Jim Alister is the toddler at the supermarket checkout who's throwing a tantrum because the tube of Smarties his mummy bought him has more green ones than orange ones.
I don't think it worries them how much other British people care about them, or don't care about them. I think they're perfectly aware that many people in Scotland, England and Wales don't like them.
after he vacted 11 downing street, the late alistair darling or his senior treasury official , , sent a note to george osbourne to say that the north was fininacial millstone around the neck of the british economy and that and that the treasurary didnt really care about the north. Dodgy dave said that basically blair had sorted out the northern question. and cameron never really set foot in the place. may never went to the north, boris destroyed the relationship he had with the dup. sunak was the person who brought back devolved govt to north
And you think the Irish government care about the Irish 😂😂 In fact can you actually think of one Western country that cares about its own people these days?
Anything that pisses off unionists has to be good because it indicates progress in n Ireland. You got your democracy Jimmy...this is what it looks like
He's there because Stephen Nolan has him on his show regularly. He's not elected, last time less than 200 votes, so why does he get so much airtime ? Because Nolan LOVES TO STIR THE POT.
Because Allister can't face a microphone without his emotional-support toddler beside him nodding like the world's-worst Funkopop when he's not swaying and staring at the ceiling like a bored and embarrassed tween?
@colincampbell4261 it is in the sense that this is a consequence of Brexit, which has done more to accelerate a United Ireland than probably any other factor.
Theoretically, if a employed Unionist voted for a United Ireland that happened tomorrow, his average wage would rise by 12k ,and his mother's benefits would more than double ,from €96 a week ,to €220. Personally,I judge a society by how it working class is treated ,and the Norths has been screwed over by uncaring English politicians ,for 40 years now.
There are two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, one called Ireland which covers 26 counties, and is a member of the EU. The other jurisdiction, called Northern Ireland, is 6 counties and is in the United Kingdom. The holding back that these people do applies far more to Northern Ireland than it does to Ireland.
@@erribulproductions5329 Certainly, no part of Ireland is in Great Britain (the island containing Scotland, England and Wales), but the British define their country as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in other words they define the UK to consist of these two parts: GB and NI.
@@opiotain Yes, partitioning the island of Ireland was horrible and undemocratic and it certainly did affect Ireland as well as Northern Ireland, but NI suffered vastly more from "this bunch", i.e. the TUV and Jim Allister, than the rest of the island did.
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 . Small parts of every nation see nationalism as something imposed by the larger part. Europe has far more nations now than it did before the Berlin Wall fell.
When wee Jamie put himself out to the voters he got 167 votes and he’s calling himself the voice of working class unionists if you’re interested they are having their meeting in the phone box outside Belfast city hall.
But the DUP supported Brexit!! Why can't they just admit that they supported Brexit to have a hard border back on the island. It didn't work and now they are complaining about what they supported?!!!
What does Jim and Jamie (who in the paid services of Ben Habeb) future offer? Jim's manadate is simple, respect only himself. If Jim wants a legacy, then channel his energy into NHS waiting lists, education, food poverty and the cost of living crisis. PUBLIC elected servants earning £150,000+ media paid work £30,000 + Habeeb money £30,000. A duty elected to surve the most needy first. How many Coleraine food banks does Jim donate to? Breakfast clubs for children? Offer constituents (luxury car) lifts to cancer treatment? Zero! Thanks jim! But no thanks.!
You forgot his DIRTY EU pension money? I wonder will he give it all to charity for the victims he likes to defame, I can answer that question "A FIRM NO".🚫
F-wits like Jim Allister have not once in over a decade, had anything to say about anything like Health, Finance, Governance etc. Becuase they sijmply, don't give a F. All they want to do is lambast that a fairer society was created on the back of the Good Friday Agreement. And take everyone back to the 1950s when they ruled the roost and bully everyone else. walts.
But it isn't,demographic change is happening in n Ireland and the 2 unionist men don't like it,however ter is a alternative, leave the island and go back to the mainland simples really 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
The unionists are having to do something they have never had to do in their existence that’s is the idea of selling the union to people who are not unionists and they are not going about it very well .
Sorry, Philip unionists don't do nice. All unionist parties are invested in the sectarian head count that pass for elections, and it is too late to undo the hurt and damage they've inflicted on the nationalist community over the years, perhaps in a new reunified Ireland people and politics can realign into a place where men and women of good intentions can prevail, but that's impossible in the gerrymandered sectarian statlet that's known as Northern Ireland.
It was never a sensible idea to "stay in the union" 82% of Ireland voted to leave the UK. When a figure that incorrigible is dismissed ,it can only lead to violence.
Northern Ireland IS part of the UK but the people voted to remain in the EU. The simple answer is they're stalling because they can't stomach the thought of sharing power under a Sinn Fein First Minister. They can't say that of course, which is why they come up with the excuses about the protocol.
And the PROOF of this is they were happy to remain in Stormont right up to the point where Sinn Fein beat them to first place in the Elections. They think they have taken the wind out of the sails where nationalism is concerned but it has only toughened their resolve, the next General Election will PROVE my point.
It could be said that the plantations in Ulster were a social experiment that didn't work. Loyal British citizens were displaced, sent to Ulster and other parts of Ireland with the promise that they could replace the existing population. They had the support of the government in London but things have changed. Despite discriminatory laws and famine, the indigenous population survived, and today has recovered its majority. The Anglo-Irish Treaty granted freedom to 26 counties, the experiment will end when the remaining 6 counties gains independence. The past is the past, the debate should be about how a United Ireland will be governed by and for all its people, regardless of their background. Unionists should have no fear that Ulster will be treated as a colony by a government in Dublin.
I agree. The Republic of Ireland and NI are ready for reunification. Ireland underwent a quiet revolution to being a secular, wealthy nation and there are no more rational arguments that unionists can use against reunification. Also the EU (especially Germany and France) are likely to be willing to help sponsor reunification as an economic project of rebuilding Northern Ireland.
@@jonathanbowers8964 as well as a big fuck you to England for the headache of Brexit ,and an incentive for any members shaky on staying. Would wager that American companies would also drown the area in funding.
"that Ulster will be treated as a colony" Only part of Ulster (6 of its 9 counties) is in the United Kingdom and that part is called 'Northern Ireland'.
@@stevanbankier707 probably millions. Also, we hear a lot about Westminster talking to the DUP - but they never seem to talk to Sinn Fein which is, like it or not, the main party.
