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An Irish one ain't gonna happen. The majority Unionists' anti-anything-Irish hatred and desire to remain British is far stronger than their wanting to stay in t
by HoopleHead 10y ago
An Irish one ain't gonna happen. The majority Unionists' anti-anything-Irish hatred and desire to remain British is far stronger than their wanting to stay in the EU.
As an Irish Nationalist myself, the only outside chance for Irish unification that I can see would be if Scotland voted to leave the UK first.
The Unionists in N. Ireland tend to identify themselves as "Ulster Scots"[1], so the advent of a Britain without Scotland in it might just be enough to loosen their attachment a bit. There is no great affinity for Wales and their attitude towards England is not much warmer than the Scots have for the 'Auld Enemy'
[1](http://www.ulsterscotsagency.com/what-is-ulster-scots http://www.ulsterscotsagency.com/what-is-ulster-scots)
- ProxCoques 10y agoI guess you've not been following Ian Paisley Jr on Twitter then... Things are going completely through the looking glass right now...
- HoopleHead 10y agoInteresting, I'll grant you. But it still smacks more of opportunism [pragmatism, it you want to be charitable] than a Road to Damascus conversion, On Paisley Jr's part. Still. If a few loyalists find they can carry an Irish passport, without it burning their skin, maybe that's something.
- HoopleHead 10y agoUPDATE: Having suffered for my art by actually reading through some of Paisley Jr's Twitter stream [which was as unreconstructedly "orange" as I expected], it seems what he actually said was that people should avail of a SECOND passport, if they're entitled to one. He never used the word IRISH. Another case of Chinese Internet Whispers