Northern Ireland elections: would Sinn Fein’s historic win pave the way to Irish unity? • FRANCE 24
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2022
- Northern Ireland voters go to the polls today (May 5) in what could be the most important election in a generation. They will elect the 90 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly, from which a power-sharing executive should be formed. These institutions were created by the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. According to opinion polls, Sinn Fein - representing mostly people of Catholic and Irish background - could become the largest party for the first time.
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Take any Republican and Unionst and sit them down anywhere in England and the locals will see only a couple of Irish people.
Unionists would need to wake up the fact that English Nationalism is now the prime interest of Westminster.
The brits think Irish people is like them, the same way the Russians thinks the Ukrainians are like them.
So so right!
@@roryoneill9444 Is Éireannaigh muid, ní Béarla
@@niallkelly2990 Sasanach is the people, Béarla is the language. Yeah you are right, except with incorrect noun.
@@roryoneill9444 Gabh mo leithscéal a chara, is féidir linn a aontú go bhfuil siad cunts ceachtar bealach 😂....agus tá brón orm arís Tá mé díreach tar éis ath-oideachas a chur ar ár dteanga.....tá sé ina obair idir lámha....hopefully i got most of this one right 😂😂
Nation once again
The Huns can tattoo the Union Jack on their foreheads, but they can't stop change.
England out off Ireland 🇮🇪
England is long gone.
Nowadays it’s the UK.
There won’t be a uk for much longer free Ireland and free scotland 🇮🇪🏴
@@DK-hw1ud Grow up ffs. Your kind of mentality is still the main cause of trouble over there.
@@rjmaxwell1963 times are changing get with it 🇮🇪
@@DK-hw1ud your logic is flawed
For those who don't know, the majority in NI voted to remain in the EU, we are proud Europeans! The DUP campaigned for Brexit because they thought it would mean a hard border in Ireland; something the landslide majority in NI, GB, ROI, & the EU do not want. This has backfired and now they have a border in the Irish sea, it's the DUP's own fault, nobody else's. Without Brexit, this conversation wouldn't be happening for another decade, I guess we have to thank them for that lol. Additionally, even Unionists in NI are now taking advantage of the Irish passport so that they can get EU benefits, says a lot.
@DEx Stev speaking for the majority xx
I was laughed at when I said Irish unification will start within 15 years of the brexit vote.
It's scary how many people actually don't know much about anything.
@DEx Stev majority actually within N.I
@@stephenbermingham6554 I think living in a time of relative peace for a long time has lulled people into forgetting just how tumultuous time and history is. "The Churn" for lack of a better term.
I wouldn't trust the EU as far as I could throw them, they would stab Ireland in the back as quick as Westminster would do the same to Ulster unionists, if it suited them to do so. If there was to be a re unified Ireland, I would want it be truly independant and out of the EU. You dont have to be a member of the Brussels scam to be part of Europe.
How does it feel Beth to be cut of from the rest for your country? you mean Great Britain? Your Irish to them. She is seeing what life is like in a very minor way to be an Irish nationalist/ republican in N.ireland split from the rest of our island by the likes of her and her ilk for over one hundred years. Onwards and upwards 32!
I liked the bit where she complained she couldn't get them from England anymore, only for it to be explained several seconds later they are freely available via an Irish trade route.
@@grahamwade5932 yes very true graham.
I reckon it must feel the same to have your whole land stolen and peoples slaughtered by white occupiers and eventually separated into 51 states.
Partition like BREXIT is failing. Unite Ireland 🇮🇪🇵🇸
Just like Vietnam! It didn't work then, it's not working now.
How did it go for the native Indian tribes in the US? Will they ever get to unite? Btw, I think you'll find its the EU that's currently failing, not Brexit.