No wonder they’re cross, right? Their payed holidays and free-back-room-scheming time has come to an end. Imagine making a living by just being bitter and obtuse all day every day? What does the job spec say? “Just say no to everything and you can spend most of your time at home playing video games.”
Jim and Jamie know our day is coming. Congratulations Michelle. So much work still needs to be done north and south. I never believed I would see the day when not just a nationalist but a republican would be number 1 in north. Now my dream of a united ireland can become a reality.
There will never be a united Ireland, the south will be destroyed by the likes of Varadkar filling it with illegal immigrants and nobody in their right mind will want to join with that!
@@9inchsnails829what amazes everyone most, is not that the British colonialists got to hold unto N. Ireland for so long, but that they actually think they get to keep it forever.
Perhaps Northern Ireland would be better if it left the UK and remained in the EU. The people of Northern Ireland certainly would be, economically, including those of the Unionist persuasion and their families. You can’t eat ideology or pay bills with sovereignty. It’s time to be real about the future.
The Windsor protocol should mean NI gets the best of both worlds if the DUP don’t screw it up. NI will get access to both the UK internal market and the EU market, which makes it unique in Europe.
Northern Ireland, being part of the UK, is not in the EU. If NI left the UK, it still wouldn't be in the EU. I'm not sure that, on its own, it would stand much chance of obtaining membership of the EU. Twenty-seven members of the EU would have to agree unanimously to its admission.
@@odunadhaigh if NI left the UK it do so as part of a united Ireland, not as an independent country. It would just expand the Irish territory and Ireland is part of the EU.
@@greatest7391 they can go live anywhere they like,doesn't change the facts.There are also less children living below the poverty line in Ireland than Britain
Sein Fein are now an internationalist neo-marxist party. Nationalists have been defrauded out of the picture entirely. It must be remembered that Southern Ireland is been invaded by immigrants and if predictions hold true Irish people will be a minority in Ireland by 2050, ruled by an unelected foreign power, and with the freedom to die as a nation state. Sein Fein stands four square behind this plan, they promotes it, and are ready to over see this madness. They have supported a hate speech bill which will soon stop people even talking about this. As an Irish nationalist I finally say God bless the resistance of the Ulster Prodestants.
I do feel sort of sorry for the DUP, they have such fierce loyalty to the Union, when the majority in the UK wouldn't miss them if they disappeared in a puff of smoke! In fact most mainlanders would be content to see an united Ireland.
This guy reminds me of the colonial English in a men's only bar in former Rhodesia - completely felt out of time. A year or so later many of them fled to South Africa where they got the nickname "When-wes": "when we lived in Rhodesia".
bernardo... -- The most striking difference between this DUP politician and the gentlemen in the men's-only bar is that several of the later wore khaki drill (KD) with short trousers and woollen stockings up to the knees. Khaki drill was worn as a combat uniform in the British Commonwealth army from 1900 to 1949 and was most often used in desert and tropical service, see the Wikipedia article "Khaki Drill" with pictures of the clothing. 😇🤪
100% correct. They had to find a plausible reason to not have a Nationalist FM. The demography has changed. No longer a Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People. Now an assembly for all and they can’t stomach it.
It annoys me to hear NI being called Ulster. NI comprises only 6 of the counties of Ulster. The other 3, Donegal, Cavan & Monaghan are part of the Republic
Completely agree. Sure these loyalist types literally just steal original Irish symbols and language and repackage them as a part of loyalist/unionist culture such as the red hand of Ulster which is an ancient Gaelic symbol that predates the existence of the UK.
Annoying for sure, just now BBC main news using the word Ulster. Not Ulster!!! We took part in a zoom quiz, during covid time. The participants were all 'learned''educated'people, question was 'How many counties in Ulster '???Answer from all participants, 6 counties. I mentioned this to my neighbour, in Armagh, she said 'I would have answered 6'!!!!
Oh I can think of a few footnotes to describe your part in the history of Ulster Jim. As for the wheelie bin kid on Jim's right,he looked like the cat who got the cream 24 hours earlier when live streaming the private DUP meeting due to a leak on the inside, seemed to be enjoying the attention that brought him. I hope Jim can survive today when the sight of Michelle being nominated as FM of Stormont might cause him some distress.
@@ClannCholmain he may well be a member of the party, but he is definitely not an elected member of anything, the smart money is on Son of Paisley as the culprit who was recording the meeting and Bryson then put the txt out as a live feed, clearly undermining Donaldson in his turd polishing endeavours.
You're 100% right. They couldn't handle a Sinn Fein first minister so they threw the toys out of the pram. They've only themselves to blame with their backwards thinking. Hopefully we can move forward now with a fully functional government. Fingers crossed 🤞
They're not EU laws, they are UK laws, written by the civil service, debated and writren into law by the UK parliament..... following the UK's agreement with the other EU members.
It's not about losing the union. It's about the DUP losing it's grip on the Tory government. While in charge of the executive, they had N.I. as a weapon. Now they've been 'demoted' they've lost that influence.
@@JohnMartin-oh6bf Well, they made a hash of it if their goal was "the well-being of their constituents". If it was "personal enrichment", they did rather well.
@patricklynch6547 Michelle O'Neill is No Catholic, she is pro Abortion, Transgender ideology and Homosexual marriage, all anti Catholic ideology. She is a woke yoke and a globalist
Many of the hardcore unionists trace their ancestors to those who were sent by the English government in the 1600s to break and crush the Irish. That's why you can sometimes see slogans such as KAI (kill all Irish) on walls in 'rough' parts of Northern Ireland. British people who hate Irish people are unlikely to be Irish themselves. In addition, by law, a person in Northern Ireland can define themselves as 100% British, 100% Irish, both British and Irish, etc; this is because forcing people to have an identity that they don't wish to have isn't helpful.
@@odunadhaigh ….Ahy……but why would anybody want to support a British government that’s endorsing the WEF agenda. Effectively undermining any current sovereignty a N.I citizen might have. Furthermore if unionists want to see there children have a better life…. it’ll hardly be possible if they’re conscripted into fighting against Russia…..the only country that opposes Klaus Schwab and his fascist regime.
@@irishpride9867 Nowadays British is defined in international terms to mean 'pertaining to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' and I'm using it in that sense. Originally it referred to the people of southern Britain whom the English/Germanic invaders hated and destroyed. That's why some Welsh people say that The English are not British insofar as they came to Britain cruelly to invade and occupy, bringing their own language and brutally imposing it. Additionally many hard-line unionists in Northern Ireland trace their ancestry to those who were sent to Ireland in the 1600s to break the Irish; they define themselves as British only. Thus British has a multitude of meanings.
