It's a shameful UK past of famine and genocide in Ireland that's why they don't teach it

Yeah its not a surprise they dont teach it its disgusting if you actually look it up. There was a potato famine and the whole population was starving to death while the british exported all our food abroad. They thought we didnt deserve free help so they made the irish build roads by hand leading to nowhere for pennies

I couldn’t agree more. I must have studied the tudors 5 times throughout my education. Nothing on the troubles.

Phoebe HB in Northern Ireland we are taught a hell of a lot about English history so don’t sweat it

It's so young people don't realise the horrendous ways Britain treated the Irish over the centuries! Look up anything on the 'black and tans' and prepare to be horrified

@@@vat6989 what does that have to do with anything? Brexit is horrible for our economy and will be detrimental to our future, thats why people voted remain

@@vat6989 There were 90,000 more votes to remain than stay in Northern Ireland, and there were only 4,000 Muslims living there in 2009. There are 50 times as many non-religious people and 200 times as many Catholics. Additionally, Scotland voted remain and the whole UK almost voted remain despite being majority protestant. Something tells your comment is driven more by your own fixations than the realities of voting demographics.

dobkayaker media doing its part

vat 69 there has historically been a Protestant majority up until very recently but population demographics are now fast approaching a tipping point where the ageing Protestant population are soon to be outnumbered by the young generation of catholics. Of course religious belief isn’t a guarantee of a persons political persuasion but it’s how it’s generally viewed here in Northern Ireland.

Britain is country in the world which believes in divide and rule which create a lot of problems, destabilize the peace, law and order. Britain should leave Northern Ireland

English: "Everyone in England" India and Pakistan: "Ahhh, that's the England we know"

The middle east: *visible confusion*

😀😂😂

Nomore border disputes then,they learned from their ancestors...

Israel and Palestine Turkey and Greece Agrees with you too

@el, I died Laughing with your comment

DarceyNE I smell IRA

Its a UK border not a British one

I think he meant the Island Called "Great Britain"

@@CatholicWeeb And again, it's a UK border not a British one

Zen Flow better version Vox: The UK’s only overland border Gibraltar: Am I a joke to you? Good profile picture BTW :)

Zen Flow wait where’s Gibraltar? And where is it the UK’s second overland border?

@@jacobs279 The second overland border is with Spain.Gibraltar is in south Spain next to the strait of gibraltar

@@tomeggengoor Akrotiri and Dhekelia: Are we a joke to all of you?

Good thing there's no terrorism in Gibraltar.

and Bangladesh

Look what they did to India but Britishers lives in a illusion that they saved ,developed India but if study history u will know how they ruined India from Golden age of India to dust( I'm sure they don't teach this in their history classes).

Roman Gawande ekdum right...

@@akshitthakur6833 Because English people think they are blameless. They live in a fantasy.

Added to that, India-Pakistan Borders were drawn by Cyril John Redcliffe who never visited the Indian sub-continent before! He just took the map and curved it on the basis of Muslim Majority and Hindu Majority areas and that started the life long conflict here. What a shame!

@Captain Canada Arab world, Indian subcontinent and africa

India

agreed

Man, karma's a b****. Aint it Great Britain? lol

@Dipankar Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me. I should've put quotations around "Great". lol

Boris... soon to be first Prime Minister of England

Boris is a beast 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

And when Ireland leaves the UK you'll be begging to come back when the EU demand billions from you every year and you can't keep your quota and your country becomes bankrupt just like the majority of EU member countries

@@eddevlin72 more like good luck to Ireland and Scotland with that 👍

bcfcsavag33 bcfcsavag33 🤪

Ireland left the UK in 1922. Is it a pre-requisite for all Brexit supporters to be complete morons?

Taint ABird Using big words to seem smart now are we?

You're absolutely right. While joining the Republic would effectively solve the issue of the border, the hardcore Unionists would probably start an insurgency like the IRA did.

The border will be fine after Brexit. People can travel freely across the border under the Common Travel Area established before the EU existed. Lorries and goods crossing the border will be checked and we aren't talking about putting soldiers and watch towers up along the border.

learna box exactly, these r all scaremongers trying all they can to put down Brexit. It's the eu who wants a hard border, as they want to break down the UK and deter any other state from leaving it in the future.

Nick The UK want the border as they want their own customs agreements.

wtf Rob calm down, while it was a disgrace that the British ever came to Ireland in the first place, they still live here now and see Northern Ireland as their home. I grew up in a protestant neighbourhood in a protestant family, I'd hate to live in Britain, I see myself as more of Irish since I was born on the island of Ireland

And just one and a half month to draw a boundary between India and Pakistan of about 1500 km and that too by a man who never visited India !!!

@@dishantsharma8777 exactly

@I have to wait 90 days to change my name ever heard of the british raj policy called divide and rule, thats what separated muslims and hindus in the first place.

Today is brexit

@Britannia Yeah. They were power hungry just like every other politicians. It was completely undemocratic. No one would have voted for pakistan.

Dang

HARRY THOMPSON I just love our country

Where is ir

@HARRY THOMPSON and for good reason

Right job up the ra

Oh my gosh, I laughed so hard

Broken Kingdom!

