A United Ireland. Opening up the discussion.

[DaleCooper]

Voting should be restricted to those who have fully developed prefrontal cortexes.

[weareros]

As it's only for General Election, nationalist parties should not step aside for Alliance and aim to simply secure the highest possible percentage vote. 

[johnnycool]

As it's only for General Election, nationalist parties should not step aside for Alliance and aim to simply secure the highest possible percentage vote. 

I get where you're coming from but you'd hate to see the DUP taking Lagan Valley back...

[marty34]

As it's only for General Election, nationalist parties should not step aside for Alliance and aim to simply secure the highest possible percentage vote. 

I get where you're coming from but you'd hate to see the DUP taking Lagan Valley back...

Unionism will combine and win it back the next time I think.

Same as East Derry. They'll go for an 'agreed candidate'.

I think unionism for sure will definately be against lowering the voting age.

[AustinPowers]

Voting should be restricted to those who have fully developed prefrontal cortexes.

That would exclude  a hell  of a lot of the population though, to be fair

[DaleCooper]

12-14 year olds are being excluded so arguably it doesn't go far enough.

[From the Bunker]

[JPGJOHNNYG]

It's that northern Irish group that everyone is trying to claim.

[weareros]

The NIO has the "NI"'option to dilute things. The Life and Times survey just gives the British or Irish option and things not looking as rosy for British identity.

https://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/2024/Political_Attitudes/IRBRIT.html

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Surprised at the Nilt survey it is usually way off and generally not in favour of nationalists. It regularly has Alliance as the highest supported party and the other parties support usually bear no resemblance of any actual election ever so I would normally not take much notice of it.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

The NIO has the "NI"'option to dilute things. The Life and Times survey just gives the British or Irish option and things not looking as rosy for British identity.

https://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/2024/Political_Attitudes/IRBRIT.html

The introduction of Irish, British and northern Irish into the census was definitely introduced to try and deflect and confuse people away from the community background figures

[Rossfan]

Is it a more accurate measure to gauge "Border poll" voting?
The "Northern Irish" will be the one to convince.

[Milltown Row2]

To be fair there are a lot of 'mixed' marriages in the north compared to 30/40 years ago. Those kids growing up in todays mixed marriages generally are not christened so their identity of being prod/taig isn't a thing nor is their feeling of full Irish identity either..

5% during the troubles to 20% now.. google is your friend

So there is a fair few with identity issues and they could be the swing voters, they, I doubt very much are actually into politics so to get this right I feel, the calls for a ref should not be from political parties per say, but a grouping that is non political and has the advantages and disadvantages  laid out

[tiempo]

Punts in your pocket and healthcare will be the 2 big ticket items when it comes to the crunch, the PUL community have one last chance now to treat their neighbours with equality such that middle of the road nationalists vote to preserve the Union. The increase in mixed marriages points to better relations than before but in the end supremacy is the only show in town for the OO and OWC brigade, their shite for brain approach will sabotage any chance of the UK remaining intact, theres a very obvious direction of travel, over time this will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I honestly believe quite a good number of OO/OWC would even grudgingly accept the inevitable as long as Gerry Adams never lives to see it. If unification happens after Adams is gone, they might accept it more easily as history rather than a defeat.

[From the Bunker]

Is it a more accurate measure to gauge "Border poll" voting?
The "Northern Irish" will be the one to convince.

You have it there...That's the floating vote.

Look, it's all about people being comfortable in who they are and not forcing labels on them.