Exactly! It's absurd people want to live in Ireland and be recognized as something else. We deal with it all the time in the USA. It's God->Country->Family, and "country" is the physical land you stand on and "family" are those you surround yourself with. People accepting "peace walls" and riot cages around homes as some normal thing needs to go. I don't think the Berlin wall lasted as long as the stupid NI "peace wall".
@@6Tghma According to the polls most people in NI still don't want an united Ireland: basically 1/3 is in favour, 1/3 against it and another 1/3 that is not sure or doesn't care. Meanwhile in the Republic most people are ideally in favour of an united Ireland but the figures decrease in front of the prospect of having higher taxes to be able to afford the integration of NI in the Republic.
As an Englishman I hope the UK gov honours any potential referendums that come from this, whatever the result is, give the people of NI what they want, democracy is that simple.
As an NIrish person at Uni in England, this is what the DUP don’t realise, that Britain is an extremely democratic society. They think the British gov and army are gonna come and save them but as I’m sure you’re more than aware, there’d be little support for the British army putting down democracy, and it would set dangerous precedents throughout the west.
I'm from the Republic and frankly, we get the feeling the UK Gov are all but begging for NI to be given back. They obviously don't benefit from the relationship and the "I'm a Unionist among 62 million" that the bald murderer spoke of seems to be very much one sided. It really looks like mainland UK doesn't care about NI and I don't blame them.
At this stage, it's just a question of when there will be a United Ireland. Partition was a failure because it was built on the immoral platform of apartheid and force has to be used to prop up that system. It's a very poor argument when a Unionist is stating population size as a reason to stay in the UK. China has a population of 1.5 billion maybe he would like to be ruled by Beijing.
I totally agree wit you but I would worry that a vote for a united Ireland would see a massive rise in Loyalist terrorism fighting to maintain the status quo and Northern Ireland remaining as part of the UK .I hear what Billy Hutchinson said about 62 million people being unionist across the whole of the UK , but he fails to understand that to many of those 'unionists' living in England , Scotland and Wales they really couldnt care less whether after a vote Northern Ireland ceases to exist or not and that even includes many members and supporters of the Conservative and 'Unionist ' Party who would sooner see Brexit done ' properly ' and without the baggage of Northern Ireland .Billy also overlooks the fact that most of the voters in Northern Ireland that voted in the 2016 referendum were quite happy to remain in the EU even though on balance I suspect most of his community may have voted leave .
although my great grandad came from NI (He was an ulster-scot) i personally kind of want a united ireland, i just find unionists very bigoted and thats one thing i cant stand despite my family heritage, after all the orange in the flag is to represent the protestant community
@@amigos2841 Not all of us are bigoted. A loud vocal minority of us are bigoted, but I and many other unionists have absolutely zero problem with nationalists or the Republic. Or a sense of Irishness in general. Please don’t think all Unionists are represented by dinosaur DUP or TUV.
Just over half the electorate voted and lots of spoiled votes , so where did SF get their votes ? I doubt it was from Catholics so had to be from the "Me no speak English" group , no wonder SF are mad to get them into the country so they can squeeze a vote out of them 😁 any right thinking person Wouldn't vote for them pack of Criminals
I'm English and the Uk government pushed forward with Brexit at any cost regardless of the effects it would have on NI (or pretty much anyone, including in particular the young, British citizens who chose to make their life in Europe as was their right, anyone who with a business involving import or export, farmers, fishermen, etc ect). That shows how much the government values NI. I'm all for a united Ireland, if any of my (for now) fellow countrymen can escape from this freak show, I say good luck.
I’m a Unionist from NI and I didn’t want Brexit. Although personally I don’t think it is worth leaving the Union over. Plus, in NI we are already half in the EU anyway, as part of the EU market and the U.K. Market, as well as right to retain both a U.K. and EU (Irish) citizenship at the same time. This would not be the case in a United Ireland.
@@jamesthejoker7415 Yeah its difficult because obviously NI and the UK are also intertwined, as is NI and the EU/Ireland so it would be hard to choose which one to go with. It seems like an almost nice balance as it is, NI is a unique case within the UK so it needs a pragmatic solution (and the DUP are certainly not pragmatic). If NI did unit with Ireland though, you would obviously still be able to keep UK citizenship.
@@isotropisch82 I’m in agreement with you about the DUP yes. What I would love to see here is the emergence of progressive parties such as UUP, SDLP, Alliance etc. who are all for making NI work for all and being able to accept our unique situation and would encourage relations on both sides of the community, and with the U.K. and EU, as opposed to all the others who have adopted “my way or the highway” kind of attitude.
Pretty daft having a few hundred thousand people causing so much of a headache. Odd that the guy interviewed doesn’t realise there’s a democratic process to be adhered to.
It is ironic that the royalist tory party is likely to eventually be responible for the breakup of the uk, and ditto the DUP for the uniting of Ireland again.
The Tory Party's official name is the Conservative and UNIONIST Party ( as in strong supporters of the union of the four countries of the UK ) . The modern Tory party by and large doesnt care about Scotland and Ireland and to an extent Wales . the Tories should change the party name to the ENP .
No wonder there’s so many citizens in N.I all wanting to stay and be governed by Britain’s welfare state that has help keep them down for decades. Where else would so many “freeloaders” get kept in council housing and supplemental benefits that those who actually work support through taxation? Where else would these same people who denounce their neighbours divided by wall’s solely on religious rights and freedom welcome foreigners that seemingly open neighbouring businesses and employee the same kind. Makes no sense. To improve the country there’s no doubt in my mind, unification is a stronger prospect for a brighter future than being governed by the circus clown like Boris Johnson in England and it’s antiquated shadow puppet head of state Royalty. Realizing you’ve been sold out long ago is the start of severing the umbilical chord and integrating the country as a whole for the betterment of the generation that will proceed whatever is left of the failure called Northern Ireland and what it’s has become. Self independence is true freedom, not clinging to identity that has created hatred’s and political consequences. Never mind the obvious economic generational destruction through dependency it’s caused.
