Northern Ireland FINALLY Has A Government, After 728 Days
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Important clarification - the TUV are a unionist party - I mixed them up with a party in the rest of the UK with a similar name (parties in the UK and NI are usually very distinct, likewise with NI and regular I)
Fun fact: In Star Trek Lore Ireland reunifies in 2024
You have done so much research but Northern Ireland is so convoluted you actually missed a lot lol
Ok cool
@@xanderlurksWikipedia surfing is not research
@@JamesDonnellyDrumsIt is when it immediately makes it apparent that there are glaring contradictions when it comes to the north of Ireland. Contradictions that arise from a now obsolete propaganda war where symbolism and terminology mattered.
Being Irish I want to clarify on one thing:
The religious side of this divide is pretty much irrelevant in the modern context. Nothing that happened in the last hundred years involved religion, although we do identify ourselves as Catholics or Protestants, the actual importance of the religion itself is very much insignificant. 'Catholic' and 'Protestant' is synonymous with 'Republican' and 'Unionist' respectively in this context.
The labels originate from a time where there was very real religious sectarianism, going back to the time of the War of the Three Kingdoms, where the divide was far more about religion than it is now. Via cultural momentum, we never stopped labelling ourselves as 'Catholic' or 'Protestant' as a short hand for communicating our political agenda, even as the importance of the religions themselves waned. Hence the joke "Are you a catholic or a protestant?" "I am an Atheist" "Aye but are you a Catholic Atheist or a Protestant Atheist?"
We reject the very notion that anything that happened in the 20th century, or 21st century, was ever truly about 'Religious sectarianism'. That is a British myth.
The misinterpretation of the divide being anything to do with religion was partly due to British propaganda during The Troubles of the 70 through to the 90s, attempting to diminish the dispute and make it seem more ridiculous than it actually is. Unfortunately, as evidenced here, it is misinformation that lingers on to this day in the British consciousness.
Disclaimer: I have made generalized, sweeping statements throughout. There are no doubt people in NI for whom the religious side of this still matters to the point where it is the predominant factor, but they are certainly in the minority.
Ian Paisley, Willie McCrea, TARA, had nothing to do with religion and was all British propaganda? The Northern Government since 1922 'didn't' discriminate on the basis of religion?, I remember in my younger days being stopped and held by the UDR and they made it clear they were annoying you because you were a Catholic, you even had butcher gangs killing Catholics in a pathological rage due to religion.
I took it as religion is upstream from culture, and that there are significant differences between people that either go unmentioned or become disregarded. The point is regardless of whether Northern Ireland wishes to secede, these demographic differences will continue to persist.
So you’re just speaking for the people of NI despite not knowing how they actually feel
Your comment just makes you look like you are trying to bash the British or at least are very ignorant about Unionists in general
I agree that now religion doesn’t impact as much but in the 70s religion was used to determine who’s an enemy and who’s a friend
“I can’t do a British accent! I’m already British” 🤣
But he CAN do the British accent precisely because he's British! I don't understand what he meant by that. His regular accent already IS the British accent! Ugh!
@@jessicatriplev9802which accent are you referring to? Theres like 25 distinct British accents.
@@Jake-nl3erAnd that's just in Western Scotland
Belgium has the most insanely complicated government, and yet they can just not have it for a year and a half and nothing changes. Absolutely redundant
Well, institutions stay the same. It is not like the courts can't rule and police can't police. Things generally just rumbles along and nothing changes.
The problems start when strikers in the public sectors can't get the pay rises they demand because there's no government to give them anything so they do more strikes. Or when laws have to change to meet climate targets, which can't happen as there isn't a government (if there was one I doubt much would happen).
Don't apply your British or Irish system or customs on Belgium. Unlike Northern Ireland where there was absolutely no government during 728 days, in Belgium the prior government stays in office until the day the new government takes over. Additionally, there is a system to determine which laws can be made or changed during this period.
The statement Belgium went 589 days without government is blatantly incorrect. Counting from election day, it took 589 days of negotiations to come to a new government but during that period there was a functioning government with predetermined powers to make or change laws.
@@AlexGys9 did you not read their comment? they said that they can have it for a year and a half where nothing changes. that's true. the caretaker government doesn't have a mandate to continue their agenda.
you read a few words of comment and assume what it's saying, and all the words after that mean nothing because you've already made your mind up on what that comment means. Absolutely redundant
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Toycat: I must be sensitive
Also Toycat: Diet Ireland
least political comment section on a video by a Minecraft UA-camr
Can't wait for when toycat becomes a British-Irish-Sri Lankan-American citizen
As an Irish person the only offensive thing about this video was how you pronounced Fermanagh
or Armanaga 🤣
Oh dear!