Yeah after all when the latest shutdown happened they had only been back at work for a year or two since the last dup walkout shutdown over the cash for ash scandel
I'm quite happy to sit and wait to see how the shinners deal with all the problems comming down the road,now that they are in charge.good luck with that then.
Only Muppet’s would want to have a British identity as a “Subject”…..or valise to be a puppet regime supporting the same WEF fascist serving Charles and his monarchy. Both he and his corrupt cronies in parliament all promoting the WEF agenda that’s looking to destroy our freedoms and democracy. Loyalists are fool’s and have learned nothing supporting English politics and will be most likely be the first to be sent into War and the meat grinder should the WEF challenge Russia. Except there won’t be any of the left to paint mural’s to commemorate them on walls after the next battle.
That’s a good thumbnail. The guy with Jim looks like Simon Pegg, when he’s masking embarrassment and shame in a movie. Body language says a lot. He then nods too hard, too emphatically, as his colleague speaks. Who is that guy? He reminds me of the sort of boys who shadowed the school bully. After each time the bully threatened someone, he’s the guy who leans out from behind him and goes, “Yeah! . . . So there!” But in all seriousness, it’s body language that screams insincerity, heralds the fact that he doesn’t believe what he’s about to hear. Then, learning from what you said about Jim, sabotaging by shouting from the sidelines, it appears that like attracts like.
The non-native settlers in in colonies world wide have always resisted change as they would lose the whip hand over the natives. The natives have succeeded in gaining their objectives given enough time. England is slowly losing its first colony thanks to the legacy of the Ulster founders of the United Irishmen.
Both of these figures are racist to the core. The Barrister and the Boot Boy. Sums up Unionism. The professional classes and their working class footsoldiers. They would have no issue if the DUP held the First Minister post.
I agree completely with Allister. Let's hope he's right and his worst fears come true. After this, I'll take a federal UK or an independent Scotland. More complex I know but Scotland has no reason to stay under incompetent Westminster rule. They don't like us anyway just our resources. 🏴
Remember when the UUP were the 'Lundys' being called out by the DUP for having to deal with pragmatic reality? And now it's the DUP being called out by the TUV for having to deal with pragmatic reality. It's just layers of an onion of unionist irreality.
The idea that JM influenced some of the DUP to rebel is laughable - no influence necessary for their current position. They want the Ulster of their fathers', to paraphrase their song.
Ireland stuff the French, and now this. I am having an amazing weekend. My tiny Welsh wife got her Irish citizenship last month and wore the green for the first time last night. I am the chosen one!☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘
It’s actually clever by them, because they know the general direction everything is moving, reunification, and they are setting a marker down calling it out, they can down the line blame this as one of the steps that caused reunification and be the heroes that wanted to stop it, even though they know exactly that’s where we are going - they’re giving themselves a future job as the reunification party / easy job just give out about everything without any real responsibility
There's a part of me that feels some residual sympathy for Unionists here, but this is all a consequence of choosing the wrong side of history in the first place. Direct rule from Westminster will NEVER happen again as a last resort. Since GFA, Joint Authority would be the last refuge if the Assembly couldn't sit. Ever since the last census in Northern Ireland when the Roman Catholic population overtook Protestants in the 6-Counties ‼I believe it is a sign that the days of the British in Ireland really look numbered now. Northern Ireland was very deliberately, very explicitly, not built for either a Nationalist First Minister or for Roman Catholics to outnumber Protestants there. I think Prime Minister Keir Starmer could very well face a constitutional crisis in BOTH Ireland and Scotland, both of whom have been treated VERY shoddily by the Brexit-Tories.
I guarantee the DUP are going to try to make the argument that "Joint consent" refers to Nationalists and Unionists, rather than the populations of the Republic and the North of Ireland.
I think it's better to consider how much nationalists outnumber unionists. Both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism are in decline in NI, but particularly the former. Atheism seems to have a higher grip among formerly Protestant young people than among Catholics. Also opinion polling suggests that among Catholics 70% would vote for united Ireland and about 30% just want to stay in the UK. Among Protestants, about 5 or 6% favour a united Ireland and most of the rest don't. There's some evidence that Catholic immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe etc also tend, by default, to be unionist, given that they perceive themselves as having emigrated to the UK and don't want to end up with what they think is the puzzling issue of leaving the UK and ending up in a united Ireland. I'm not sure about the accuracy of the foregoing but these are some of the complexities. For anyone, me included, who’d like there to be a united Ireland, the population statistics are nevertheless encouraging.
@@odunadhaigh - All because the Vatican doesn't believe in birth control! 😂😉 Still, I found it so head-spinning because since partition, the 6-counties were NEVER supposed to be THIS. Plus the absolute casserole that the Irish border has become now, it highlights for me the pointless absurdity, & frankly, the cruelty that partition always was. Dublin won't want to rush Unification (sans a Sinn Fein Taoiseach, perhaps 😲), but they don't have to!
@@odunadhaighImmigrants from central and Eastern Europe should ponder what happens should the house burnings start again. Will they be spared because they thought they moved to the U.K.? Or burned out because they Catholics?
He I correct the reason is N.Ireland is located on the Island of Ireland the rest of the UK is on the Island of Britain. Unionism past its own death sentence when N.Ireland voted to remain in the EU. It ment Unionists did not dominate any more.😊
What a spectacular own-goal by Bin Boy Bryson. He’s cut off any future association with the DUP now that Sir Donny has tightly taken up the reigns of his party again and the TUV Loyalists are looking like old, bitter, retrograde bigots, while Sir Donny has taken the needed step forward. Bye bye Bin Boy! 😂
These hardliners should move to England. The Tories are not interested in NI and they never have been. It's time they just shut up and listened to the people, who know what they want
As an American I have never understood the justification of Northern Ireland to insist on the split. If you want to be a British citizen go live on THAT ISLAND. /shrugs. 🕊️
It was always thought that the Unionists would be the largest party in the North of Ireland & now - looks like Sinn Fein will be the largest party as the Roman Catholic community grows. They are going to have to get used to it as Michelle O'Neil will be the 1st Minister. A good vlog, glad someone is speaking about what's really going on & not completely believing the road back to Stormont is still going to be tricky as all the toys haven't been thrown out the pram yet.