United Ireland, independent Scotland, bye bye to England and Britain. Once a Scot always a scot. I dont want any affiliation with England. If the loyalist in Scotland don't like it then away and move doon their. Thank you 😊
SF’s primary intention is not necessarily too get rid of Northern Ireland it may be too expand it within a united Ireland. No one knows what a united Ireland would look like but a US type model may be adopted in the case. Whatever the vote results turn out too be both sides need too and have too firm a government in the interest of the people in the Northern jurisdiction for both Unionists & Nationalists and others who call Northern Ireland or the North of Ireland their home.
I think one thing is for definite and that is that stormont would stay. Sinn Fein are fine with this, they know that there is no getting rid of Protestants so the best solution is a two state United Ireland rather than the way it is now. That’s why they are asking for plans to be put into place, Protestants/unionists can secure their identity and culture in a United Ireland but they need to start having the conversation now.
Indeed, wording is very important and katy Hayward should have chosen her words far more carefully. unless, she is planting agenda-seeds and creating a new slogan
what WE in N Ireland want is Not a Border Poll on a UI nor conflict over a self inflicted Sea Border. But Peace and Healing. Time to Vote NOT the Tribal list But Across the Center ground on All sides for those willing to work together and Fix things. Yep Together we can move Foreward- for youth and their future !!
I was born in Belfast a while after the troubles "ended" and ive lived here all my life and yet i cant figure out 1 thing Why are people here so fiercely loyal to the UK to the point of killing just so you don't have to leave? Like seriously what has being part of the UK ever done for NI other than cause violence. The troubles might never have even been a thing and alot of lives saved. It's just always confused me.
That question can be asked in reverse. Why are there those who are so fiercely loyal to the republic to the point of killing? What has wanting this done for NI asides from causing violence?
@@dan-860 Republicans caused any problems since the troubles and both sides played a part in that. Are you really so ignorant to why Irish people would want to separate from England? Ignorant to 800 years of colonization, oppression, cultural suppression and genocide? Plus the republic is far better off these days than the UK they've outgrown you so it's only natural people want to join the republic and jump the sinking ship that is the uk.
Well you obviously see people as equal and value people by their character no matter who they are. Your confusion is a very healthy confusion because bigotry is not registering in your mind. You have your parents to thank for that. If you were a Unionist and a bigot you would have no confusion at all. As an Irish person, your thought process gives hope for us all on this Island. Nothing worse than misplaced loyalty as you well know even as an individual it's very unhealthy.
Visited Dublin & Cork 3 years ago, just couldn't recognize the city or its suburbs anymore! Demography completely changed! This happened to many cities in England like, London, Luton, Leicester, Oldham, Bradford an so on! Many Irish are homeless because of corruption between Corporations and ruling class in Ireland! No control on open borders! Housing mostly built for foreign capital, not for locals! Housing msde unaffordable for locals! Too much foreign money corrupts the ruling class and they abandon the locals! Don't import this rotten suicidal culture to NI and regret it!
Our country has been patient, waited too long for reunification and it’s nice to see the tides change through peaceful means, nowhere near reunification but a nationalist first minister will change the tide of history forever. Entitled Trauma for unionists, patient justice for nationalists.🇮🇪
Yes, the goal of SF is Irish Unification. But they are running this election with Bread and Butter issues that matters to both Nationalist and Moderate Protestant voters. Housing, Cost of Living, the Irish Protocol, Jobs. That is the reason why SF is in the lead with the Alliance a close 2nd.
Scotland and Wales is on the same Island as England. The Welsh and Scottish Nationalist parties are slowly declining. I doubt the Irish really want to see an end to British Unionism. The Irish and Scottish wants both British Union and EU. The Welsh and English wants to be outside the EU. But it's mainly the older generations I think?
time for the immigrant unionist population to accept that it is not their country when re-unification happens they will be welcome to apply for asylum through a concentration camp we will establish in Rwanda for you
Much is being made of a Sinn Fein first minister but the reality is there is no change. Fills papers and a few news headlines but that's about it. Without a unionist deputy there will be no government so back to square one. If they do decide to elect a minister I'm fairly confident nothing will come of it. Both parties can agree on nothing as they are too different. Black and white. If they ever do pigs will start to fly so it'll hardly escape anyone's notice. Oh well, they still get paid though, so not to worry.
It must be demoralising being a unionist in Northern Ireland. It so ironic how one could Devote your life to the Union Jack and the tories and British regime do not care one bit about you. It’s like being left abandoned by parents. Very sad.
It’s just so difficult and awkward… it seems like it will be increasingly difficult to justify NI being disconnected from Ireland, especially with Brexit considered. It makes little sense. Perhaps UK citizenship could be maintained for them should they unite with Ireland itself?
I've got some ambivalence about this. As a citizen of the Republic that is pro-europe, I'm one of the silent minority anti-eu. I firmly believe an economic union of these two Islands is the best way forward. I'm a Conservative and bizarrely see some similarities between Northern unionist thinking and myself for that reason. I don't respect the triumphalist marches every year, but respect the idea of God and Country, albeit a different one.. Tha shinners are anti-christian and globalist in their mindset. I'll never vote for them down south..
That man Billy Hutchinson should feel really greateful for getting only 15 years for the murder of two men. How he get such lenient treatment, you might ask. The very thing he claims to treaten, the Good Friday Agreement.