Yeah that was on purpose
I like how he mentions "guiness world record" and he's talking about ireland 🍺
Guinness the beer actually did start the Guinness book of records
@@1conorjust like Michelin the tyre company started the Michelin star system to promote travelling to resteraunts all over Europe and thus buying more tyres.
@@hardcorelace7565 Yep!
Wow, that’s a great idea, Almost as great an idea is getting a ninja air fryer. And they’re so inexpensive too. Why get a full size oven when you could just get an air fryer. That’s how good an idea this is.
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The Irish response to COVID was very smooth and reassuring. They cancelled st Patrick’s day and most the population was on the same page . We didn’t have a government at that time and things worked well then the government came back after their recess and that’s when things started to make no sense again.
This guy should try make a first channel, I'm sure it'll be really popular.
Just thought I'd point out that it doesn't take us a very long time to form a government. We could get it done the very next day the results are announced and seats are filled. It's just because the DUP decided to boycott until they were satisfied with Brexit terms for Northern Ireland. Without the largest Unionist party and without the largest Nationalist party, we can't form a government. But it can be done very quickly if no one boycotts.
I mean, this is not too different from most multi-party democracies, the only real difference is that the coalition partners in Northern Ireland hate each other to an unusual extent. The fact that they've gone from two sides at war to coalition partners at all, even if that coalition is unstable and prone to collapse, is kind of a miracle.
Dia Duit, I’m an Irish nationalist from Belfast. I used to watch your Minecraft videos religiously hahaha, I had no idea you made politics videos. Really interesting to here opinions from people outside of Ireland, particularly English people. Just a couple things I wanted to add that I think are interesting - Sinn Féin don’t just operate in the North, they are also the most popular party in the Republic with the leader, Mary-Lou McDonald, expected to be the next Taoiseach (Prime Minister). That means that by next year we could be looking at an island where both jurisdictions are led by the same party.
In terms of constitutional change, it gets more interesting when you look at the younger vote. Recent polls show that a majority (57%) of 18-24 year olds in the North would vote yes for reunification. Obviously this is only a snapshot, but it does indicate that change may be inevitable as these young people, born into a place of peace instead of violence, less and less value a connection to Britain.
On a personal level, I don’t think I know anyone directly, Protestant or Catholic, who describes themselves as anything other than Irish or Northern Irish. I live my life speaking Gaeilge everyday, playing Gaelic and Hurling, playing Trad, telling people I’m from Ireland. I am friends with loads of people from a Protestant background who would say the same - religion plays a very negligible role in our lives compared to the outside perception. While I would vote for reunification, it wouldn’t change how I view my own identity or how I live.
Also, while 728 days is a lot, it doesn’t quite match our own record of 1000+ days with no government from 2017-2020 😂.
Is she expected? I thought from the polls her party might fail as the current coalition q would get more votes?
Also does it not confuse people saying your from Ireland? Because some might think you are from the republic not Northern Ireland?
@@gothicgolem2947 There is only one Ireland.
Deas le cluinstin go bhfuil Gaeilgeoir eile inár measc ar líne!!
Ní easaontaím go bhfuil méadú i líon na ndaoine óga a thagann ó fhréamhacha Phrotastúnaigh nach bhfuil féiniúlacht “Briotanach” acu, ach tá cuid mhór Protastúnach den nós an fhéiniúlacht s'acu a choinneáil fá rún, nó fá chois, amhail is gur daoine “moderate” iad. Cuireann siad cuma séimh ar a dtuairimí a bhaineann le cúrsaí bunreachtúla os rud é go bhfuil eagla ar nach beag acu roimh aimhleas óna gcomhghleacaithe Náisiúnaigh. Is minic a chluintear “oh, I don’t have many opinions on that issue, I’m not interested in politics!”, uathu, ach mar sin féin, seans ann gur “loyalists” atá iontu! Ní ionann é seo agus achan Protastúnach óg!
@@Londubh1 there is only one Island of Ireland but there are two different countries on it
It has never been about religion. It has always been about ethnicity.
Which match exactly onto religion.
@@user-ue8vp6fy8yMostly, not exactly. Wolfe Tone was a famous Irish republican that was a protestant. Religion and ethnicity are going to match up more often than not though as religion is an aspect of ethnicity. But a minute difference in spiritual belief isn't motivating anyone.
Hope you enjoyed your dinner, Toycat👍
I did! It was a ludicrously large pizza
@@ibx2cat What toppings were on it? (I also had a pizza for dinner).
@@TheOnlyCaprisun Oh hell yeah I had pizza too. Toycat when's the fan pizza party meetup ??
