"There are expectations too that Sinn Féin would use Plaid Cymru and SNP victories next month to boost its demands for a poll on Irish reunification by 2030, making that central to its Northern Irish election campaign in May 2027"
#UnitedIreland
#IrishReunification
#ScottishIndependence
#WelshIndependence
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/07/nationalist-wins-uk-celtic-nations-may-elections
@simon_brooke
Again with the "break up the UK" nonsense. Nobody thinks the Nordic countries are "broken up" because they aren't all governed from Stockholm.
Why is the Guardian still bad at this. It's been more than a decade since the discourse should have moved on from the emotive to the factual.
@petealexharris it's an intensely #Imperialist paper.
By the way I strongly feel that we should stop saying 'unionist' and start saying 'imperialist'. No one on the soi-disant 'unionist' side wants a voluntary union of equals.
@simon_brooke
Yeah, ask any of them if the British Empire was a good thing. Very few will admit it was an essentially rapacious and evil project, and it's unconditionally wrong for powerful countries to control and extract from less powerful ones. Those I can call unionists.
They might not think of the union as the stump of a collapsed empire, and might want it to be good for all 4 countries. I think they're wrong about that being possible, but it's an opinion.
The rest are imperialists.
Simon Brooke
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