1 Million Voices for Irish Unity

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1 Million Voices for Irish Unity is firstly an overambitious project and secondly a complete embarrassment on Facebook and Twitter. They misquote constantly and fill timelines with populist nonsense and quote vague epigrams from figures far removed from any relevance to the debate.

Anyway I think one of the major drawbacks in the reunification debate has been that people see the social, cultural, political and economic systems of the 6 and 26 counties in oppositional terms.

So, when Arlene Foster, who completely bested Alex Maskey in the debate earlier this year on the Nolan Show, decided to mention that the republic's health system was nowhere near as good as the north's (a point hard to argue with prima facie), she failed to recognise that adding upwards of one and a half million people to a political system (especially given that they are used to certain social securities) would drastically affect the makeup of southern politics. It would not necessarily be a system based on either the NHS or the HSE, but a democratically agreed-upon alternative.

yes she did give alex a bit of a hiding. all he had to say was how her minister for health pootsie had decided to send nordie sick children into that crappy system for treatment and close facilities in Belfast and ask her where the fuk she gets her hair cut i'd destroy her in two sentences... moooooh