'The British government can't use Ireland as a pawn,' says Sinn Fein President
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald said the 'British government can't use Ireland as a pawn' and that they will not be the collateral damage in Brexit negotiations.
The Sinn Fein leader also went on to say, "Boris Johnson can't play games with the people of the North or the island of Ireland."
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reunification of Ireland is inevitable 🇨🇮
Support from India 🇮🇳
100% Correct
They’ve been saying that for 100 years
Not a bloody chance mate. 🇬🇧🏴
Tìochfaidh ár lá, bye bye United Kingdom 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
A border poll is inevitable yes, but we are not sure yet if northern ireland would vote to leave the uk , anything could happen , but the ? is when will a border poll takes place
SF have very short memories, not too long ago they held Northern Ireland for ransom for 3 years!!
@Padraig cultural misappropriation? Why would we have an Irish Language Act passed in a country that is in the United Kingdom, not Ireland?
@@jackbaxter1795 because we're Irish. Are people in Scotland not Scottish.
@@rocarolan2003Your argument is that SF were totally justified in 2017 due to cultural reasons. However the protocol separates NI from Great Britain, something unionists understandably do not want- is that not cultural too??
@@jackbaxter1795 it doesn't separate NI from GB at all. It is still part of the united kingdom. All that is happening is some products need to be checked. Before Brexit this already happened with animals. The only difference now is this has been extended to other products due to unionist voting for Brexit. ...... If Sinn Fein had encouraged people to vote for something that caused a hard border in Ireland it would be their fault. Just as the checks at the ports are the DUP fault.
@@rocarolan2003 The protocol absolutely separates NI from the rest of the UK. These additional checks make it near impossible for businesses here to trade freely with the rest of GB, hence cutting us off from the UK.
Up the Shinners
Independence for Scotland 🏴
Ireland can’t even defend itself, the British needs to provide air cover and sea cover. Shame that the UK provide this to Ireland for free. If I was PM, Ireland would be issued with an invoice. Please explain how an independent Scotland will defend itself. What defence will Scotland have? Number of troops? Aircraft? Naval? Please provide details, because I asked this information in 2014 and could not get a clear answer???
@@arod9998 defend ourselves against who? Is registry to the army going to just stop once Scotland becomes independent?
Scotland really doesn’t need an army, no country does, it’s 2022 🤣
@@New-ye2fl I mean. The Scottish seem to hate their own county as of late. Might have something to do with the person in charge over there.
@@New-ye2fl 'No country needs an army, its 2022' Lol, what a ridiculous view
@@user-ml1rv1jk3w Exactly, what the hell is happening in Ukraine, they won't pay for it simple.
We live in a democracy, the majority accept the responsibility and the authority to govern. The minority can debate and influence best they can, that’s the downside of being electoral losers.
If 75% of the electorate choose to accept the NI Protocol - it stays, it Remains!
No corrupt, criminal Tory or Unionist will change the result of the election - they have lost the argument and the election.
Could not agree more, I'm ashamed of this Tory government.
@@cassandra2249 Me too
@@cassandra2249 Pity Johnson’s Tories don’t feel the same Cassandra (22), but that would take morals & Values, plus integrity. So no, they’re simply shameless!
75% of the electorate have not chosen to accept the NI protocol though have they?
@@ricardosmythe2548 ehat's the oercentage of the vote the dup got? i think they were the only party that was against the protocol.
Most of NI voted against brexit, but here we are. The protocol is the only way forward after that. At least as long as gb isn't part of the single market.
I woke up early this morning and read that as "Can't use Ireland as a prawn" and wondered what it meant...
It means parliament is being shelfish when it come to the whats best for the Irish people and what's best for the mp's
@@iwanttoliveinthewoods I completely agree look at our end of it!! They are being ridiculous....
@@iwanttoliveinthewoods yes but hopefully the IRA don't return
@@josephstalin7403 as long as the English don't interfere with our country they won't have to
I'm slightly stunned someone can sign over their seat after the election, to effectively an unelected person.
FRAUDULENT REPRESENTATION, a Criminal Offence. There is no Law allowing anyone to sign over their seat and the unelected person would be committing a criminal offence if they tried to "pretend" they are a legal representative.
I'm more stunned the DUP refuse to do their jobs but do not refuse to accept their wages.
@Christopher Powell clearly not to the DUP Chrissy
Sinn Fein Co-opted the most in the last mandate. 11 of their 27 were unelected by the time of the election.
@@eoghangreene8749 it’s called “corrupt criminality” the DUP have been getting away with it for years - under the protection of the equally corrupt criminals that are the Conservative and Unionist Party.
Democracy is being destroyed by these charlatans.
It wasn't the British which has used terrorism to advance their cause was it? It wasn't the British who put into their negotiation position, or the EU's negotiation position the so called "Irish border problem" after the EU, Ireland and British remainers lost the many court cases in 2016-2017 and again in 2019 was it? It wasn't the British which went against the courts and judges which ruled that there can be a border on the island of Ireland was it? It wasn't the British which wanted to put a border on the island of Ireland was it? It was the EU, in actual fact it is the EU and Ireland which have broken international law, they have broken the Belfast/GFA, the Vienna Convention on treaties, the UN and the European convention on human rights. Well over 4 odd years of the EU and Ireland holding all of the people and businesses of the EU and the UK to ransom over lies, disinformation, propaganda and gaslighting about something which has never existed and something which has never been taken from any so called "Irish" nation, state or country. Senator Neale Richmond said: “Any form of a border, any form, particularly a hard border, will result in a return to violence,” he said. “Not maybe, not could, will.” www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2018/05/22/brexit-uncertainty-affecting-europes-cities-and-regions--senior-eu-politician/ .