It was around 2014. The MP Martin o mulleoir, oh my, he made so many back handed compliments. He was invited to my dad's warehouse looked at the office that I was working in and the MP was like "ahh this office needs a feminine touch". To make matters more cringe, my dad introduced my mother and then the MP was like I see where your daughter gets her looks from. I wanted hide.
Is the contain sympathy better than the attempt? Is the close family better than the dare? and What if the bitter charge ate the emotion? problems in the NI were caused by our common joins into the barren perception. The DUP now risk Sinn Fein which makes the whole bubbly manner bleach into the corrupt combination.
Can anyone please explain to me how there can ever be a united Ireland!! Have you ever seen the passion all Northetn Irish teams sing the national anthem before games!! Fans and players!! In a referendum there would be war for sure!!!
Everyone knows unification would be a nightmare economically, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s still gonna happen. The US, Britain, & the EU all hold the GFA to a high standard and will happily support unification if it’s what the majority want, this will be because nobody wants another Irish troubles. Britain know it’s their fault NI economy is in shambles, the EU would be directly affected, and the US just like to police the world.
it depends. there'd possibly be a big upswell in direct foreign investment to bring NI in line with the Republic and that would/should bring an improvement to QoL with it. Who knows if it'll ever happen, though.
@@bernardpearce3478 The South may be a little hesitant at first but I don't think there's any doubt in the southerners minds that the North rightfully belongs to ROI, and that we are one people. The south is already a success story. NI joining would allow it to become the same.
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I'm English Catholic and wouldn't want to lose the benefits of the union if I lived there. 🇩🇪 sees negatives to reunification billions of 🇪🇺 sent to the east. Dublin can't afford it, road signs no nhs etc etc is not cheap
I am English Catholic too and if I lived in Northern Ireland it would be a difficult choice for me . Vote Sinn Fein who want a united Ireland as do the SDLP or vote for a unionist party , the most hardline of which were pretty comfortable with people of our faith being murdered even if they had nothing to do with terrorism or at the very least discriminated against as regards to jobs and housing ..
With Russia trying to take more of it's neighbour Ukraines land our U.K. lawbreaker & current Russian financed P.M. has stated we do not condone such behaviour and will fight to support sovereign nations from such aggressive neighbours. Based on that logic a United Ireland is the first step to Guarantee Our neighbours in Ireland join Nato to discourage the Russian Navy from ever attempting naval excercises off the coast of Ireland again. As Sir Paul Mcartney sang... 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish'
It's too late, Brexit has already torn it apart. Either we leave first or Scotland does, either way it doesn't matter. Look for something else to tie your identity instead of a government and a dead empire that couldn't give a toss about you or the ones you love.
The Protocol is loathed by all Unionists. Not just “hardcore ones”. It’s strangling the Northern Irish economy and must go. It allows Brussels to make laws which Northern Irish people have no say in. Making NI a Brusselss colony. This undemocratic absurdity must go.
Unionists voted for that Brexit bullshit that the Protocol resulted from. Now they are willing to bring back sectarian violence because they are whining about having to lay in the bed that they made.
You might wanna talk to Boris Johnson about this. After all it was his "oven ready", "great", "best of both worlds" deal that brought you the protocol. And you can bet he KNEW all that would come from it.
Talk to the business community and they'll tell you that things have never been better. Is literally only the DUP & some sympathizers saying otherwise.
If you listened to the majority of voters in Northern Ireland they dont want the protocol either , because they didnt vote to leave the EU . Stay in the EU = no protocol.
If you voted for Brexit, then this is your baby. Also, S.F are pro protocol, so if they win the election, technically, it won't be undemocratic. As the majority of the electorate would approve of it.
Before Brexit, Sinn Fein would curry favour to some of the minority groups to gain votes. But they didn't keep their promise as a result. I used to vote for Sinn Fein but now I'm not too sure anymore.
At 2014 he was like "vote for me and I'll build a mosque." Hence the majority but no promise. This whole event that I would reiterate to like others and those who knew Martin's sort of campaign would be him making promises he can't keep. One other said that he did the same rues for lgbtq and again no promises kept for them either. Martin has quit in 2019. But that's just my opinion of him.
He legit attended an Eid where I attended. The same eid that is occurring today. This is almost like a 8 year anniversary for the remembrance when Martin betrayed a minority. Lol
Even if Sinn Fein become the largest party, nothing will have changed other than a split Unionist vote, there will not be a United Ireland in the life time of any one alive today.
Unionists like you are the problem, you are delusional… 1996 the unionist nationalist seat gap was at 13.4%. In 2017 the gap was at 1.1%. This election the gap is meant to completely close. While this can be credited towards unionists moving to Alliance, what can’t be ignored is the upcoming census which is predicted to show that Catholics will no longer be a minority in NI.
Ian Smith said the same thing about majority rule in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Not in a thousand years, he said. It came about two years later. I see many similarities in the cognitive dissonance expressed by Unionists and that expressed by those who favored continued white minority rule in southern Africa.
@@ThePSmoke they forget that these places held their power because settlers were coming in, those settlers stopped decades ago and therefore unionists are a declining community
You can think that if you want because it's just empty words of no substance. There was a very good reason why the Unionists wanted partition in 1920. Remember 'A Protestant Ulster for a Protestant People'? Well not anymore. A Catholic majority? A Catholic First Minster? Sinn Fein the largest party?. Border in the Irish Sea? NI economically in Ireland and the EU? Power-sharing? Do you see where this is going? The Unionist politicians are at sixes and sevens because they don't know which way to jump so they are jumping on each other like a box of demented frogs.
Don't forget those of us with no religion man.We observed unionists failing to wake up and smell the coffee in 1968, when housing and job discrimination occurred big-time. Fifty years later, we find the DUP ignoring what the people of N. Ireland wanted , while running round London,at the beck and callow the incompetent Johnson and Rees-Mogg.@@brendanshannon1706
I'm half-Irish, living in the Netherlands, and I really hope, unionists will prevail! I love the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland should stay in the UK. No "united Ireland" without Britain!
