🚨🇮🇪 “It’s not a question of will it happen. It’s a question of when” Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald calls on Keir Starmer to ‘commit’ to a border poll by 2030

by threebodysolution

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  1. With the current numbers, 2030 is too soon, this is just political theatre from Mary Lou for her base in the South.

  2. Look this is great and all, but we are almost halfway through this decade and what progress have we made towards a United Ireland in the past 5 years? 2030 is far too soon. We can’t rush unity or else we’ll end up with something we don’t want.

    Also, I don’t think the numbers will be there for a border poll to pass in 2030. 2035 – 2040 seems a better timeframe to me.

  3. This right here folks is history, now with a concrete year set the weight against the British state will force them to give the people a say in their future.

  4. honest question: is there any example anywhere in the world of a hundred-year-old irredentist claim succeeding peacefully? I know they always talk about German reunification but they weren’t separated that long and didn’t have to be separated from another country. Is there anywhere else it has actually happened – and worked?

  5. Is it really for her or him to decide? Doesn’t the GFA say that the future of Northern Ireland is for the people of Northern Ireland to decide?

  6. Given the power to give or not give a border poll rests entirely with Westminster, it’s very much a matter of “if”.

  7. I guess when you actively go out of your way to never learn how things work so you can throw out stupid statements and feel like it will happen. Top politician no notes. Jesus christ

  8. Has anyone actually looked at the financial implications? No NHS etc etc etc? Now, I’ll be downvoted to hell, but it’s a legitimate question. Also, why in the world will any Unionist/PUL background vote to reunification?

    What is being offered to make that section want this? Or is it just a case of we want to do it to rub your nose in it?

    It’s a genuine question. Until it’s answered in a proper adult manner and not with childish insults and the typical “it’s our way or your way” comments, there will not be dialogue.

    People vote with what they know is in their best interests, so what would make a PUL voter want to have a United Ireland?

  9. It isn’t only Sinn Féin who want our island to be reconnected and made one. It’s a lot more of us than that.

  11. Why not, I dunno, take your seats in the UK parliament – for which 7 of your MPs are elected, and lobby for it there?

  12. There needs to be a comprehensive feasibility study done way before any border poll happens. The North and the South want to know what they are getting into

  14. I think people are missing the fact that in the last council election there were more nationalist seats than unionist seats in the history of the state, complementing the Westminster election. If in the next Assembly election that trend continues and there is more nationalist seats than unionist, currently unionism has 2 or 3 more, then you could easily have SF or SDLP put a motion calling on the secretary of state to call a Border Poll, undoubtedly unionism will vote against and Alliance should abstain as that’s their whole schtick then a vote passing but not getting cross community would still be a massive thing that can’t be ignored.

  15. If Labour loses NI, it will lose Scotland as separatists will have the momentum, any party presiding over the disintegration of the UK will be condemned to oblivion. No British government will be instigating a border poll. The woman is delusional.

  16. Unless some mechanism for reintegration has been thought out then this is just bluster. This could be a huge opportunity for reform in housing, education and health care.

  17. No UK PM is going to call a border poll and be the PM who broke up the UK. Especially not when there’s not. SF opposite number in the ROI. If ML was in power that’d be a different ballpark.

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