"It wasn't the British which has used terrorism to advance their cause was it"
Seriously does the British education not teach history at all? Your empire was literally built on terrorising people and ethnic cleansing. There are mass graves in Ireland and around the world that testify to that. The IRA had the capability to kill tens of thousands of English people during the troubles so be thankful that they didn't and maybe read a proper history book not British state propaganda before spouting nonsense.
What a load of tosh
Well said Natasha, some people can`t see the wood for the trees.
It will . He is speaking realistically. A hard border on the Ireland of Ireland would provoke an awakening of both the IRA and the UVF.
"It wasn't the British which has used terrorism to advance their cause was it?"
Try reading a history book... smh
The DUP is behaving like spoilt toddlers.
No indeed. They are behaving like true patriots & not having the EU & Irish attempt to dismember their country. Sin Fein is acing like a Putin. Glory to NI & UK!
@@guyvert49 like putin. Screenshot this comment. 😂😂😂😂
They never got out of the Pram.. still banging
The little Tin Drum...A lifetime later...
The DUP will still collect their wages.
@@MagnumSkyWolf indeed Putin & Sin Fein have much in common, not least their delusions about historic territories not even long lost but never possessed. Before the Normans & since, Ireland has never been one nation on the whole territory of that island
Long live SF,amen 🤲
United with Ireland Uganda
Hi fellow Ugandan. Love from Cape Town, South Africa
United... Under British rule.
@@joshwenn989 fantasy scenario
@@liamneil8918 That's all they have going for them.
Reunify Ireland .... love Canada
It's not that simple... The election result is misleading. The majority of NI people do not support reunification with RoI. There would be conflict, violence, death... Better to try to get the institutions working that are already in place.
@@for111 Bull-S-it .... all the agreements done prior were all for reunification "at a later date" and that time has come, the british can f-ck right off back to England.
@Michael Myers Never going to happen.
Ireland has never been unified outside of british rule, so there is no "reunify".
@@gamingkami9148 Under the Good Friday agreement, if and when the Irish people decide to unite they can do so, no outside interference from the British government or EU. It’s for the people alone. This has brought it closer.
I think Northern England should declare independence too the government doesn't care about Northern England either
How Much to buy Northern England?
@@ScottishRoss27 £5
@@okayokayrelax9294 Deal!
Maggie Thatcher destroyed the north of England and Scotland
The London government only cares about the London government and nobody else.
Too many comments from people that dont remember or dont know know about Sinn Fein
London will happily use anything and anyone outside of London as a pawn. NI is not alone, they face the same struggles that scotland and the North of England have faced for decades.
And the people know that. Even the people in ROI know that it was almost always London elite and tories. We have far more in common with those in Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, etc etc etc..
Agreed!
Only London is worth anything, rest of UK should evaporate.
@@alib315 lmfao, London is fed by the rest of the UK 🤣😂🤦♂️🤦♂️
And its still a polluted shithole!
@@LeMerch
Who is breaking the GFA? Not London.
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2 very powerful women there in every sense of the matter.
whats the mans name? ;)
Provo 1 , 2, and 3
@@parkgate-ub1ey Oh, nice bit of casual xenophobia there... Dullard.
@@theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329 lol truth bud
@@parkgate-ub1ey what a helpful contribution to the conversation, your mother must be so proud 🙄
Sinn Fein closed Stormont for 3 years 2017-2020 and took their wages.
Ever wonder W H Y?
Again, the DUP were up to their necks in a scandal that cost taxpayers up to 1 billion pounds. Their leader, Arlene Foster refused to step down which any credible political leader would have. She refused. She kept Stormont closed.
so sinn fein are now the role models for how the dup should behave? jeffrey will be calling for a united ireland soon lol.
if sinn fein put their hand in the fire would the dup do it too?
Sinn Fein can do what they want it's their country.
@@aidorrocks United Ireland is coming
Much hmr.
Dup screw the people of the north for over 500,million pounds, of course action had to be taken, gangsters is what the dup stand for.!!!
Also, do these DUP assembly members who are refusing to work still get paid? If so, that is FBS.
The DUP turned up on day one. Signed on to collect their wages then left and refused to let the executive form but will still collect their wages
They also get wages, and expenses for going to Westminster as well. SF don't take their seats there.
FBS??
same as Sinn fein ones did 2017?
Or the same as Sinn Fein MP's in westminster did not take their seats but drew their wages and expenses?
Oh I forget , its ok when your side does it - aint it?
If they are so upset at this then they should fire anyone who did it in Sinn Fein a few years ago
The EU has been using NI and the boarder as a bargaining chip since day 1....
How is that relevant?
The difference between Britain and the EU's position in these talks is that the EU's position is much closer aligned to what the people of Ireland, North and Republic, actually want.
