Ah yeah, everyone gets it alright - I think I'm the odd one out here!

Important to get rhat right!!!

For me I never liked the notion of turning something circular right or left!

Ah I use "clock off" :)

There's considerable controversy over that 20bn - depending on how one calculates it it is anywhere between 2bn and 20bn: the 20, for example, includes what should be the NI contribution to maintaining the UK armed forces whoch is obviously not a cost Ireland takes on. 2bn is easy. 20 bn less so.

And the irony is that house prices going up makes our families *poorer* (unless we're a family with less than two children).

Or, I guess, unless we own at least as many homes as children!

We certainly agree on that 🙂

I have started to think, actually, that is one reason Mícheál Martin is avoiding starting that conversation: it looks like, for whatever reason, he doesn't want a united Ireland?

It'd be great to see changes in Health and Education though, and that kind of thing would be important to all parties in this.

Oh, sorry, that's what I mean: Ireland itself will likely remain largely unchanged and NI will likely be governed from Dublin. Of the options put forward so far that's the one that makes most sense. The other options don't seem to appeal to, eg, unionists any more than this one.

Even NI folks now generally recognise Stormont doesn't work. It's very unlikely anything other than NI joining Ireland would happen. There are some influential anglophiles in Ireland who would prefer something else, but they are in a very small minority.

Yep, agrees. And also ... this arson attack is surely terrorism

I can't see how it isn't terrorism.

Following this neo-liberal approach, which is a fantastic approach for gaming certain economic metrics, is precisely what is giving us the far right.

Across the western world it is starting to look like neoliberalism breeds fascism.

2/2

But then what would those on middle-class dole do to justify themselves? ;)