Current Affairs Irish Border and Brexit

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Khalekan said:
I wish I shared your optimism, Hull.

If a Tory/DUP motion to change the GFA was presented to the House and passed then I don’t believe the UN woukd do owt about it.

And unlike twenty years ago, there will be no mediation or offers of help from the White House.

If anything, Trump will go along with them.

No....the only weapon we have to stop this is the seven or eight Sinn Fein MPs who are tied to an outdated dogma, dreamed up whilst WW1 was still on.

They need to put their country and people ahead of party now. and stop playing into the hands of Foster and Jihnson.

And if they think it dishonourabke to swear an oath whikst crissing their fingers then fine.....if the election comes in November, let them nit cintest it and let other Irish Nationalist parties run in their constituencies so the visitor from Mars is nit confused into thinking only one party represents the NI electorate.
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I know you're making a serious point but I read this bit in the voice of the French policeman in 'Allo 'Allo.
 
I recommend that when you visit Belfast, particularly if you have been before you take the train to Derry or the bus to Enniskillen and go out for the day. Northern Ireland is small enough that you can visit these places and be back in Belfast for a night out.
 
Khalekan said:
Yes, but the devil is in the detail.

That Border Poll can only be called by the sitting British PM if he or she “believes there would be a majority in favour of it”, whatever the heck that means.

And even if the vote was in favour of a united Ireland nowt would happen for seven years, at the end of which another Poll would be held.

And if I am not mistaken, in the event of a similiar result another seven years would elapse before a third and final Border Poll would see the British finally bid adieu to Ireland.
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Khal the vote would happen and if a united Ireland was voted for, legislation would be put to the UK and Irish parliament. I haven't read that 'nowt would happen for 7 years' -that would be another vote if the first voted against a united Ireland. But if this poll is anything to go by i's a foregone conclusion. Why was Mike Nesbitt moved to utter republican slogan?

Kha,l when the island is united I'll join you down the Falls for a good few pints. :pint2:
 
hullefc said:
Khal the vote would happen and if a united Ireland was voted for, legislation would be put to the UK and Irish parliament. I haven't read that 'nowt would happen for 7 years' -that would be another vote if the first voted against a united Ireland. But if this poll is anything to go by i's a foregone conclusion. Why was Mike Nesbitt moved to utter republican slogan?

Kha,l when the island is united I'll join you down the Falls for a good few pints. :pint2:
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You’re on, Hull.....:)
 
Caolam said:
I recommend that when you visit Belfast, particularly if you have been before you take the train to Derry or the bus to Enniskillen and go out for the day. Northern Ireland is small enough that you can visit these places and be back in Belfast for a night out.
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last time we went i fancied coleraine for the day, had to get the plane about 6 and my dad was a bit nervy about missing it

having said that we were in the spaniard till 2 so we were all a bit ropey
 
i finally got round to watching the Ballymurphy massacre documentry yesterday, probarbly the most harrowing thing ive watched ever.

i had to turn off when the father was shot followed by the lady saying about her mum saying she was sure the army wouldnt shoot her

horrible to think that this happened in very recent history and that Brexit and the desire to push through the will of the people could increase tensions to this point cos people believed a bus!
 
Eggs said:
..unsurprising but looking increasingly likely the DUP hold the key to the whole deal.
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Indeed.

It beggars belief that the government of this country has got itself in hock to the most socially backward and economically sleazy political party in these islands.

Back in Belfast right now, the DUP finds itself in the midst of a public inquiry into incompetence and fraud over an energy scam which literally saw taxpayer’s money go up in flames :blush:
 
Khalekan said:
Indeed.

It beggars belief that the government of this country has got itself in hock to the most socially backward and economically sleazy political party in these islands.

Back in Belfast right now, the DUP finds itself in the midst of a public inquiry into incompetence and fraud over an energy scam which literally saw taxpayer’s money go up in flames :blush:
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Is this what Ian Paisley Jnr has been caught up in? i dont know an awful lot about it
 
MarkK1988 said:
Is this what Ian Paisley Jnr has been caught up in? i dont know an awful lot about it
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Oh God, no.

This is way, way worse than the Paisley case.

This is the Renewable Energy Inititive (RHI} scheme and the initial fall out from it brought the Stormont parliament down.

The public inquiry is ongoing at the moment and the DUP are savaging one of their own former ministers, the whistleblower, in an attempt to squirm off’ve the hook.
 
its all very murky over there, wouldnt surprise me if a Centrist party came through if they truly were centrist to pull in the votes from the less hardline SF and DUP voters

i think anything to get stormont back in power would be considered its ludicrous the littlest of things cant be dealt with over there at the moment because of it

yet over here in england no one seems to really care, its baffling, i cant imagine the welsh or scottish assembly would receive the same apathy tbh
 
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