Both may be using Ireland's situation to their own benefit, but the EU stand for what Ireland wants.
That may be purely circumstantial, but it is true.
Whereas Britain are trying to strong-arm Ireland into acting against their own interests. That won't happen.
Agree Mel. Connor Murphy was asked by a reporter after the Assembly election what would Sinn Fein have done had the EU border been on the Irish Border. He avoided the question.
Because Sinn Fein loves democracy..
Which is why took part in elections, numbnuts.
Apparently more than the British government
@@laurencefox5884 Thats why Ireland had a referendum on the EU twice.... Because the first one didn't go the way they wanted?
@@Whoami691 But they followed the will of the people. Which is good. And now they are reaping the benefits of a trade deal with the EU..and our economy is crashing. :)
@@Whoami691 Because the treaty and the wat it was to be implemented changed
..but the Irish government and EU and Sinn Fein can and have been for 6 years? Seems fair enough..
No they've been trying to protect the GFA. Preserve peace in NI, in other words. This while the unionists are prepared to sacrifice peace to ensure the British government can't walk away from NI.
Nor can the EU use Ireland as pawn.. Which going by your logic they clearly are.
😂 Ireland remained in single market and EU said to Brexitiers to build border check, while Ireland is still in single market for me is clear who is trying to use N Ireland, that is Conservatives and corruption within the Brexit .
It looks more like it’s the EU and the USA using Northern Ireland as a pawn.
No it doesnt
@MsMissy Cry more. The EU and the US are guarantor's of the GFA
The English should not be surprised if their decision to leave the EU results in the end of the UK. It was so predictable.
In what way? The majority in NI don't support a united Ireland. In fact nowhere in the UK support it breaking up.
@@uncleghandi5771 but given that a majority in the North voted against Brexit and as such in favor of the EU, it does mean there is a mis alignment between the North and the government in England
It was a decision made by the UK as a whole not just the English.
@@jonoessex Meaningless as majority of UK voters are in England.
Considering that there never was - and still isn't - a plan for how to run the UK outside the EU, it's an almost inevitable outcome.
David frost went on a charm offensive in Washington yesterday to get their support for their more or less scrapping the northern Ireland protocol and ended up insulting the whole lot of them and been told in no uncertain terms that sovereignty works both ways by both Democrats and Republicans their all furious about Britains treatment of Ireland interesting times ahead folks.
Brextards simply don't mix well with reality. It's as bad as listening to Sergey Lavrov
The sooner Britain is shot of Ireland the better.
There are over 40 million people in the US who claim Irish ancestry and they are all watching.
@@Jimmy-nr4kr including the President of the US.
Washington needs to but out of UK affairs. Sleepy Joe doesn't even know what day it is, he's gone from leader of the free world to leader of clown world, I wouldn't trust him to lead a dog.
Funny I thought it was the EU holding the UK over a barrel for leaving the EU?
Which they are entitled to do....and we knew they would. Your point is?
Yea to a unified Ireland. From Iran 🇮🇷
Bobby sands street in iran... the british embassy was on that street so they closed it. Then asked can we open another embassy iran said yea on bobby sands street. British said forget it iran said 😉 Bobby sands street or nothing.
@@oneillcfc7921 Yeah and its former name was Winston Churchill street. In the end the British embassy had to relocate its entrance to a different street :))
@@oneillcfc7921 they changed the main door to another street
It got closed first from what I read. Then the door changed its still on bobby sands street tho🤣
@@oneillcfc7921 I didn't know this! Brilliant!
I seem to recall that the Irish South used SF to do exactly the same pawn game in the past...
I seem to remember that the British Government murdered millions of Irish people through starvation. Your point is?
Nobody cares about that famine anymore. It was nearly 200 years ago. The world has moved on.
@@sendhelp9226 Exactly my point. I was taking the piss out of the cretin who started the thread. The world has moved on...and the people of NI are not as excited by English Nationalism and isolationism as they once were.
@@laurencefox5884 I seem to remember that far more recently than that the IRA bombed people left right and center. YOUR point? But yes, drag up the distant past, want to complain about the romans next? :D
@@Whoami691 Not me dragging up the past. Only whiny c*nts do that. The UDF also bombed people left right and centre. Remember that?
The DUP are backwards
PUD
Freedom from the Firm!
Mary lou is so sharp.... I hope she wins the next election in the Republic...
Me too
@J C if that's the case then the Irish parties have really dithered
Shes an Irish Communist. She would bring Ireland into a Venezuela like state.
The amount of blood on Sinn Fein's hands makes this very scary!
Let's not forget the blood of spilt by the British in Ireland and around the world
The amount of blood on the British soldiers hands is disgusting.
@@tyronewynn982 cheerfully ignoring the fact that Irishmen as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were enthusiastic participants in the building of the British Empire. As were Scotsmen.
@@TheTraveller20081 Scotsmen and English sent to Ireland. Or just traitors. No actual Irishman
@Aviation@engineering8which one. Limey
It's almost as if Sinn Fein are using the current discord between the EU and UK over NI as a political opportunity.
A bit like how westminister took advantage of England's collective stupidity to pass the Brexit vote
Er, the only people objecting to the protocol are the hardline bigots in the DUP.
The majority of NI don't have a problem with it. Likewise the majority in NI voted to Remain.
