(March 28, 2017 at 6:08 pm)Isis Wrote:(March 28, 2017 at 6:05 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: 2025 will see a nationalist leaning majority. And when brexit goes bad for the North expect an enlarged Alliance party to row in behind accepting reunification.
What makes you think all of them will just start supporting that? Surely it's also possible that some factions might want to see Northern Ireland go independently entirely, no?
The unionists looked at that in 21*, and realised the 2 1/2 counties they'd have in that case wasn't viable as a state. And now they would't even be confident of keeping Belfast.
The border poll as it'd be run now would mean either a simple majority of both communities, or an overall supermajority, something in the region of two to one.
*Northern unionism has absolutely no attachement to the UK, in fact the DUP consider English people little better than closet papists. The only reason they were willing to stay in the union was because they were given "a protestant country for a protestant people".
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