True. The British Isles have unique Protestant cultures: England, UK = Anglican Scotland, UK = Presbyterian Wales, UK = Methodist Ireland, UK = Episcopal
I used to be Pro-Catholic Irish reunification. Now Im Pro-Protestant (Episcopalian/Church of Ireland) British Unionist. All of Ireland should rejoin the UK and the UK could rejoin the EU.
Brexit is creating a United Ireland & independent Scotland 🇮🇪🏴
Yup 🇮🇪🤝🏴
That was the "price" imposed by the EU to the UK.
Yes, if it unifies Ireland perhaps it's not such a bad thing.
Not in your lifetime pal
@@mariewalker4010 ill be back for your comment very soon.
If he wants the economy to be run from london then he should go to london and see how they're doing
Exactly! It's absurd people want to live in Ireland and be recognized as something else. We deal with it all the time in the USA. It's God->Country->Family, and "country" is the physical land you stand on and "family" are those you surround yourself with. People accepting "peace walls" and riot cages around homes as some normal thing needs to go. I don't think the Berlin wall lasted as long as the stupid NI "peace wall".
Can't wait to Celebrate a United Ireland 🇮🇪
I'm Irish, live in Dublin and what you say is a long long way away.
You wouldn't get much celebrating as I'd say there'd be big chance of civil war
You’ll be waiting another few hundred centuries at this rate.
@@malahammer it's not, please elaborate why you think it's long away?
@@6Tghma According to the polls most people in NI still don't want an united Ireland: basically 1/3 is in favour, 1/3 against it and another 1/3 that is not sure or doesn't care.
Meanwhile in the Republic most people are ideally in favour of an united Ireland but the figures decrease in front of the prospect of having higher taxes to be able to afford the integration of NI in the Republic.
As an Englishman I hope the UK gov honours any potential referendums that come from this, whatever the result is, give the people of NI what they want, democracy is that simple.
As an NIrish person at Uni in England, this is what the DUP don’t realise, that Britain is an extremely democratic society. They think the British gov and army are gonna come and save them but as I’m sure you’re more than aware, there’d be little support for the British army putting down democracy, and it would set dangerous precedents throughout the west.
I'm from the Republic and frankly, we get the feeling the UK Gov are all but begging for NI to be given back.
They obviously don't benefit from the relationship and the "I'm a Unionist among 62 million" that the bald murderer spoke of seems to be very much one sided. It really looks like mainland UK doesn't care about NI and I don't blame them.
At this stage, it's just a question of when there will be a United Ireland. Partition was a failure because it was built on the immoral platform of apartheid and force has to be used to prop up that system. It's a very poor argument when a Unionist is stating population size as a reason to stay in the UK. China has a population of 1.5 billion maybe he would like to be ruled by Beijing.
They don't seem to be challenging the unionists stance on The NI Protocol or their impression on the status of the GFA.
I totally agree wit you but I would worry that a vote for a united Ireland would see a massive rise in Loyalist terrorism fighting to maintain the status quo and Northern Ireland remaining as part of the UK .I hear what Billy Hutchinson said about 62 million people being unionist across the whole of the UK , but he fails to understand that to many of those 'unionists' living in England , Scotland and Wales they really couldnt care less whether after a vote Northern Ireland ceases to exist or not and that even includes many members and supporters of the Conservative and 'Unionist ' Party who would sooner see Brexit done ' properly ' and without the baggage of Northern Ireland .Billy also overlooks the fact that most of the voters in Northern Ireland that voted in the 2016 referendum were quite happy to remain in the EU even though on balance I suspect most of his community may have voted leave .
United Ireland 🇮🇪
As an Irish-English Catholic, Sinn Fein must and has to be the way. A United Ireland!!
The Union has to go. The two islands are made up of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English people. Each to their own and then work together.
@@peterdoyle1591 Yup!
although my great grandad came from NI (He was an ulster-scot) i personally kind of want a united ireland, i just find unionists very bigoted and thats one thing i cant stand despite my family heritage, after all the orange in the flag is to represent the protestant community
@@amigos2841 Not all of us are bigoted. A loud vocal minority of us are bigoted, but I and many other unionists have absolutely zero problem with nationalists or the Republic. Or a sense of Irishness in general. Please don’t think all Unionists are represented by dinosaur DUP or TUV.
@@amigos2841
Can you shill any harder republican?
SF are going to be largest party North and South on the Island Of Ireland 🇮🇪
Yep, within 5 years the referendum will be called.
@Jojo keavy .... Ya largest pack of Criminal TRAITORS 👎
They won’t be going anywhere because nobody want anything to do with there party
@@ballyogan18 esp not a party who endorsed the Murder of unborn babies and COVID passports 👎 😗
Just over half the electorate voted and lots of spoiled votes , so where did SF get their votes ? I doubt it was from Catholics so had to be from the "Me no speak English" group , no wonder SF are mad to get them into the country so they can squeeze a vote out of them 😁 any right thinking person Wouldn't vote for them pack of Criminals
Unification of Ireland
I'm Irish, live in Dublin and what you say is a long long way away.
Aye sure start an unwanted civil war
Ireland should be free and proud.
I'm English and the Uk government pushed forward with Brexit at any cost regardless of the effects it would have on NI (or pretty much anyone, including in particular the young, British citizens who chose to make their life in Europe as was their right, anyone who with a business involving import or export, farmers, fishermen, etc ect). That shows how much the government values NI. I'm all for a united Ireland, if any of my (for now) fellow countrymen can escape from this freak show, I say good luck.
Like they pushed forward with their empire or partition
@@spms3018 Um... not really the same thing, but OK.
