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I am so fed up of hearing about baseless fraud claims. I worked a few elections, & know it would not be as easy as some gullible people belive. And lets face it, if there really was widespread fraud, don't you think it would be in court now to prove it.
Nearly half the population want Northern Ireland to remain in the UK, while a third would vote for a united Ireland tomorrow, according to recent 2022 polls.
As for the Northern Ireland protocol, much more upbeat negotiations continue, with the EU claiming that both sides are very close to an agreement.
BNW - The thing you and other naysayers continue to ignore is how much more likely the reunification of NI & Ireland is just in the last few years, much less going back 10 years. Back then it was under 10% that said they would want it, vs. today you claim 33% would want it. While I no longer trust polls (even when they comport with my thinking), I suspect the numbers are based on how the question/s are framed, and of course who is asked (i.e., Irish/British/Catholics/Protestants).
Thus I suspect more than 1/3 support unification.
Heck, just look at how much things have change politically. At the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, many a hardline Brit said it would never last, with the Irish predicted to break it.
Yet here we are almost a quarter of a century later, and it is still intact. Ironically, it is the Brits via the intransigent DUP which have endangered it more with claims of "the GFA being dead" based on the current kerfuffle over the NI protocol, and their refusal to go back to Stormont.
If we want to talk about change and how wrong the naysayers have been, if I had proffered the notion that Sinn Fein would be the leading party in both NI, and the Republic of Ireland a decade ago, many of you would have said I was off my rocker.
Yet as I type this today, that is the reality.
BNW - The thing you and other naysayers continue to ignore is how much more likely the reunification of NI & Ireland is just in the last few years, much less going back 10 years. Back then it was under 10% that said they would want it, vs. today you claim 33% would want it. While I no longer trust polls (even when they comport with my thinking), I suspect the numbers are based on how the question/s are framed, and of course who is asked (i.e., Irish/British/Catholics/Protestants).
Thus I suspect more than 1/3 support unification.
Heck, just look at how much things have change politically. At the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, many a hardline Brit said it would never last, with the Irish predicted to break it.
Yet here we are almost a quarter of a century later, and it is still intact. Ironically, it is the Brits via the intransigent DUP which have endangered it more with claims of "the GFA being dead" based on the current kerfuffle over the NI protocol, and their refusal to go back to Stormont.
If we want to talk about change and how wrong the naysayers have been, if I had proffered the notion that Sinn Fein would be the leading party in both NI, and the Republic of Ireland a decade ago, many of you would have said I was off my rocker.
Yet as I type this today, that is the reality.
What a load of nonsense or are you seriously suggesting that 90% of Northern Ireland were against reunification during the troubles or even more recently.
I just hope Britain can now forge a similar type of relationship with the US as the RoI and France, and I look forward to the day when we finally rid ourselves of US bases.
I am of the opinion that Britain should do no more to support the US than our neighbours the RoI and France, whilst the US can go and fight it's own wars.
What a load of nonsense or are you seriously suggesting that 90% of Northern Ireland were against reunification during the troubles or even more recently.
I just hope Britain can now forge a similar type of relationship with the US as the RoI and France, and I look forward to the day when we finally rid ourselves of US bases.
I am of the opinion that Britain should do no more to support the US than our neighbours the RoI and France, whilst the US can go and fight it's own wars.
Is this an extension of the Greenham Common saga? ie we dont want nuclear missiles or other weapons of war on our soil but we would still like to be under the umbrella of NATO protection. I think there is some delusional ideology running amok amongst advocates of this line of thought that making the UK safe from nuclear strikes in a war is by creating a nuclear free zone. That will not happen
What a load of nonsense or are you seriously suggesting that 90% of Northern Ireland were against reunification during the troubles or even more recently.
I just hope Britain can now forge a similar type of relationship with the US as the RoI and France, and I look forward to the day when we finally rid ourselves of US bases.
I am of the opinion that Britain should do no more to support the US than our neighbours the RoI and France, whilst the US can go and fight it's own wars.
