Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
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- cherub0
Northern Ireland seems to be unraveling. Do you have a plan?
- I would like so much to answer this question but I'm not UKoey_oey
- it's looking like more dark days ahead, hopefully notfadein11
- Have you seen how the UK works? Of course they don't have a fucking plan.PhanLo
- Go ahead, oey. Floor is yours.cherub
- just saw this, it's fine. brexit border controls are impacting the criminal elements of paramilitary organisations and causing a split between theirkingsteven
- child soldier elements and senior members (who get their money straight from the gov't in 'community' grants) its no more fucked than it has been since the DUPkingsteven
- (who primarily represent unionists who voted against the peace process) took the lead in the assembly in 2003 and derailed the whole thing in their favourkingsteven
- the interesting thing is that while the loyalists are falling apart, the IRA's leadership and ideological republicanism is stronger than everkingsteven
- potentially, we could see a violence and crime weighted (even more) on the loyalist side and a shift in perception from moderate unionists on a border pollkingsteven
- thats when it gets messy, but it was pretty clear to most of us the DUP started the process by backing Brexit (and tipping the balance UK wide)kingsteven
- Imagine if successive british govt's had funded a paramilitary wing of the BNP. The British press are quite deliberately only the reporting surface tension.kingsteven
- all this loyalist business is conducted very openly (they believe they are above the law) - they think they're The Sopranos when they're The Wire - Season 1kingsteven
- or the season where stringer bell hooks up with clay davis and avon barksdale goes full retard and i'm bubbleskingsteven
- So the unionists are losing ground?cherub
- the DUP have been loosing votes for years. they exist so theres a single unionist party bigger than SF in the assembly but many voters don't share their views.kingsteven
- at the same time SF in the South looking like, all progressive, and European and and <sigh> I remember when we were Europekingsteven
- I just watched this. Holy crap that was intense. "Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right!" https://youtu.be/p2b…cherub