So Sinn Fein win the popular vote in the Irish elections.

[Burney]

This should be quite amusing.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

And if that doesn't get the mad dog Oranje in the North kicking off then nothing will.

[Burney]

And if that doesn't get the mad dog Oranje in the North kicking off then nothing will.

Ironically, of course, it makes a united Ireland less rather than more likely in the short to medium term. It's one thing asking moderate protestants in the north if they want to join a united Ireland run by an Indian shirtlifter. It's quite another to ask them if they want to join one where the Provos who murdered relatives of theirs have won the majority vote and there are actual murderers sitting in the Dáil.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Ironically, of course, it makes a united Ireland less rather than more likely in the short to medium term. It's one thing asking moderate protestants in the north if they want to join a united Ireland run by an Indian shirtlifter. It's quite another to ask them if they want to join one where the Provos who murdered relatives of theirs have won the majority vote and there are actual murderers sitting in the Dáil.

Did you really say that the only difference between the two normal parties was whether they supported partition in 1922 or something?

[Burney]

Did you really say that the only difference between the two normal parties was whether they supported partition in 1922 or something?

That is the reason for the existence of the two parties, yes. Of course, that does mean there are other differences: FG traditonally tend to do better in middle-class areas like South Dublin; while FF is traditionally more nationalist and the party of culchies and chaps with the arse out of their trousers who live in bogs and craggy outcrops. However, there is little or no ideological difference between them in terms of economic or social policy.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

That is the reason for the existence of the two parties, yes. Of course, that does mean there are other differences: FG traditonally tend to do better in middle-class areas like South Dublin; while FF is traditionally more nationalist and the party of culchies and chaps with the arse out of their trousers who live in bogs and craggy outcrops. However, there is little or no ideological difference between them in terms of economic or social policy.

Cheers. Which one did what in 1922? And if FF's more nationalist, does this mean they'd be more likely to get into bed with the Provos?

And which one is the Indian shirtlifter from? I know sod all about Oirish politics.

[bbrian]

This should be quite amusing.

come out ye black and tans