Here here! 🇮🇪
@@bryanbelshaw7725 difference is it’s the modern era the Irish outnumber the English so Ireland will unite
I'm irish for people who don't know the dup wants irish British but there time is running out all farmers are losing out because of brexit
Beth Lunny is claiming that her supplier is refusing ship to Northern Ireland because it remains within the EU Single Market due to the protocol, so she needs to purchase from the Republic of Ireland (EU single market member) and they get them shipped from her old supplier in the UK. Does she not see the contradictions in her own statements? If they supply the Republic and not NI, it’s not the protocol! 😂
DUP Don't understand politics.
The problem isn't the protocal....it's Brexit.
They know what they voted for 🤣
That's love from Ireland ❤
Perfect chance to finally reunify Ireland, become one family, and move on from the past.
You seem to forget that the majority of NI residents identify with the union.
No they dont, its decined, the Union is exposed now as England doing what it wants.
@@jayjones1649 we will know by tomorrow mock when the people have voted
I reckon the European Unionist part, aka Sinn Fein will have majority vote but that certainly doesn't guarantee unification.
@@jayjones1649 Irish Catholics now make up the majority of Northern Ireland, and the DUP has lost support among its loyalist demographic. It's inevitable...
She said "as a British citizen I feel cut off from my country" 🥴🥴🥴
@@zo0mpa obviously what I said went straight over your head 🤷..
Beth's roses now come via the Republic because the Republic knows how to import them into the Single Market by correctly checking their point of origin, their SPS certification and their duty levels. In NI, as a result of DUP led refusal to conduct such checks as "the Protocol" stipulates, the English grower knows that it's now just plain stupid to attempt to send them by that route. By using Dublin rather than Larne he guarantees that his product can legitimately be retailed throughout all of Europe, if needs be, including Beth's garden centre in NI.
Beth says she hates "the Protocol", that it should be "scrapped", and she'll "take the consequences". Why doesn't she instead ask that maybe "the Protocol" should simply be allowed to work as intended without the DUP and others trying to sabotage it? That way, the "consequences" she will take might even include a growth in both her profits and her business.
That's the problem with bigoted ideology - at some point it always becomes self-harming. And the more the bigot feels the harm, the more they blame anyone but themselves for inflicting it.
Nothing more self harming than brexit. Allthough you don't get many spouting about we won anymore...
I really really hope you get it !
the unification of Ireland is the only way to not have the troubles and a HARD border between EU and NOT EU - and belive me that will be a proper border
Please explain how there would be trouble if we had a hard customs border?
Please explain how there would be trouble if we had a hard customs border?
@@Buckets1000 Karma if the UK breaks apart because of Brexit. We can only hope.
A border poll would only bring division as there’s not significant support for it
26 + 6 = 1
I’m guessing you failed maths
@@jakobvonkettler2679 I'm guessing you're out of original material?
@@jakobvonkettler2679 26 Irish counties + 6 Northern Irish counties = 1 United Ireland
@@irrationalreasoning6368 I’m guessing you have irrational reasoning
@@ChrisVillagomez gotcha
Do not entertain" I win if you lose, and will not accept your win if I lose" attitude.
Table have turned and a lot of old scores to settle 🇮🇪😎
Irish unity now!
Erin go bragh 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️ Love from France 🇫🇷
post-Brexit, it might
Hopefully British imperialism in Northern Ireland will end soon.
Irish unity is guaranteed.it is only about when now.TÁL
2-6 years. Depending on English actions.
only the Uk gov can decide if and when!...not you lot
@@deehaytch8442 this lot brought you lot to your knees like a cheap hooker.
Ireland made whole again. If my grands were alive they would be overjoyed.
United ireland🇮🇪🇺🇸
@@Buckets1000 Hang in there your day will come....🇮🇪 🏴 🇺🇸
Ireland can't afford the North. Ireland cant can't afford the cost of health care
@@cliffsofmoher4220 britain cant afford it own health care....
