Archive for the 'Northern Ireland' Category
18 Jan
So, I suppose it’s about time I blogged about the Scottish independence referendum as it’s been in the news for a week or so. Basically, this is the story so far: Alex Salmond has been dicking about for a few years saying they’re going to hold a referendum on Scottish independence but keeps putting it [...]
Posted in Britishness, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales by: wonkotsane
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23 Dec
On Wednesday the British government finally announced the West Lothian Question commission that they promised over a year ago, yesterday they gave a practical demonstration of why it’s so desperately needed. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have negotiated a £30.2m bonus from the British government because the British government have spent money in London for [...]
Posted in Come the revolution, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sport, Wales by: wonkotsane
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23 May
Yesterday I explained that I don’t want a vote on Scottish independence and predicted how Alex Salmond would approach “independence” for Scotland. If I am right about my prediction of what form Scottish “independence” will take is right – ie. a confederation – then that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The ideal way to govern [...]
Posted in Britain, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales by: wonkotsane
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22 May
So it’s a couple of weeks since the SNP romped home to a comprehensive victory in the Scottish Parliament elections and there’s still no sign of an independence referendum but there is still plenty of talk about what the “independence” will be and who should have a vote. Scotland will never be independent, even if [...]
Posted in Britain, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales by: wonkotsane
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17 Feb
Ian Paisley, the MP for North Antrim in Northern Ireland, has warned the British Conservatives not to give in to English demands for equality which he says would create a Parliament “of little Englanders”. I appeal to my Conservative friends…they should recognise they should not play party politics with constitution of this nation. We will [...]
Posted in Anglophobia, Northern Ireland, Racism, Tories by: wonkotsane
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20 Mar
Amnesty International has told the Northern Irish First Minister and Deputy First Minister that they should follow the leader of the Irish Republic and consider taking released prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. The Northern Irish government doesn’t have the power to make this kind of decision, it’s a reserved matter. Amnesty International should shut the fuck [...]
Posted in Northern Ireland by: wonkotsane
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10 Mar
A police officer has been shot dead in Northern Ireland, only two days after two soldiers were shot dead by the Real IRA. Sinn Féin took half a day to come up with a statement that they could all agree on on the killing of the two soldiers at the weekend before they settled for [...]
Posted in Northern Ireland, Terrorism by: wonkotsane
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15 Feb
The next round of local elections in Northern Ireland are to be postponed for a year because of changes to local government. The number of local authorities in Northern Ireland is being reduced from 26 to 11. The British government has also been working to reduce the number of local authorities in England by inviting [...]
Posted in Northern Ireland by: wonkotsane
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04 Mar
Reverend Ian Paisley has announced his resignation as First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly and as Leader of the DUP. He recently announced his resignation as Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church. Rev Paisley founded both the DUP and Free Presbyterian Church. This is uncharacteristic for the Reverend, one has to wonder if there [...]
Posted in Northern Ireland by: wonkotsane
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11 Feb
No Mandate Brown and Bertie Ahern have urged the Stormont Assembly to complete the devolution process in Northern Ireland by taking on police and justice even though the DUP isn’t keen on taking on those powers. Talk about taking the piss! Northern Ireland is being pushed into accepting more devolution that it doesn’t want while [...]
Posted in Northern Ireland by: wonkotsane
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10 Dec
Kosovo has suffered terribly at the hands of the Serbs ever since Yugoslavia broke up. For a while now, Federal Europe has provided mediators to try and come up with a solution that would allow Kosovo to remain part of Serbia which would be acceptable to both the Serbs who don’t want to lose Kosovo and [...]
Posted in Come the revolution, England, Federal Europe, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales by: wonkotsane
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20 Nov
A university lecturer who was banned by the Attorney General from taking legal action has found a way round the ban by launching another racial discrimination case in Northern Ireland. The Hindu “Indian American” was named a vexatious litigant by the Attorney General after starting 40 discrimination cases against various universities and academic bodies in [...]
Posted in Northern Ireland, WTF? by: wonkotsane
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29 May
The Northern Irish government has voted to provide free personal care for the elderly in Northern Ireland from 2008 although the Northern Irish Health Minister says that the date in the bill isn’t binding on the Executive and that it is more likely to happen in 2010. Personal care for the elderly is already free [...]
Posted in Northern Ireland by: wonkotsane
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09 May
The Northern Ireland Assembly has only been reinstated for 2 days and already they’re demonstrating the benefits of devolution – benefits that we English are being denied by the anti-English, British establishment. There is, of course, the “peace dividend” – a large pot of cash that the Tartan Taxman kindly donated from English taxes to [...]
Posted in Anglophobia, Northern Ireland by: wonkotsane
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23 Mar
Ian Paisley has told the Tartan Taxman that the money he’s offering Northern Ireland isn’t enough. Currently the Barnett Formula gives Northern Ireland an average of over £1,800 per head in central government funding straight from the English taxpayers pockets but this, Paisley claims, is not good enough. Nor is the extra £1bn of English taxes [...]
Posted in Northern Ireland by: wonkotsane
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10 Mar
Yesterday the people of Northern Ireland went to the polls to elect assembly members for the Stormont Assembly. The DUP, under Reverend Ian Paisley, has taken the majority of votes with The IRA Sinn Féin in a fairly close second place. All parties involved in the Northern Ireland Assembly have until the 25th of March [...]
Posted in England, Northern Ireland, Tories by: wonkotsane
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12 Dec
The New Labour election fund Barnett formula has been sending even more English money to our neighbours. The Times has today published an article explaining exactly how much of our taxes goes to our thieving, subsidy junkie neighbours leaving our health service so underfunded that cancer patients are told to shut up and die because [...]
Posted in Anglophobia, Britain, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales by: wonkotsane
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04 Dec
Sieg … Reverend Ian Paisley, terrorist mouthpiece and sympathiser, says that he will accept the nomination of First Minister at Stormont if all his conditions are met.His conditions are that Sinn Féin prove that the IRA has been disbanded and its weapons decommissioned. A war criminal heading up the British government and a terrorist heading [...]
Posted in Northern Ireland by: wonkotsane
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28 Nov
Yesterday’s phone-in poll amongst Sun readers resulted in 81% of people saying they wanted English independence from the rest of the UK.
Posted in Britain, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales by: wonkotsane
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26 Nov
A poll in today’s Sunday Telegraph shows that a massive 68% of English people believe that England should have an English Parliament and 48% of people believe that England should declare its independence. What is most interesting is that English support for North British independence is higher than in North Britain. The figures are as follows: Should [...]
Posted in Britain, England, Federal Europe, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales by: wonkotsane
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