Northern Ireland General Discussion

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When it comes to a "united Ireland":

The paedophilia scandals have destroyed the Roman Catholic Church's moral authority across the world and unionists can always remind Ulster voters that the Irish republican leadership were close adherents to said protectors of perverts for many decades.

Will be "interesting times", in the Chinese sense.

21% of Catholics in Northern Ireland support unionism. Guess you want to alienate them I suppose.

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When it comes to a "united Ireland":

The paedophilia scandals have destroyed the Roman Catholic Church's moral authority across the world and unionists can always remind Ulster voters that the Irish republican leadership were close adherents to said protectors of perverts for many decades.

Will be "interesting times", in the Chinese sense.

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I'm not a Tory. I'm an anti-socialist centrist.

Famed Tory BRTD.

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21% of Catholics in Northern Ireland support unionism.

Potentially voting to maintain the status quo on 'just want to grill' grounds is not the same as 'supporting Unionism'.

Well, the status quo is unionism, so if the unionists decided to attack nationalists for being close to the Catholic Church like Jolly Slugg suggested, I'm sure that many soft unionist  Catholics would reconsider their positions.

Historically the UUP at least did have a few Catholic members, but its fair to say they were generally regarded (by both sides) as somewhat eccentric.

The Alliance is to a large extent unionist, yes? I consider the Alliance to be a unionist party even if there are some members who support reunification.