Keir Starmer would campaign for NI to stay in UK

[Nearly Sane]

Tone deaf. Says fuck off to the SDLP..

"I respect the principle that the decision, in the end, is for the people of the island of Ireland," Starmer said. 

And that is all he should have said.  Or, at least, repeated that same phrase ad infinitum.



https://www.irishpost.com/news/labour-party-leader-keir-starmer-will-campaign-for-northern-ireland-to-remain-with-the-uk-in-any-united-ireland-referendum-215820?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=web

[jeremyp]

Why do you think it is "tone deaf"? Do you think the majority of Labour supporters and people who could be persuaded to vote Labour want Northern Ireland to rejoin Ireland and Keir Starmer should be pandering to them? Do you think Keir Starmer has calculated (or guessed) that he would get more votes if he supported keeping the Union intact? Is it impossible that he has analysed the situation and decided that NI and the rest of the Union are better off if they stick together?

[Nearly Sane]

Why do you think it is "tone deaf"? Do you think the majority of Labour supporters and people who could be persuaded to vote Labour want Northern Ireland to rejoin Ireland and Keir Starmer should be pandering to them? Do you think Keir Starmer has calculated (or guessed) that he would get more votes if he supported keeping the Union intact? Is it impossible that he has analysed the situation and decided that NI and the rest of the Union are better off if they stick together?

  Because it alienates the SDLP,. Because it alienates a substantial part of his own party, and not just the part he alrwady has. Because even with the vacuous betrayal of the Unionists by Johnson and the Tories, Labour won't pick up many Tory votes because the polls indicate that English voters don't give a fuck.

[Anchorman]

Why do you think it is "tone deaf"? Do you think the majority of Labour supporters and people who could be persuaded to vote Labour want Northern Ireland to rejoin Ireland and Keir Starmer should be pandering to them? Do you think Keir Starmer has calculated (or guessed) that he would get more votes if he supported keeping the Union intact? Is it impossible that he has analysed the situation and decided that NI and the rest of the Union are better off if they stick together?

If that's his analysis, he needs to do more analyising. His branch in Scotland is tied in knots over the constitution, hopelerssly split over the future. If he tries to impose some doctrine of unity on the cracking shell of his Scottish branch, he risks it fragmenting. Mind you; not involving himself is a mistake the Scottish Labour leadership (what's left of it) has been making over the last three and a bit years. Damned if he does.......

[ProfessorDavey]

  Because it alienates the SDLP,. Because it alienates a substantial part of his own party, and not just the part he alrwady has. Because even with the vacuous betrayal of the Unionists by Johnson and the Tories, Labour won't pick up many Tory votes because the polls indicate that English voters don't give a fuck.

And saying he would support NI becoming part of the Republic of Ireland would similarly alienate a substantial part of his own party. So the 'political' thing would be to simply sit on the fence. But he hasn't done that - maybe it is because he genuinely wants NI to remain part of the UK.

[Roses]

I hope that NI is given back to the Republic of Ireland, it should never have been made part of the UK.

[Anchorman]

I hope that NI is given back to the Republic of Ireland, it should never have been made part of the UK.

   




Always assuming the Republic WANT the six counties.
Given the sectarian drivel in that part of Ulster known as NI, I wouldn't blame them for having  nothing to do with them.

[SteveH]

It's none of his business. Let the people of NI decide.

[Nearly Sane]

It's none of his business. Let the people of NI decide.

Let the people of Ireland decide.

[SteveH]

Let the people of Ireland decide.

Whether NI stays in the UK is none of the Republic's business, either. If NI eventually leaves, then it may choose to enter discussions with the Republic about reunification, and that's when it becomes the Republic's business.

[Nearly Sane]

Whether NI stays in the UK is none of the Republic's business, either. If NI eventually leaves, then it may choose to enter discussions with the Republic about reunification, and that's when it becomes the Republic's business.

You appear to know nothing about the Good Friday Agreement, or are you saying it doesn't and shouldn't apply?

[SteveH]

You appear to know nothing about the Good Friday Agreement, or are you saying it doesn't and shouldn't apply?

I admit that I know more or less nothing about it.

[jeremyp]

You appear to know nothing about the Good Friday Agreement, or are you saying it doesn't and shouldn't apply?

Steve is correct. The issues of whether NI should be allowed to leave the UK and whether they should be allowed to join the Republic of Ireland are different issues. The GFA seems to support that saying "...Northern Ireland in its entirety remains part of the United Kingdom and shall not cease to be so without the consent of a majority of the people of Northern Ireland voting in a poll held for the purposes of this section in accordance with Schedule 1"