Feb 2020
8:31pm, 4 Feb 2020
866 posts
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Ally-C
Sinn Féinn ahead in the Irish election polls, one country heading to the left for a change?
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Feb 2020
8:33pm, 4 Feb 2020
867 posts
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Ally-C
Sinn Féin, one n too many!
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Feb 2020
9:49pm, 4 Feb 2020
23,031 posts
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Johnny Blaze
If we had a written constitution issues like referendums and fixed term parliaments would have been sorted centuries ago. As it is, a dickhead of a PM can institute a flawed referendum on a whim and the so-called Fixed Term Parliament Act can be overturned by a two line bill. A lot of our problems stem from having a weak, if flexible, unwritten constitution.
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Feb 2020
8:31am, 5 Feb 2020
2,404 posts
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B Rubble
It might be interesting if Scottish independence goes all the way to the Supreme Court. Have a look at the CV of Lord Reid the new president. He's Scottish and has spent quite a lot of his career in EU legal affairs. Obviously he hasn't revealed any political bias but I wouldn't be surprised if he now fronts the judiciary against the government. I wonder what argument the government will give if the Supreme Court rules against disallowing a Scottish referendum. "They're blocking the will of the people!" ...err... hold on.... |
Feb 2020
8:39am, 5 Feb 2020
8,381 posts
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simbil
Ha, yep that is where populism unravels. If you don’t have coherent policies backed by principles and instead have a pot of half backed policies, they will be shown to work against each other and expose hypocrisy. Which leaves the populist leader having to bluff, bluster and lie there way through it. None of that will sound at all familiar in U.K. politics though. |
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Feb 2020
8:42am, 5 Feb 2020
8,382 posts
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simbil
Baked... their... forgive the spelling.
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Feb 2020
8:46am, 5 Feb 2020
34,078 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Agree with HappyT and Bazo, Scottish Independence is on a knife edge and that's not a good place to be pushing a major constitutional and union change. Even though UK did just that on a 52/48 ill thought out campaign beset by lies. I wouldn't want Scotland to do that. The argument has to be made, clearly, with facts and has to be won, strongly in order to go forward. I believe all that can happen, but wouldn't want to drive it through unfairly. Re Sinn Fein big gains in Republic of Ireland - what is the % support in Northern Ireland would it have a majority in favour of Irish unification? Apologies for my ignorance.  G
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Feb 2020
8:51am, 5 Feb 2020
44,746 posts
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Diogenes
An article on Brexit by John Le Carre theguardian.com |
Feb 2020
9:23am, 5 Feb 2020
19,135 posts
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DeeGee
I know it's not an absolutely perfect barometer, :-)G, but the Protestant population of Northern Ireland was less than 1% larger than the Catholic population in 2011, and that gap is decreasing year on year, due to the higher birth rates in the Catholic communities. Admittedly, a significant number of those Catholics may be from the Polish community, but that's also decreasing in size every year. Of course, there's no guarantee that a Catholic will be a Republican or that a Protestant will be a Unionist, but it's a gauge. |
Feb 2020
9:30am, 5 Feb 2020
951 posts
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Roberto
I havent talked about, read any articles, or taken any interest in politics for about a month now. I havent read any posts in here either. Really needed to take a step back as just felt so disillusioned and lost with it all. My work have arranged a mandatory "celebration" event in which we are going to the house of lords. Cant escape it. |
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