Ireland has a high GDP per capita and GDP per capita ppp due to many companies located there, the medium salary is lower than many European countries
According to the latest eurostat data I could find, Irish average salaries are only lower than Luxembourg and Denmark within the EU (+ Switzerland outside the EU).
@@NMY232 Average is very scewed from very high earning CEO's and such. For a country it's better to look at medium (as the original comment).
@@kamikadzeto7Medium typically means average. Do you mean the "median"? If so, the closest stat I could find is Eurostat's "median equivalised disposable income" which measures after-tax incomes. As per the latest stats there, Ireland is 9th highest in the EU, basically equal to France or Sweden for salaries.
Ireland also being the 9th largest GDP in the EU and having a low income inequality (gini coefficient), the OP's comment seems purposefully disingenuous.
@@NMY232 Hi and yeah my mistake, I meant median. I will try to post a link in the next comment. I agree that their are doing quite well nontheless.
Ye move northern Ireland to another part of the world that the British drew lines on the map to create misery 😂😂
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The information in this video is so riddled with errors. Describing the TUV as the Trade Unionist Voice is hilarious when it SAID Traditional Unionist Voice when you hovered over. The TUV are a more extremist unionist party, not a party that cares for workers. Also, using out of date census data from 2011 is unprofessional given the population changes since then. It would have been better to use more recent polling data rather than that. Also, its SDLP not SLDP. Also, also, also, the Republic have consistently polled that they would accept the North of Ireland and that has literally never changed, so it was weird to even make that point.
People who arent from the north of ireland like to boil our issues all down to religion but dont look at the lasting effects of colonialism in creating all of irelands current issues. Most people in my experience are not religious in the north and dont at all care about doctrinal differences between catholics and protestants. It just happened that british/scottish colonists from the plantation were protestant and the indegenous irish were catholics. The difference in religion mattered then but it hasnt mattered for a while, its all been the colonial relationship between coloniser and colonised.
I get youre just trying to get a video out quickly but man this is just lazy.
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Nothing unusual about an Irish nationalist been in power in Ireland, what's actually strange is a British imperlist, royalist having power in Ireland and not Britain
Nothing strange about British imperialism, unless you were only born yesterday.
Why is toycat covering our politics. im scared.
Brexitey things also contributed to the delay in forming a government after the May 2022 elections. The gift that keeps on giving...
I know it's not particularly probable, but I hope Northern Ireland joins the Republic of Ireland this year just to make that Star Trek meme come true
Pretty much impossible in all ways now 😔
@@snowy4112Not impossible. SF are an all island party and their headquarters in Dublin. If they win an election in the Republic (which is expected to happen sometime this year) both juristictions of Ireland will be run by the same political party. United...sort of.
@@yermanoffthetelly that is very much differnt from a united Ireland lol
@@snowy4112 not really in a practical sense.
@@yermanoffthetellythe SF in ROI and the SF in NI are actually very different lol
Its weird
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We have them here in Alberta as our sub national government has a Legislature and so members of it are MLAs
There hasn't been any increase in the nationalist vote, indeed it fell in 2022 compared with the previous election, and there are still more Unionists in the assembly than Nationalists. Its just that Unionist votes are divided between 3 main parties and Nationalists between 2. SF has just as you said taken support from the other nationalist party. Indeed support for the Nationaists has hardly varied at all from 40% in all the elections to the Assembly. Unionist support has declined as the Alliance Party has grown, but then when Alliance voters are asked about unification a solid majority oppose it. Brexit did up support for unification, by making soft Nationalists into hard Nationalists, but it didn't lead to a trend, it was a one off boost for the cause, About a third of voters support unity, about half are against it. The whole more Catholics than proteststants thing is irrelevant, as not only are Catholics less united on the issue than protestants, but its driven by the growth on none religious people, more of those tend to be from Protestant back grounds as the Catholic identity is harder to leave. Also a lot of extra Catholics are immigrants from southern Europe or Poland, who I doubt are much motivated by the issue.
Exactly. People for some reason when they are showing demographic charts and statistics always fail to grasp this. It's maddening, especially watching people from other countries talk about this as it proves that they just don't have a clue about what's going on over here. They are all willing to stick their oar in though and give us plenty of advice. They love their charts and figures but they can be misleading. In this case especially.
MLA = Member of Legislative Assembly. This is used in almost all Canadian provinces as well.
Naomi Long is continuing as Justice Minister, my day has been made
bro i thought 2022 was still 1 year ago... time flies
James Joyce described the people of Dublin as “West Britons” (maybe sarcastically).
Can't we just split it so that the places that really want to stay in the UK get to do so and vice versa? I know it ain't that simple, but still...
Agreed: Antrim is 80% British/ Protestant; So is North Down and these plus a few adjacent areas should stay British forever. The Catholic areas tend to be next to the Irish State, with the exception of West Belfast, so they could join that easily.