Nicola Sturgeon would like the sound of that...

ununited kingdom

Political broken mess kingdom!

Divided kingdom!

Exactly, out they can go

@@nathanielbugg7355 You clearly aren't well versed in Irish history. Ireland was England's first colony, and after England conquered Ireland in the 1600s the Penal Laws were implemented which took the right for Catholics to own land. This was done to take power from the Irish -- indigenous people of the island -- so England could populate the island with British and replace Irish culture with British culture. Why do you think the vast majority of the Irish speak english as a first language today? The point is Ireland was colonized by the British and in a sense the UK still occupies Northern Ireland. The "British" don't have to go, the point is they are living in Ireland, they should not oppress the Irish language and Irish culture.

Irish invaded and settled Scotland in 400AD, most of the people who ‘colonised’ Ireland were Scottish, and since a majority of Scots are related to the Irish who took over Scotland it was technically just people returning to the historic homeland.

i see u w the cousin stizz pic

@@nathanielbugg7355 wow, for a long paragraph I can't believe you got so much wrong. The Irish did have a king, the Ard Rí (High King). Not only that, each province of Ireland had their own leaders, which were known as kings (Rí), but pledged allegiance to the High King. This was relatively similar to the feudal system present in the rest of Europe. The gaelic society was very advanced, same as any, with complex laws (including far more rights for women then the common law of England gave them). The colonisation efforts are historically known as the plantations. The most successful one, of Ulster, took place after a failed rebellion almost freed the entirety of Ireland from British rule. After its failure, the Irish leaders O'Neill and O'Donnell fled to Spain, in what was known as "the flight of the Earls". As Ulster had been the county leading the rebellion, Queen Elizabeth of England decided to remove the power base. They confiscated Irish land and gave this land to Protestant English and Scottish settlers in an effort to wipe out the Irish culture and people in Ulster, making them "British" and thus ensuring they won't rebel. The Irish people who's land they stole occasionally fought back and killed the settlers, while although that was relatively rare, bred distrust and fear. (This fear and distrust still exists today to a degree) Rebellions in Ireland didn't stop of course, which led to the Cromwellian genocide, in which Cromwell killed an estimated 41% of the Irish population and sold 100,000s into indentured servitude in the Carribean, almost none of which returned. This genocide was followed by oppressive penal laws on catholics, which preventing them from attending school, voting, owning property beyond a certain price and treating them like second class citizens. Actually, Ireland used to have one of the highest literacy rates for Greek and Roman before the penal laws of any European country. (There was a good few more rebellions in the period from Cromwell to the successful one, beginning in 1916) The penal laws created a new aristocracy of British, generally absentee landlords. Trends continued whereby the catholic majority owned less and less of the land they were living on. By the end of this system, at the time of the Land Wars in Ireland in the 1870s, only 3% of Irish farmers actually owned their own land; the other 97% were tenants of British landlords. These landlords of course were most focused on creating more wealth for themselves, leading them to use much of their land for cattle rearing and other lucrative sales at the time. Now, this took up a lot of land, which meant that the tenant farmers had basically none of their own. The abject poverty the Irish at the time (the 1800s now) is also important mention. “Now I have seen Ireland, it seems to me that the poorest among the Letts, the Estonians and the Finlanders lead a life of comparative luxury.” (Kohl, a German visitor to Ireland in the early C19th) "There never was a country in which poverty existed to the extent that it exists in Ireland.”-the Duke of Wellington Poverty in Ireland was so bad that when Gladstone wrote to Naples to complain about the state of their prisons, they responded by saying that Ireland, outside of prisons, was so much worse and he had no ability to complain therefore. This poverty and lack of land forced subsistence onto the only crop that could support Irish families on such small plots that they had: the potato. Now, living on just one crop alone isn't a good idea, but obviously the Irish had no choice, it was that or starvation. When the blight came, starvation came anyway. The majority of the Irish population, poor tenant farmers, suddenly lost their only source of food. At this time, Ireland was exporting enough food to feed everyone in Ireland many times over, but the British government refused to stop exports. They also provided little to no public aid, with most soup kitchens actually created by independent organisations such as the Quakers. The landlords, with their rents no longer being met, starting mass evictions of the starving families, peaking in 1847 (the worst year of the famine). Again, the British government refused to act. In fact, the man in charge of aid programs, Charles Trevellyan, was famously racist to Irish people, saying: “The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the [irish] people.” Finally, the British government gave aid, with a very important caveat: no irish person was eligible for aid if they owned or occupied more then 1/4 of an acre of land. This was a massive win for the landlords, but meant that the farmers who had to give up their land now had no way to survive in the future. All in all, over a million Irish people died in the famine, a million emigrated, causing the population of Ireland to drop by 20-25%. There's still an ongoing debate in Irish history whether or not this Famine constitues a genocide. So yes, Ireland was most definitely a colony, and yes, England committed atrocities to wipe out the Irish population in history. Same as so many other countries

Holy cow. That´s sound very political problematic. Hope they find a good solution for everyone.

a more recent and bigger poll shows the vast majoiry of people in NI want to stay in the UK

@@caleb4790 I was waiting for this comment

casey jason it’s true tho

Caleb Emerson I know

British National Conservative The reason there are going to be far-right parties is because they make small issues that aren’t actually that relevant into major issues. They make people into haters of anyone different to what they are and the country goes into turmoil. This is all fuelled by the refugee crisis and it’s only a crisis because countries like Hungary are refusing to take in any refugees so other countries have to take in more than they should. The UK is not helping either.

