How many of us think that unification is no longer a priority and don't really want unification ?

Any chance of a partition party for the North of England in the coming years? Seems somewhat likely, although, you'd have to figure out who pays the dole for Northerners once the London lifeline is cut…

Doesn’t need to be ‘comparable’.

All that is required is a set of circumstances that brings a change in attitude.
Again given what we have watched that is quite possible.

Indeed. The threat of a return to violence was the pressure that was used if they resisted.

That was October 2018. In January of the same year the head of the British Police in NI itself said the same thing.

For it to be a 'threat' both men would have had to have control or be involved in the directing of a group engaged in violence.

The British took the warning(s) on board and over 500 MPs voted for a Sea Border and Johnson's government implemented it.

The PSNI is a British police force and Hugh Orde was it’s head when he warned (long before Varadkar) about a hard border.

But you will ignore that in order to get what is a belligerent Unionist sulk because the Johnson government used and then shafted them into the thread.

It’s as pathetic as it is false.

I said the PSNI is a British police force under the control of the British government.
I said that I would be in favour of a scheme to assist those ‘who could not live in a UI’ to leave if that was what they wanted.

If the British government wanted to ignore them and abandon them I would have no issue with a new UI government assisting them as the Irish government did when Britain took the north’s students out of the Erasmus scheme.

All I can do here is state the facts in reply to your continual altering of what people say.

Goodnight

Does feel like these islands are heading towards a tipping point.

UK about to dump yet another PM too.

Given he has been tasked to make the UUP appear more hardline to stop their vote bleed, nothing surprising there tbh. What was he expected to say?

They are all out talking developments down, rattled would be the impression that gives.

Lots say that. As long as they are engaged in exclusively peaceful means, as our own leading parties evolved to, it doesn’t bother me or the many who elect them.

Just interesting that Orde is being quoted as the font of all wisdom, as he had a lot to say during his time.

A glimpse at what may lay ahead as the chaos in the UK deepens.

Farage may appear outwardly to respect the sovereignty of Northern Ireland, but you would be hard pushed to find a man less trustworthy than one who would sell his soul for an eighty quid ‘shout-out’ on TikTok.

As the major architect of the self-inflicted wound that was Brexit, Farage was only too happy, or rather too ignorant, to the disastrous consequences for Northern Ireland. We were collateral damage and he didn’t give a damn.

He is keen for the UK to remove itself from the European Convention of Human Rights, a key driver of the Good Friday Agreement, which would potentially destabilise the peace deal. Would the same man lose much sleep over the prospect? I very much doubt it.

For decades, unionists have centred their world around three key benefits of the union: the NHS, the stability, security and international standing of being part of a world power, and the security blanket of economic support from London. On all three fronts, Westminster is failing us.

The NHS, which has so proudly and effectively delivered the cushion of free healthcare for many years, now lies in ruins. Farage himself has indicated a desire to move to an insurance-based healthcare system.

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A shared island of mutual consent, a merger of cultures, economies and societies, is a conversation we must now have.

This mature approach to a New Ireland will ensure a thriving, long-lasting, harmonious way of life, ironing out the foreseeable concerns and planning together to overcome inevitable obstacles.

It is not victory of one dogma over another. If it is portrayed as such, the New Ireland will simply adopt the same fractious community that has gone before.

There must be a seat at the table for everyone. We have a very real chance at something remarkable.The question remains whether we will grasp it or waste it.

Linzi McLaren: If Farage is the future, a truly shared ‘New Ireland’ is a prize worth winning – The Irish News

One gets the feeling Unionism will make the Brexit mistake again. They'll hitch their wagon to Farage and Reform and it will all end in tears.

Partitionists who constantly refuse to form democratic political parties to stand against Irish reunification won't like the following RTE article which argues for a United Ireland from an economic perspective as a counter balance against the continuing growth of the Dublin region.

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0509/1570595-economy-northern-ireland-dublin-belfast-cork-scale-focus/

That would really work for people in Dublin and to the South of it, vote for a united Ireland and all the jobs and investment will go to Belfast.

The article presents a very simple and simplistic analysis.