@@Themanyfacesofego the real question when going down that route is what to do with the areas of unclear affiliations. I mean we *COULD* do a coin toss but I doubt that would satisfy everyone...
@@sizanogreen9900 Even in an area that was split there would still be a majority for something, if there were just two options on the table.
That's what happened originally lol.
Youd still end up with large minorities in some areas though.
@@Themanyfacesofego yeah, but that would leave close to half of the population or more pissed and we might get carbombs as a result. That or you do the resettlement of peoples to seperate them into their respective areas, which while leading to solid results a couple generations down the line (i.e. Prussia/India-Pakistan) is generally messy af in the short term.
It is not Trade Unionist Voice, which would be interesting, it is Traditional Unionist Voice. They or he is the most extreme unionist party. They are not in the middle, they are like the old white South African parties. It shows you know nothing about Ireland.
I do symapthise with Toycat trying to do a video on this and constantly adding disclaimers about "well even calling it [X] is controversial in some quarters". Like, I would just like some neutral terms to be able to discuss this issue, because even calling it "Northern Ireland" as opposed to "the North", or "the Irish border" as opposed to "the British border", could be seen as biasing my remarks towards one particular side. Indeed, this vocabulary becomes a shibboleth which binds you to one community or the other before the debate has even begun, and distracts us from actually discussing substantive issues by first having to argue about what to call basic things. It's super unhelpful.
(As much as possible I try to stick to calling it "Ulster". Like, I know that technically Ulster does not have the same borders as modern Northern Ireland, but I think it's closest I can find to a neutral term.)
We had a big election in 2023, our council elections. Our turnout was around 58% (I think). The pro-United Ireland parties received a 44% vote share whereas the pro-UK received 40%. The momentum is changing towards nationalism. The middle ground are looking at a fall in the polls in the next general election as well.
@@ghgfrghfrhgdxvgredghhgvfth1573 But there was always 40% of the electorate that didn't vote. So that point is negated.
As of the 2023 election, the nationalist bloc (SF, SDLP, PBP, Aontú, IRSP, WP, nationalist independents) got 44.19% of the vote. The unionist bloc came in at a total of 40.05%.
Things have most definitely changed.
@@Jhimself turnout in the assembly election was 63/64%. Still near 40% of the electorate which didn’t vote, not even commenting on those who haven’t even registered to vote. Should we negate the significance of those results as well? Turnout in assembly elections hovered around 55% between 2007-2016
@@eoin7 I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to someone else who made a daft comment about 40% of the electorate not voting. He's now deleted the comment (after he realised how daft it was).
@@Jhimselfit still doesn't change their point, if you negate one side due to low voting, then you can't take the other stance with only slightly more voting percentage as more valid.
Demographically 40% of people called themselves British, 30% identify as irish or northern irish.
Obviously the long-term trend is in favour of the nationalism (I expect a United Ireland to happen probably by about 2050); but I would note the caveat that Alliance do way better in unionist than nationalist areas (check the map); that most Alliance voters are therefore probably unionists; and that there's still likely a narrow unionist majority if it came to a border poll right now.
(Fair to say that most Alliance voters are unionists who didn't approve of Brexit.)
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Maybe toycat shouldnt delve into northern ireland again simply his pronunciation of my home county of armagh
Bet they'd arrive at a consensus a lot quicker if they MLAs got locked into a room with just bread and water until the figured something out - this is also the origin of the papal conclave (with a key, aka locked), after cardinals took years to elect a Pope
2 Years without a government and nobody noticed. Might as well get rid of it permanently.
You know the gaint lake in the middle of northern ireland? Yeah that was covered with algi. Couldn't be cleaned up because there was no government to pay for it.
Surely that would have been paid for by tax payers. The government has no money, it spends yours.
Isn’t MLA member of legislature? It is here in Canada
Been pretty hardline united Ireland, but I love your analogy of a kid choosing where to love but needing permission. In the US, at least, religion is fading in the mainstream; hopefully that helps the continuing struggles in Ireland
I wasn't expecting this
As a gay from Serbia I also think we should put Norther Ireland somewhere south of Yemen
That is the best solution.
Gay and Serbian? Impossible
please do!!!@@ghgfrghfrhgdxvgredghhgvfth1573
Northern Ireland isn’t real. It’s rightful Irish territory.
Amen bruv
Real
Haha no.