I don’t know who the nodding bird is, but I go full Simpsons… “He’s drinking the water!!!” I never thought I’d see it, but I expect a united Ireland in my lifetime… Since Gerry Adams arrived on the scene, Sien Fein has been a coherent reasonable political voice… Meanwhile, the Unionist parties have devolved into chaos… If I were an erstwhile Orange Man, I might just say “Fuck it!!! Let’s go with Dublin…”
Quelle surprise. When i visited Belfast for a conference, i set my watch back 50 years and an hour, and my experience was I was correct to do so. Nothing has changed with the Unionists.
If they want to call themselves Irish and admit that no matter what your ancestors were be they, gaelic, viking, english, welsh or scottish, we are all Irish now then no one would object. But if you want to continue to say you are english and want to say you are part of the Uk then you are welcome to hand the land back and head back to Britain for good. The time is long past for this country to be unified.
A man clingling desperately to the failed Northern Ireland statelet. The Unionists are on the backfoot. They lost the power they gerrymandered for themselves and now cannot face up to the inevitable position, at some time in the very near future, to be reunited with the rest of Ireland. In the meantime, he has to accept that Unionism is going to play a secondary role in NI.
Jim Alister is the toddler at the supermarket checkout who's throwing a tantrum because the tube of Smarties his mummy bought him has more green ones than orange ones.
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Or the wrong "fleg" on the packet... 😆
brilliant 😂😂
Imagine reaching that age and still being a baby!
Someone really needs to tell the unionists that the UK does not care about them as much as they care about the UK...
I don't think it worries them how much other British people care about them, or don't care about them. I think they're perfectly aware that many people in Scotland, England and Wales don't like them.
And do you think that the South wants the North.gimme a break.They couldn't afford it or want the difficulty of it.
@@odunadhaighit’s agreed then with Ireland north and south not liking them either ! They are on their own.
after he vacted 11 downing street, the late alistair darling or his senior treasury official , , sent a note to george osbourne to say that the north was fininacial millstone around the neck of the british economy and that and that the treasurary didnt really care about the north.
Dodgy dave said that basically blair had sorted out the northern question. and cameron never really set foot in the place. may never went to the north, boris destroyed the relationship he had with the dup. sunak was the person who brought back devolved govt to north
And you think the Irish government care about the Irish 😂😂 In fact can you actually think of one Western country that cares about its own people these days?
Got to love the nodding pigeon beside him
Bwyson is vewy, vewy angwy.
@@paureh9573I genuinely am waiting for him to shout out Fwee Wodger the Wobber .
Or fwy the fwag 😂
He made more sense! He's a very good ventroloquist - hardly saw his lips move.
Churchill ;-)
He is a complete headbanger!! He campaigned for Brexit, like the rest of the DUP!
It’s like watching your grandpa talking to himself while driving and getting approval from his nodding dog on the dashboard.
Jim Allister really doesn't want anything to change but he really has no one else to blame since he supported Brexit.
He has had his three score and ten
He'd love to have the penal laws back
If they don't like fenians can't they live somewhere else if they want where there aren't so many of them.
Yesterday's men (Elected and
(UNELECTED😂)
He actually thought they'd get a hard border on the island. Mugs
Anything that pisses off unionists has to be good because it indicates progress in n Ireland. You got your democracy Jimmy...this is what it looks like
Why is Bryson even there? He has no vote, no mandate and is a total mountebank and Walter Mitty.
The Wheelie Bin Kid.
He's there because Stephen Nolan has him on his show regularly. He's not elected, last time less than 200 votes, so why does he get so much airtime ? Because Nolan LOVES TO STIR THE POT.
You could ask the same thing about Emma Little Pengelly
Because Allister can't face a microphone without his emotional-support toddler beside him nodding like the world's-worst Funkopop when he's not swaying and staring at the ceiling like a bored and embarrassed tween?
Agreed @@dwyermckerr9482
Oh the delusions of grandeur that he thinks he will be remembered in the historical record. Who is he anyway....I’ve forgotten already.
Erm Jim someone or other and that’s his sidekick, the Wheelie Bin Kid.
He is right, it is a step towards a United Ireland, but he is wrong in seeing that as a bad thing.
Nonsense!
@colincampbell4261 it is in the sense that this is a consequence of Brexit, which has done more to accelerate a United Ireland than probably any other factor.
Theoretically, if a employed Unionist voted for a United Ireland that happened tomorrow, his average wage would rise by 12k ,and his mother's benefits would more than double ,from €96 a week ,to €220.
Personally,I judge a society by how it working class is treated ,and the Norths has been screwed over by uncaring English politicians ,for 40 years now.
@colloquialsoliloquy6391 so has the rest of GB
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 screwed by English politicians...
This bunch have held Ireland back for 100 years!
There are two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, one called Ireland which covers 26 counties, and is a member of the EU. The other jurisdiction, called Northern Ireland, is 6 counties and is in the United Kingdom. The holding back that these people do applies far more to Northern Ireland than it does to Ireland.
Geographically speaking no part of Ireland is in the UK
It is part of an Island that is separated by water ie the Channel
@@odunadhaighholding back the island of Ireland for 100 years or are you saying partition didn't have an effect on Ireland?
@@erribulproductions5329 Certainly, no part of Ireland is in Great Britain (the island containing Scotland, England and Wales), but the British define their country as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in other words they define the UK to consist of these two parts: GB and NI.
@@opiotain Yes, partitioning the island of Ireland was horrible and undemocratic and it certainly did affect Ireland as well as Northern Ireland, but NI suffered vastly more from "this bunch", i.e. the TUV and Jim Allister, than the rest of the island did.
Jim’s big problem is Michelle being a nationalist
And a nice person. King Charles finds it hard to resist her charm..
Brits love their nationalism.
They just think no one else should.
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 . Small parts of every nation see nationalism as something imposed by the larger part.
Europe has far more nations now than it did before the Berlin Wall fell.
@@johnrussell3961 can you ....write that out again ,Ive re read it three times and it is Panadol inducing.
Michelle O'Neill is Not a Nationalist but an internationalist, she doesn't want or believes in an Irish Ireland 😊
When wee Jamie put himself out to the voters he got 167 votes and he’s calling himself the voice of working class unionists if you’re interested they are having their meeting in the phone box outside Belfast city hall.
You’ll find Jamie’s wheelie bin parked beside it.
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@@bumblingborisbuffoon6259Some sort of Oscar the Grouch arrangement?
The trouble with social media is that it gives the empty vessels the platform to make the most sound.