Is this an extension of the Greenham Common saga? ie we dont want nuclear missiles or other weapons of war on our soil but we would still like to be under the umbrella of NATO protection. I think there is some delusional ideology running amok amongst advocates of this line of thought that making the UK safe from nuclear strikes in a war would be eliminated if this were to happen.
What a load of nonsense or are you seriously suggesting that 90% of Northern Ireland were against reunification during the troubles or even more recently.
Before you declare something nonsense, you should have a good grasp, if not great knowledge of something to feel so brazen as to dismiss others.
Also, if you read what I said correctly, you would not see 90% against anywhere, rather that less than 10% were for unification when the poll was taken back in 2012 (7% among Catholics). At best it would be 19% if you include "Other" as a group combined with Catholics.
However, when additional questions were asked, such as unification in 20 years, the number jumped to 41% of Catholics, and 76% of everyone polled.
You can see and read the breakdown between Protestants, Catholics, and "other" in the following link;
For starters, Trump was never mentioned in that video, nor did it have anything to do with him. Also PragerU has been around well before Trump became a politician.
More importantly, Wiki is rubbish, so using them to try and discredit another online channel is beyond the pale.
The following are examples of how a libertarian and an investigative journalist for left leaning CBS have discovered how biased and false Wiki can be;
While I have not watched most of the PragerU videos (thus cannot account for their accuracy), I fact checked a couple of them (that were hard to believe), and they were spot on.
My point being that while some fraud occurs under the best of circumstances, certain practices lead to elections being stolen, which only emboldens those who would be inclined to cheat. But don't take my word for it alone, read the in-depth report created by former president Carter (D), who listed some of the things highlighted in the PragerU video, as means of fraud that needed to be stopped in 3rd world elections.
To the best of my knowledge the UK nor specifically NI have such shenanigans going on during their elections, which is a good thing.
I am so fed up of hearing about baseless fraud claims. I worked a few elections, & know it would not be as easy as some gullible people belive. And lets face it, if there really was widespread fraud, don't you think it would be in court now to prove it.
I am glad the UK polls seem to be more accurate.
With us both being American, our perspective on our own elections and polling has likely been rocked more than what goes on in NI.
Still I suspect polling is done by the media to manipulate public opinion, as human nature is wanting to be in the majority.
Back when the DUP & Sinn Fein were predicted via polling to overtake the UUP & SDLP respectively, it seemed hard to believe.
Yet that is what happened.
The UK press/polls got it wrong on Brexit, but maybe the polling is better in NI than most of the UK.
If so, I wonder why?
For starters, Trump was never mentioned in that video, nor did it have anything to do with him. Also PragerU has been around well before Trump became a politician.
More importantly, Wiki is rubbish, so using them to try and discredit another online channel is beyond the pale.
The following are examples of how a libertarian and an investigative journalist for left leaning CBS have discovered how biased and false Wiki can be;
While I have not watched most of the PragerU videos (thus cannot account for their accuracy), I fact checked a couple of them (that were hard to believe), and they were spot on.
My point being that while some fraud occurs under the best of circumstances, certain practices lead to elections being stolen, which only emboldens those who would be inclined to cheat. But don't take my word for it alone, read the in-depth report created by former president Carter (D), who listed some of the things highlighted in the PragerU video, as means of fraud that needed to be stopped in 3rd world elections.
To the best of my knowledge the UK nor specifically NI have such shenanigans going on during their elections, which is a good thing.
Although Trump was not mentioned, YOU claimed that unspecified *third-world shenanigans* had recently infiltrated US voting and attempted to back your claim up with a video from a highly suspect source.
That PragerU existed before Trump became a politician means nothing
I think you're dissembling. I drew the analogy with Trump, as is plain for everyone to see.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Trump has recently been making claims of voter fraud, and more.
Wiki itself says it's not a reliable source. That doesn't mean it's not the best source available
Is this an extension of the Greenham Common saga? ie we dont want nuclear missiles or other weapons of war on our soil but we would still like to be under the umbrella of NATO protection. I think there is some delusional ideology running amok amongst advocates of this line of thought that making the UK safe from nuclear strikes in a war is by creating a nuclear free zone. That will not happen
Well as a founding member of NATO I should think so too!
Shouldn't the UK expect protection from its own armed forces?
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