I did predict there'd be comments like this at the end of my video, impressed it happened so fast though
@@ibx2cat noti gang
One day Ireland will be unified
Would be terrible for Northern Ireland, would lose the NHS, affordable housing, Free GP Visits and prescriptions etc
@@Jack72961 the Tories have butchered the NHS to begin with
Yeah because the south needs more migrants LMAO
Nope 🇬🇧
8:47 Traditional Unionist Voice, lol not the Trade Unionists. 11:06 No omg, it's not actually a religious divide, religious labels like catholic or protestant are an indicator of what your identity likely is. So if you're catholic there's a higher chance you identify as Irish, if you're protestant there's a higher chance you identify as British. It's a political divide not a religious divide!
The NI voting system is STV = single transferable vote (or, if you're pedantic like me, PR-STV - since proportional representation systems are by definition multi-winner, and the English names of many voting systems being notoriously unstandardized enables unnecessary equivocation between proportional and majoritarian systems, in this case with the single-winner instant-runoff or AV or whatever name you _prefer_ LOL).
The 'additional member system' is the triply half-assed variant of MMP (mixed-member PR) that is used to elect the Scottish parliament and (so far) the Welsh Senedd.
Besides thet Assembly (and other elected assemblies) in Northern Ireland, PR-STV is also used for all elected assemblies in the neighbouring Republic, local elections in Scotland, the parliament of Malta and almost all upper houses (including the national Senate) in Australia. It tends to be the default PR system for Anglophone countries to consider, even when it's not the one they end up implementing.
Do you ever take a breath when your speaking.? 😂
He doesn't even speak that fast 🗿
Religion doesn’t matter if you’re god. You all are my potato children🙌
Because they were irish nationalists before there was a northern ireland
Also its not a nationalist led government, Michelle o'neil isnt in charge she has the same powers now as she did when she was deputy first minister - but it is symbolic..
i got a lot of love for you man, but this enlightened centrism kick you’ve been on ever since October really has me feeling some type of way. You flattened the entire history of the conflict in NI to abstract concepts of culture or religion. As if the IRA took up arms because “thems up there are protestants and we don’t like that very much” during the Troubles. You should know how ridiculous that is.
You took this and applied it to Palestine. Rounding it out with the conclusion that the people who live in a place should “decide what happens” (yet i never heard you apply that particularly novel conclusion to Palestine.)
I apologize for being so harsh, but this isn’t your minecraft channel. If you want to talk about geography, history, and politics you can’t just skip over every bad thing YOUR country’s imperialism is responsible for (NI and Palestine).
The song and dance around the issue you’ve been doing isn’t cute or coy, it’s embarrassing. Especially if you want anyone to take your groundbreaking message of peace and love seriously. I had a lot of respect for you and your curiosity, but i find your ignorance, or cowardice, or whatever this is, genuinely disappointing.
Sorry to hear! The goal isn't really enlightened centrism, the thing I've always enjoyed most is the "understanding both sides" thing - I feel like there are enough places that big up the "why these people think you should injure civilians" that I can summarise it down nice and neatly to "we hate people different than us, but for historical reasons"
people in Palestine should probably also decide their future, ideally
@:6:55 just like the intro to The Simpsons....
Saying Irish people are Irish is quite the take to who exactly? Any unionist born on the island of Ireland, regardless of any invisible border, has grown up on the same island as me, which to be clear, again, is the island of Ireland. They are just as Irish as I am, even if their ancestors are British. If they really have an identity crisis over it, they could always move back to Great Britain to their ancestral homeland, it's a short trip.
Also let it be known, before the partition of Ireland, Unionists referred to themselves as Irish, it's only since the partition that this notion that they're British came about. They haven't been British for hundreds of years at this point.
Most Unionists are descendants of English and Scottish settlers and speak primarily English and Ullans (Ulster-Scots) rather than Irish, so no, they are not Irish.
Everyone is a person of earth, if we keep trying to exclude and section off each other then this planet is literally going to burn
@@danielchick1 based
It's quite the take to Ulster unionists, obviously. You can acknowledge that your own opinion is controversial - that doesn't mean it's wrong, it just means that not everyone agrees with it.
They’re british.
15:00 because of the good friday agreement ireland doesnt have a choice in accepting the north or not. because in a way the vote has already happened (the people of ireland voted for the deal)
You're incorrect. We had a vote to change our constitutional claim over northern Ireland, and to add a stipulation that the island could reunite if a referendum was passed to do so on both sides of the border. A second vote would be held in the republic on unification at the time
@@eoghancasserly3626 that's what I meant by "voted for the deal"
Although I think it's safe to say that vote is guaranteed to pass on the southern side
@@papirealio9846 I do think that a vote for reunification would almost certainly pass in the south, but they do in fact have a choice and would not be legally required to allow reunification. Maybe you mean that it would be morally wrong for us in the south to vote no, in which case I agree with you
@@eoghancasserly3626 I was misinformed and told that in the GFA ireland didn't have a choice in accepting NI after the original vote for the deal but I do still think the southern vote is guaranteed to pass and it would be insane to vote no for something like this
Tiocfaidh ár lá
Pretty ill informed video tbh
This is crazy
Why are all the first parts of the post codes in Northern Ireland BT? I.e. referring to BelfastT.