The list goes on an on.... Yet you've come up with 4 issues that aren't even issues. Sounds like someone's not done their homework.

Learchusfull Scaremongering, we will still trade with the EU just possibly with tariffs.

What about Gibraltar?

Norway isn't in the EU

Nandemonai this is strange since Turkey occupies Northern Cyprus after invading it in 1974. How about giving northern Cyprus back to south Cyprus

I'll send love to Turkey when you get rid of that gangster Erdogan.

Linden Village “tiocfaidh ár lá” basically. Condoning terrorism I see.. tut tut tut

We would accept your love if you leave the CYPRUS alone!

@@greyson042290 look it's not like they're doing anything. It's the leaders of the country. Stop going after Turkish people who have nothing to do with it.

Well it was the blight that starved us but the Brits didn't help much

@@sq0648 The blight was around much longer than the famine. People started starving whenever the British started exporting food. Do you seriously think we relied solely on Potatoes as a food source? Because we didn't, wheat and Corn were just as common but the British hardly wanted rotten potato's as they were obviously not valuable at all. They viewed Ireland as Britain's bread basket, population reduction was viewed as a good thing by the UK government. Queen Victoria didn't donate until the international media started pressuring the crown, the monarchy literally rejected a massive donation (that would have been worth millions today) from the Ottoman Empire, the King of Ottoman Empire snuck food into the town of Drogheda which is the reason some people are alive today. The Choctaw tribe in America donated all they could, despite them struggling themselves. The UK didn't just refuse to feed us, they starved us.

Utter nonsense. The British didn't "starve 2 million people"; most of the 1 million people who died in the Famine were killed by infectious diseases, not literal starvation. In the Irish were "British" in the 19th Century.

It's a British thing, they did the same to India.

The riots in Belfast and Derry aren't about Brexit they are over members of the executive publicly breaking covid law and nothing being done about it.

@@secobain covid law they broke 8 months ago.....

I'm not saying it makes sense but that's what it's over.

they also forgot about the british territories on cyprus

Crack Lord Ireland was always one nation. It was never a unified state in the Westphalian sense because it was colonised so long ago. However, in the next few decades it will be reunited.

Daniel rios 900th like.

Anthony Ryan A bit of unsolicited advice if you're open to it: While I agree with your argument, I can't help but wince at your tone. IMO if you cut out the "so your wrong" and just stated your case, you would be much more effective in making your point, because it would make it more clear that you are arguing the point, not the person. Good argument nonetheless.

Crack Lord they were untitled for 2 days I think after the creation of the free state before NI used Thier opt out to leave the free state

fenhen - I agree . Theresa May has been painting red lines all around her to please everyone and now she has nowhere to go. She is clueless

There is more then four options. For example art 24 of the Gatt allows for seemless boarders if negotiating towards a permant deal over an intrum period of 10 years. That's one medium term solution with plenty of time to figure out and facilitate a long term one. Other option are the UK and Ireland simply refuse to build any hard boarder infrastructure you can't have a hard boarder unless someone actively builds it because there is nothing there at the moment.

James Car - Yet Theresa May has been unable to choose one yet and we are at 2.5 months of the deadline for a deal. 🤦‍♂️

+James Car Which would be nothing more than an extension of what the UK government has been doing for the past two years - kicking the can down the road. Any reason why the EU, let alone Ireland, would agree to that? At this point, no one outside the UK even cares about Brexit anymore - everyone but the Brits has accepted that there will be consequences for everyone, and all everyone wants is certainty. And your plan is 10 more years of uncertainty? Brilliant strategy. Also, even from a hardline Brexiteer's point of view, what good comes out of having no hard border? All the immigrants you want to keep out could simply sneak into the UK by way of Ireland. And when it comes to a choice between a hard border and the integrity of the single market, don't be so sure about which way Ireland is going to go.

First of all Ireland has committed to no hard border and has said it would not put in place the necessary infrastructure, which the UK government has also said they would not do. Leaving this in a bit of a difficult situation of if there is going to be a hard boarder (which no one wants) who is actually going to build it. The Uk said it won't as did Ireland and the EU has no means of putting it in place itself. Now presuming someone is in a position to build it you then can look at solution like that provided by the WTO under Art 24 of the GATT, how implementing a seamless boarder immediately (10 year interim agreement) and negotiating its permanent presence (if the time its taking to negotiate this is your problem then i suggest you find alternative interest to international law and politics negotiation and slow negotiation is how things work unfortunately) is a bad thing, you will have to explain as it solve the issue that is central to this problem in that there would be no hard boarder. In regards to the hardline Brexit view pretty much all the major Brexit players including Farage, Johnson et al have all said they do not want a hard boarder with ireland and are happy to see the necessary agreements in place that allow for frictionless trade and movement of people over it. In fact Frage has even been advocating for a special agreement for Ireland if the rest of the EU can reach one that would ensure none of these problems are issues in the future. In regards to Immigrant ireland has a CTA with the UK that existed before the EU ever even existed and no-one not even the hardest of Breiters have advocated its removal. In regards to other immigrants Ireland is not a member of Shengan so it can control and record those that come in an out. Plus immigrants from Europe that have free movement to Ireland I can assure have zero interest in moving to NI for work purposes and if they do go to NI they would still have to cross from NI into the rest of the UK allowing the UK authorities to prevent entrance hence solving the movement problem.

