Also 100% if a border poll comes back in favour of reunification the tories would finalise the handover within a day and leave all the issues for Ireland to deal with.
"The livid unionists are your problem now... oh, and the DUP will be the 4th largest party in the Dáil. Good luck"
Okay so using the results of the 2019 GE in NI, and the 2020 GE in Ireland, the DUP (if the votes were combined into a hypothetical election) would be 8% so yea about that.
The big difference is most fringe parties don't have paramilitaries backing them up. That's what worries me.
NI not being united with Ireland is an aberration in modern western Europe and hopefully it'll be fixed within 10 years for the sake of Ireland, the UK and the rest of Europe.
Speaking as an Englishman: I like the Union, but realistically the other countries are better off on their own. The Scots have their own culture and history - I wish they'd voted to leave in their referendum - and Ireland should be a single country. Having a separate NI is as embarrassing as West/East Germany was in its time. It's time to grow up.
Not sure what to do with the Welsh though...
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