Why isn't Belfast called LondonBelfast?
I swear if Star Trek some how calls it.
YES we have our own Government up and running now but I would question for how long before it collapses again because I have absolutely no faith or trust in politicians especially politicians here in Northern Ireland and of course wouldn't vote for anyone of them as they are all rubbish none of them represent my views and consequently worth my vote
The future
i think Irish reunification will happen earlier than Scottish independence now
What’s this guy on?.???
Let's leave it a mystery.
2hr vid in 17 minutes 😂
It’s called Gerry mandering lol it’s actually crazy
Man, Toycat, you've got some cajones wading into Northern Ireland's sectarian politics. As a Canadian of Irish-Catholic origin, I've learned that, unless you know you're talking to an audience of like-minded people, the politics of Northern Ireand/Ulster is treacherous territory.
What a pity. Countries are usually much better off without a government.
The public sector workers who have had zero pay rise - which during inflationary time means a big real-terms pay cut - because a government hasn't been there to approve one, might disagree...
Yes like Somalia. Without a government the pirate economy can really thrive.
@@chesterdonnelly1212 The problem with Somalia is many little governments fighting each other.
@@alexpotts6520 The public sector is useless anyway. They should all get real jobs.
@@divingdave2945 Hope you never have a house fire. It would be awfully embarrassing for a man of such firm convictions as yourself to have to be rescued by the publicly-funded emergency services, now....
TUV a trade Union party 😂😂
OMG, dude. Do more research before embarrassing yourself in public.
Her day will come
Sinn féin are no longer nationalists. Please stop calling them that. If anything they care more about Palestine then they do about native Irish. The hunger strikers are turning in their graves. Shame on Mary lou & michelle.
It's good to know that regardless of the excuses flying, it is still caused and sustained by a religious cored indifference, it's never been merely geographic.
It's almost as if we don't need a government at all...
Honestly lad, you should've took a miss on this video. Its probably a net negative and im excluding pronunciations and simple mistakes. The data you used for religion and identity are at least 13 years old to compare to recent election results. A week is a long time in politics, never mind over a decade. Also the whole point of the video is somewhat redundant, what happens to the north of Ireland has been explained in great detail in the GFA, you mentioned britain may get to decide what to do with it for one example. Britain agreed for itself to have no say whatsoever.
I appreciate youre not from here. However, it is a historically sensitive topic. So bulldozing through it is a wee bit wild.
Thinking about moving to Ireland, any Irish in the comment section, thoughts?
Really nice place!
Congrats Irleland! 🇮🇪
As a non EU citizen, it was very enlightening. Thank you ❤
Some constructive feedback, research the topic before you post I would say about 70% of what you said was accurate.
Great that you want to learn and speak about Northern Ireland but you are quite literally dispersing fake news. Some times it's ok to Say hey I don't know..
The British started this conflict and we the Irish people answer to the call of our nation for she is an island of old traditions of nation hood, for she has a voice,the Irish people have a voice, the voice of freedom, the freedom to determine our own destiny and faith. For Ireland was a whole nation before and with the help and cooperation of the people of Northern Ireland in a democratic manner she will be whole again. 🇮🇪
Lol It was the Irish that started it by inviting the Normans over to settle squabbles with your various petty kingdoms
Your bias is showing , you fail to acknowledge the colonisation of NI and that the UK is fighting to hold onto its colony .
They sent settlers for exactly that reason. @deceiver3988
The colony is being propped up by London. The British should be making a united Ireland happen ASAP. These "loyal British patriots" can be loyal in Britain, if that is important to them. Keeping a colony is not cool in 2024. @deceiver3988
TUV is Traditional Unionist Voice, a loyalist party, nothing to do with trade unions. Other than that, great video.
I notice that NI unionists now identify as northern Irish, as opposed to British. The writing is on the wall.
Not at all. Northern Irish is and always has been the least common identity, and is almost always used in addition to British. The same way some English people may prefer "English" over "British" but agree with both. It's more understandable in NI to specify because we are only 3% of the UKs population. There are always less people who tick Northern Irish than British, but almost everyone who does tick it, ticks both, you're allowed more than one answer.
