EU to accept united Ireland provision...

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EU are expected to approve a declaration whereby if the people of Ireland agreed to unite, then the entire territory would be part of EU.

Wonder if this would tempt the Unionist section of the population?

Anyone on here speculate on the odds of both Northern Ireland and Scotland going peeling off brom England/Wales?

Doesn't have to be a heavy or insulting/angry thread.

If I was down the bookies I would put more money on the Scots but it's close and just as likely that neither will do anything!

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El stovey said:

I haven't seen (m)any polls that suggest Scottish people want independence.

I doubt the N Irish want to split or even if the Irish want them to join. The Irish voted against the Lisbon treaty when the got the chance. Then they had to keep having votes until they changed their mind.

It all seems a bit unlikely to me.

That all makes sense but I've reluctantly given up on people making sense. I used to think the people who were anti-EU were a bit like morris dancers and real ale enthusiasts: genial, self-entertaining traditional English eccentrics.
I never really thought there'd ever even be a vote on it but I see how wrong I was about that.
Then Trump, then LePen, chuck in Putin... North Korea ...all my certainties are on very shaky ground.

I think I just became complacent as I got older and, surrounded by people with similar beliefs, came to think that was 'normal' that most people thought like that.

I genuinely think anything could happen. Ireland could have guns on the streets again if that went wrong.

We're not as far away from that as I'd like in the UK. There's a lot more simmering hate and resentment than there was a year ago.

Or it could all blow over - which is probably most likely, but I have doubts where I didn't have them before.

I'm now a firmer believer in 'past performance is not an indicator of future outcomes'.

Perhaps I wouldn't put any money on it after all!

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wc98 said:

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That all makes sense but I've reluctantly given up on people making sense. I used to think the people who were anti-EU were a bit like morris dancers and real ale enthusiasts: genial, self-entertaining traditional English eccentrics.
I never really thought there'd ever even be a vote on it but I see how wrong I was about that.
Then Trump, then LePen, chuck in Putin... North Korea ...all my certainties are on very shaky ground.

I think I just became complacent as I got older and, surrounded by people with similar beliefs, came to think that was 'normal' that most people thought like that.

I genuinely think anything could happen. Ireland could have guns on the streets again if that went wrong.

We're not as far away from that as I'd like in the UK. There's a lot more simmering hate and resentment than there was a year ago.

Or it could all blow over - which is probably most likely, but I have doubts where I didn't have them before.

I'm now a firmer believer in 'past performance is not an indicator of future outcomes'.

Perhaps I wouldn't put any money on it after all!

you may have mentioned it before and i have forgotten , but which eu institution/agency/department or industry in receipt of eu funding core to its existence is it you work for ?

Chuckle... that memory of yours, still I suppose there's not much room in there with all the sentimental images of the Queen, policemen clipping ears, the Proms, Zulu, Union Jacks and the sound of sad songs about the great days of empire and other nonsense.
At least you won't have to remember your manners around foreigners soon.