A partitionist attitude

[stripey cat]

Ireland is a 32 county island with all its inhabitants being Irish. If people want to take this partitionist attitude towards our friend across the border, well I have little faith in our society.

END OF RANT.

Why doesn't Fianna Fáil organise in the north then? Or, alternatively, why don't you join a party that does?

[stripey cat]

What about the Guy in the Niquitin Mini's adverts, he has to have the most annoying accent ever!

What is the story with him? Is he trying to talk without opening his mouth?

[sondagefaux]

What do ye expect? Germany was partitioned for about 40 years, there were no ethnic divisions (how many East Germans claimed they were Russians and wanted to be part of the USSR?) but there's still plenty of tension between the two parts of Germany.

[Fraxinus_]

The main point the OP started out making was the resentment felt by Southerners about Northerners coming across the border and under bidding for schools and other public works.
The OP stated that we should be happy if 100,000 or so was saved on a public works contract as this would benefit everyone down here.
This is fairy tale economics.
What the hell good is 100,000 saved when 5 or 6 million flits across the border together with all the taxes and spending power that might have stayed down here.
I am all for this hands across the border thing if it could be made to work both ways.
If a southern contractor could win work in Northern Ireland without opening his lunch box one day and finding a cryptic little note advising him about his future health.If taxes were on that famous level playing field.
If union bully-boy imposed wage rates were the same on both sides.
Business people have to work in the real world and not some Pollyanna
type bubble.

I don't get that, hasn't a 26 county contractor got that big development outside Derry?

[factual]

If England had been partitioned I suspect that neither southerners nor northerners would want to reunite

[Fir Bolg]

Personally I couldnt care less if someone in the south thinks that the north isnt Irish.

Theres a road near me called battle hill, Cromwell was defeated there.

So what. Cromwell defeated and routed the Ulster army at Scariffholis.

The Ulster Rebellions , the United Irishmen formed in Belfast etc are all proof that if it wasnt for the north there wouldnt even be Irish people.
That word would be as dead as 'Celt' or 'Gael'.

How simple are you?

You would all be living in West Britton, just like the Tudors etc. wanted.



Without Ulster there wouldnt be a place called Ireland and people should remeber that when they decide to idiotically judge peoples nationality on what accent they speak the English language with.
Which sadly is exactly how a lot of people in the south judge a persons nationality.

Yes, maybe in St333veworld.

The Giants Causeway must be the most iconic symbol of Ireland that I can think of, yet these ignorant partitionists know so little of their history and culture that they wouldn't even recognise it as being part of Ireland.

Other peoples ignorance doesnt annoy me, I feel sorry for them.

Pot and Kettle spring to mind.

[Caothaoir]

The "D4" accent is an abomination.
(Why do they pronounce "O" in that peculiar way? It's almost like a German "Ö".)
And it's spreading too - like a plague across the land.

The worst thing about it - even worse than how insufferably grating it is on the ear - are the motivations behind it: feelings of inferiority and good old-fashioned pretentiousness.
These poor bastards actually believe they sound superior, more cultured and sophisticated, than the rest of us.
They really should be pitied more than anything else.

[Mr.Ograff]

Why doesn't Fianna Fáil organise in the north then? Or, alternatively, why don't you join a party that does?

Fianna Fáil is organised in the North and has set up every where bar Tyrone and south Derry so far. The members in the North wish for Fianna Fáil to stand in the 2011 elections and there have been Cumainn in the colleges this last three years.

[euryalus]

"st333ve" says that "Theres a road near me called battle hill, Cromwell was defeated there".

When was Cromwell ever defeated?

[Dunlin3]

Fianna Fáil is organised in the North and has set up every where bar Tyrone and south Derry so far. The members in the North wish for Fianna Fáil to stand in the 2011 elections and there have been Cumainn in the colleges this last three years.

Great! Hopefully theyll move their whole organisation up north and stop screwing things up in the south! They may have to after the next election!