Your lack of reply over my suggestion that Unionists' Anti-Irishness is no different to Sinn Fein's Anti-Britishness leads me to believe that you agree with me?
The DUP and Sinn Fein have been carving up Stormont for the last half a dozen years, yet you are still quite happy to sit in the Executive with them. Why don't you practice what you preach and go into Opposition?
Which begs the question, why were the Unionists so opposed to Dr Haass's suggestion for a new NI flag? I don't get it. I thought that this would have been a good compromise to have instead of arguing over the Union Flag or ROI flag. I also thought that if anybody was going to be opposed to a new NI flag it would have been SF because this would then mean they recognised the legitmacy of NI to exist. But no, it was the Unionists who shot the idea down 'because it isn't our Union Flag'. And of course NI already has an unofficial anthem with Danny Boy which is used at the Commonwealths so why can't the NI football team use this as well?
If you had have listened to all the arguments before the vote was taken in the council then you would have realised that SF have no problem with the Union Flag flying every day as long as the ROI flag does as well. Of course, I would also want the NI flag flying. You talk about SF being anti-British, well of course they are. But are they any more anti-British than Unionists are anti-Irish?
'I do not intend to vote in this election as I do not trust any of the so called 'unioinist' parties. You know Lyle, you can vote for non-unionist parties. Why does everything in Northern Irish politics have to revolve around the border?
Part 2. Of course there were other compromises that could have been reached. One would be to fly all three flags every day (the Union Flag, the NI flag and ROI flag). Or another could have been to only fly the NI flag every day but it would have to be a new flag with British, Northern Irish and Irish symbols on it. This is my preferred option. The Union Flag could still have been flown on designated days. Of course when Dr Haass suggested this it was immediately shot down by Unionists. Had the Unionists have supported this idea then they could have put the ball firmly back in the SF court to see if they would support a new NI flag and therefore recognise NI. But instead it was the Unionists who came out of this looking like the bad guys with their 'no compromise' attitude.
Part 1. Life, eh? It's all about compromise. NI is not like the rest of the UK because a substantial proportion of the population living here do not see themselves as British, or even Northern Irish. So a compromise was reached on the flying of the flag at Belfast City Hall. Designated days. A policy which was originally suggested by Buckingham Palace and I can't think of anything more British than that. I cannot say for sure but I have read many posts over the last two years on this website from people saying that many towns in GB have adopted the 'designated days' policy.
Anglia is a region of England but it is also a region of the United Kingdom. The same way that England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all regions of the United Kingdom. Presumably though as you are Northern Irish, like myself, which is as you correct say a bit British and a bit Irish, then you would have no problem with the flag of Northern Ireland flying at City Hall?
So then you would have no problem with the flag of Northern Ireland flying at Belfast City Hall?
Hmm, I am not sure how you have worked out that I am a Shinner. I have said that Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and that the flag of Northern Ireland should be flying everyday at Belfast City Hall. How many Shinners do you know would say that?
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