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Jesus lads, 'tis looking like BREXIT!
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<blockquote data-quote="PROCNA2018" data-source="post: 7093268" data-attributes="member: 43313"><p>This is where we enter alternative reality syndrome to stave off unity at all costs.</p><p></p><p>We didn't claim anything. The old articles 2 and 3 were a statement of fact. The national territory is.....pending the reintegration of. .....there was never any legitimacy to the Government of Ireland Act in Ireland like there was never any legitimacy to the British presence in Ireland over centuries. </p><p></p><p>What we did in 1998 was made a peace agreement acknowledging that you simply cannot deny the existence of 900,000 people planted in Ulster and their wish to be British in perpetuity and they under no circumstances should be forced militarily into a united Ireland through a campaign of unjustifiable terror and murder. </p><p></p><p>So we changed the territorial statement of fact to a popular statement based on the principle of consent. That's not me seeing what I want to see, it's fact.</p><p></p><p>The GFA is very clear - if an SoS calls a BP and it passes, both governments must legislate to make that decision a reality. </p><p></p><p>So a successful BP means unity.</p><p></p><p>How we provide our democratically expressed acknowledgement of that in my head used to mean a concurrent referendum down here. But the more I read, it seems a motion passed in the Dáil would be enough. I think I'd prefer the referendum. But it is what it is. </p><p></p><p>Unity is inevitable. The form it takes is what we should be discussing and agreeing now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PROCNA2018, post: 7093268, member: 43313"] This is where we enter alternative reality syndrome to stave off unity at all costs. We didn't claim anything. The old articles 2 and 3 were a statement of fact. The national territory is.....pending the reintegration of. .....there was never any legitimacy to the Government of Ireland Act in Ireland like there was never any legitimacy to the British presence in Ireland over centuries. What we did in 1998 was made a peace agreement acknowledging that you simply cannot deny the existence of 900,000 people planted in Ulster and their wish to be British in perpetuity and they under no circumstances should be forced militarily into a united Ireland through a campaign of unjustifiable terror and murder. So we changed the territorial statement of fact to a popular statement based on the principle of consent. That's not me seeing what I want to see, it's fact. The GFA is very clear - if an SoS calls a BP and it passes, both governments must legislate to make that decision a reality. So a successful BP means unity. How we provide our democratically expressed acknowledgement of that in my head used to mean a concurrent referendum down here. But the more I read, it seems a motion passed in the Dáil would be enough. I think I'd prefer the referendum. But it is what it is. Unity is inevitable. The form it takes is what we should be discussing and agreeing now. [/QUOTE]
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