Only around 2% of people identified as solely "Northern Irish" and most of them likely don't really know or care what they're talking about or were answering quickly to get it out the way because 2% still seems weirdly high
Maybe it's because I'm Irish and educated on the matter but this video reads as very one sided, reductive and paternalistic to me. A-lot of mentions of car bombs, nationalist and republicans, not so many mentions of the sectarian Apartheid state Northern Ireland was before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, not too many mentions of the loyalist deathsquads and paramilitaries that were backed by British State forces, hmm maybe carry out better, more comprehensive research, but i guess this is all we cant expect from a British person on the matter lol
Probably the most racist and uninformed account of our problems over here that I have ever had to witness. The young man seems obscessed with the idea that we only want to explode bombs all over the place. Perhaps if he ever took the opportunity to pay us a visit and learn about how this place really works we might be spared a repeat of such rubbish.,
Some of our politicians and paramilitary groups have threatened bombs if they don't get their way.
Its a real danger that the troubles start off again, which is why politicians don't want to touch NI as anything they do will piss people off and potentially start a conflict.
Its not racist to say that NI could very well resort to bombings if things go poorly, especially if we have a track record of terrorism.
NI was where many advances in the field of IEDs and car bombs were made for a reason.
For sure, few people in the region want a return to violence. But it only requires a tiny violent minority for it to happen anyway. To say that there is a risk of violence is not to say that everyone in the region is super bloodthirsty.
@@hardcorelace7565 Every time he mentioned car bombs it was with a gleam in his eye. I for one can say there is nothing funny about such matters and yes it is racist to employ that as a national trait against people over here. We are who we are because of British interference through centuries of misrule. As someone who lost a relative in the Troubles I'll take no lectures from someone who clearly doesn't have any idea about what he is taking about.
@@76ludlow so when he's staying facts in a humorous manner, as his channel is known for, it's racist?
If you don't want to be lectured about someone who doesn't know what their talking about why would you watch lectures from a minecraft youtuber?
Sorry for your loss, but just becuase he's pointing out genuine threats that people are afraid of in a light hearted way that doesn't make him racist.
Are you familiar with what a joke is?
Irish nationalists showing how sensitive they are in these comments lmao.
Being in Northern IRELAND and having an IRISH Nationalist, is normal. Having a British is weird.
Not really.
The british settlers considering themselves British is normal.
The northern irish that are a part of britain can be both northern irish and british which would is normal.
The people in Northern Ireland considering themselves northern irish is normal.
The people in Northern Ireland considering themselves irish is also normal.
@@hardcorelace7565 Northern Irish have never been a part of Britain, Northern Ireland is part of the UK
@@ajc5479 I used britain in the slang term commonly used as a description of the UK.
If you want you can rewrite that sentence as "as part of the UK" as that was the intended meaning.
@@hardcorelace7565 Ireland. The word says it. The land of the Irish.
@@robertn2951 so? Since when do names of Islands mean anything?
Is it always easter in easter island or always Christmas in Christmas island?
Just because one group of people was well known enough to have the island named after them doesn't mean they have ownership over the island. That would be stupid.
You got this wrong. But you made a good attempt. NI is not a country, it’s a region of the island of Ireland which is a constituent region of the UK. ¿Confusing? Yep, that’s because it’s complicated. It is most certainly not like a Belgian person from Flanders becoming a prime minister of the Netherlands or any of the examples you gave. That’s because she’s an Ulster woman, that’s an Irish person from Ireland’s most northern province, and she is First Minister of the northern assembly which kind of runs Northern Ireland. Actually, do you know what it’s so complicated. Well done sir.
It's a constituent country of the UK, therefore country.
Its not a member of the UN, therefore not country.
Its at worst a province, at best a non sovereign country so it's not conclusive and you can call it what you want. It doesnt matter either way.
You got this wrong. This is literally what he said in the video, that it's a constituent of the uk, a "part of the uk" as he says in the video, which it is. The comparison to Flanders was that they are part of their own countries, but that country is made up of two different nationalities, Belgium is french and dutch, Flanders is dutch like Northern Ireland is very Irish, but they are part of Belgium and the uk respectively
Ignoring the colonisation of Ireland when talking about this subject as well as statements like "weird Arab flags.." really makes this whole video seem biased.
Are you that sensitive
@@thematthew761 Are you that insensitive?
Are you getting offended over someone making a dumb joke of a FLAG?@@hamster-gorilla8167
The history really isn’t relevant to the modern situation everyone knows what happened and agrees it was wrong that doesn’t change the systems currently in power or the demographics of Northern Ireland.
