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

I wouldn't subscribe to this tbh EOTW.

The finanacial arrangement between the UK and a UI will be so easily agreed and arranged I dare say many might not even notice.
Once a vote passes it is not in anyone's interests to make transition a difficult or de-stabilising process. Brexit it won't be and I'd imagine a lot of work will be done by agreement beforehand.

Struggling to find a quote from SF saying all this Hotblack.
I do remember being told in no uncertain terms the Apple money wasn’t ours by right and to stop listening to the Shinners on it. Be interesting to know what it was used for mind you.
wee Magic money tree for FF FG maybe?

Unification would be a piece of piss and the eventual benefits of an all Ireland economy would be worth it. Belfast as part of the EU would be very attractive to foreign investment.

I think the package or Plan arrived at by FF FG SF Grs Soc Dems LAB etc and the stakeholders and citizens who will be supporting a UI will be framed as an 'investment' not a 'cost'.
Said it before, partitionists allying (whether they like it or not) with Unionism will have to mount a 100% negative campaign and I think they'll struggle as a result.

My mother used to say there'd never be peace in her lifetime, She got to see 17 years of it before she died.

Imagine if a UI did happen in the future ? The HSE would inherit all these excellent modern NHS built hospitals & healthcare facilites. How would it take the HSE to make a complete hames of the exisiting NI healthcare services :: increased waiting lists, bed closures, scheduled procedure cancellations, etc.. oh wait, but the irish govenment would build bike sheds galore for those hospitals and sure thats all that matters for green Paddy.

And I live in the west of ireland not the north by the way.

Strictly speaking the NHS does not operate the north's health system, it's run by Health and Social Care (HSC) Northern Ireland.

Several structural and functional differences.

we should be Co funding the NI subsidy at least on a per capita basis.

what?

'Ownership'?
I have certainly never suggested a 'takeover' by the powers that be here. Unification means the coming together of the two, mutually agreed, both equal.
Takeover/ownership is colonisation all over again.
The construction of a comprehensive Plan/White Paper on what is proposed by all supporting political parties and stakeholders is what is required and then if referendum is successful, negotiation with the British and those who voted no on compromises and their wishes.

Yep

We want ownership of the six counties,

Via the GFA the north has agreed that the majority decision either way holds.

It has held because the majority want to remain in the UK Union.

All nationalist political parties accept that as do some Unionist parties who signed up to the Multi Party Agreement and take their place in the Assembly.
If a majority decide they want Irish unity then those who are democrats will accept that while not neccessarily wanting it. Minorities like that exist right throughout the democratic world.

Did it ever occur to you that you cannot reconcile that which was never together to begin with?
The only way you can bring all together is via an inclusive and equal state. Where nobody has a veto and all rights are enshrined.

If the DUP were running for election in this jurisdiction, you would see the same standards applied.

The FACT is that they are not running for election in this jurisdiction.

It doesn't matter what you think should happen, the reality is that without outreach to the DUP, the constitutional aspiration of unity of the people will not happen. That you remain mired in binary post-colonial thinking demonstrates this.

The piece in bold is secondary to the first paragraph which sets the firm will of the Irish nation to unite all the people in all the diversity of their identities and traditions.

That requires and demands outreach to groups like the DUP. That has to come before any border poll.

Primary objective is to unite the people, that is what the Constitution says.

That is a crazy post.

What do you think the Shared Island Initiative is about? Why do you think every party except SF think that the time isn't yet right for a border poll?

Q: How do you prepare for a future border poll?

A: You deliver the Shared Island Initiative and unite the people of this country in their full diversities.

That is what all the parties except SF are focussed on. It is about time that SF put aside the rhetoric and got on with delivering something for the people of this island.