I love it

lol the it's just the irony of the UK struggling from border issues while they drew half of the worlds borders

You would think with all of these comments that UK would crumble under the pressure...

uhh because uk deserves to be roasted?

@Khushi Bidhuri Survival of the fittest.

Would be a nice present for 7 January 2022.

Looks like it might be sooner than later

Buachail an-maith!

Real Engineering go luath go leor

Real engineering best channel 👌🏼

So the Native Irish who left Ireland to form Scotland return and you say they are "colonizing" Northern Ireland like they have no right to be there! It was their ancient homeland. But because they had a different religion you want to change the narrative to fit your criteria of who is "Irish".

Ye but democracy is democracy so it would inhumane to say that the Protestant vote should not be valid because of the actions of there ancestors

Nnelg Drahcir No it wasn’t native Irish returning from Scotland..

@@freeeire564 OP said "colonize the north with huge numbers of Scottish protestant settlers" The Scots are from Ireland. So how can they colonize a place that is their original homeland? That's just "returning" not colonising.

Nnelg Drahcir the only reason we confirmed that some scots are originally from Ireland is through genetic evidence. They left hundreds and thousands of years ago. You can’t leave some place thousands of years ago, come back and say, “just kidding this is my homeland I own it now.” I’m of partially English descent, but my ancestors came to America in the 1600s. I can’t just go to my ancestral homes in Kent and Devon move in and say, “This used to be my house 500 years ago, so it’s mine again and you have to give me UK citizen.” That’s not how that works.

The majority of folks in Northern Ireland are unionists who see themselves as part of the UK. They have a right fo self-determination. To say otherwise would be kind of imperialist, wouldn't it?

@Kelly 22 If they've lived there all their lives, it kind of is their land, isn't it?

@@geekyradical4985 yes...that's exactly what it is. Isn't that what the EU is about?

@Kelly 22 Unionists are not a minority in Northern Ireland. If they don't want to be part of the Irish Republic, so be it. It's their decision. What happens there affects them, not us.

@Kelly 22 The fact that there's no sea separating Northern Ireland from the Irish Republic doesn't change any of what I just said. There's no sea separating the US from Mexico or Canada, but that doesn't mean that the US should try to take over those countries.

Yar da sells avon

Erin go Braugh

Jack Powell sorry I speak English

I'm Welsh and I think that N. Ireland should be in Ireland.

Yes but the people of Northern Ireland dont want to be part of ireland. What you as a welshman thinks literally dosnt matter

Disco 😂😂😂😂

Pretty much

Oh, I was starting to believe both channels were about BGM with the volume balance.

Disco hahaha well you know geography and sociology go hand in hand!

thebahooplamaster blame that on the people who make the curriculum. They think learning about ancient India is more important lol. Ireland and England have like 800 years of fighting.

The thing about history is that it is such a large topic that you can’t do everything in detail, there simply isn’t time. The only way you could was if you spent each history lesson giving yourself a crash course in that part of history, but your knowledge in each topic would be very shallow. For example, where I live in the uk, history is very Eurocentric. I’ve heard that American education is very America centric, and I’m sure that’s the case all over the world. In my history classes we barley touched Asia. For example the only time China was ever mentioned was during my WW2 history classes where we simply learnt that japan attacked China in 1937, and that an argument could be made that WW2 started then and not in 1939.

I learned about it for most of my school education. Not worth it, believe me. Too much bitter fighting over stupid reasons.

thebahooplamaster Where are you from?

It's the main focus on the Northern Irish curriculum (I'm Northern Irish) and to whoever called the fighting stupid, yes for some reasons the fighting as god awful and idiotic but remember that prior to 1960's the Catholics faced discrimination similar to that which blacks faced in 1960's America, maybe not as bad but it is comparable so its a very important topic for pretty much everyone in the UK to understand so that we can avoid it happening again. Suprisingly, the little englanders who voted to leave don't even know we exist.

Really? Most of my years in school were spent on Germany and the history of Northern Ireland.

Yeah, why is it that every country's education system is better at teaching another country's history than their own history?

India and Ireland have so many similarities thanks to the british taking no consideration when drawing borders 😣 1921 and 1947 they could've learned from what they did to ireland but they just didn't

We both suffered huge famines, caused by the uk too :/

@@adamender9092 i always support ireland, ireland are good people, they never trouble any nation.

@@safuwanfauzi5014 Sure. LOL.

@@geekyradical4985 what lol?

No one talks about the ruc allowing the hard-line unionist groups either

Reporting east of the Irish sea during the troubles was very one sided.

My da got sued for dropping paper, then picking it up again

Fk the ruc uff udr uff

Inconvenient truth.