@@joekavanagh7171 Thank god my empty vessel is a pint pot I’m living a contented life😎
Never happy unless they have something to complain about!
To get themselves attention.
Just like the Trump MAGA party over here; they’re both whining little babies who have no platform other than grievance
But the DUP supported Brexit!! Why can't they just admit that they supported Brexit to have a hard border back on the island. It didn't work and now they are complaining about what they supported?!!!
What does Jim and Jamie (who in the paid services of Ben Habeb) future offer? Jim's manadate is simple, respect only himself. If Jim wants a legacy, then channel his energy into NHS waiting lists, education, food poverty and the cost of living crisis. PUBLIC elected servants earning £150,000+ media paid work £30,000 + Habeeb money £30,000. A duty elected to surve the most needy first. How many Coleraine food banks does Jim donate to? Breakfast clubs for children? Offer constituents (luxury car) lifts to cancer treatment? Zero! Thanks jim! But no thanks.!
Spot on
Ben habib the Pakistani born anti immigration tory ?? Lolololol
You forgot his DIRTY EU pension money? I wonder will he give it all to charity for the victims he likes to defame, I can answer that question "A FIRM NO".🚫
F-wits like Jim Allister have not once in over a decade, had anything to say about anything like Health, Finance, Governance etc. Becuase they sijmply, don't give a F. All they want to do is lambast that a fairer society was created on the back of the Good Friday Agreement. And take everyone back to the 1950s when they ruled the roost and bully everyone else. walts.
That’s socialist talk.
Bold of Jimmy boy to assume he even deserves a foot note in History.
If the unionists are so concerned about a united Ireland why dont they work to persuade nationalists that remaining in the UK is a sensible idea.?
But it isn't,demographic change is happening in n Ireland and the 2 unionist men don't like it,however ter is a alternative, leave the island and go back to the mainland simples really 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
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The unionists are having to do something they have never had to do in their existence that’s is the idea of selling the union to people who are not unionists and they are not going about it very well .
Sorry, Philip unionists don't do nice. All unionist parties are invested in the sectarian head count that pass for elections, and it is too late to undo the hurt and damage they've inflicted on the nationalist community over the years, perhaps in a new reunified Ireland people and politics can realign into a place where men and women of good intentions can prevail, but that's impossible in the gerrymandered sectarian statlet that's known as Northern Ireland.
It was never a sensible idea to "stay in the union"
82% of Ireland voted to leave the UK.
When a figure that incorrigible is dismissed ,it can only lead to violence.
Northern Ireland IS part of the UK but the people voted to remain in the EU. The simple answer is they're stalling because they can't stomach the thought of sharing power under a Sinn Fein First Minister. They can't say that of course, which is why they come up with the excuses about the protocol.
Yep. They really have no shame.
And the PROOF of this is they were happy to remain in Stormont right up to the point where Sinn Fein beat them to first place in the Elections. They think they have taken the wind out of the sails where nationalism is concerned but it has only toughened their resolve, the next General Election will PROVE my point.
Jim should boycott Stormont and campaign to rejoin the EU. NI was completely part of the UK before exiting the EU. Problem solved.
It is not part of the U.K. It was taken by force from the Irish. No dressing up of that fact changes that.
The people of the UK voted for Brexit. What are you on about?
It could be said that the plantations in Ulster were a social experiment that didn't work. Loyal British citizens were displaced, sent to Ulster and other parts of Ireland with the promise that they could replace the existing population. They had the support of the government in London but things have changed. Despite discriminatory laws and famine, the indigenous population survived, and today has recovered its majority. The Anglo-Irish Treaty granted freedom to 26 counties, the experiment will end when the remaining 6 counties gains independence.
The past is the past, the debate should be about how a United Ireland will be governed by and for all its people, regardless of their background. Unionists should have no fear that Ulster will be treated as a colony by a government in Dublin.
Dublin doesn't want people like this pair anywhere near its orbit. Self administered 6 counties is preferable.
I agree. The Republic of Ireland and NI are ready for reunification. Ireland underwent a quiet revolution to being a secular, wealthy nation and there are no more rational arguments that unionists can use against reunification. Also the EU (especially Germany and France) are likely to be willing to help sponsor reunification as an economic project of rebuilding Northern Ireland.
@@jonathanbowers8964 as well as a big fuck you to England for the headache of Brexit ,and an incentive for any members shaky on staying.
Would wager that American companies would also drown the area in funding.
The plantation experiment has started again in the EU that's why we voted for brexit and the EU countries will have to get used to eating halal meat.
"that Ulster will be treated as a colony" Only part of Ulster (6 of its 9 counties) is in the United Kingdom and that part is called 'Northern Ireland'.
The DUP sees having a glass of water as “betrayal.” What else is new. If they aren’t crying, they aren’t breathing.
Finally the DUP shuffle their backsides back to work! ❤
It’s all the talk about stopping their salaries till they go back to work.
Ah but how much of the taxpayers money changed hands
@@stevanbankier707 probably millions. Also, we hear a lot about Westminster talking to the DUP - but they never seem to talk to Sinn Fein which is, like it or not, the main party.
No wonder they’re cross, right? Their payed holidays and free-back-room-scheming time has come to an end. Imagine making a living by just being bitter and obtuse all day every day? What does the job spec say? “Just say no to everything and you can spend most of your time at home playing video games.”
@@thegolem797: Probably . . . Honestly, I despair about the human condition . . .
Jim and Jamie know our day is coming. Congratulations Michelle. So much work still needs to be done north and south. I never believed I would see the day when not just a nationalist but a republican would be number 1 in north. Now my dream of a united ireland can become a reality.
You haven't a hope in hell of seeing it but keep smoking whatever it is your on
There will never be a united Ireland, the south will be destroyed by the likes of Varadkar filling it with illegal immigrants and nobody in their right mind will want to join with that!
Seems like Ruairi O Bradaigh was right back in 1986.
@@9inchsnails829what amazes everyone most, is not that the British colonialists got to hold unto N. Ireland for so long, but that they actually think they get to keep it forever.
Perhaps Northern Ireland would be better if it left the UK and remained in the EU. The people of Northern Ireland certainly would be, economically, including those of the Unionist persuasion and their families. You can’t eat ideology or pay bills with sovereignty. It’s time to be real about the future.
We were sovereign. It was our sovereignty that allowed us to leave.
