Union Jack flying south of the border

No, again, that would be mob rule.

Democracy - negotiating with people.

Mob rule - democracy without negotiation.

Duh - don't Unionists in the north already have an artificial veto on democracy in Ireland?

That veto remains within the GFA - they can vote to retain that veto if they want.

Whereas Irish people in south and north are being denied real democracy and self-determination in our own country because of that artificial veto - and are not allowed to end foreign British rule in our country because of the Unionists undemocratic veto on democracy in Ireland.

Get real - majority rule is hardly mob rule.

Ever hear of "elections" and "referendums" - that's democracy.

I'm surprised at a person of your obvious intellectual stature making a statement like that. As you must surely know ,there's nothing God-given about counties -they're simply arbitrary administrative arrangements and could vary in number at any point in time were circumstances to require it.

The number of 'provinces' has changed many times through history. The RC church varies numbers of parishes and dioceses etc. etc.. No need to have a fetish about numbers of any humanly devised boundary decisions..i.t's a silly form of absolutism.

Some of your other posts would suggest you spend much of your time looking through the wrong end of the telescope ...but hey . we all have our little foibles eh?

I wouldn't do it. Dont see the point in doing so.

Don't see the pint of flying any flags? That's fair enough. Don't see the point of flying a tricolour in particular?

Ha ha ha ha ha

No flags anywhere other then Irish flags outside Irish pubs. 🤣🤣🤣

😂 Exactly. same if there was an American bar in Germany or British pub in Poland etc

I dont get why anyone would fly a national flag outside their house, its a bit low class.

You need to re-read the post. I never defined "majority rule" - I merely gave you two interpretations of it: democracy (majority rule with negotiation) and and mob rule (majority rule without negotiation, i.e "breaking them")

Now definiely leaving you here as I have proven factually that: 1) you are either incapable of reading posts or choose to deliberately misinterpret them (at which point debate is obviously futile); and and 2) your argument of "breaking" someone who does not agree without negotiation has proven you don't actually know how democracy works (proven by responce above).

So you can continuue said advocation of violence and flawed political knowledge and ad homeinem some other poster.

Well I could be naive but is it possible its a family or person who is from the UK?

Just to clarify ...I wasn't suggesting that you were 'spitting venom'. I know from your previous posts that this is emphatically not your style. I prefaced the remark with 'As an aside' to try to make this clear but I know ,however, that it is almost impossible in a written forum to achieve the proper level of nuance or prevent misapprehensions or unwanted implications arising.

I can see how the shared island "investments" could be seen as a potential controversy. My guess is this is Anti-united-Ireland politicians black-guarding. Obviously the Republic is under no obligation to fund any part of the UK while the part in question remains in the UK.

My guess is an agreement exists whereby the Irish government is repaying a loan they accepted from the UK back around 2008 or 2009. If I recall correctly that loan was for about 2 billion. They are dressing up these loan repayments as funding various projects in northern Ireland.

If there was a united Ireland, it would be no different to any other part of Ireland. The same can be said of the status quo. Northern Ireland is technically no different from any other part of the UK when it comes to funding. All of the UK runs on deficit spending ie funny money from the BOE. The ECB can be just as funny when Ireland runs a deficit.

I would welcome a united Ireland and I tend to see through any shenanigans the real Brits and west Brits throw up to obscure the truth

So are we not allowed freedom of expression here. It is a flag. British is their national identity. If they're proud of it fine. In 2023 people need not be provacted by the flag.

Btw the union jack is compromised of the English flag the Scotish flag and an all Ireland flag superimposed on to each other. The flag representing Ireland when we were in the union was St Patricks cross which is a white background with a red X shape cross. The flag was never changed even after the south left the union. And the flag is really now the offical flag of NI. The red hand of Ulster on white background used sometimes to represent NI at football matchs has no official status.

Although irish unionists adopted the st patricks cross as thier national flag nationalists went with the tri colour despite both nationalists and irish unionists accepting St. Patrick as thier national patron saint hence why the 17th march is a national holiday in both the north and south.

Irish unionists did not just live in north. There was alot in the south too at the time of partition that wanted all of Ireland to stay in the union and presumably would have the union jack as their national flag.

Saying oh you live in this jurisdiction which now has this official flag so therefore that has to be your national identity is gutter ideology. Live and let live. Also if there is a UI there will be alot of union jacks in it. Go through east belfast and it is literally hung from every lampost. That want change even in a UI.

Fleg season .