Jamalam time to join the republic. Stay part of the EU. Enjoy the benefits of a proper location government not run overseas in another countries Parliament. The Irish are your brothers and sisters. The English are cousins overseas.

Simon Bones they erased their identity it's sad

Simon Bones I would but I like NI and the NHS though it is flawed, but what country isn’t we have had trouble but we continue to mature we are less than 100 years old

I feel alot of the pro-reunification people take for granted the benefits of being in the UK, the NHS being a prime example.

Jamalam 1 year 7 months its a mess and will make post brexit very difficult face it the north really won't like England deciding how its run

Ya big rip

This is a quote from Padraig Pearse

MikeyGeess correct!

- The man, the Republican, the legend, Padraig Mac Pearse

Ireland is at peace

That makes sense all the British really wanted was the Naval ports

@le Hoarderz Al-Shekelsteins invasion of ireland was like invasion of britain for the outsiders (wales) and scotland and then oliver cromwell's brutal slaughter in ireland and deliberate starvation of irish people by queen victoria and today that horrible elitist country of england ruled by a queen goes on. Seeking to reassert itself in America. Don't make america great britain again.

Then why do the Northern Irish continually support remaining in the union? The last referendum was a blow out victory for Unionism. Even though the vast majority of Republican supporters boycotted that election it didn’t matter. Their are plenty of polls that show that up to 50% of Catholics could vote to remain in the union if another referendum vote occurred.

Would be great if it were that easy.

Lol. That will never happen. Protestants will never agree.

this is irrelevant

It's already been addressed. Britain will keep it, Spain will keep buzzing British ships and making provocative statements so Spain's right wing populist parties can fearmonger to stay in government, and the EU won't try to separate and keep Gibraltar any more than they'd try to separate and keep Yorkshire. Ultimately, Spain can do nothing. They constantly threaten to veto whatever the latest Brexit-related thing is, but they haven't done it yet and won't try anytime soon because they owe a gazillion dollars to the ECB that they have no intention of ever paying back, and can't afford to risk getting Brussels mad at them. Spain is basically being given an unlimited free money spigot by the EU in exchange for not turning their Brexit-complicating words to action over Gibraltar, on the condition that if they ever excercise a veto or sink British ships, they'll spend the next 200 years paying all of it back. So far, the plan seems to be working, Spain for all their empty drama has toed the EU line without fail.

Gibraltar is child’s play compared to Ireland.

I hate the term fear monger and how it is always compared to the right. There are more cases I see of the left. Death threats of right wing politicians if the right had there way you’ll all be oppressed that sorta thing. The only unreasonable fear I can see from the right is about illegal immigration... why are we afraid of them if we can just kick them out like we have always done.

No one cares about an imperial rock

Ella O'Brien It’s a pretty common stereotype (and a fact as well to be honest) that it was older people who mainly voted for Brexit. The Good Friday agreement that ended The Troubles was signed in 1998. Most people who voted for Brexit would have therefore remembered the tube bombings, killing of Lord Mountbatten and everything else that came with The Troubles. They obviously know of the conflict and therefore probably know somewhat of its origins. I think you are trying to say they didn’t think enough of the issue before voting to leave. Also why should people in the UK learn about a random country with a 16th of its population? We aren’t even taught of matters like our own unification. We have more useful and important things to learn about.

Why should Ireland vote

In Scotland its a very common thing to be caught

the people of N. Ireland voted with the rest of the UK to leave. Or are you cherry picking regions to fit your agenda?

@ The Duke of Wellington 'Also why should people in the UK learn about a random country with a 16th of its population.' To combat ignorance. They might even find out that its not even a 'random country', but a country with whom they share a border and history.

gannonball 69 a majority want to stay, that’s why Northern Ireland exists

But a majority wanted to stay in the EU. So sounds like they are sick of being pushed around

THE LUCKE CHARMER yeah it’s tough, chances are a United Ireland will happen, which will more than likely remain in the EU, but that’ll be up to the people of Northern Ireland to decide, the people shouldn’t be forced into one nation or another, yes that’s been done in the past, but it shouldn’t happen today.

Infinity Galaxy 501 I don’t understand. A majority of people wanted to stay in the EU, but do they vote to abandon their British citizenship?

Or someone has to take it back don't think there ever gonna do that

Josephine Geoghegan and civil rights

And that is why the troubles started

So were Protestants the wars went back and forth for awhile

I believe Irish people will have a more strong voice with the EU at their side! Plus they forgot EU can send soldiers to Ireland incase UK send troops to the "union" side. Hope all end in good terms like they do in the good friday!

@@josephmiller8464 This is the first I've heard of it. Any resources on that?

Have any actual reasons except what you feel?

It does not benefit the UK at all. Where did you get that information?

I wouldn't imagine it's supposed to benefit the EU.

Scotland won't leave because they had a vote just a few years ago. The SNP lost 21 seats at the last general election so that says enough.

The revolutionary empire Leave what? The EU? They voted to remain

@smokinjoe11 yea it would be better if they negotiated while staying i the EU

@@wzupppp Then I guess the American colonists should have negotiated and stayed.

I guess the USA shot itself in the foot by declaring independence from Great Britain.