This is why Sinn Fein now has a majority of seats...
@@olibranchoharadedog5886 Okay Mr Dog, it's not as if Sinn Fein see this as a potential step towards 'unification' or anything is it? I mean it's totally normal for a country to have border checks between two of its own regions - I can't think why unionists in NI would have any problem with that at all.
I thought it had been the other way around since Brexit
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What does that mean?
@@laurencefox5884 Means exactly what it says.
@@laurencefox5884 means that the EU are the ones sticking with no willingness to make any efforts and blaming the UK for it.
@@011y89 Don't be silly. Why should they give the UK any different treatment to any other country. The c*nts wanted 'independence'. This is what that means. They got what they voted for. Whining about that just looks so pathetic.
I wish I were Irish. I’m so ashamed to be British. The last 6 years has been embarrassing as a Brit.
Just the last six years?
Well move then.
@@stephenford8775 I have. I live in Europe. I unfortunately torture myself when I watch articles like this.
@@salkeld571 since Brexit, I’ve lost a lot of respect amongst myself as an intellectual.
There are a lot of good British people, we are a much more tolerant and accepting people than Ireland, the Irish people are awful towards the Irish traveller community, despite always trying to play the victim.
What a shame when Great Britain can't even uphold it's principles and ideologies of Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, Human Rights etc within it's own country and people. Let people decide what they want thru fair and honest elections and referendum.
Most people didn't vote for nationalists in NI by a large margin so by the logic of democracy NI should remain an integral part of the UK. It's only undemocratic power sharing that has ever the nationalists any power in NI. The one time the nondemocratic elements favour the Unionists is only time it's suddenly objectionable 🤔
It’s not Great Britain, it’s the corrupt CONservatives that’s destroying the UK..
The U.K , U.S.A and most other western powers often do this : preach democracy and peace but don't practice it. Democracy, human rights and development in their minds, means what suits them at the moment. May United Ireland arise strong and represent freedom to the 🌎
Agreed. Yet they quite happily want to dictate how the rest of Europe and the world should work according to their agenda.
When did they ever do any of that?
My respect to the politicians of Ireland !!! Working together for the benefit of the whole Ireland. A truly people's government...
Except not everyone wants that. Some are proudly british!!
@@TaylorElizabethHunt And I’m proudly Martian, doesn’t mean I want to go and live there
@@luvlemins 😂fair point
Product British or not, doesn't mean anything, just genrel views/opinions that others have.
@@luvlemins uh, wtf dude.
I would imagine Briton would love to see Ireland united and off there financial books, but are the people in Northern Ireland split about joining the republic of Ireland? It would make sense to have some sort of referendum
❤️❤️United Ireland ❤️❤️
Many on both NI and ROI would vote for a united Ireland. The unionists have always opposed unity, by violence. They have denied democracy, otherwise Ireland would be under home rule as Scotland is, and still part of the UK. The IRA arose in reaction to unionist violence, which was in opposition to democracy. 75% opposition of elected MPs to the formation of NI did not stop it. Denial of democracy, over and over, and again now. Despite SF winning fairly, the DUP will not live up to the first word in their title. To them, it is democracy when they win, and unfair when they lose.
@@seafire7701 It sounds like the DUP have been spending too much time in Trumpland.
@@seafire7701 SF STILL IS IRA? That is the rhetoric that is coming out on RUclips. That is not good for anyone.
Now there’s a thought. A border poll maybe
The bloke on the left is like…… what what what is all this? what am I doing?
Is this real? Am I in the right place? Went home with her last night now I’m stood here a little clueless 🤣😂🥲🥲🤣
2022 elections results SNP in Scotland, Sein Fein in Northern Ireland and labour in Wales... DUP need to reflect what went wrong and need to reintrospect what went wrong...
Nothing went wrong Ireland is just reuniting ❤️
@@babblo1389 I doubt it's happening any time soon to be fair, under a Conservative Government which lost massively in every single part of the UK during the most recent election neither pro-Scottish Independence or Republicans in Ireland won in any meaningful way, the fact that Sin Fein only picked up an extra 1% on the last election whilst still failing to get a majority should be telling of that.
@@babblo1389 As an Englishman I wouldn't want anything more. Let the Irish deal with Irish troubles.
What is 'reintrospect' supposed to mean? I got a red line under it when I typed it, so it isn't a real word.
Roll on a United Ireland, SF needs Michelle O'Neill in the Dàil as party leader.
Deluded...never going to happen...NI consistently polls against joining the republic...
Hahahahahaha
Drunks, that singer of The Cranberries band, died like Jimi Hendrix from drinking cheap wine. DRUNKS, Watch and be sober!
Eire is going to take on Ulsters share of the UK's national debt is it?
Ah but it's perfectly fine for the EU to do that right?
The British Government signed the protocol.
@@aidanjohnkelly *Theresa May did. Someone who was very much demanding a soft Brexit.
@@grimnir8872 No, she didn't, her deal was the "Northern Ireland Backstop", something the DUP also opposed. Boris Johnson signed the international treaty for the NI protocol.
Exactly
Oh look, yet another person who claims the EU is using Ireland as a pawn, but isn't able to actually provide a single example of them doing it...I wonder why unionists feel the need to lie so much? Force of habit i guess....