I’m a Unionist from NI and I didn’t want Brexit. Although personally I don’t think it is worth leaving the Union over. Plus, in NI we are already half in the EU anyway, as part of the EU market and the U.K. Market, as well as right to retain both a U.K. and EU (Irish) citizenship at the same time. This would not be the case in a United Ireland.
@@jamesthejoker7415 Yeah its difficult because obviously NI and the UK are also intertwined, as is NI and the EU/Ireland so it would be hard to choose which one to go with. It seems like an almost nice balance as it is, NI is a unique case within the UK so it needs a pragmatic solution (and the DUP are certainly not pragmatic). If NI did unit with Ireland though, you would obviously still be able to keep UK citizenship.
@@isotropisch82 I’m in agreement with you about the DUP yes. What I would love to see here is the emergence of progressive parties such as UUP, SDLP, Alliance etc. who are all for making NI work for all and being able to accept our unique situation and would encourage relations on both sides of the community, and with the U.K. and EU, as opposed to all the others who have adopted “my way or the highway” kind of attitude.
Pretty daft having a few hundred thousand people causing so much of a headache. Odd that the guy interviewed doesn’t realise there’s a democratic process to be adhered to.
Hes a murderer who holds a position of power as a politician now. Do you think he ever thought anything through clearly?
Only a democrat when it suits him. NI didn't vote for brexshit but it suits him to ignore that.
It’s all a bit mad. Move a million Ukrainians in beside them and have at it. ☺️
@@darraghwalsh8534 cough Martin cough McGuiness. 🙄🤡
@@CastrolHondaSP2 I didnt vote for him. Get ready for the New United Ireland 🇮🇪 with unionist politicians like this as spokesmen.
Ireland belongs to the Irish.
YES 💯%✔️ UNITED IRELAND🇮🇪🇮🇪
It is ironic that the royalist tory party is likely to eventually be responible for the breakup of the uk, and ditto the DUP for the uniting of Ireland again.
The Tory Party's official name is the Conservative and UNIONIST Party ( as in strong supporters of the union of the four countries of the UK ) . The modern Tory party by and large doesnt care about Scotland and Ireland and to an extent Wales . the Tories should change the party name to the ENP .
My theory is this has all been a twisted plot for English independence from the UK.
@@j.obrien4990 thought that myself Joe
Well spotted obtuse
Time for a border poll..time for a United Ireland. The Queen is gone, it’s time.
Go on the sinn fein united ireland next
United ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Nothing worse than a Irish man saying he's British 🤔he lives in the UK not britian what a plonker Rodney 😅😅😅
This is democracy you have to accept the people and the votes.
I hope this breaks the deadlock and brings effective government.
We are not part of UK
Down with GB royalty... once and for all
They’re the hardcore royalists, they’re sick of the incompetent DUP
No wonder there’s so many citizens in N.I all wanting to stay and be governed by Britain’s welfare state that has help keep them down for decades. Where else would so many “freeloaders” get kept in council housing and supplemental benefits that those who actually work support through taxation? Where else would these same people who denounce their neighbours divided by wall’s solely on religious rights and freedom welcome foreigners that seemingly open neighbouring businesses and employee the same kind. Makes no sense. To improve the country there’s no doubt in my mind, unification is a stronger prospect for a brighter future than being governed by the circus clown like Boris Johnson in England and it’s antiquated shadow puppet head of state Royalty. Realizing you’ve been sold out long ago is the start of severing the umbilical chord and integrating the country as a whole for the betterment of the generation that will proceed whatever is left of the failure called Northern Ireland and what it’s has become. Self independence is true freedom, not clinging to identity that has created hatred’s and political consequences. Never mind the obvious economic generational destruction through dependency it’s caused.
United Ireland, independent Scotland, bye bye to England and Britain. Once a Scot always a scot. I dont want any affiliation with England. If the loyalist in Scotland don't like it then away and move doon their. Thank you 😊
SF’s primary intention is not necessarily too get rid of Northern Ireland it may be too expand it within a united Ireland. No one knows what a united Ireland would look like but a US type model may be adopted in the case. Whatever the vote results turn out too be both sides need too and have too firm a government in the interest of the people in the Northern jurisdiction for both Unionists & Nationalists and others who call Northern Ireland or the North of Ireland their home.
I think one thing is for definite and that is that stormont would stay. Sinn Fein are fine with this, they know that there is no getting rid of Protestants so the best solution is a two state United Ireland rather than the way it is now. That’s why they are asking for plans to be put into place, Protestants/unionists can secure their identity and culture in a United Ireland but they need to start having the conversation now.
Sinn Fein’s primary aim is to get rid of Northern Ireland.
@@raymondhaskin9449 Sinn Fein's primary aim is to get Northern Ireland out of the UK**
Indeed, wording is very important and katy Hayward should have chosen her words far more carefully. unless, she is planting agenda-seeds and creating a new slogan
@@anonitachi6966 yes she did say “unification “ rather the historically correct “reunification “.
what WE in N Ireland want is Not a Border Poll on a UI nor conflict over a self inflicted Sea Border. But Peace and Healing. Time to Vote NOT the Tribal list
But Across the Center ground on All sides for those willing to work together and Fix things.
Yep Together we can move Foreward- for youth and their future !!
0:29 Northern Ireland still will exist, it will just cease to be a British colony
A "colony" that wanted to remain part of the UK
The Unionists won't accept a democratic vote....unless it goes their way. Expect multi trumpian protests.....ffs! 🙄
I try to listen to the reasoning of DUP voters, but I can't stomach it. Accents aside, they sound just like the idiots over here who vote for Trump.
Nothing new there then, it's literally part of their religion. Anyway who would lead them? The DUP? lol At least trump looked out for his people.