EXACTLY

not enough people of colour for vox

Because the guy doing it didn't travel there. Also he's doing Borders in Hong Kong, like 5 vids, yet asians aren't poc, so that doesn't make any sense.

Because the border guy is boring us on Hong Kong.

Borders involves the host visiting the place and doing live interviews Atlas is just international news

Leonared Hosey Jr Yes, but the reponse from the Gibraltarians to Spain's attempt at a land grab was something along the lines of "Do your worst. If the United Kingdom is leaving, we are too." These people I like.

J MCC But Gibraltar relies on the tourism that Spain provides through the EU. Without that, Gibraltar could end up like NI

It doesn’t have the same problem at all. A hard border in Gibraltar won’t start a war. A hard border in Ireland will.

Gibraltar doesn't have paramilitaries kneecapping people. Even a customs border won't have much effect on traffic and trade there, so no one's concerned.

michael lynch It wont start a war, but it will become impossible to have a economy there with a closed border

How could they do something so complex and hard

Take a look at Dunkirk Evacuation, it's probably successful large scale Brexit in history, as far as I know

since when do indians care about europe?

It'll be hell on earth up near the border if they decide to undermine all the trouble we went through to get peace.

I get the history involved there but I mean god damn they're on the same island and Catholic/protestant relations aren't nearly as bad as they used to be. I wonder if its just the older generations in NI that would oppose Irish unification

I lived a similar situation myself, what I did? Put a couple of stickers in the car, seriously, it might seem a joke but I haven't had any more incidents since. If your plate is from the south put a couple of stickers that represent the north like the remembrance day ones! Its very helpful

VerifiedNoob Aye tell that to the 30,000 people who depend on the open border each and every day

They want to create hatred and mistrust because it gives them power. Construct an enemy for the people (in the case of Brexit, immigrants) so you can construct a way to "fight" that false enemy, fulfulling your own agendas in the process.

You have to remember it was 51 to 49 that's hardly a mandate

Learchusfull I hope she does if that happens, it’s unfair on Scotland if they have to go through with a hard Brexit

To hold a referendum on reunification would be to essentially restart the Troubles, or a least create sparks that could light that fire if given enough fuel. N.I is at the least 15-20 years off being stable enough to hold such a referendum.

NI and Scotland should just unite into one independent country

Josue Bartley72 Scotland has the highest national debt in the UK, and if it left, it would have a debt equal to the amount Greece has (per GDP), so y would the EU want Scotland by themselves, if they left the uk

Yeah, literally the source of the conflict. Lets just leave that small detail out.

Definitely. A lot of people will watch this video and think they know everything about what happened. (not everybody, but it happens often enough)

Exactly

Yes forgot to mention why the north has a Protestant majority they didn't just grow out of the ground

They also left out the war of independence. As if Britain would spontaneously want to leave the island

Can't argue with colonialists

I like your comment. You seem to be thinking realistically which most people don't do IMHO. However, as I commented above, I don't think the British government will allow reunification because it could be perceived as weakening Britain's western flank (militarily).

arronison That will happen in the next decade or two given the decline in the PULSE demographic and the upswing in the CNR demographic. You evidently don’t know much about the Republic of Ireland’s relationship with the IRA given that it pretty routinely interned, tortured, imprisoned IRA members through the Special Criminal Court (often merely on the word of an individual policeman) and placed a broadcast ban on Republicans . Doesn’t really sound like a relationship between allies to me.

-What about the Droid attack on the Wookies?- Good question tho

No one cares about Gibraltar.

There's already clips on it .

I think Gibraltar is going to stay in the customs union as its heavily dependent on the free trade from Spain and tourist coming through Spain.

In the video he said NI has the only overland border with the EU...

meh, people hate brown people, that's why

And thought all the money that they have to give the eu in the NHS Which is now know as a blatant lie

I wouldn't exactly phrase it as hating brown people but there has certainly been a growing sentiment within the UK of wanting less immigration, especially since the refugee crisis. I don't think it would be controversial to say that immigration was most people's main issue when voting Leave. I've heard people talk about sovereignty of our courts and legislature, but that has always been a secondary argument, an _oh and also..._ I just hope we don't screw ourselves over too much because of our ever increasing desire to keep the continent at arm's length.

But you do have to admit that immigrants and give the NHS all the eu money was a big part of it I personally feel people didn't know what they were voting for and should have a second referendum

Yeah, upcoming war will be called meme-war.

Didn't the NI Protocol already answered that

@@inigobantok1579 absolutely not. All that did was push the problem down the road for someone else to deal with once Boris is gone. A fully open border is the best way to secure peace in Ireland, the only way to do that is by following EU rules. Someone has to give somewhere, and it won’t be the continental union of 20+ countries.

@@bendixon800 which the NI Protocol does by allowing Northern Ireland exclusively to be in the EU customs union which will would expire until 2024 but I agree its kicking the can out of the road but a solution nonetheless

@@inigobantok1579 But it’s not, because now the “border” as it were is just in the sea instead. They opened a flesh wound and tried to close it with a plaster, nobody wins. I’m almost certain the UK will rejoin the EU in my lifetime. I’d put money on it .

