Wouldn't hold my breath, a study done a few years ago say that 25% catholics are FOR the union with Britain, 25% don't know and 50% actually wanting a United Ireland.
1st rule of social politics, when the people are happy they do not want to change. With peace making things better in NI, the union is stronger than ever. The loyalist paramilitries are finally realising this and are starting to disarm. They wouldn't be disarming if a United Ireland was an inevitability.
People's choices will be different dependant on many things – not least being a desire for peace. In time people will feel free to make choices unafraid that this could lead to further violence.
I said the consequence of which we still have today. The consequences of that is that we have a divided Ireland, rather than a Unified one.
That is a direct result of imperialism and time will still tell how that pans out.
Further if what I have heard is true there is still the danger of more conflict due to children still being brought up in separate schools so therefore for many, even if not yourself, not growing up to recognise both Catholics and Protestants as potential friends.
The Ulster Unionist Party will merged with the Conservative Party within the decade, Liberal Dems will merge with Alliance as well. The Labour Party just started up in Northern Ireland again last year. Trust me in time, the major British parties will have seats here and nothing would please me more than the demise of the DUP. Fianna Fail from the south are coming up as well soon to challenge Sinn Fein. Good times.
You possible are becoming more like the Politics of the rest of the UK but this is a very recent happening. We will see how that develops. You admitted that you used to treat Catholics like the South Africans and the USA used to treat black people. If you read the article I left you will find that the author suggest that Britain herself believed that in time the North would join the south. Britain herself knew that Ireland was one country.
So we are all juvenile waiting to "grow up" and join Ireland. :roll:
You are being disingenuous in not stating that I put growing up as being about recognising each other as people not just Catholic and Protestant. You hopefully are progressing in that direction.
How will a United Ireland make the people of Northern Irelands lifes any better? Their goods and servies are far more expensive than ours. In In fact we have had floods of people from the Republic in the summer to spend their holiday here and shop here and pump up their car here.
We are going through a recession. Ireland is Ireland. I believe it will eventually become unified.
Do you know of any other place in the world where people would care so little about their own country that they would like to be divided from the rest of it for increased wealth. Reality is that your mindset is affected by your beginnings in imperialism. You were born of ancestors who never became Irish. You may not know whether you are of Scottish or English descent, but you are a person who belongs to Great Britain, sent by Great Britain and still a part of Great Britain. How has the effect of imperialism gone? It caused Ireland to become divided.
It was partition or civil war. Partition was chosen. War was averted. Unfortunately the Republic decided to have a civil war without us. :doh
Yes, to the Loyalists it was partition or civil war. Although living in Ireland they did not consider themselves Irish. Always remembering their roots in England or Scotland or as they intermarried, in Great Britain, not Ireland. This division did indeed cause civil war and resulted in Catholics in the North being second class citizens something which has only recently changed.
This all comes from the descendants of the people brought into Ireland by imperialism. Therefore I still say the situation in Ireland was brought in by imperialism and is still there because of the effect of that. Ireland is one country unnaturally divided by this.
Things will progress in their own time.