@@BenDBeast The person who brought up the "history" on this podcast was the podcast host, doing so with his nonsensical presentation. His portrayal was so inaccurate and insensitive to what actually had happened and largely served a point of view seemingly cultivated by the reading of British revisionists of history that it cried out for a response. Nonetheless, I agree with you that the Stormont Assembly, seating now, is not there to decide the issue of whether or the issue of when Ireland will reunite (to its pre-1921 historical borders). Rather, the Stormont Government is there to do the business of the peoples of the involved six counties, such as fixing roads, insuring health care, assisting housing issues, taxes, etc. The speeches by Mary Lou Macdonald (Sinn Fein) and Emma Little-Pengelly (DUP), as co-leaders of the Northern Ireland Stormont Assembly, gave me hope that the peoples of the north of Ireland could work together, and this seating of the Assembly in the past couple days is an important step in reconciliation. Yet, Unionist Jim Allister, as the lone member of this own party, took time to speak at that Assembly to tell the world his very-biased side of the story. Truth matters. People can judge for themselves. I recall one unionist member of this assembly characterize Allister's presentation at the Assembly that was sent out to the world, as unhelpful and that Allister was not likely to get re-elected come the next election. Yes, the people of Northern Ireland, as a whole, want to move on to a better future. What we write here in these comments is not going to influence the current Assembly, so why not try to stick with the truth of the matter as we each see it in these comments?
Moustache Toycat is a terrifying sight
Terrifyingly dashing
He failed art school
@@pao5567 every art teacher I had sucked as a human being. Obviously the school failed him
@@pao5567Wrong mustache
he doesn't look like a morally sound human being
Tiocfaidh ár lá
Nope 🇬🇧
As a Northern Irish person, it's a mess. (Also the L in MLA stands for Legislative)
stands for loser mate
Shit im from Belfast and i thought it was local hahahah
I hope we can welcome eachother into a united Ireland soon! I've never truely visited the North due to the Troubles and everything, even after the GFA. I would love for one day for us all to be travelling back and forth regularly, and really learning about eachother and becoming the brothers and sisters we once were
@@Wolfe-Tone- huh? were back and forth all the time, ill be in dublin in 2 weeks lol
@@kob6912 STANDS FOR LOOLLLLLAAAAYYLLL NO SURRENDARRRRRRRRRRRRR ✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋‼‼‼‼‼
This video just reminds me how clueless English people are about Northern Ireland lol
"So I'm going to try and be sensitive in this video... A yes car b0mbs"
That's because they don't care and aren't interested because of the hindrance that it is.
And vice-versa. Most English (Welsh and Scottish too) would be content if NI sank under the ocean.
belgium and bosnia do a similar thing and are just as dysfunctional for all the same reasons.
As an irish man i agree northern ireland should belong in the middle east
Sinn Fein love Palestine so much maybe they should move there
@@cathalobrien5691it would be easier to move the planters back to Scotland.
They've lived there for centuries@@bumblingborisbuffoon6259
@@bumblingborisbuffoon6259why they where all part of Dal Riada
@@bumblingborisbuffoon6259 If you mean the actual planters, are you going to dig them up?
I would like to correct you on the meaning of TUV, as you state that it means 'Trade Union Voice' can imply that they care more about trade unions than about complete unification with the UK. In actuality, it means 'Traditional Unionist Voice', and they are the party that cares the most about the UK.
Thanks for the clarity. We have a similar party that isn't about "the union " but rather unions called TUV in the UK, useful to know it's different
TUV has one MLA in Stormont. A malign presence
@@ibx2catwe do not. we have the TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition). Not the same acronym as the TUV (who as stated, is the party most concerned with the union with britain)
@@NMY232The scan showed a Jim Alister in your assembly and unfortunately it's malignant 😔
A clown show
(Also, it's 'SDLP' not 'SLDP')
Don’t get yappy clare hanna in a tizz
The stash makes Toycat look slightly more insane than normal.
Insane Toycat: 🥴😵💫🤪
More Insane than Normal Toycat: 🥸🥸🥸
5:03 MLA stands for Member of the Legislative Assembly. Hope this helps!
Canadian Provincial Assemblies also use the term MLA, and honestly as far as I can tell Northern Ireland's status within the UK is basically the same as a Canadian Province has within Canada but without being part of an actual federation, more like a top-down created province as it currently stands
The Nationalists may hold the office of First Minister, but Unionists still hold the most combined seats...
Interesting times for Northern Ireland indeed
God, you need to chill out and relax and ease off the uppers. Why not a weekend in Dublin to relax. I am turning off now, it is far too irritating.
The status quo is the UK. So, the Alliance tends to be Unionist but doesn't make a point of it. The religious divide is a proxy for ethnic identity. British settlers were Protestant and Irish natives were Catholic. Religion is a factor but identity is at the core of the conflict. agh is an "aa" sound in Irish. Armagh is Ar-m-aa. The Palestinian people are real. Israeli's want to make them Arabs and deny their reality. Makes it easier to disappear them from the map. There is no such thing as an Arab flag. There is a Palestinian flag. Let's please recognize that Palestinians are people. Thanks for stepping into the debate. Always good to have fresh perspectives.