big mervyn wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 11:21 pm
Lurgan Lad wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:51 pm
Liam Neeson, Jimmy Nesbitt, Carl Frampton, that would be the guesses at the top of my list although would any of them want it. Maybe a priest/archbishop type person, but again probably wouldn't be a good move for them.
Agree on the border polls, if Sinn Fein were told it would be a once in a lifetime poll would they want it now or prefer to wait.
Was amazing news in North Down, a real kick up the Brennan to the DUP and hopefully we can get some kind of agreement that gets Stormont up and running.
This "once in a lifetime" lark is a crock of shyt. Why should it be once in a lifetime especially, as in Scotland's case, the English Govt substantially moves the goalposts?
Why not tack it on to the census every 10 years?
.... ans Stormont is the reason not the solution. Two many sectarian factions and petty conflicting parochial interests within them meant that the major strategic decisions that were required in Health and Education were never taken and never will be.
F*ck sake Lad. A priest/archbishop type person? Catch a f*cking grip
Salmond stated it was once in a generation, to say the English have moved the goalposts is nonsense given the EU referendum was based on Britain, not Scotland leaving the EU. We haven't even left the EU yet, and the terms on which trade will be based haven't been established. Crankie wants the referendum because the more you have at some point you will win one, and each one will continue to destabilise Scotland.
Don't agree on Stormont either Merv, the terms of the Good Friday agreement were what has led us to this impasse. The whole needing at least 50% of both communities to agree to any substantial change was ridiculous, if SDLP, Alliance, UUP and DUP agree on something (or Sinn Fein, SDLP, Alliance & UUP) why that was sufficient support to enact something I'll never know.
Priest/archbishop, the person I was thinking of was Black Santa but obviously like all of us he has better things to do with his time.