We will rejoin EU when we get the whole island back
The Windsor protocol should mean NI gets the best of both worlds if the DUP don’t screw it up. NI will get access to both the UK internal market and the EU market, which makes it unique in Europe.
Northern Ireland, being part of the UK, is not in the EU. If NI left the UK, it still wouldn't be in the EU. I'm not sure that, on its own, it would stand much chance of obtaining membership of the EU. Twenty-seven members of the EU would have to agree unanimously to its admission.
@@odunadhaigh if NI left the UK it do so as part of a united Ireland, not as an independent country. It would just expand the Irish territory and Ireland is part of the EU.
The wrong turn for unionism was in June 2016
The wrong turn for unionism was 3rd May 1921.
Exactly, well said. They way they treated Catholics is how they will be remembered.@@Dreyno
"we don't wanna be part of a rich family of nations, we wanna be poor and isolated"
Even though Ireland has a higher standard of living and GDP than the UK 😂
@@brianmckeever1916 Yet Irish people are emigrating to the UK in droves?
@@greatest7391 they can go live anywhere they like,doesn't change the facts.There are also less children living below the poverty line in Ireland than Britain
Sein Fein are now an internationalist neo-marxist party. Nationalists have been defrauded out of the picture entirely. It must be remembered that Southern Ireland is been invaded by immigrants and if predictions hold true Irish people will be a minority in Ireland by 2050, ruled by an unelected foreign power, and with the freedom to die as a nation state. Sein Fein stands four square behind this plan, they promotes it, and are ready to over see this madness. They have supported a hate speech bill which will soon stop people even talking about this. As an Irish nationalist I finally say God bless the resistance of the Ulster Prodestants.
I do feel sort of sorry for the DUP, they have such fierce loyalty to the Union, when the majority in the UK wouldn't miss them if they disappeared in a puff of smoke! In fact most mainlanders would be content to see an united Ireland.
I don't know whether it's a fierce loyalty to the union or a fierce hatred of all things Irish and Catholic
It's hatred. Definitely hatred. What else is keeping them going. Fighting for fighting sake. Bitter ugly people.
The people on the continent aren't involved in this one.
Does that include liverpool
"Mainlanders." 😂
Bitter bitter men 😩
Yeah. He's a lemonman much more bitter than an Orangeman.
@@paureh9573and that's saying something 😂
This guy reminds me of the colonial English in a men's only bar in former Rhodesia - completely felt out of time. A year or so later many of them fled to South Africa where they got the nickname "When-wes": "when we lived in Rhodesia".
Then when apartheid ended, they fled to Britain, to tell us what being British means.
Exactly!
bernardo... -- The most striking difference between this DUP politician and the gentlemen in the men's-only bar is that several of the later wore khaki drill (KD) with short trousers and woollen stockings up to the knees. Khaki drill was worn as a combat uniform in the British Commonwealth army from 1900 to 1949 and was most often used in desert and tropical service, see the Wikipedia article "Khaki Drill" with pictures of the clothing. 😇🤪
“Footnote in history”? At best, Jim Alister will go down as a toerag
100% correct. They had to find a plausible reason to not have a Nationalist FM. The demography has changed. No longer a Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People. Now an assembly for all and they can’t stomach it.
Here in the states, the people of Oregon just held their representatives feet to the fire for not showing up to work.
This whole situation shows that the Democratic Unionists Party ain't so Democratic after all... Respect the people's vote!
Jim Allister isn’t DUP. He’s the “leader” of the TUV. Even more hardcore than the DUP and even bigger fossils.
It annoys me to hear NI being called Ulster. NI comprises only 6 of the counties of Ulster. The other 3, Donegal, Cavan & Monaghan are part of the Republic
Completely agree. Sure these loyalist types literally just steal original Irish symbols and language and repackage them as a part of loyalist/unionist culture such as the red hand of Ulster which is an ancient Gaelic symbol that predates the existence of the UK.
@@DanielHowardIREcorrect it’s the red hand of O’ neill.
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Annoying for sure, just now BBC main news using the word Ulster. Not Ulster!!! We took part in a zoom quiz, during covid time. The participants were all 'learned''educated'people, question was 'How many counties in Ulster '???Answer from all participants, 6 counties. I mentioned this to my neighbour, in Armagh, she said 'I would have answered 6'!!!!
@roisinwhite390 there's only one province in Ireland that has a total of 6 counties. Munster.
2 absolute head bangers
Oh I can think of a few footnotes to describe your part in the history of Ulster Jim.
As for the wheelie bin kid on Jim's right,he looked like the cat who got the cream 24 hours earlier when live streaming the private DUP meeting due to a leak on the inside, seemed to be enjoying the attention that brought him.
I hope Jim can survive today when the sight of Michelle being nominated as FM of Stormont might cause him some distress.
Is he not a DUP member?
@@ClannCholmain he may well be a member of the party, but he is definitely not an elected member of anything, the smart money is on Son of Paisley as the culprit who was recording the meeting and Bryson then put the txt out as a live feed, clearly undermining Donaldson in his turd polishing endeavours.
You're 100% right. They couldn't handle a Sinn Fein first minister so they threw the toys out of the pram. They've only themselves to blame with their backwards thinking. Hopefully we can move forward now with a fully functional government. Fingers crossed 🤞
They're not EU laws, they are UK laws, written by the civil service, debated and writren into law by the UK parliament..... following the UK's agreement with the other EU members.
It's not about losing the union. It's about the DUP losing it's grip on the Tory government. While in charge of the executive, they had N.I. as a weapon. Now they've been 'demoted' they've lost that influence.
Because they had that control for a long time and made a complete hash of it.
@@JohnMartin-oh6bf Well, they made a hash of it if their goal was "the well-being of their constituents". If it was "personal enrichment", they did rather well.
Congratulations Michelle O Neil ! ❤
Well done Michelle first woman & first Catholic .
@@patricklynch6547she's not the first woman
First women. Let's face it Arlene was a dog
@patricklynch6547 Michelle O'Neill is No Catholic, she is pro Abortion, Transgender ideology and Homosexual marriage, all anti Catholic ideology. She is a woke yoke and a globalist
It's a historic day for all Irish people all over the world. That's how democracy is supposed to work.
A United Ireland without westminster interference would be a happier richer country
So would GB.
@@johnrussell3961 Amen to that sentiment.
@@johnrussell3961 Shame the people wont see any of it.
@@johnrussell3961 totally agree.... both islands would prosper and would have fared far better especially during covid
Bollocks. !!
Even the most hardcore unionists are still Irish….