Option 6 (insert option here)

Yes please. Can't be worse than the current shower of bastards

@@marzuqahmed218 return of Holy roman empire

Option 6: Admit Brexit is a mistake and reverse it. Kind of like 3 but more extreme.

Option 6, Ireland becomes part of the UK, and the EU issue is resolved.

john m you mean the Mercian worker, I don't see those Welsh shits doing bugger all.

Yeah Brexit voters are way too racist to care about control over an area full of "foreigners" most would prefer to cede the North.

All the polling shows that Brexiters in the rest of the country are pretty much happy to give up Northern Ireland for a full fat brexit with sprinkles on top.

@John M, You do realize that brexit is only going forward because Northern Ireland is propping Conservative party into power? So your argument that NI is socialist shithole like saying "all the right wing nutjobs in england leeching of hard working Londoners".

john m I’m so glad you’re happy to sacrifice huge amounts of our territory and diminish our status as a power to leave the EU? Do you by chance work for the Kremlin? Because I find it hard to believe a patriotic Brit wants to weaken his own nation.

Or maybe they just didnt want to be homeless and lose the home they have had for hundreds of years ...

@@tcw_6609 and now these yanks are in the comments talking about how great the nationalists are and how evil the unionists are.

No, its because of the high Protestant pop.

@@conorbyrne3348 then those protestants should probably go back over the sea and get their arses to london or somewhere..but what do i know.. im not british nor irish

@@conorbyrne3348 so? the war was about irish nationals and british nationals the religion crap was forced by the british. before the war many protestan were pro ireland by english made it seem like irish wanted to kill protestans and vice versa instead of just being a war for the reunification of ireland.

That’s a provocative thing to say, but its not the whole truth. I think Britain would of been happy to get out of Ulster years ago. Britain was worried that another civil war in Ireland could spread across the Island, into Scotland and the UK. We must be heal the wounds between the Catholic and Protestant communities. We must unite communities BEFORE we unite the Island.

M K Those Protestants have been there since the 1600’s. The 1798 rebellion in Ireland was lead by Protestants. Irish people are not and should never be anti Protestant.

TheValerieLorenzo Especially Northen Ireland

TheValerieLorenzo exactly what I thought, really happy to be represented lol

TheValerieLorenzo Ireland isn’t important enough to deserve the spotlight. Pathetic excuse for a country

Alex Russell and where are you from? Sounds like you’re a bit intimidated by Ireland

I agree Alex.

I geuss there's abig difference in the case or ni leaving and scotland it's more complicated

Northern Ireland can only leave when it has a referendum, the same as Scotland. In fact Scotland's referendum was 6 years ago which is way more recent. Imo Scotland is far more likely to leave.

i left a reply to this and it got taken down?

@@ninjacell2999 Northern Ireland’s referendum can’t be stopped by parliament, Scotland’s can. There’s a difference.

@@stevenmcalister826 well there's a slight difference between NI and Scotland. Either way OP implies that Scottish people just necessarily all want to leave which is untrue

I really hope Ireland gets another famine

It is Ireland, not a part of it. what a stupid comment.

Do you live here! @flip inheck

@flip inheck And history is obviously not yours!

Anita Leahy I mean I hope north and the republic get reunited as in my opinion Northern Ireland is Ireland not Britain

your comment is famous

Here from the five million subscriber video

I'm here from the 5 million subs video too. Personally got pissed off enough at how the video keeps cutting parts of this comment and sprinkling them throughout the video, when I just want to read the comment in its entirety to come here and look for it

Chua Wei Liang cuz lets face it, it’s long and redundant, and aint nobody got time for dat shiet in a celebration video

1) Nope Protestants outnumbered Catholics two to one in northern Ireland throughout the late 19th century and up until 1960s, and modern day northern Ireland is actually smaller than Ulster ( that's why some Ulster unionists have a grudge against the British government for betraying Ulster apparently). 2- 5 are pretty much spot on.

Step 1: Make Irish a voluntary subject to learn.

@@31ll087 Ireland doesn’t have much history

@@nou2923 ireland has lots of historyb

@@aislingmckeon1755 False, Irish history is mostly british history

@@nou2923 no its not I've done irish history for more than 15 years there's a lot of it its just taught terribly in schools

A bigger margin than the overall result in favour of Leave (52% vs 48%) - and people keep describing *that* result as "overwhelming"... so you tell me.

Is a double digit margin so yes is overwhelming

seems odd considering the Brits where importing a new religious movement to further divide people

more than 52-48 I guess

10% more.

What a sad end

if irish people have a brain, they should stay uk. scotland is weak wales is weak ıreland is weak england is weak BUT uk is strong

There is a proverb in my country "bir elin nesi var iki elin sesi var" it means two heads are better than one or if we are united we are strong. look at the united states of america, there is a lot of states in the usa and they are happy and strong if california was a country it has smaller military and smaller economy. briefly union is better than separatism

they can support themselves economically ? UK is the 5th economy in the world but ıreland not even in the top 10. UK is the 5th military in the world but ireland not even in the top 10 absolutely union is strong and better

No problem. Cry more

Protestant Christians would never live under catholic rule.

They can just move to the UK

KVFutureGamer it isn’t religious in nature.