If the DUP won the election then they would expect SF too form the Assembly with them and continue to work on the issues that have risen for some people on the protocol. There is no reason why there cannot be an assembly. The protocol is an excuse and caused by Brexit which the majority in the North voted against. If used properly and too it’s advantage then the protocol could really make Northern Ireland as serious economic powerhouse.
As a unionist I think it’s a cynical move from the DUP, basically power sharing is fine so long as we are the biggest party.
"Northern Ireland as serious economic powerhouse" by reducing trade with the rUK?
yeah right
@@progressivepath1995 I honestly feel for the people! It’s ok too have your opinions or concerns but too screw the people out of spite means your not in it for the people but yourselves. They should form government and assembly then crack on with whatever they dislike about the protocol. The Newley elected FM should meet with all party leaders with the DUP by their side and let all parties have their day in what they like or dislike about the protocol then go back too Westminster too work on amendments etc. I have unionist friends who work in what’s described as the Republic and they all say the work, money, roads and infrastructure is far better but in their parents times it was different. The people need the Assembly and the assembly is bigger than any one persons ego.
@En för alla - alla för en ᛟ ulster isn't a country its a province,,six county's isn't a country ,,,, what will fix the north's problem is direct rule from dublin
@@farmerned6 absolutely, they don't believe in democracy only having an auld bag ruling them. 😂😂🇪🇺🇮🇪
It's always the Brits fault in the view of these dinosaurs.
When it comes to dinosaurs in NI, Arlene Foster comes to mind...except as a creationist she doesnt believe in them ;)
England needs its own Sinn Fein👍🏻
Yes, extend the Irish Republic into England!
Keep-calm-&-carry on ár lá 😂
Nigel Farage: "Up the 'ra"
They need something other than boris and co preparing to distory the place for a minority of lunatics who no longer either work or care for the wishes of the majority of people in northern Ireland.
We don't want anything to do with Irish politics or ideology, we are happy being friendly and getting along with each other, I dont want to have things thrown at me just because im a Catholic, that can stay in Ireland
In 1921, about 75% of MPs were pro Home Rule/Independence. The border has no basis in geography or demography. Many argue that Donegal should have been in NI and Fermanagh and Tyrone not. Irrelevant. The country was partitioned in a denial of democracy. Denial of democracy has been the cause of most rebellions.
Now we see the Unionist position revealed. When they win, it's democracy; when they lose, they won't accept the result. In 1921, what became the ROI was in many ways, a third world country with religious influence over all aspects of life; and what became NI was a society with two classes of citizens, with religion being the justification for one "class" dominating the other.
Now the ROI has become a democratic, vibrant society with a peace-loving population which has thrown off the religious yoke. Progress in NI has been only since the GFA. Time to re-unite the country while respecting all. No more denial of democracy.
The EU, despite its faults, has done more for peaceful improvement of life in Ireland than the UK ever did.
very well put.Sea Fire .. = old school England establishment is finished. The world is tired of the lies deceptions, criminality, arrogance and hostile dominance by force and economic sufferance.
Yeah but they didn`t the "UK" bail them out a few years ago right. Ireland, both sides has a government, a parliment does it not? democratically elected. There is a saying,: wat is Democracy? democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb arguing over what`s for dinner. I`m afraid NI is the lamb, I exclude the EU totally in this as it`s not in the slightest bit democratic, absolutely auticratic, and if Ireland is going to continue recieving lollypops from them for being good then we have a big problem, I totally think ireland should be united, but that is up to the peoples of ireland, as there are 2 obvious factions involved. The GFA was netween Britain and Ireland not the EU, not the USA. but the EU and USA are all over it now, this is Irelands biggest problem, a bunch of socialists and plastic American paddies...Do me a favour. so let`s have a referendum, give the Scots and the Welsh one too, make it lawfully binding for 20 years and see where we get. none of this Tactical EU/sturgeon marxist bullshit where we keep voting till we get what the Autacrat`s want.
Irish government needs to have more balls.
They're a disgrace for not backing SF more.
All parties in Dublin say they want a United Ireland but aren't doing enough to make it happen.
The term "West Brits" exist for a reason and that's exactly what this Irish Government is.
Sinn fein are as much a threat to the establishment parties in the South, FF and FG than they are to partitionist parties in the North, members of Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Labour went North during the election this year again! to campaign for the SDLP, a nationalist party with very little support in their community, no chance of doing very well..... but most importantly of all have never come South! have more interest in Westminster than Dublin. The Southern establishment therfore only acts when it needs to solidify partition through treaties, agreements and other political arrangements, so they will get more involved soon. FF's shared island scheme can be viewed as perhaps a long-term approach to irish unity, but it could also play a role as a precursor to a two state solution should the idea become popular and necessary to float in distant future. As FF, FG and LBR have always been 26 county parties, the prospect of a United Ireland is not something they have ever forseen, let alone planned for, trying to envisage the political posture for their parties in that new Ireland is as scary and alien as it would be for the SDLP and Unionists.
Make a United Ireland happen my arse they won't even stand up for the protocol which they claim to support and is helping farmers and businesses on both sides of the border. But once its outside Dublin forget it they just don't want to know about it.
The Irish government is 100% in favour of the protocol , and have stated publicly numerous times to that effect.
