• 520@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I’d like to see the UK also defending the “vote of the people” if Ireland voted to leave the UK

    They literally did. Ireland became its own country 100 years ago. NI wanted to stay with the UK

    • ravenford@startrek.website
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      11 months ago

      Well the all island vote wasn’t the source of change, a war unfortunately had to follow.

      And point of clarification - Ireland didn’t “leave the UK” - the British were forced to withdraw from 26 of the 32 counties of Ireland.

      “NI” was carved out of the island by Britain holding on to as much industrialised land as they could, with as big a majority of British settlers vs native Irish.