Some are commenting that it should be "are" and not "is".

But there is something they forget.

There is only one Aston Villa.

Belfast GP and Chair of BMA NI council, Alan Stout on BBC NI The View.

Mark Carruthers (BBC NI): "Are there lessons we could learn from the health system in the Republic of Ireland?"

Alan Stout: "Absolutely, Yes."

No coincidence, perhaps, that the fastest growing party in the UK polls is the Green Party.

Green Party Leader Zach Polanksi's vision is of an independent Scotland, Wales & England in a new Britain without Monarchy.

NI leaving the UK brings an end to the Act of Union (1801) - an end to the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, to give it the full title.

And it opens up an interesting conversation about what a new britain will be like in the 21st century.

62% of Scots voted remain in 2016.

A few weeks ago, Ireland elected a left-wing, peace loving President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly.

As brexit britain faces a fiscal crisis not seen since the 1970s and NI Assembly teeters on collapse, it's quite likely she will oversee a border poll in Ireland & NI during her 7-year term.

Unaligned (neither Green or Orange) voters don't care about flags or 19th century concepts like curtseying to Kings or Queens.

They just care about jobs, health, education & opportunities and it is they, not british Unionists, who will decide the Border Poll in NI.

One section of the NI community who insist it's part of their "culture" to burn Irish flags, effigies of Irish politicians, asylum seekers on bonfires each year or ban the Irish language.

The problem they have now is it will be unaligned voters who will decide and they don't care about flags.

We have 101+ years of data on how disastrous british rule has been, economically & societally, in NI. It's been a basket case for decades.

Then, along comes brexit, which accidentally gave us an insight into what an All-Ireland economy might be like.

GRMA (thanks) Brexit! #spéirgorm

I was in Oslo the night John Hume MEP from Derry was awarded his Nobel Prize.

One comment stays with me: "the real genius behind the GFA was they let the british think it was their idea!".

We're at a crossroads in NI, again, post brexit and the direction forward couldn't be clearer.

the EU intervention in NI, driven by the vision of Derry MEP John Hume, that led to the GFA in 1998 is one thing.

But to this day, I don't think Boris Johnson, Frost or Davis are aware how familiar Michel Barnier, Chief Brexit negotiator for the EU27, was with the british problem in Ireland.

Pollsters have realised that brexit has changed the conversation & question.

Unaligned voters (not Green or Orange) will decide the border poll in NI now and reunification also means re-joining the EU.

Unionists have lost their veto on this.

www.europeanmovement.ie/em-ireland-e...

it's becoming increasingly clear that brexit has accelerated reunification in Ireland by about 25 years.

In Europe, the life expectancy of the UK is less than 10 years now. For the NI assembly, whose next election is in may 2027, here's the mid terms👇