During the week, the British Secretary of State, who has overarching control over the Border Poll mechanism as per the Good Friday Agreement shot the idea down by claiming the threshold to trigger the poll has not been met. This comes as no suprise to the Irish Unity community; we wont and dont expect the...
“Irish Unity will be a monumental constitutional change in Ireland, but we shouldnt just be drawing the line under it.” First of all, I wont use this post to begin the debate nor bore your good selves with opinionated; Ireland-EU facts and figures, as that is a debate for a different day. The general understanding...
Yes For Unity Activist Joe Matthews with a personal opinion post regarding recent political & Irish Unity Events The last 3 years have seen political turmoil, instability and anxiousness brought on by the great unknowns, minority governments and the collapse of Stormont. Now, whether we like it or not, Brexit is happening, Stormont is back up and...
Yes For Unity – Addressing contradictions in the Border Poll position The Good Friday Agreement heralded a new era in the same old pattern of the decade’s long denial of sovereignty to Ireland by Britain. 1998 saw the enforced normalisation of British occupation upon working class communities in the North and the slow managed splintering...
A recent poll released last week by Lucid Talk has revealed ever increasing support for Irish Unity. The polling took place between the 27th & 30th November 2019 and included a panel of 2,422 respondents. The poll revealed that; -71% of unionists are voting based on protecting the union -73% of nationalists are voting based on the...
Those from the Irish Unity Community currently tripping over themselves to be pro-EU should be cautious. In a no deal Brexit scenario it will be Dublin, forced by Brussels, erecting the customs infrastructure in order to protect the EU single market. Why would the British Government want to build a new customs' infastructure? In such a...
The release of the new British government proposals to break the deadlock between the British government and EU, have proven to be just another British imposed democratic deficit on the people of Ireland. It is clear to see that the British government have yet again artificially constructed another way to strengthen the unionist veto against...
With the Brexit deadline looming and both sides still locked in what appears to be an ever strengthening stalemate, what both sides (EU, Irish Government & British Government) have in common is their claims that they represent the best interests of the people of Ireland. Every recent credible study and poll has indicated that there...
