https://coastal.climatecentral.org/map/14/-5.8979/54.6088/?theme=warming&map_type=multicentury_slr_comparison&basemap=roadmap&elevation_model=best_available&lockin_model=levermann_2013&refresh=true&temperature_unit=C&warming_comparison=%5B%221.2%22%2C%222.2%22%5D

Is #globalheating discriminating against people of a #unionist persuasion? At least in #belfast .

#ireland #climatecatastrophe

@harriettmb @irelandpolitics

He doesn't have anything else to offer Northern Ireland. All he is doing is driving people away from the #Unionist cause. They look at him, think if that is the future they offer, then no thank you. He is bitter man. Who is frightened of anything that doesn't reflect his world view.

It is well past time that he is was ignored...

Firstly if Linfield were happy to have a Head of Governmemt visit their ground - THEN WHAT'S THE PROBLEM???

Oh yeah... I remember now anyone from within the #Unionist tradition that doesn't parrot the accepted line, then they are attacked as 'Lundies' (it is boring now)

Jr, Sammy & Jim - when that government are putting money into NI - then he is entitled to see where their money is going!

BBC News - Varadkar - Blues brother or big mouth?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66467713

@marcas @harriettmb @irelandpolitics

Then I can't see the #DUP ever attracting any new voters especially the younger ones. They aren't capable of changing to make them more attractive. Doug may be trying to change the #UUP but the traditionalists in his party won't accept they need to change either.

So it NI will continue to move away from the Unionist parties towards SF/Alliance which you can argue - are looking good when compared to the #Unionist parties.

Something needs to change in #NI

#Unionstrong
From the #MEAA (Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance - the #union for #journalists, #actors and #writers in #Australia):

"Apart from creating some of the most iconic characters on screen of the past 50 years, Harrison Ford is a staunch #unionist.

That's good to know as members of SAG-AFTRA head towards a possible strike if negotiations with Hollywood studios aren't resolved later this month. #strongertogether (Photo by Gage Skidmore)"

charade of the #preciousunion - we are not equal parts, we are not all the same and we don't have a say in the rules that govern us.

The last seven years turned me from a contented #unionist to a passionate supporter of a #UnitedIreland.

I want the same right to self determination that we were told we had to respect when the outcome of that 2016 vote.

Also, the day the result was announced was my 40th Birthday! What a fecking birthday present that was...

#Brexit was and still an bad idea.

@harriettmb @irelandpolitics

The next #GeneralElection might come sooner than they think!

Are the #DUP ready to face the electorate again, so soon after the local elections, that saw the #Unionist population not turn out to vote.

Also is #Jeff prepared to lose possibly 4 seats at WM to Sinn Féin & Alliance?

He needs #Stormont back and soon. It is the only place they have power if it isn't reformed.

@openDemocracy

It wasn't all voters that were disengaged last week in #NI elections. Our turn out for the Local Election was slightly up.

It was #Unionist voters that didn't turn out. The introduction of mandatory voting maybe might not be required, if their leaders could offer them a positive vision of the future, that encourages them to go out and vote!

#NI already has different laws for voting than the rest of #GB. Maybe we should talk about that?

@harriettmb

Go on Harriett, you watch it and then let me know if it is worth watching Carla get annoyed. That we are misinterpreting the #DUP position as selling out their #Unionist principles for the largest cheque available! 💰

@harriettmb @therightarticle

When #DUP talk of #Unionist unity, they mean that all other's should go away & let them have a free run at the electorate.

They don't care about anyone else even businesses at this stage. They only care about the survival of themselves and then the party.

They deserve every moment of pain that they are experiencing. After everything they have put us through.

I am catching up on yesterday's #NI #LE23 results before I watch the rest today.

I am stunned at the #BlackMountain DEA in Belfast - Sinn Fein ran SEVEN candidates and got ALL of them returned! Plus they got all three in #GlengormleyUrban returned!

#NIpolitics has shifted...again

NI was created to have a permanent #Unionist majority! That is is gone.....

Stunning if you know our history!

@JohnLoader6 @oranger2020 @jackLondon

Brexit changed everything - I am a small example of that. I was a #UUP voter, contented #unionist and had no strong feelings on the constitutional future of #ni

Now after Brexit, the last 7 years, I am happy to admit that I am no longer a Unionist, see no good future for #NI in the UK union. I am very much leaning towards voting for #UI but will need to see what the details are.

We need to learn the lessons of Brexit!

@JohnLoader6 @oranger2020 @jackLondon @JorisBohnsonPM

If Stormont is not reformed to do away with the designation system, to allow all of us who aren't #Unionist or #Nationalist to have our vote count. Also to remove the mandatory coalition element of government here.

Then my preferred option is Joint Authority - with Dublin & London; through the British/Irish Council set out in GFA.

I see no problem in Dublin having a say - they after all are co- guarantors of #GFA.

@oranger2020 @jackLondon @JorisBohnsonPM

hope that one day #GB gets to the stage, where they are ready to debate #rejoining. I hope the younger generations get their opportunity to work & travel freely in the EU again. Businesses have their markets restored to them.

I just don't want #NI to be part of it anymore. Thanks to #Brexit - I have went from a contented #unionist to hopeful supporter of a United Ireland. #unity

@Geri @harriettmb

DFM to an Alliance First Minister. The system us absurd and is out of date. It is time it was reformed to reflect the fact there is three groups in NI now #Unionist #Nationalist and #Other (those who don't give a toss!)

Tunisia: President Saied expels Europe's top trade unionist for 'interference'
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tunisia-president-saied-expels-europes-top-trade-unionist-interference
#Tunisia #Explusion #Unionist

#SimonJenkins using weasel words to pour the #unionist poison of 'Devo-Max' into Scottish ears.

#Independence #SNP

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/16/scotland-independence-nicola-sturgeon-devo-max-snp

#SimonJenkins using weasel words to pour the #unionist poison of 'Devo-Max' into Scottish ears.

#Independence #SNP

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/16/scotland-independence-nicola-sturgeon-devo-max-snp

#StephenFlynn, #SNP Westminster leader, the bastard who stabbed #IanBlackford in the back for the job, is now proposing a pause on the conference to make the next GE a de facto referendum on #independence

This is not good. We should be keeping up the pressure on the #Unionist parties, not rolling over and kicking the decision into the long grass. I thought at the time, when Blackford was defenestrated, that something else was going on.

It's all getting a bit Macbeth.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/16/snp-nicola-sturgeon-stephen-flynn-independence-plan-rethink

#StephenFlynn, #SNP Westminster leader, the bastard who stabbed #IanBlackford in the back for the job, is now proposing a pause on the conference to make the next GE a de facto referendum on #independence

This is not good. We should be keeping up the pressure on the #Unionist parties, not rolling over and kicking the decision into the long grass. I thought at the time, when Blackford was defenestrated, that something else was going on.

It's all getting a bit Macbeth.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/16/snp-nicola-sturgeon-stephen-flynn-independence-plan-rethink