The protocol has nothing to do with Sinn Feinn , the DUP are using that to cause confusion through the assembly in NI .
It is not up to any of the governments (UK, Ireland)
It's up to the people of Northern Ireland.
If they vote for reunification then a referendum must be held in Ireland.
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I hope northern Ireland and Ireland re-unite
"Over its history, a new study found, Britain has invaded almost 90 percent of the world's countries. Only 22 countries escaped British invasion, according to The Telegraph. These findings are outlined in a new book, All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To."
And spread modern values, systems and institutions.
Most of the world would still be "third world" If Britain hadn't conquered most of the World, although we've more or less conquered the earth because English is classed as an international language, and considering the world mostly lives under the system of law founded by British law called The Crown bar law association, systems of education and the industrial revolution.
The world economy would be a 100yrs behind where we are today.
@@petermallia558 Yeah they're all very grateful 🙄
Roman law ,Roman alphabet ,Roman calendar
@@petermallia558 speculation..
@@petermallia558 Most countries were worse off under British rule than they were before. Ireland suffered successive famines, Dublin was the worse slum in Europe and its culture was suppressed. India would have a similar story. How well did the native populations in Australia and America do? How many were slaughtered to establish these colonies?
Sounds similar, Sinn Fein hypocrites springs to mind. ( 2017 This talks process has run its course. Sinn Féin will not be supporting nominations for speaker or the Executive tomorrow,” Sinn Féin’s Northern Ireland leader Michelle O’Neill said at Stormont on Sunday )
After a giant scandal in the goverment (RHI) and LITERALLY a decade of broken promises that had been agreed on both sides for a decade. The DUP are doing this for very different reasons
Politicians are well known for their hypocrisy.
Can they use it as a bishop instead?
Who put Pepsi and Shirley in charge ffs.
From what I've seen, it looks like England doesn't give two shits about the North, and I'm not sure that the Republic wants to foot the bill for reunification. Having a United Ireland IS the ultimate goal. How that comes to pass in the real question.
Thing is the British government have to green light a border poll. So in a way what Ireland and NI want doesn't necessarily matter.
Politicians never use reality as a benchmark to stop a good rant.
It is strangely completely unmentioned here in South England. I don't mean this as a slieght but there truly isn't a single person talking about Ireland or Scotland and that's generally been true throughout my life. Its really hard to guage these issues without lots of research as a result.
@@TimboTbagz actually it's the same here in the republic of Ireland northern Ireland rarly gets a mention here not even in the last week scence the last election
Espically after David frost meeting in Washington yesterday where he basically told the us politicians he met to mind their own buissness dispite their been heavely invested in the good Friday agreement plus himself and the other British delegates went over there thinking the American's wouldn't have done their homework on the northern Ireland protocol so they basically think that everyone else is like the Tories and bluff their way through their job.
Why don't they mention that the protocol has been shown to help build NI and improve the economy, although, the DUP are lying about this.
No us that know regular movement in customs n post know costs near unbearable. Give Irish an inch they take a mile. Pr propaganda machine always used by them.. Ui then we complain is their method.
Realy?? Not what n Irish company's are saying
@@adrianrouse5148 who? Any companies I’ve heard speak about the protocol are in favour of it.
It's doing the opposite. Article 16 needs to be invoked to retain the integrity of the UK single market. The protocol is costing the NI a fortune in lost trade.
@@joprocter4573 there taking back there country. We can't have all this foreign mouthing of as if the British should be there.
Those shipping lanes and fishing areas around Northern Ireland are an interesting subject to watch over the coming months.
Look at 5am rural trucks cross border full of Irish product no checks (where toll should be)
@@joprocter4573 That was not what I had in mind but it is a good point.
I just think we should get our prawns from somewhere else, after all we are independent now!
But it’s OK for the EU to have used NI as a pawn for years!
They obviously prefer being eu pawns
@@romulus0552 all these aging little Englanders with one foot in the grave interfering in Irish affairs...
just like the SNP. wanting to leave the uinion but then join the EU. they are in it for the money.
@@imastaycool Even though England is bigger than Ireland and London is double the population of Ireland, not that little.
@@rewind12354 the term little Englander is reference to their mindset, not their geographical area
I don’t like how Republic of Ireland are telling Northern Ireland what they want. I don’t like how the world are telling the UK that they won’t let Northern Ireland go. It’s like the UK telling the EU to let go of Germany, it’s like the world telling the USA to let go of Texas and unite with Canada. Northern Ireland is British by choice, if they ever leave the union it will be THEIR choice. So, enough of the rhetoric ask the people what they want. Until they CHOOSE to leave, they are both British and Northern Ireland so live with it
No, it’s more like U.K. felt for stupid manipulation that Brexit is in Britain business but it was a putins game. U.K. play stupid games with putin so they win stupid prizes.
nl voted majority agonist brexit so this is not what they want, they want to have close ties to British and Ireland not a single one of them which comment is making it sound
Ireland is going to be United as a border poll will solve it then the arguments on borders is. Solved .DUP are rotten to the core and it’s gonna be a. Beautiful day when. The votes are counted in. Favour of a United ireland
@@zba1340 being anti-brexit is not synonymous to being United with Ireland, again allow the Northern Irish to choose for themselves without Irish and EU interference, like the Northern Ireland protocol that the EU pledged to allow flexibility to respect the Good Friday Agreement
With respect ~British & Irish.