@@ardri31 Looked out for his people? He hung all those uneducated insurrectionists out to dry after telling to get Mike Pence on Jan 6.
@@malahammer yea, because they were uneducated insurrectionists lol
I was born in Belfast a while after the troubles "ended" and ive lived here all my life and yet i cant figure out 1 thing
Why are people here so fiercely loyal to the UK to the point of killing just so you don't have to leave? Like seriously what has being part of the UK ever done for NI other than cause violence. The troubles might never have even been a thing and alot of lives saved. It's just always confused me.
Couldn’t have said it better myself
slave mentality
That question can be asked in reverse. Why are there those who are so fiercely loyal to the republic to the point of killing? What has wanting this done for NI asides from causing violence?
@@dan-860 Republicans caused any problems since the troubles and both sides played a part in that. Are you really so ignorant to why Irish people would want to separate from England? Ignorant to 800 years of colonization, oppression, cultural suppression and genocide? Plus the republic is far better off these days than the UK they've outgrown you so it's only natural people want to join the republic and jump the sinking ship that is the uk.
Well you obviously see people as equal and value people by their character no matter who they are. Your confusion is a very healthy confusion because bigotry is not registering in your mind. You have your parents to thank for that. If you were a Unionist and a bigot you would have no confusion at all. As an Irish person, your thought process gives hope for us all on this Island. Nothing worse than misplaced loyalty as you well know even as an individual it's very unhealthy.
I would love to see my Country reunited,partion gone,
Visited Dublin & Cork 3 years ago, just couldn't recognize the city or its suburbs anymore! Demography completely changed! This happened to many cities in England like, London, Luton, Leicester, Oldham, Bradford an so on! Many Irish are homeless because of corruption between Corporations and ruling class in Ireland! No control on open borders! Housing mostly built for foreign capital, not for locals! Housing msde unaffordable for locals! Too much foreign money corrupts the ruling class and they abandon the locals! Don't import this rotten suicidal culture to NI and regret it!
Same in Canada
@@UJT-ft8ye Australians don't even own their water in Murray Basin! It now belongs to foreigners in foreign lands! How stupid can any nation be?!!
Welsh independence is polling the same as Scotland did 10 years ago. Only a matter of time before England is alone 😍
It'll never happen you big xenophobe.
We have to have faith in the youg people who arent tainted by bigotry.
Free Northern Ireland
Our country has been patient, waited too long for reunification and it’s nice to see the tides change through peaceful means, nowhere near reunification but a nationalist first minister will change the tide of history forever. Entitled Trauma for unionists, patient justice for nationalists.🇮🇪
Not in your lifetime pal
@@mariewalker4010 and you’ll watch the Union dismantle in yours 😊
@@shaneryan7622 sorry pal not in your lifetime or mine
@@mariewalker4010 You're about 80 so not long left to wait.
@@stevekildare4053 sorry pal I'm 15 years away from 80 and by the way is that the best you can come back with
Yes, the goal of SF is Irish Unification. But they are running this election with Bread and Butter issues that matters to both Nationalist and Moderate Protestant voters. Housing, Cost of Living, the Irish Protocol, Jobs. That is the reason why SF is in the lead with the Alliance a close 2nd.
Free Ireland
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"Irish Unification of 2024" - Data
*grabs popcorn*
UK left EU and now Northern Ireland and Scotland may leave UK..England will become a lonely small Island .
Scotland and Wales is on the same Island as England.
The Welsh and Scottish Nationalist parties are slowly declining.
I doubt the Irish really want to see an end to British Unionism.
The Irish and Scottish wants both British Union and EU.
The Welsh and English wants to be outside the EU. But it's mainly the older generations I think?
Will be wonderful for a united Ireland
time for the immigrant unionist population to accept that it is not their country when re-unification happens they will be welcome to apply for asylum through a concentration camp we will establish in Rwanda for you
I bet you wouldn't say that about the immigrants coming from India or Africa, its only alright to hate the British ones in your mind
Much is being made of a Sinn Fein first minister but the reality is there is no change. Fills papers and a few news headlines but that's about it. Without a unionist deputy there will be no government so back to square one. If they do decide to elect a minister I'm fairly confident nothing will come of it. Both parties can agree on nothing as they are too different. Black and white. If they ever do pigs will start to fly so it'll hardly escape anyone's notice. Oh well, they still get paid though, so not to worry.
A United Ireland now!
It must be demoralising being a unionist in Northern Ireland.
It so ironic how one could Devote your life to the Union Jack and the tories and British regime do not care one bit about you. It’s like being left abandoned by parents. Very sad.
They're so brainwashed with nonsense. Myself and the vast majority of the Republic would welcome them with open arms regardless.
@@icemanire5467
Agreed.
A new Ireland for all!
It’s just so difficult and awkward… it seems like it will be increasingly difficult to justify NI being disconnected from Ireland, especially with Brexit considered. It makes little sense. Perhaps UK citizenship could be maintained for them should they unite with Ireland itself?
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Hurrah!!!
On Bobby sands anniversary may I say Tis coming home.
Will the free state remember us now, ones who's lived on frontline all these years
I've got some ambivalence about this. As a citizen of the Republic that is pro-europe, I'm one of the silent minority anti-eu. I firmly believe an economic union of these two Islands is the best way forward. I'm a Conservative and bizarrely see some similarities between Northern unionist thinking and myself for that reason. I don't respect the triumphalist marches every year, but respect the idea of God and Country, albeit a different one.. Tha shinners are anti-christian and globalist in their mindset. I'll never vote for them down south..
Why are they anti-christain?
But I do think you are right t that they are pro gobalist
That man Billy Hutchinson should feel really greateful for getting only 15 years for the murder of two men. How he get such lenient treatment, you might ask. The very thing he claims to treaten, the Good Friday Agreement.
They say Protocol..
