Tory, UUP and DUP voting alliance!

[pintsofguinness]

only you would

[Tonto]

only you would

I take it that's a compliment for my perceptiveness?

If so, thanks.

[Zapatista]

Protestants are just as likely to be discriminated against as Catholics.

As a child up to about the age of 12 or 13 I would have felt that prodestants were 2nd class citizens or at least I would have felt some superiority over them.

The few prodestants who lived in my area were the only ones I knew. My area would had been 90-95% catholic and the prodestants who lived there had to as they had nowhere else to go. They were pretty much shunned from the main prodestant areas for socail reasons. For these very same reason I thought they were 2nd to catholics. I had no idea that they were outcasts from the prodestant areas or that our area was infact discriminated as a whole. While catholics were discriminated against on a whole there were defiantly a minority of prodestants discriminated against too. My experience of this is that it wasn't due to politics or religion but moreso due to the society within those religions.

Life wouldn't have always been easy for these prodestants but they were never shunned from the community. As we all got older they became as big a part of the community as anyother family did.

I think many loyalist communities are discriminated against too. Their loyalty allows for many of them to get screwed in bread and butter issues. I think this is something the late David Irvine recognised.

[ziggysego]

Thankfully the UUP have ruled out a voting alliance with the DUP.

One UUP source told BBC political editor Mark Devenport there was a determination "not to pull the DUP out of a hole".

BBCi: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8495021.stm

[Jim_Murphy_74]

Thankfully the UUP have ruled out a voting alliance with the DUP.

One UUP source told BBC political editor Mark Devenport there was a determination "not to pull the DUP out of a hole".

BBCi: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8495021.stm

They don't need the pact, they needed to do a bit of scaremongering about a Shinner being First Minister.  They've done that now, so their supporters will vote tactically to avoid that scenario, regardless of an official pact existing or not.

/Jim.

[whiskeysteve]

Protestants are just as likely to be discriminated against as Catholics.

As a child up to about the age of 12 or 13 I would have felt that prodestants were 2nd class citizens or at least I would have felt some superiority over them.

The few prodestants who lived in my area were the only ones I knew. My area would had been 90-95% catholic and the prodestants who lived there had to as they had nowhere else to go. They were pretty much shunned from the main prodestant areas for socail reasons. For these very same reason I thought they were 2nd to catholics. I had no idea that they were outcasts from the prodestant areas or that our area was infact discriminated as a whole. While catholics were discriminated against on a whole there were defiantly a minority of prodestants discriminated against too. My experience of this is that it wasn't due to politics or religion but moreso due to the society within those religions.

Life wouldn't have always been easy for these prodestants but they were never shunned from the community. As we all got older they became as big a part of the community as anyother family did.

I think many loyalist communities are discriminated against too. Their loyalty allows for many of them to get screwed in bread and butter issues. I think this is something the late David Irvine recognised.

Jaysus. An orgy of spelling mistakes boy 

[ardmhachaabu]

Noble aspiration Zap but you will find there are  a lot of castle Catholics don't want a united Ireland... sadly it ain't even close.

and Nationalist Protestants? Don't forget them too.

In your dreams Ziggy... very, very few I would think.

I know a few.

So do I, they aren't such a rarity