These appear to be strange days for Ukania.
To paraphrase Sarah Palin, if I walk up the mountain at the back of my house I can see the UK!
I spoke last night to a very wiseacre in the Stormont village, and he assured me that Arlene Foster was toast.
As is usual with failed establishment politicians the British political elite will no doubt offer her a place in the House of Lords.
“Baroness Wood Pellet of Fermanagh” sounds an appropriate title at this juncture.
Her handling of the RHI scandal was a case study in WATP hubris.
It was this stance that led directly to the election and the battering that her party took at the polls.
They lost ten seats in a reduced assembly.
There is no way to spin this.
It was a disaster for the DUP and a huge victory for Sinn Féin.
The gap between the two parties is now fewer than 1,200 votes.
Here is poor Flegory in full denial mode.
For the avoidance of doubt, Mr Campbell is very fond of a certain deceased football club in Glasgow.
I hope he has enough years in him to see his beloved United Kingdom die on this island because it is certainly terminally ill…
At the count centre, the ex-First Minister of Norn Iron showed the Dunkirk Spirit as the extent of the electoral damage was relayed to her.
A journalist on the ground there told me that the DUP leader would not come out and speak to the assembled media.
The upshot of the election is that unionism lost their majority in the Assembly.
What the election stated in clear numbers is that ethnic unionism in the northeast of this country is on borrowed time.
The case for remaining within the United Kingdom will now have to be made to all of the people in the Six Counties.
For the avoidance of doubt, that means dropping the Herrenvolk snarl that is redolent of the Ibrox match day experience.
Hence Arlene has to be toast.
My Stormont source said that his tip was for Simon Hamilton to replace her.
He was described to me as a “secular moderniser”.
That would be a smart move.
I have written here, on more than one occasion over the past few years that I believe that a culturally confident nationalist cohort in the six counties would quietly vote to remain British in a future Border Poll.
I styled this psephological phenomenon “Siobhán in the BMW”.
She drops her child off at the Gaelscoil and then drives to her well paid public service job.
Siobhán acquired the latter due to her Master’s Degree.
Moreover, she has a lifestyle and life choices beyond the most optimistic dreams of her grandparents.
Such a person, I believed would quietly vote to remain in the UK.
That was all before Brexit which threatens to be what Franz Fanon thought any process of decolonization should be:
“a programme for complete disorder”.
In Donegal, for the first time in over twenty years, I’m looking at a hard border.
It will be the boundary between the United Kingdom and a supra national state of over 500m souls.
Crazy stuff.
In the aftermath of the Brexit referendum vote last June there was a stampede to Post Offices in the Six Counties to get application forms for an Irish Passport.
This even happened in staunchly loyalist areas.
Strange days indeed…
For anyone that does not twitter, how to own somebody who tries to call the bloggers out as cowards behind keyboards . Owned and put back into his box, who employs these morons i thought it would be illegal to see faulty goods or goods with false descritions.
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain 21h21 hours ago
@MattLindsayHT as for “anonymous pseudonyms” Matt.
Here I am…
And yes Rangers did die.
I wrote a book about it.
Phil interesting article in the herald today. Have a wee keek at it.
That wonderful supranational 500m (sounds familiar) entity providing such a magnificent welcome for 26 Counties people that thousands are in economically deprived Glasgow let alone the sweeter spots in the UK, Phil? Apart from the occasional catering staff in hotspots like Timisoara, Bratislava, Palermo, Piraeus, Gdansk, Ubeda, Lille and the rest (sarcasm intended) good luck and no doubt the retiring misers of the Home Counties and elsewhere will shower wealth beyond avarice upon the ROI while making no demands upon the social services.
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth I see the young from Donegal, Sligo and other parts in the south side of Glasgow busting a gut just because things are so effing great back home.
Our day has come let the
People sing.
is there anyway a fourth or fifth generation pure Irish blood born Scot can aquire an Irish passport….???
Lol. There’s lots of us 100% Irish blood. But several generations in Scotland. We are the Diaspora the Head of State keeps a light on for our return. However, You need a parent or grandparent. And a parent needs to have applied for Irish citizenship before you were born not after.
But there are numerous routes to citizenship.
The Irish Consulate General in Edinburgh can process your application.
https://www.dfa.ie/irish-consulate/edinburgh/
The process is all laid out there.