We the Irish natives hear Brexit...
Sinn Fein has one elctions as a majority in the past before DUP still were the leading party.
What election was this
It was around 2014. The MP Martin o mulleoir, oh my, he made so many back handed compliments. He was invited to my dad's warehouse looked at the office that I was working in and the MP was like "ahh this office needs a feminine touch". To make matters more cringe, my dad introduced my mother and then the MP was like I see where your daughter gets her looks from.
I wanted hide.
@@aisharahman3565 i think you dreamt that election 😏
you're delusional
Is the contain sympathy better than the attempt? Is the close family better than the dare? and What if the bitter charge ate the emotion? problems in the NI were caused by
our common joins into the barren perception.
The DUP now risk Sinn Fein which makes the whole bubbly manner bleach into the corrupt combination.
Can anyone please explain to me how there can ever be a united Ireland!! Have you ever seen the passion all Northetn Irish teams sing the national anthem before games!! Fans and players!! In a referendum there would be war for sure!!!
NI must get freedom from uk
Ireland have the coolest nationalist
Honestly no change is really done in NI. They might vote Shin Fein but I don;t think Ireland can afford it.
Europe can though.
Everyone knows unification would be a nightmare economically, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s still gonna happen. The US, Britain, & the EU all hold the GFA to a high standard and will happily support unification if it’s what the majority want, this will be because nobody wants another Irish troubles. Britain know it’s their fault NI economy is in shambles, the EU would be directly affected, and the US just like to police the world.
it depends. there'd possibly be a big upswell in direct foreign investment to bring NI in line with the Republic and that would/should bring an improvement to QoL with it. Who knows if it'll ever happen, though.
To any Irish Government, making the North a success story will be a top priority, and there's bsolutely no doubt about that.
@@bernardpearce3478 The South may be a little hesitant at first but I don't think there's any doubt in the southerners minds that the North rightfully belongs to ROI, and that we are one people. The south is already a success story. NI joining would allow it to become the same.
World War III Has Begun; How It Unfolds Depends on Us
We think of the Russia-Ukraine war as a local conflict, but it is much more than that; it is a global war on multiple fronts. The war is not only a military conflict; it is also an economic war of attrition. With skyrocketing gas prices and shortage of staples, people all over the world are feeling the consequences of the war.
This war is transforming the entire modus operandi of humanity. Since the dawn of time, we have been accustomed to living by the motto, “survival of the fittest.” By and large, the rule was that the strong determined the rules, and the rules were often abusive toward the weak. Now, it seems like a new mindset has set in: Wanting something and being strong enough to take it does not mean that the world will accept it.
The war, therefore, is being fought on the inside no less, and perhaps more than on the outside. Our very makeup is changing from abusive to cooperative, from narcissistic to altruistic.
It hurts, and it will not happen without a struggle, but it is irreversible. This is the path of our evolution toward the purpose of our creation-to encompass within us all of creation. To do that, we must come to care for it, just as a mother encompasses her child through her maternal love.
The struggle to transition from our current uncaring and mean approach to all creations but ourselves, into wise and compassionate beings is called “the war of Gog and Magog” or Armageddon.
Since the war is about our inner makeup, we can fight it within us. If we object to struggling with ourselves over who will rule-the ego or love-the physical reality will force us to choose love nonetheless. However, it will do so by hurting us in a very physical way.
The war in Eastern Europe is nothing compared to what we might have to endure if we resist the process. The horrific descriptions of our sages and prophets hint at it, and we would not want to live through it.
Alternatively, we can fight this war within us without firing a single bullet. The choice is in our hands. All we need is to continue in the same direction that nature is already leading us: toward connection. If we make an effort to care for one another, even though initially we don’t, then we are moving in the right direction. If we try to resolve conflicts not with guns or even legal battles, but by strengthening the care and friendship between us, then we are saving lives and sparing torments from countless people.
In conclusion, let us try to rise above the hatred and see the human on the other side, who suffers too. Let us think that this war was given to us so we would think about each other more than we have so far. After all, were it not for this war, we would not notice one another. Now that it is here, we are no longer indifferent. Although our feelings our currently negative, now that we are aware of them, we can work on them together and turn them around. These are the wars of the Messiah who moshech [Hebrew: pulls] us out of the ego, and into mutual love.
Thee most excellent piece of writing I have read on a youtube comment section. Has hints of Sri Aurobindo who is my spiritual father.
Farmer Michael for PM
Sinn Féin Abú
agus Eire Abu! Sorry about no fada's.
I'm English Catholic and wouldn't want to lose the benefits of the union if I lived there. 🇩🇪 sees negatives to reunification billions of 🇪🇺 sent to the east. Dublin can't afford it, road signs no nhs etc etc is not cheap
I am English Catholic too and if I lived in Northern Ireland it would be a difficult choice for me . Vote Sinn Fein who want a united Ireland as do the SDLP or vote for a unionist party , the most hardline of which were pretty comfortable with people of our faith being murdered even if they had nothing to do with terrorism or at the very least discriminated against as regards to jobs and housing ..
Don't worry about it. Not your problem anymore.
Replacing road signs! 😂
The Irish reunification has not yet been announced so why prosume what's in it
A united Ireland will never happen.without a war.
The only ones who want to fight it are pensioners. We'll stick on some Dickinson's Deal or No Deal and they'll be grand.
With Russia trying to take more of it's neighbour Ukraines land our U.K. lawbreaker & current Russian financed P.M. has stated we do not condone such behaviour and will fight to support sovereign nations from such aggressive neighbours. Based on that logic a United Ireland is the first step to Guarantee Our neighbours in Ireland join Nato to discourage the Russian Navy from ever attempting naval excercises off the coast of Ireland again. As Sir Paul Mcartney sang... 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish'
A vote for sinn Fein is a vote for the ira
Cope harder ma'am
A give it a rest ffs.
