© 2008 Corrupt Éire

22 December 2008

United Ireland by 2016: not as long as Sinn Féin are still around

A referendum on a united Ireland could be held before 2016, Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy has claimed.

The fading international spotlight on Northern Ireland and the current economic climate could create the right environment to go to a vote, the Sinn Fein MLA told supporters last night.

At a public briefing, An Ireland of Equals — the Peace Process and Beyond, held in the House of Commons, Mr Murphy added that reunification was not a spectator sport. “We were accused of setting 2016 as the date for the hundred-year anniversary. It may take longer,” he said.

“I actually think it could happen sooner than that in reality if we keep the momentum going when the economic realities and the political realities hit."

Belfast Telegraph

If a referendum really is on the cards in less than a decades time then I can only hope that Fianna Fáil get up north quick and get working. Irish unity makes good sense but it needs a political backer that doesn't also represent unrealistic social policies and, above all, doesnt violently repulse protestants - who will need to vote in favour of a united Ireland if it is ever to happen.

I have no faith at all in Sinn Féin ever bringing about a united Ireland. They have no strategy whatsoever on how to win around the majority of the population up north nor any clear view of a future Ireland that I would be willing to sign up to.

Hopefully FF's economic record and history of antagonism to SF down south will give them enough respectability to appeal across the old divides. Lord knows we need someone who will.

Comments:

The last thing the decent nationalist people of the North of Ireland need is the southern Irish mafia involved in their day to day lives. Fianna fail has destroyed Celtic gaelic Ireland beyond recognition and has done more damage in 10 years than the saxons have managed in 800 years as well as destroying the Irish ecomomy in order to line the pockets of their wealthy developerfarmerpublicanlandlord etc cronies. The Irish language is nearly dead and is being taught by pockets of dedicated people in a miniscual number of Gael scoils most of which are in rat infested portacabins and these bastards have the cheek to pose in front of pictures of Padraig Pearse. The reason the Irish language is not spoken after three quarters of a century of so called freedom is because it was used as an instrument of division being an entry level requirment into public service jobs such as Gardai, teachers etc so it could not be widely spoken by the working class people because it would level the playing field and take away the advantage that the wealthy farming stock always had in Ireland. Fianna fail have created a mafia ran dictatorship which is a Republic in name only and democracy is just a sound bite as we have seen recently with Lisbon. They talk about a knowledge economy but this only applies to the endless stream of their cronies going through our third level education system which is off limits to most working class Irish people, the system is geared to keep our working class youth out of colleges, social welfare is available to stand on street corners but not available to go to college only under very difficult criteria which in most cases are impossible to meet. The tribunals in the Republic are just the tip of the iceberg, these mafia are to be found everwhere there is power and control, look at the FAS scandal recently, just another example of creaming off the taxpayers money, the health system collapsed because billions of taxpayers euros were used in creating cushy high paying jobs for their cronies and numerous people have died and suffered much because of their greed. The Irish people who emigrated from our shores and worked so hard to send back money to their families that kept many a working class family from going under were abandoned and left to die in poverty and desolation on the streets foreign cities, while those in power in Ireland spent countless millions of Irish taxpayers money on public shows of generosity to everyone but our own. I say to the decent people of the North of Ireland to reject utterly any overtures made by Fianna fail for the sake of all the things you hold dear, and just to clarify I have NO POLITICAL ALLIGIENCE only to honesty and decency but I have eyes, ears, and a resonable degree of intelligence which is enough to see through these bastards for what they are.

Tiocfaidh ar la
[ancientarmyofoneill] - 02 01 09 - 17:20

As right as you are about Fianna Fáil, the political parties up north are all such a desperate shower of shite that even FF look like a better option.

Browse through a few older posts on this site and you’ll soon see that FF are hardly held in high regard here. But, if nothing else, FF I think have a better chance of producing a united Ireland than anyone else.
Corrupt Éire (Email) (URL) - 03 01 09 - 11:13

“As right as you are about Fianna Fáil, the political parties up north are all such a desperate shower of shite that even FF look like a better option.”

Haha – a better option. Then they can fill the north with empty apartment blocks, and introduce bail out schemes to protect their fat cat builder friends. They can then introduce our famed health system, the people in NI will welcome that!!! I would put a team mice in power up north before I took the plunge and introduce NI to some premier incompetence – go FF
Justin (Email) (URL) - 14 01 09 - 06:30

Good God. Sense about Northern Ireland. I have argued this for some years with the Irish politicos down the Pub but they just couldn’t see it. Sinn Fein has as little chance with the Protestant voter as the DUP in Dublin.
Harry (URL) - 24 02 09 - 16:41

I am an already impoverished Northerner about to lose his job, I have enough problems without having to deal withh FF. There are quite enough gangsters here already, we do not need anybody elses. As far as I can see there is only one real problem with the South – do you have a wall long enough to line the policiticans up against so they can receive their just deserts?
lasttoleave - 29 04 09 - 07:28

Just come back from the polling station in Celbridge, walked past a number of classrooms, before I found the one I was to go to, All of the classrooms were full of nigerians, loud, arrogant,with a number giving the pollester grief, this is surreal, not only do we allow these parasites into our country, we then proceed to give them the right to vote, can you tell me the name of this comedy show ? I think its called the fianna fail mafia
David murphy - 05 06 09 - 13:04

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