Is it time for a United Ireland?

There is may people in NI who identify as British and fulfil their whole culture around the UK some people in NI are more British than some people. The majority of parties in wish to keep the Union the way it is.

Because people are innately caught up in this United Kingdom rubbish, without knowing pros and cons of it. All it is based on is some idea of togetherness, we are one crap which does not add to any benefits.

It is also the 21st century and the economic argument of "there's a salty sea-channel there" doesn't really hold water anymore. In today's economy, most trade is in the service sector. It is not bounded by the sea. In Northern Ireland's case particularly, this can be quite easily seen by the relative amount of trade it does with Great Britain and the Republic.

The economic argument only really works if you're talking about a multi-decade restructuring of Northern Ireland's economy to align with the Republic. And trading a common domestic market of 66 million for one of five million only really works if you factor in the EU. Which is all well and good, except for the clearly extant trade barriers that exist between member-states like Britain and Ireland and the EU. In short, it's difficult to conclude otherwise than that the UK union has greater economic value to Northern Ireland than a looser union with the European Union complemented with a tighter union with the Irish Republic.

From an economic standpoint, Irish unification would be a lot of short-to-medium term pain for a long-term loss.

That is not true at all, there are more people in NI that hold British Citizenship than they do Irish Citizenship.

It was created under the quote "A British place for a British People."

A of distress is being caused here in NI over Brexit and how it is going to affect our key economic sectors. So is it time for a United Ireland?

Please drop your opinions down below. Thanks!

Yes there certainly should be a united Ireland, the British should leave Ireland to the Irish.

There was a vote on Independence in the 1970s which the yes vote was overwhelmingly denied.

Why?

A united Ireland doesn't solve the problem it just changes the nature of it. At present Northern Ireland is a British country with a substantial amount of allegiance to the Republic of Ireland. If you had a united Ireland you would simple have the opposite problem. Satisfying the desires of republicans will just further inflame unionists.

But either way Ireland belongs to the Irish and the British simply have no reason or right to occupy the north of our country. You can't just use lame political reasons to make this fact "all ok"

But either way Ireland belongs to the Irish and the British simply have no reason or right to occupy the north of our country. You can't just use lame political reasons to make this fact "all ok"

Northern Ireland was created in 1921, when*Ireland was divided*between Northern Ireland and*Southern Ireland*by the*Government of Ireland act 1920 Unlike*Southern Ireland which would become the*Irish Free State*in 1922, the majority of Northern Ireland's population were*unionists, who wanted to remain within the United Kingdom. They were Irish to begin with, they were born Irish and they will die Irish. Just because they weren't born in the Republic of Ireland, doesn't stop them being Irish.

No, the unionist population in the North of Ireland are descendants of settlers that came from Scotland and England to assert British rule in the north of Ireland and to make the Irish a minority in the north of Ireland there still to this day this Irish minority people in the north who are very much Irish but theres nothing Irish about the unionist population in the north, no Irish blood, they never fly the Irish flag, they even show the Scottish flag on the poles in there streets.

No, the unionist population in the North of Ireland are descendants of settlers that came from Scotland and England to assert British rule in the north of Ireland and to make the Irish a minority in the north of Ireland there still to this day this Irish minority people in the north who are very much Irish but theres nothing Irish about the unionist population in the north, no Irish blood, they never fly the Irish flag, they even show the Scottish flag on the poles in there streets.