@@corkboy4523 couldn't agree more
Would the south even want us lol
I am going to vote for DUP. I don’t want Uk to be sliced.
how progressive
London doesn't give a bollox about NI. Wake up!
He wants to be led by boris the lier good luck with that 👍
Northern Ireland will be cared for more as a part of Ireland than the UK.
It's too late, Brexit has already torn it apart. Either we leave first or Scotland does, either way it doesn't matter. Look for something else to tie your identity instead of a government and a dead empire that couldn't give a toss about you or the ones you love.
Ulster is British. No surrender.
Boris already surrendered you. And you voted for the DUP to make it happen. Classic
Three of ulsters 9 counties are in the Republic of Ireland and none of the 9 are in Britain, so no, Ulster is not British 😉
No surrender to what? A democratic vote 😂😂... Ye sound more and more desperate by the day😂
It's coming buddy, a 32 county sovereign, independent Ireland ;)
The Protocol is loathed by all Unionists. Not just “hardcore ones”. It’s strangling the Northern Irish economy and must go. It allows Brussels to make laws which Northern Irish people have no say in. Making NI a Brusselss colony. This undemocratic absurdity must go.
Unionists voted for that Brexit bullshit that the Protocol resulted from. Now they are willing to bring back sectarian violence because they are whining about having to lay in the bed that they made.
You might wanna talk to Boris Johnson about this.
After all it was his "oven ready", "great", "best of both worlds" deal that brought you the protocol.
And you can bet he KNEW all that would come from it.
Talk to the business community and they'll tell you that things have never been better. Is literally only the DUP & some sympathizers saying otherwise.
If you listened to the majority of voters in Northern Ireland they dont want the protocol either , because they didnt vote to leave the EU . Stay in the EU = no protocol.
If you voted for Brexit, then this is your baby. Also, S.F are pro protocol, so if they win the election, technically, it won't be undemocratic. As the majority of the electorate would approve of it.
united ireland will never happen ulster is british 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Before Brexit, Sinn Fein would curry favour to some of the minority groups to gain votes. But they didn't keep their promise as a result. I used to vote for Sinn Fein but now I'm not too sure anymore.
What promise did Sinn Fein not keep? Just curious.
At 2014 he was like "vote for me and I'll build a mosque." Hence the majority but no promise.
This whole event that I would reiterate to like others and those who knew Martin's sort of campaign would be him making promises he can't keep. One other said that he did the same rues for lgbtq and again no promises kept for them either.
Martin has quit in 2019. But that's just my opinion of him.
*tactics not *rues
He legit attended an Eid where I attended. The same eid that is occurring today. This is almost like a 8 year anniversary for the remembrance when Martin betrayed a minority. Lol
@@aisharahman3565 Do you seriously think the DUP would let anyone put a Mosque in a "Protestant State for a Protestant people?
Even if Sinn Fein become the largest party, nothing will have changed other than a split Unionist vote, there will not be a United Ireland in the life time of any one alive today.
Unionists like you are the problem, you are delusional… 1996 the unionist nationalist seat gap was at 13.4%. In 2017 the gap was at 1.1%. This election the gap is meant to completely close. While this can be credited towards unionists moving to Alliance, what can’t be ignored is the upcoming census which is predicted to show that Catholics will no longer be a minority in NI.
Ian Smith said the same thing about majority rule in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Not in a thousand years, he said. It came about two years later. I see many similarities in the cognitive dissonance expressed by Unionists and that expressed by those who favored continued white minority rule in southern Africa.
@@ThePSmoke they forget that these places held their power because settlers were coming in, those settlers stopped decades ago and therefore unionists are a declining community
You can think that if you want because it's just empty words of no substance. There was a very good reason why the Unionists wanted partition in 1920. Remember 'A Protestant Ulster for a Protestant People'? Well not anymore. A Catholic majority? A Catholic First Minster? Sinn Fein the largest party?. Border in the Irish Sea? NI economically in Ireland and the EU? Power-sharing? Do you see where this is going? The Unionist politicians are at sixes and sevens because they don't know which way to jump so they are jumping on each other like a box of demented frogs.
Don't forget those of us with no religion man.We observed unionists failing to wake up and smell the coffee in 1968, when housing and job discrimination occurred big-time. Fifty years later, we find the DUP ignoring what the people of N. Ireland wanted , while running round London,at the beck and callow the incompetent Johnson and Rees-Mogg.@@brendanshannon1706
yes northern ireland come to our side we have cookies for you
I'm half-Irish, living in the Netherlands, and I really hope, unionists will prevail! I love the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland should stay in the UK. No "united Ireland" without Britain!
True. The British Isles have unique Protestant cultures:
England, UK = Anglican
Scotland, UK = Presbyterian
Wales, UK = Methodist
Ireland, UK = Episcopal
Heretics
Heretics
Heretics
Charlatans
@@adineatha9766 British Isles aren't real it's a made up term to justify colonialism
wdym 'no united Ireland without Britain'?
@@trajanaurelian4113 No. It is real. It was called Britannia by the Romans.
Britain and British isles by the Britons
I used to be Pro-Catholic Irish reunification. Now Im Pro-Protestant (Episcopalian/Church of Ireland) British Unionist.
All of Ireland should rejoin the UK and the UK could rejoin the EU.
we want to stay in the EU and have our land back.
Thankfully you dont get to decide that :)
is it really about religion when it comes to election these days?
I’m not sure if you remember what happened last time Ireland was fully in the UK…. Nobody in Ireland nor Britain would support that.
Ireland joining the UK voluntarily is as likely as the Ukraine voluntarily joining the Russian federation absolutely no chance
Happy Independence Day Israel 🇮🇱 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
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