@@cliffsofmoher4220 T.A.L.32🇮🇪
@@no1y354 wel don't need additional burden on Ireland. Ireland is already poor enough and taxes are already high and we don't need additional burden and tax rise we already had a vat rise. If irish unity happens then a tax rise will happen to fund the North so no thanks
And yet again, off all UK, only NO has recovered from the pandemic economic slowdown. All the rest of GB is still down.
What is the difference between NI and GB? Because the protocol, NI remain in the single market while GB has become a third country.
So, there may be some enterprise for whoch the protocol is a draw back, but at the level of NI, the protocol is a benefit.
United Ireland not for at least 2 decades
It will be *Little Britain* if Scotland follows
I hope Wales as well
Russia OVERTLY showed us its contempt for Europe and the West and people still support Brexit, an entirely Russian made achievement that nrought nothing of value to Britain.
Congrats, fellas
0:18 You know a politician is no longer a radical when they go around baby-kissing for a photo-op.
🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Matters of change go down like lead knickers, in Orange quarters.
Brexit unexpected results, for its advocates, rolls on. A sign of hope for other split nations, Cyprus,
Palistine, come directly to mind..
"As a British citizen I feel cut off from my country " don't go there Republicans have been saying a similar version to this and nobody listened
The Dup is living in the past...
No one cares a bout a United Ireland , I care how much my food and gas cost ? and will my son get a half decent job !
Facts
Tell those nationalists. All they care is independence or reunification.
Bet your wee arsenal
The South couldn’t afford the North!
Nonsense.
The North cannot afford England...
The North has higher poverty than the south, NI is like any other British colony, held back by English politics.
@@kevinkevin-ug9po you answered the reason why. More social payments and too many civil servants that Dublin couldn’t fund
All of Ireland will be wealthier after unification. Having two jurisdictions on a small island is silly.
Go Home!
hehe joining ROI like its a given lolz
No it won't lead to Irish Unity. Sinn Fein will become the largest party not because it has growing support, it doesn't, but because the DUP has lost support to a more hardline Unionist party. In fact if the polls are right those parties supporting a united Ireland will secure about 36% of the vote. Unionists parties about 41%. Sinn Fiens leader will only become first minister if the the DUP agree to work with it, in the peculiar forced all party coalition that the GFA established, in any normal political system SF would never have got near government with their history of political violence, other parties would not work with them. When it comes to Unity, even for those in NI who support EU membership, it's a much smaller issue than whether or not to leave the UK. The upheaval and risks of that would be far greater than Brexit.
Goodbye NI. You won’t be missed.
Voting for a political party with strong terrorist links is crazy BUT that's what's happening and I do sincerely think Britain should part ways with N.Ireland and let Eire deal with the financial fall out. Politics has ruined the North of Ireland and it'll take generations to get back to normality.
Irish politics has always had strong link's to what you call terrorists, both in the Republic of Ireland aswell as the north. The DUP, UUP all the unionist parties all have strong link's to terrorists they even ran the ulster vanguard. Onward and upwards for a united ireland.
As someone part Irish, I'm sorry but I have to support the unionists/black and tans, I know it's an unpopular opinion but I support the British Isles as a whole and wouldn't mind if Great Britain was brought back (basically the entire British Isles), it's in Ireland's and Scotland's best interest to be part of the UK just as much as it is in the UK's best interest to be part of the EU. I'm against brexit but support the unity of the kingdom, Englishmen and the Scottish and the Welsh and the Irish are suppose to be family, let's not forget what st patrick did, he brought Christianity and unity to the British Isles so let's not destroy that.
As an actual irish person living in ireland, we are perfectly happy being independent and its not even up for debate. Scottish, Irish and welsh are "supposed to be family" as we're all genetically celtic but thats irrelevant. I would love to see a united ireland one day but we have to respect the wishes of the people. Unionism today is also a far cry from the black and tans, siding with the black and tans is siding with the oppressor in this situation. Modern unionist are not the black and tans
26+6=1
Failed maths?
@@jakobvonkettler2679 Theip ar an bhFraincis??