Northern Ireland General Discussion

[Cassius]

https://twitter.com/SuzyJourno/status/1395997752916643843?s=19

Assembly elections are next year. The aggregated major unionist vote is 41% compared to 37% for the nationalists, but last time a good chunk of SDLP and UUP voters put each other or Alliance as their second preference, partly at the urging of Mike Nesbitt.

Did they? My understanding was that ‘vote Mike get Colum’ went down like a bucket of cold sick amongst the UUP faithful (who still remain broadly conservative - when polled in a study of the party done in 2019 a majority were well disposed to Jim Allister of all people).

[Cassius]

Big opportunity for the UUP, were it not for the fact that the UUP is so bad at politics.

[Cassius]

Israel is a model of functionality by comparison to Northern Ireland.

[Cassius]

From a few weeks ago, but I haven't seen this story posted yet:

https://twitter.com/Kilsally/status/1600551628301647907

The DUP acting like sore losers after coming in second place in the last election can't be helping them, let alone Northern Ireland as a whole.

‘Experts’ and other ‘men of peace’ have been engaged in wishful thinking along these lines for the last six years and nothing significant has eventuated. The same will be the case now.