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- Jul 2016
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- Dublin
- Bohemian FC Manchester United Mansfield town Torino Berwick rangers
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Hazel Chu has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin - minority involvement in Irish politics remains relatively low, but all parties are making efforts to engage in that regard:
https://adriankavanaghelections.org/...ew/#more-17486
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- Jul 2016
- 9387
- Dublin
- Bohemian FC Manchester United Mansfield town Torino Berwick rangers
- Chocolate Digestives
The Government are barely behind their desks ,and it turns out that Minister for Agriculture Barry Cowan, brother of former Taoiseach Brian Cowan, has a conviction for drink driving from 2016. Michael Martin predictably is as shocked as the rest of us.
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The Absolute state of these cunts. The state of them. These people are scum. Thick scum at that.
[URL="https://twitter.com/Ballymagash_T/status/1279137299725520896"]https://twitter.com/Ballymagash_T/st...37299725520896[/URL]
Small old men cosplaying at being sectarian gangsters. Far from the consequences of all this cuntology they were born.Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 08-07-2020, 14:44.
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Or the swiftness of their Pavlovian response to any statement on a Border poll - the Taoiseach, correctly, ruled out supporting any such referendum for now, on the grounds of divisiveness and the absence of any current justification, but the online Shinnerbots suggested he was contravening the Good Friday Agreement, even though the criteria under which a referendum would be held clearly haven't been met yet.
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Basically, that there has to be a clear and demonstrable majority in favour of unity, as the NI SoS will call a poll if he/she considers such a poll will pass. Of course, the Westminster, Stormont and European elections all demonstrated that unionism no longer commands a majority, but likewise, nationalism remains on circa 40% of the vote, so for a Border poll to be held, it would have to be clear that the 15% of NI society that votes for "others" would definitely support a united Ireland.
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The real criteria is that most protestants are grand with it, and that the number of people really opposed to it are really small. A 50%+1 unity vote would be a recipe for a lot of ongoing violence. The UVF and the UDA are extremely active, in their guise as local gangsters, and something really needs to be done about that first.
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- Mar 2008
- 20822
- Black Country Green Belt
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@DR- the numerical model on which NI was set up and which more or less endured for decades- that Unionists would always comfortably outnumer Nationalists- is now threatened, not least because the 'Others' are now even higher than you suggest,about 20% in last year's Elections even with the distortions of FPTP
Theres still the difficulty of predicting how the 3 blocs will treat a 2 option referendum of course...
@AB- aye, you're lookinga the same thing really.20% voting Alliance/Green means previous Unionists are less worried about the Dublin bogeyman than by the Tories shafting them
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The first significant post-election Green slump:
https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1284643120555216898
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