Psephologist Nicholas Whyte says benchmark for border poll further away than in 2017
THE conditions for triggering a border poll have yet to be met despite Sinn Féin's victory in the Stormont election, according to psephologist Nicholas Whyte.
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THE conditions for triggering a border poll have yet to be met despite Sinn Féin's victory in the Stormont election, according to psephologist Nicholas Whyte.
Important to remember _ devolved government? it is really important to remember that - devolved government? it is really important to remember that any l important to remember that any changes— important to remember that any changes around the protocol are going _ changes around the protocol are going to — changes around the protocol are going to be up to the eu and westminster. the northern ireland assembly— westminster. the northern ireland assembly does not have a say in this _ assembly does not have a say in this but — assembly does not have a say in this. but obviously we need a f...
The consequences going forward, however, are less clear.
Joint roles and although they switch around now with sinn fein being the bigger party as opposed to the dup, of coming together and agreeing to do anything will be impossible unless the dup relent on the northern ireland protocol get the sort of changes they want so even although this is being talked of as a landmark moment and perhaps the constitution of northern ireland with sinn fein favouring a united ireland and talk of a potential border poll referendum on that coming down the line, even getting the day—to—day nitty—gritty business of politics done here will be impossible until pow...
Fein is still relatively small. it's very splintered here, and the prospect of a border poll is a long way off. we cannot get away from the fact that 60% of people do not vote for parties, approaching overwhelming majority do not vote for parties that consider the unification of ireland their main goal. unification of ireland their main coal. ., unification of ireland their main oal, ., ., , unification of ireland their main oal, ., ., , ., ., unification of ireland their main oal. ., ., ., ., goal. that has a lot of the headlines. _ goal. that has a lot of the headlines. the _ goal. that has ...