Jacksgranda Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 23 minutes ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said: The UK is falling apart. First time ever majority for Republican parties in N Ireland, Sinn Fein likely to win in ROI today, Plaid on the rise in Wales and support for indy nearing 30% and SNP hegemony in Scotland with polls showing majority in favour of indy. The UK is done now, it won't see out the decade. Not according to the 2019 general election. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 3 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: Not according to the 2019 general election. 8 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: Not according to the 2019 general election. For the first time ever there are more nationalist/Republican MP's from N Ireland than unionist. The union is over, its only old people keeping it on life support now. It will soon be switched off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said: For the first time ever there are more nationalist/Republican MP's from N Ireland than unionist. The union is over, its only old people keeping it on life support now. It will soon be switched off. Not really, the Alliance party is a crypto-Unionist party for people too posh to want to label themselves politically the same way as William Ulsterman types, so it's really 9-9 and the Unionist vote is still significantly larger in percentage terms than the Nationalist/Republican one. There's no more seats that are likely to swing Nationalist/Republican any time soon, but there are still seats that could still turn Unionist again on a good day for the DUP or UUP. The Union may well end eventually, but that isn't likely to be in any way imminent unless something really mental happens on the EU exit agreement that has yet to be negotiated by Boris J. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said: For the first time ever there are more nationalist/Republican MP's from N Ireland than unionist. The union is over, its only old people keeping it on life support now. It will soon be switched off. There are still more unionist votes than nationalist/republican, never mind the Alliance voters, most of whom would be soft unionists. Unionist share of the vote - 42.3% Nationalist + Republican - 14.9% + 22.8% + 1.2% = 38.9% Fence sitters - 16.8% So Republicans/nationalists trail by 20% 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 There are still more unionist votes than nationalist/republican, never mind the Alliance voters, most of whom would be soft unionists. Unionist share of the vote - 42.3% Nationalist + Republican - 14.9% + 22.8% + 1.2% = 38.9% Fence sitters - 16.8% So Republicans/nationalists trail by 20%And unionists trail by 17%. He's right, it's on its last legs Edit..... [emoji481][emoji481][emoji481][emoji481][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji1022][emoji1022][emoji1022][emoji1022][emoji1132][emoji1132][emoji1132][emoji1132][emoji7][emoji898][emoji106] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Jacksgranda said: There are still more unionist votes than nationalist/republican, never mind the Alliance voters, most of whom would be soft unionists. Unionist share of the vote - 42.3% Nationalist + Republican - 14.9% + 22.8% + 1.2% = 38.9% Fence sitters - 16.8% So Republicans/nationalists trail by 20% 47 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said: And unionists trail by 17%. He's right, it's on its last legs Edit..... Unionists +3% 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Unionists +3%So you have unionists at 42.3% and Republicans plus nationalists at 38.9%. and fence sisters c.17%. Yet you state that Unionists trail by 3% and R+N by 20%.Maybe I'm reading this wrong but how you working that out? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 You are reading it wrong - go back and read the posts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 You are reading it wrong - go back and read the postsBut your assuming all the fence sitters are unionists? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DublinMagyar Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Exit pollFG 22.4%SF 22.3%FF 22.2% 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DublinMagyar Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Labour fucked [emoji23] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Wow exit poll in Irish election puts FG on 22.4%, SF on 22.3% and FF on 22.2%.Form a govt on that [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji1132] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Labour fucked [emoji23]4.6 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 I'm over in Ireland again this weekend watching RTE 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 SF getting massive youth vote 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 12 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said: I'm over in Ireland again this weekend watching RTE Watched a bit on VPN, seems there's no counting till tomorrow and the exit poll doesn't reflect the spread of seats, ie if the Sinn Fein vote came mainly from mad North Dubliners they won't be getting as many seats as the poll suggests. They only got about 12% from the eld feckers. Bit boring, I was hoping for a night of drama as the results came in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Sinn Fein will be regretting only putting up 42 candidates. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 34 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said: Wow exit poll in Irish election puts FG on 22.4%, SF on 22.3% and FF on 22.2%. Form a govt on that FF FG coalition? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Almost 25% of the electorate of an EU state voting for a former terrorist organisation in a national election should draw negative comment from the international media but won't. Guess it's just more of the swing towards cranky populism that is happening across much of the western world. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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