Many of the hardcore unionists trace their ancestors to those who were sent by the English government in the 1600s to break and crush the Irish. That's why you can sometimes see slogans such as KAI (kill all Irish) on walls in 'rough' parts of Northern Ireland. British people who hate Irish people are unlikely to be Irish themselves. In addition, by law, a person in Northern Ireland can define themselves as 100% British, 100% Irish, both British and Irish, etc; this is because forcing people to have an identity that they don't wish to have isn't helpful.
@@odunadhaigh ….Ahy……but why would anybody want to support a British government that’s endorsing the WEF agenda. Effectively undermining any current sovereignty a N.I citizen might have. Furthermore if unionists want to see there children have a better life…. it’ll hardly be possible if they’re conscripted into fighting against Russia…..the only country that opposes Klaus Schwab and his fascist regime.
@@odunadhaighthey are Ulster Scot’s from Scotland
How can they be British if their not from the Island of Britain.
@@irishpride9867 Nowadays British is defined in international terms to mean 'pertaining to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' and I'm using it in that sense. Originally it referred to the people of southern Britain whom the English/Germanic invaders hated and destroyed. That's why some Welsh people say that The English are not British insofar as they came to Britain cruelly to invade and occupy, bringing their own language and brutally imposing it. Additionally many hard-line unionists in Northern Ireland trace their ancestry to those who were sent to Ireland in the 1600s to break the Irish; they define themselves as British only. Thus British has a multitude of meanings.
Bang on the Money as always Max! ❤
SF should just take office and tell them either show up or we'll run the show ourselves
I give the Assembly a few days. The DUP will fall out over something sooner rather than later
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Yeah after all when the latest shutdown happened they had only been back at work for a year or two since the last dup walkout shutdown over the cash for ash scandel
I hope you are wrong but fear you may be right.
I'm quite happy to sit and wait to see how the shinners deal with all the problems comming down the road,now that they are in charge.good luck with that then.
@@douglasdodds8490 they cant do any worse than the duppers.
And his unelected bitter buddy beside him
His nodding dog 😅😅😅
that's just his hype man
Oooohhh stawmont fwiends!!!
Father Cyril MacDuff to his Dick Byrne.
Bigoted gammons outraged, shocker.
I wish the United Kingdom could get a vote as to whether we want NI to be part of our country.
Why not a vote on deciding if England should remain?
And another vote on whether you want Scotland to be part of your"country" too. By your country I imagine you mean England.
With that name he might mean India
Only Muppet’s would want to have a British identity as a “Subject”…..or valise to be a puppet regime supporting the same WEF fascist serving Charles and his monarchy. Both he and his corrupt cronies in parliament all promoting the WEF agenda that’s looking to destroy our freedoms and democracy. Loyalists are fool’s and have learned nothing supporting English politics and will be most likely be the first to be sent into War and the meat grinder should the WEF challenge Russia. Except there won’t be any of the left to paint mural’s to commemorate them on walls after the next battle.
Agreed. The British taxpayer is never asked if he wants to continue paying millions every year for the upkeep of Northern Ireland.
He still does not acknowledge Brexits underlying paradox of you can only have 2 out of these 3: UK leaving the EU, UK not being broken up, GFA
That’s a good thumbnail. The guy with Jim looks like Simon Pegg, when he’s masking embarrassment and shame in a movie. Body language says a lot. He then nods too hard, too emphatically, as his colleague speaks. Who is that guy?
He reminds me of the sort of boys who shadowed the school bully. After each time the bully threatened someone, he’s the guy who leans out from behind him and goes, “Yeah! . . . So there!”
But in all seriousness, it’s body language that screams insincerity, heralds the fact that he doesn’t believe what he’s about to hear. Then, learning from what you said about Jim, sabotaging by shouting from the sidelines, it appears that like attracts like.
The sooner you become a footnote in history the better Jimmy
Jim just REALLY hates that he is less popular than Sinn Féin.
And who's fault's that? 😂
An STD is more popular.
He’s less popular than sour popcorn.
I hope it does lead to a united ireland 🇮🇪, it’s about time the English left they have been messing up Ireland for long enough…
If only the Tories would leave GB. They have been messing up GB long enough.
...& if the 'English' leave,they'll be taking their 15b a year subsidies with them.
@@58angiebAnd leaving a sizeable reparation bill for 100 years of suffering inflicted on the Irish people.
@@bumblingborisbuffoon6259 You're having a laugh
We want union… no, not that one.
Can't do without forelock tugging to our English masters.
The non-native settlers in in colonies world wide have always resisted change as they would lose the whip hand over the natives. The natives have succeeded in gaining their objectives given enough time. England is slowly losing its first colony thanks to the legacy of the Ulster founders of the United Irishmen.
Are Catholics in Northern Ireland purely of native Irish extraction?
Both of these figures are racist to the core. The Barrister and the Boot Boy. Sums up Unionism. The professional classes and their working class footsoldiers. They would have no issue if the DUP held the First Minister post.
I agree completely with Allister. Let's hope he's right and his worst fears come true.
After this, I'll take a federal UK or an independent Scotland. More complex I know but Scotland has no reason to stay under incompetent Westminster rule. They don't like us anyway just our resources. 🏴
Remember when the UUP were the 'Lundys' being called out by the DUP for having to deal with pragmatic reality? And now it's the DUP being called out by the TUV for having to deal with pragmatic reality. It's just layers of an onion of unionist irreality.
The next election in Northern Ireland will be so very interesting.
I hope that they are right a united Ireland🎉
The idea that JM influenced some of the DUP to rebel is laughable - no influence necessary for their current position. They want the Ulster of their fathers', to paraphrase their song.
Times have changed 9 counties of Ulster. Not 6.
Is it the case that we can only hope for a biological solution in due course? Harry Enfield nailed it in his William Ulster man skit.
Such a bitter pairing on show.
These two people give you a glimpse of ulsters blood and thunder bigoted past
Jim Allister would have all the nationalists sent on boats to Australia
there'll be some dangerous talk in the sewers Loyalists inhabit
Ireland stuff the French, and now this. I am having an amazing weekend. My tiny Welsh wife got her Irish citizenship last month and wore the green for the first time last night. I am the chosen one!☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘
You got that in ONE. Another proud 🇮🇪 Irish Colleen and Citizen - WELCOME.🎉🎉🎉🎉
She is delighted with your comment, thanks brother.