Good luck with a united Ireland but I think sinn fein will do well to make any progress within a decade.
Good look, Unionists, stay strong 🇬🇧
@UFO " Scottish independence" yet they want to join the EU... so....... not really independence is it ?
@UFO independent of the UK. to then become depended on the EU. EU being worse
@UFO hmmm your bias makes me lol
@@xelthiavice4276 the Scottish are drunk kneelers. The people of Bruce and Wallace are now nothing more than EU serfs.
As if the EU is not using Ireland as a pawn! Johnson should not waste his time with Sinn Fein after this rant.
He signed the deal oven ready remember 😀😀
Oh look, another person claiming that the EU is doing the same thing but without being able to provide one single actual example of them doing it...
Given this Government respects nobody, I wouldn't get my hopes up.
❤️❤️United Ireland is the near future ❤️❤️
Then what?
Sinn Fein are happy to take their salaries from the U.K. is spite of the fact that they have never taken their seats in Westminster.
The UK will insist on retaining ownership of their country and responsibility for funding their government...so yeah.
Time for Sin Fein to talk to SNP and Dublin to move the border to northern England :)
Oh , its dizzy lemonade!
Back again and as deranged as ever .
Great idea! The English wants England all to themselves, and they can have it.
@@biocapsule7311 Good bye.
@@stephenford8775 Oh, critter, don't cry... Your makeup will run.
Time to arm the DUP and put a permanent border around NI
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"These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead."
(1 Timothy 4:2)
The oldest and greatest party in Ireland..The reunification of Ireland number one .How would England like it if the Irish took control of six of their counties on a sectarian headcount..Wrong from day one..and until that wrong is righted ..the sectarian politics of the six counties will continue on and on..
the DUP has always said they wouldn't take there seats untill the protocol was sorted or scrapped and people voted for them
I can never hear the questions in these things...
Johnson Rees-Mogg and Gove can run but they can’t hide. DUP got what it voted for.
But it's OK for the eu to play silly buggers with n Ireland. So one sided interview. It was not the uk who applied 400 page customs forms. 48 hours processing. Where is the good will stated in the protocol.
Lol the Last time I looked it’s part of the uk not Ireland lol
Johnson visit on Monday is a publity stunt
Choice 1 Regulatory alignment no border
Choice 2 Non alignment hard border
if Choice 2
Border down the Irish sea
or hard Border in NI (Not happening due to Good Friday agreement)
There is no choice 3 or maybe a tech solution or maybe we didn't know what we were signing, while I think Jonson's cabinet are a talentless even they can work out the above.
For whatever reason Johnson wanted a no deal.
a so-called "hard border" will not occur, even without checks from GB to NI. UK needs to call EU bluff. BTW UK should relegate the EU & its internal market to second place in their thoughts, as the primary responsibility lies within its own internal market for the UK
Clearly the solution is tech unicorns.
@@guyvert49 - the EU need to preserve the integrity of their borders so a hard border between NI & Eire is the only answer if the protocol is not observed. WE then have the problem of EU tariffs if the UK reneges on its signed agreement ... don't forget it was an oven ready deal according to the piglet
@@GILLY56ify your answer is not only irrelevant it is incorrect. UK government must put its national interests first. The question is, why should UK have a border within its own country when it is just as acceptable [or not] for the EU to have a border between ROI & France? Don't reply by saying that the EU did not vote for this, because that is also irrelevant when it comes to national sovereignty. It was also irrelevant then Trump was voted in, despite the many problems he caused in the world. The world adjusted & so must the EU.
As for reneging on an agreement, that is also incorrect, since article 16 is also part of the agreement. Perfectly proper to invoke it, if necessary
There will never be a hard boarder in Ireland so there is really only one choice. They need to accept that and move on.
'The British government can't use Ireland as a pawn', but the EU can, right...?!!
No. Rules are rules
The NIP was signed and agreed to by the British Government. Oven ready apparently. Also most parties in Northern Ireland support the protocol and the Northern Irish economy is doing better than Britain.
Who was the man and why did he not speak? Also why was the interview outside instead of in a studio or indoor setting?
The noise from the wind made it difficult to listen to, and seem less professional.
i know, it was for tories sake though they understand blowing wind ect
This should off been sorted out in the Brexit Deal,when the UK left the EU.I really do not
understand any of it.It is a disgrace.
EU playing dirty tricks, ROI think they’re being supported, the word is used.
Have a referendum. If the Northern Irish wish to unify with the south they will vote for it. The UK has no gripes with Ireland.
Absolutely 🇬🇧💗☘️
Do the Republic get a vote too?
@@charlesstilesmysterydinersfn You'd have to ask the EU for permission.
@@charlesstilesmysterydinersfn there would probably be several rounds of voting in the south to make changes to the Republic's constitution and other stuff before a border referendum in the north. Stuff like recognising Scottie and Scot's gaelic as national languages, changing the national anthem and flag to something more representative of the population. The government would also need to establish laws and safeguards (probably working with the UK) to recognise the Loyalist community as a protected group and identity. So yes, the RoI will probably vote several times before the final vote up north.
