Northern Ireland Assembly Election, 2022

[afleitch]

The issue is the detachment of a substantial and growing minority of Protestant voters from capital 'U' Unionism. Which is actually a return to long-dead historical norms, even if the parties that benefit are very different to the one that did back then - but Northern Ireland was a very different country at the time with a totally different economy (i.e. it had one).

Sinn Fein's campaign had a whiff of the ancient familiar about it; strikingly similar in tone to the 1921 campaign.

[afleitch]

DUP don't want to power share in Catholic Nationalist led executive shocker.

[afleitch]

Why hasn't all the goverment funding been able to create at least some sort of white collar industry ?

What company would want to move there? And the brain drain means that anyone minded to try that sort of thing themselves moves either South across the border or East across the sea.

A good point.

Glasgow, which has created a sizeable 'white collar' base, from personal experience has a non negligible Northern Irish workforce.