Congratulations
Why do politicians always feel that they need a nodding dog standing beside them 😅😅
should have thought about "all those laws" when we were still in the EU - did not hear any complaints then boyo!
I get the impression that the DUP wants to ga back to pre-1922 times... the dinosaurs...
Good Morning Everyone! ❤
There is only one Ireland!
It’s actually clever by them, because they know the general direction everything is moving, reunification, and they are setting a marker down calling it out, they can down the line blame this as one of the steps that caused reunification and be the heroes that wanted to stop it, even though they know exactly that’s where we are going - they’re giving themselves a future job as the reunification party / easy job just give out about everything without any real responsibility
There's a part of me that feels some residual sympathy for Unionists here, but this is all a consequence of choosing the wrong side of history in the first place. Direct rule from Westminster will NEVER happen again as a last resort. Since GFA, Joint Authority would be the last refuge if the Assembly couldn't sit.
Ever since the last census in Northern Ireland when the Roman Catholic population overtook Protestants in the 6-Counties ‼I believe it is a sign that the days of the British in Ireland really look numbered now. Northern Ireland was very deliberately, very explicitly, not built for either a Nationalist First Minister or for Roman Catholics to outnumber Protestants there.
I think Prime Minister Keir Starmer could very well face a constitutional crisis in BOTH Ireland and Scotland, both of whom have been treated VERY shoddily by the Brexit-Tories.
Scotland has been treated shoddily by both Tories and Labour.
I guarantee the DUP are going to try to make the argument that "Joint consent" refers to Nationalists and Unionists, rather than the populations of the Republic and the North of Ireland.
I think it's better to consider how much nationalists outnumber unionists. Both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism are in decline in NI, but particularly the former. Atheism seems to have a higher grip among formerly Protestant young people than among Catholics. Also opinion polling suggests that among Catholics 70% would vote for united Ireland and about 30% just want to stay in the UK. Among Protestants, about 5 or 6% favour a united Ireland and most of the rest don't. There's some evidence that Catholic immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe etc also tend, by default, to be unionist, given that they perceive themselves as having emigrated to the UK and don't want to end up with what they think is the puzzling issue of leaving the UK and ending up in a united Ireland.
I'm not sure about the accuracy of the foregoing but these are some of the complexities. For anyone, me included, who’d like there to be a united Ireland, the population statistics are nevertheless encouraging.
@@odunadhaigh - All because the Vatican doesn't believe in birth control! 😂😉
Still, I found it so head-spinning because since partition, the 6-counties were NEVER supposed to be THIS.
Plus the absolute casserole that the Irish border has become now, it highlights for me the pointless absurdity, & frankly, the cruelty that partition always was.
Dublin won't want to rush Unification (sans a Sinn Fein Taoiseach, perhaps 😲), but they don't have to!
@@odunadhaighImmigrants from central and Eastern Europe should ponder what happens should the house burnings start again. Will they be spared because they thought they moved to the U.K.? Or burned out because they Catholics?
He I correct the reason is N.Ireland is located on the Island of Ireland the rest of the UK is on the Island of Britain. Unionism past its own death sentence when N.Ireland voted to remain in the EU. It ment Unionists did not dominate any more.😊
What a spectacular own-goal by Bin Boy Bryson.
He’s cut off any future association with the DUP now that Sir Donny has tightly taken up the reigns of his party again and the TUV Loyalists are looking like old, bitter, retrograde bigots, while Sir Donny has taken the needed step forward.
Bye bye Bin Boy! 😂
These hardliners should move to England. The Tories are not interested in NI and they never have been. It's time they just shut up and listened to the people, who know what they want
Sad Mad And Bad he would see a fried egg as Republican plot!!! 🍳😱🇮🇪
These people forget that their is a Good Friday agreement voted for by the people
Ironic that the one party who did more to push irish unification would end up being the DUP. lol
Our day HAS come
Tiocfaidh ár lá
Administering British Rule in Ireland?
Who is the genius nodding next to "Einstein" Jim?
The BinLid Kid.
Why should anyone care what they think. They no mandate.
He is a party of one the TUV holds one 1 out of 90 seats in the assembly
Jamie Bryson would make a good decoration for the parcel shelf in the back window of a car, .........noddy, nod, nod.
Jim is making a great argument for Irish unity 😂
Dinosaurs live amongst us but then he probably doesn’t think dinosaurs existed
As an American I have never understood the justification of Northern Ireland to insist on the split.
If you want to be a British citizen go live on THAT ISLAND.
/shrugs.
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The onlooker sees most of the game.
Spot on!
Yes, Max, you have it totally correct.
Max, Jim’s has provided an alternative. Catholics not being allowed to vote or form political
Parties. Simple!
Try explaining the DUP, a religious party of the 17th century.
It was always thought that the Unionists would be the largest party in the North of Ireland & now - looks like Sinn Fein will be the largest party as the Roman Catholic community grows.
They are going to have to get used to it as Michelle O'Neil will be the 1st Minister.
A good vlog, glad someone is speaking about what's really going on & not completely believing the road back to Stormont is still going to be tricky as all the toys haven't been thrown out the pram yet.
A footnote in history for calling out night follows day.
So now we KNOW that the DUP care Not a WIT about the People of Northern Ireland!!!!
I don’t know who the nodding bird is, but I go full Simpsons…
“He’s drinking the water!!!”
I never thought I’d see it, but I expect a united Ireland in my lifetime…
Since Gerry Adams arrived on the scene, Sien Fein has been a coherent reasonable political voice…
Meanwhile, the Unionist parties have devolved into chaos…
If I were an erstwhile Orange Man, I might just say “Fuck it!!! Let’s go with Dublin…”
Quelle surprise. When i visited Belfast for a conference, i set my watch back 50 years and an hour, and my experience was I was correct to do so. Nothing has changed with the Unionists.
If they want to call themselves Irish and admit that no matter what your ancestors were be they, gaelic, viking, english, welsh or scottish, we are all Irish now then no one would object. But if you want to continue to say you are english and want to say you are part of the Uk then you are welcome to hand the land back and head back to Britain for good. The time is long past for this country to be unified.
Hopeful that Ireland will unite
I’m not a SF supporter but the real objections is they haven’t got the top job.
A man clingling desperately to the failed Northern Ireland statelet. The Unionists are on the backfoot. They lost the power they gerrymandered for themselves and now cannot face up to the inevitable position, at some time in the very near future, to be reunited with the rest of Ireland. In the meantime, he has to accept that Unionism is going to play a secondary role in NI.