@@charlesstilesmysterydinersfn Of course
The largest party in Ireland!!☘☘☘
Missed off the "Northern" party at the beginning.
@@leonrobinson2053 In the dail, they are biggest party, so they are biggest party in the rep of Ireland and "Northren Ireland" which let face it, should be part of rest of Ireland and will be soon
@@zba1340 Fair enough, biggest party is not the same as majority. Good luck with uniting Ireland, one province will never accept that and have made that clear.
@@leonrobinson2053 support has been raiseing at rapid rate since convid, granted it has fallen with recent months, at one stage during convid, polls where showing 51% support for united Ireland, to say it will never happen, particularly has national population has been increasing faster then unionist is quite simply silly. it may not happen during my or your life time but it will happen eventually, dup and brexit have been best progress for united ireland then anything else.
@@zba1340 Hey, get them to have a referendum on it. We both know the result because NI wants the best of both worlds and will never leave the UK.
As for Brexit, the UK as a whole voted for Brexit, which was refreshing as we'd never voted to join in the first place. I'm not anti-EU or anti-United Ireland but facts are facts, the birth rate across all of Ireland is down so it's unlikely that Unionist will ever be out voted. If anyone had any sense, all the Irish people who want unification should move to the South and be done with it or better yet they should offer England a referendum on keeping the other countries. Then you'd get some real change.
Those who don't show should be banded and replaced
Thanks for the subtitles 👍
This is basically the Suez Canal all over again. Classic "Great" Britain.
where the UK gets screwed over by the US?
Britian has to fulfill its side of the agreement. So far it has done nothing on the protocol or at Dover and the other ports. Britian is slowly becoming a failed state.
UK has always been a failure along with Ireland
*Englands state.
Really, the EU as used NI from the start, in any contract if one isn't happy then they sort it out, unless your the EU, there's Article 16 which should of been used by now.
@@stephenford8775 No democratic mandate for it in NI or Scotland.
@@stephenford8775 Then why hasn't it?
Unite Ireland, get as much distance from this backward corrupt British government and move forward with Irish and European values.
They can talk the talk but can they walk the walk
Put them in government please so the truth can be seen
Definitely. Give them that tiny bit of power they've always craved and watch them make a balls up, exposing themselves for the grifters they really are.
They don't care about the people, they'll just play petty politics over flags, paintings and other childish things.
amazing how spoilt brat tories get when they lose AGAIN,
"The people of Ireland deserve better than that"....um what about the rest of the UK? 🤣
And a United Korea Hey! think Big 💪😏
Hopefully England never make the devastating mistake of voting for Cons again.
We would only expect this sort of Democracy out in some far away Country.
This is happening on our doorstep.
The British Government has Pandered long enough to the DUP.
God bless Ireland and ireish people❤️🇨🇮❤️🇨🇮❤️🇨🇮❤️🇨🇮
Down down england😂
@@muhammadsuleman9328 What an unexpected comment from a muslim.
@@grimnir8872 Muslims are good people
They have been doing same for years
Would have been handy to give the mic to the people asking questions no?
Irrrish people are smart enough to understand how british bully them
Irish
Is that why Britain literally intercepts russian forces in Irish waters for them?
The Republic of Ireland is really bullied 🙄🙄
what does sinn fein think the EU has been using northern ireland as recently?
Why is Sky News giving this woman air time? She’s not even a UK citizen. Neither does she live here.
Think it’s the eu that are making it awkward as possible
as they have been at basically every opportunity for 6 years
Inevitable with time.
Looks like the invaders/subjugaters. are on their way out.
Sorry folks the DUP just cant or wont play second best to us US as in ime IRISH and love my country we have come a long way with nothing but hurdles in the way we can lead and do the job needed for the people of Ireland ime not political at all ,well said ladies
The DUP will have to play second fiddle, times are a-changing
@@mattyfrommacc1554 for sure
Forward to unification DUP are yesterday people
One man's Dublin Bay Prawn is another man's langoustine.
I'm ignorant as to why Britain even wants Ireland. Let them do their own thing. What's the big deal, ???
many irish living in northern ireland consider themselves british. they are protestant like the british, the irish are catholic and this has caused tensions for a long time.
Largest party on the Island of Ireland not just up north 💚🇮🇪 Tiocfaidh ar la!!!!
So Sinn Féin wants to focus on issues that matter to voters and the issues that got them elected.
Meanwhile the DUP lost on the platform of dismantling the protocol so now that they're not in power they've decided to ignore the issues that voters cared about to focus on...
/checks notes
the protocol. Check and mate Sinn Féin!
We need Ukraine to help us get the Irish back under British Rule.
@@keplermission4947 what
@@keplermission4947 Never going to happen.
Dream on.
@@gerardflynn3899 wouldn't be hard dude.
@@gary8306 the Irish would immediately wave the white flag 😂
It was called Good Friday for a very valud reason
yeah that was the day it was signed on.
Uhm, can someone tell me which of these two women is the elected representative of the people?
Mary Lou McDonald is the leader of Sinn Féin and is a TD in the Dáil (RoI). Michelle O'Neill is deputy leader of Sinn Féin and is an MLA in Stormont (NI). Sinn Féin has members in both jurisdictions.