tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2021881758028552806.post8811958845552390241..comments2023-08-22T13:27:09.015+01:00Comments on Endgame In Ulster: LucidTalk Poll 2014Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2021881758028552806.post-90905934901494995262014-10-08T14:25:24.473+01:002014-10-08T14:25:24.473+01:00It's a case of talks from now until the end of...It's a case of talks from now until the end of the year. Everything will be on the table. Recommendations will be made. Unionists find it very hard to compromise. The not an inch mentality meant ultimately Haass failed even though Mike Nesbitt stated we were "90% there". Whether the British Irish and US governments can push them the other 10% over the line, I have my doubts. If they can great if they can't there will be an election. SF will not loose much ground but the DUP are being squeezed by the other Unionist parties as seen in the Euro elections. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that SF will be the largest party after the election meaning Marty will be head honcho.Endahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01731226917855356141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2021881758028552806.post-74083574926962974302014-10-03T07:09:39.197+01:002014-10-03T07:09:39.197+01:00Enda, as I posted over on BD's blog: There ar...Enda, as I posted over on BD's blog: There are a lot of other pie charts to get stuck into over the next few days. We could be getting close to a Stormont collapse now though. Budgets in red, dire warnings about policing, health all over the place, welfare deadlock. This is starting to look unsustainable. SF can't lose face and back down for nothing. DUP won't put it to the assembly. The only way to avoid an election being called is for talks on everything. Don't see it amounting to anything so let's have the election and be back to where we started.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2021881758028552806.post-49456723277006034592014-09-29T14:22:56.924+01:002014-09-29T14:22:56.924+01:00Why not start it now? Precisely because the Shinne...Why not start it now? Precisely because the Shinners have apparently nothing substantive to say about all those aspects (social justice, education and the economy etc). Much as they congratulate themselves on the way they have played the "long game", they are befuddled by the issue of lack of majority support for a "united Ireland". That lack of support is just as real and deep seated as the "cultural Catholic" demographic trend. ( And anyone with any depth of reading surely realizes that "the Souths" ambivalence towards " the North" is culturally and historically deep-seated too. So don't look there for something to force the issue). The ex-post realization of the demographic implications led to a lot of self-congratulation about how well they'd played the game. In fact the failure to appreciate the other broader cultural and economic identity factors now reveals only the paucity of thinking.<br /><br />Not that the other fellas have anything better to offer. Overall, the bigger forces of demography and broader social and cultural identity will continue to reveal how appallingly limited the political classes on both sides of our squabbling tribes have failed. They simply have begun to address the basic issue of how we are going to live together civilly when it becomes utterly apparent that all we have is each other!Samiamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05695982369291993245noreply@blogger.com