Here’s a nice wee warm feeling toon for y’all:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N0oTDS9ur_U
There was a John Lennon album that was banned in Britain. Called, I think, Sometime In New York City. I have a copy, somewhere, I haven’t seen it in years. There is a track on it called, again my memory is hazy, but I think it was “Sunday Bloody Sunday”. It was about the Bloody Sunday atrocity. But there was a line in the song about leaving Ireland to be ruled by the Irish, not by London or by Rome. This could yet happen in my lifetime. Unlikely at my age, but following the vote last week I am now certain it WILL HAPPEN, long before my children get to pensionable age. Wish my dad could have seen it.
The album was indeed called “Sometime in New York City” and the song was “Sunday Bloody Sunday” but the album nor the song were ever banned in the U.K. You may be confusing them with Paul McCartney’s “Give Ireland back to the Irish” which was released in the same year and was banned by the BBC.
Doubt very much that Dublin would want anything to do norn iron
Good to see the bigotry dying and the people over there slowly moving back together and yes there is going to be a united Ireland as that is part of the NWO agenda where Ireland is going to be a REGION of the United States of Europe – NOT a country – as is Scotland and Wales and where England is going to be split into 9 REGIONS and once this has all been set up there is NOT going to be any voting for the masses and the United Nations is going to be the World Government and under UN Agenda 21 you are NOT going to be allowed to own any private property or travel etc for the good of the planet and global warming scams etc.
It is amazing how a few thug families over the last couple of thousands of years have managed to steer FREE born people into countries and now soon to be superstates for those few thug families benefit while taking away those FREE born peoples COMMON LAW rights and replacing them with corrupt controlled Vatican Admiralty Law Human Rights etc DRIVEL while these few thug families steal all of these FREE born peoples wealth and resources for themselves. ALL of this is what the stupid people who want Indpendence for their country such as Scotland and Ireland and yet want to give up that indpendence by voting to become slaves to this corrupt EU and NWO system. Sheep have got nothing on human beings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XBAKRTK3o&t=278s
A united ireland is for those people in the 6 counties to vote on.
It may influence our own independence question here in Scotland. But it cannot define it. The simplistic minded vote on tribal loyalty here in Scotland.
However, I was proud to say the majority that I certainly know didn’t necessarily vote back in Indy red 2014 on whether they support Celtic or Sevco.
I voted NO. I was called a Hun by some less enlightened friends and even my GFfriend taunting me, it was “banter” but disgusting thing to say.
Many,many Ibrox followers I know voted yes. The vote was largely on social and economic status which way ppl voted.
You can come in here and castigate me on my views, I don’t care. I believe in a modern Britain, I do not believe in the UK though. I.e. 6 counties should be unified.
Modern Britain based on multicultural values. Something that by and large this island has got so very right, although in Scotland the Irish were left out but not in rest of Britain. All the more reason for Scotland to be kept shackled(!!) ioh dear cue the hate. Lol. It’s corrupt and bigoted fleg like ways and its love of the rainjurzz and all that entails.
It makes me emotional and happy to see that with all the turmoil in the 6 counties politically, a future can and will be decided via the ballot box. The fleg folk and their fleg ways are under threat,they either change or they will become a complete irrelevance as the people of colour and different cultures come into Ireland more and more.
colonial Britain died a long time ago, I am a positive example of the legacy. Asian parents, Scots born and proud of this country as a whole, Britain. It’s strong links with Delhi and Dublin, testament to the new world we live in, and all share.
HH
What does Fleg mean? Flag?
Flag people because they wave the union flag?
I don’t understand the term.
It’s a mocking term. I blame Phil on this, he mocks the strong accent of ppl. Way they say flag sounds fleg. Culture is kulchurr, Northern Ireland is norn iron. The final one I know they like to say themselves spelling wise, norn iron
Not a Hun but most certainly a Unionist, any way you look at it, it doesn’t sit well being a Celtic Supporter and a Unionist
“as the people of colour and different cultures come into Ireland and more” – EXACTLY what the Elites want in every country to get RID of the countries and also to bring down YOUR wages and conditions to make everyone dependent on the government/Elites and to provide THEIR companies with minimum wage and zero hours contract workers etc in their New World Order – One World Government DICTATORSHIP. As I said sheep have nothing on human beings.
A united ireland is for those people in the 6 counties to vote on.
It may influence our own independence question here in Scotland. But it cannot define it. The simplistic minded vote on tribal loyalty here in Scotland.
However, I was proud to say the majority that I certainly know didn’t necessarily vote back in Indy red 2014 on whether they support Celtic or Sevco.
I voted NO. I was called a Hun by some less enlightened friends and even my GFfriend taunting me, it was “banter” but disgusting thing to say.
Many,many Ibrox followers I know voted yes. The vote was largely on social and economic status which way ppl voted.
