was claimed in court that the minister ignored the reality that much of the work to meet the "reasonable numbers" requirement can only be done once a school is approved for the change in status.

It was also alleged that Givan had failed to take into account a number of relevant factors, including: the advice of the Education Authority and officials; the demographic realities facing schools seeking to transform; and the data showing growth of transformed schools.

Even when the will and desire is there to integrate there is always a member of the belligerent DUP to block it.

And typically you blame the blameless here.

If you introduce an act to promote and encourage integration and the only block to that is a Unionist bloc and a Unionist pops up to block the expressed will of educators and parents to 'integrate' how in hell do you make a credible argument that it's the fault of the Roman Catholics?
Like, here and in the UK, Roman Catholic ethos schools will always exist, as will Protestant ethos schools and Jewish ethos schools.

Who is blocking Integrated Education in NI?…well the evidence has been presented above and it clear who is, at every turn. People can make their own minds up on that.

Who tried to block the Integrated Education Act?

Who, despite the wishes of the schools and parents used a clause in the las to block schools offering Integrated Education?

You’ll get there if you do unbiased research.

Thd CC is entitled as it is everywhere else in these islands to have schools.

They are not responsible for Integrated Education.
Integrated Education is the solution.

Pesky taigs.

If the people want Integrated Education who’s there to block it?

Once again, in high-definition technicolour, you show how you have zero understanding of (or wilfully ignore) how the education system developed after the disaster of partition.

Ok, Unionists are innocent of everything.

Got it! 🙄

What about them? I'd likely be one myself if living back in the North now.

It looks like you quoted the wrong post of mine to reply to then; most certainly a substantial number of APNI voters would favour remaining part of the UK.

'Some polls over the years' isn't a particularly strong data driven argument that SDLP, who are an openly Nationalist party who regularly speak about the importance of Unification would attract a remotely comparable cohort who favour remaining part of the UK. I do agree with the socioeconomic comparison of their typical voter compared with SF and would expect on the average that they would scrutinise any proposal more thoroughly. I imagine this would manifest more strongly in the undecided vote than pro-Union vote outside of tactical votes that were made to block SF but would be better represented by APNI or UUP.

'Some polls over the years' have shown a percentage of TUV voters who'd vote for Unification too.....I've never met one though.