You can come in here and castigate me on my views, I don’t care. I believe in a modern Britain, I do not believe in the UK though. I.e. 6 counties should be unified.
Modern Britain based on multicultural values. Something that by and large this island has got so very right, although in Scotland the Irish were left out but not in rest of Britain. All the more reason for Scotland to be kept shackled(!!) ioh dear cue the hate. Lol. It’s corrupt and bigoted fleg like ways and its love of the rainjurzz and all that entails.
It makes me emotional and happy to see that with all the turmoil in the 6 counties politically, a future can and will be decided via the ballot box. The fleg folk and their fleg ways are under threat,they either change or they will become a complete irrelevance as the people of colour and different cultures come into Ireland more and more.
colonial Britain died a long time ago, I am a positive example of the legacy. Asian parents, Scots born and proud of this country as a whole, Britain. It’s strong links with Delhi and Dublin, testament to the new world we live in, and all share.
HH
I’m thinking of building a giant sports clothing factory in Belfast and moving in 9,000 Catholic Poles and Filipinos who seek better economic circumstances. And who all wish to be in the EU.
Southern Ireland has a great many Protestants who do very well. There is no reason at all for Northern Irish Protestants to fear the democratic evolution of One Ireland. It is to be embraced.
Catholics in Eire do not treat Protestants the same way Northern Ireland Protestants historically treated Catholics.
People are not their parents. They are nothing like their grandparents. Folks ask questions, think for themselves and don’t buy in to cultural ghetto bs they’ve been told.
The smartest people break out and meet in the intelligent reasonable centre first.
Try telling the bigots in the west of Scotland, that there are very many non Catholic people living in the Republic. They simply will not believe you.
I must admit I don’t pay much attention to politics in N Ireland, but I will from now. I watched the results come through on friday night. Bloody great!
Here’s to a United Ireland and Independent Scotland.
Oh, and Hibees for the cup-again!.
You were doing well until the Hibee bit 🙂
Good luck sorting that mess out …
So they have lost their majority in Stormont for the very first time. I think they thought their hold over Stormont was the solid rock that Republicanism would flow against ,to no avail, for all time. This result has truly shocked them ,but to what response. I was thinking on this , and reflecting how time changes things. Its fifty years since Lisbon and we celebrate accordingly ,fifty years since I watched that great game with my Da ,I was ten at the time. I was also ten when I was privy to a conversation between my Granda his brother Frank and his sons including my Da. He was reflecting on the Easter rising which he took part in along with Frank, and how they were to subsequently blow their way out of Dundalk prison. Fifty years he said since then , he spoke about how it had been, but mostly he spoke about unionism , and how they would never see the inevitable end ,”never could se it ” . It wont happen in my time , it might not even happen in yours , or his (nodding to me) but it will happen ,its as inevitable as the rising and falling of the sun. In time Britain wont need its attack dog , and they will be treated like an unwanted welp. Its all a great pity . A pity for who asked my Da , for them son , for them. I remember this as if it was yesterday ,I didn’t fully understand it, and was totally bewildered by the tears formed in his eyes, for he was the second hardest man I ever met in my entire life. I don’t think I will see it either , but after that election ,I think my sons just might. As to their response ,they only have one response ,and that’s what makes it inevitable. Our day will come , and in time it might just prove to be their day too.
The orange state is dead by the looks of it and WATP Woodchips reluctance to admit any wrong doing and resign has changed the state of play. People are sick of all the sectarian shite and just want to get on with their lives. The folk on both sides have to except that the times are a changing for all on the island of Ireland. Lets have an Ireland for everyonel rather than one drawn on sectarian lines particularly in the North. The empire is long dead.
Cheers Phil,
And that’s a piece that is certainly hinting,and hoping for a United Ireland,something I didn’t think I’d see in my lifetime.
The People of Ireland,inc.Norn Iron,should be allowed to determine their own fate,NOT Westminster.
So well done Sinn Fein,up the Republic.HH
It was indeed a momentous day in the political midden that is Northern Ireland last Friday when the votes were counted. There is at last parity of contempt between the noble houses of Orange and Green. No longer can one side sneer with disdainful superiority, nor the other whine and bitch about their unequal position. At least not for a while.
As time passes and the seemingly inevitable progress of Sinn Fein leads to their majority in Stormont, it will be interesting to see how they will handle their power.
Will they become, as the saying goes, more Protestant than the Protestants themselves, or will they hold themselves to a higher standard.
We certainly live in interesting times.
I think they will turn out that same as the SNP. Absolutely useless. A good opposition party with no idea what to do when they have power
you’re a cheery cnvt aren’t you….. you pessimistic twat