Jason Browne no Jason, it isn’t sensible at all. The Republic can barely handle itself, it’s too incompetent to handle another semi sovereign state dumped on top of it

I agree

what has?

@@Prauwlet213 Violence, brexit has created a customs border in the Irish Sea, leaving unionists feeling cut off from Britain, so they have decided to riot and republicans have began to respond

@@marykatekelly4716 i didn't knew why is no one talking about that?

*THE EMERALD ISLE SHALL RISE FROM THE ASHES!!!*

Not simple.

SIMPLE SOLUTION: IRELAND LEAVES EU

@@octowuss1888 Great job, you just made an crisis between UK and Ireland. *CLAP* *CLAP*

If the north want it then yes, but if they don't then they stay. But why would they want to unite with a country that has to ask the RAF to patrol its own airspace?

Barmy Barmecide I would vote for Scottish Independence but never for the SNP with there Liberal views .

The SNP are pretty socialist.

Gaby Gaby idiot

Mighty Imperium Making your own laws is stupid?

@@tbxmxdog9187 Since when did we not make our own laws? We vote for our MEPs and they represent us at the European Parliament, and they're the ones who want the higher food standard and ease of travel that the EU brings us (not to mention the money that's granted to us for cultural development by several EU organisations). The only parliament that votes on laws then foists those laws on us without us having a say-so is Westminster

Then why is it called the British Isles

@@Jacob-nc6nc it's not, the Irish and British governments agreed to not use that term Because it offends many people and instead replace it with something like"anglo-celtic ilses", "Atlantic peninsula", pretonic ilses ect

@@Jacob-nc6nc Not an accepted or used term in Ireland. It originates for the island of Ireland being archipelago of the island of Britain nothing to do with anything cultural.

Right I'm Scottish and personally I think that Ireland should just unify but that's like saying that South Sudan should be part of Sudan because it has Sudan in its name

@@lmaohamish seems legit to me, I say unite them

Wales voted leave

@Zaarker The UK I’m guessing.

Vox = Globalist shill Amazingly before the totalitarian EU (who by the way is attacking French dissidents as we watch this) there was a peace. The EU has no part in this freedom. This is purely propaganda to keep the trilateral commissions goal of world domination alive.

What

26+6=1 is a common saying from the Provisional IRA. It meant: 26= Republic of Ireland + 6= Northern Ireland = 1 United Ireland

@@Account-jn7xu 26 is the number of counties in Ireland and 6 is the number of counties in Northern Ireland.

@@guilhermecastrolimadasilva7611 There is 26 counties in the republic and 6 in the north

You're right.

That's true.

Because being able to govern your own affairs is clearly a bad thing right?

Not everyone looses. I mean now we get to deregulate food safety, so for people wanting to gamble their lives on chicken, it's a win.

I agree. We might not leave at all at this rate.

No that's pretty high. When referring to populations of countries, you will rarely get a statistic that is something 60+, so 56 is def high. Maybe not "overwhelming" (but no fault in using it), but def very high

Hm, I my opinion 12% difference is quite a bit more than 4%. But the main thing is: the 4% will get their will. The 12% - will not. That will breed resentment, especially since the Pro-Brexit people always point out, that you have to respect democracy and the will of the majority. What about the will of the northern irish majority? It would be historical irony if Brexit, which invoked nationalism to break away from the European Union, would end up invoking irish nationalism and break the British Union.

And Brexiteers' propaganda works in the opposite way. 52% vs 48% = WILL OF THE PEOPLE! And another referendum to clarify the public's wishes on Brexit is somehow anti-democratic.

That's exactly what I was thinking

re -Northern Ireland was OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOR OF REMAINING It's also worth pointing out that Northern Ireland is not a member of the EU (any more than Scotland is), the UK is the member state and the UK voted to leave. IF Scotland or NI want to join the EU they would first need to decide to leave the UK.

I think it is not UK's decision to give Ireland, it is Northern Ireland's decision to reunify with the republic south.

Irish citizens will vote to leave Britain in the next referendum, should be 2022

How is it ripping up the GFA as it clearly states that if the majority of the people of Northern wished to join the the republic, both governments will see this through. I’m not saying that it won’t be easy of reunification

no thanks

And destroy unionist identity?

@@carlnew2829 I would actually rather do that than reunite with them. They want rid of our identity.

Carl New it wouldn’t end in violence. If NI vote democratically to be reunified with Ireland that’s what will happen

ziljin why?

stilted rumpskin Ireland would ve one again

flip inheck you know right that around 78 % of Ireland is Roman Catholic

flip inheck - you are an idiot. Ireland is 83.9% Christian and only 1.3% Muslim. 87% of their population are Irish nationals, 2.5% UK, 6.8% other Europeans. Only 2.5% of the population are from Asia and Africa. No the EU is NOT forcing Ireland to take any immigrants, let alone 1 million non-EU migrants. That is a complete load of bullshit. Stop making up bigoted lies.

+blacktihertheone you have no clue about history. There is no reason why they should be independant, it grants them nothing except maybe a misplaced ego boost.

53% neck and neck 54% freakin land slide

Vox's agenda

Their is like 5 guys at most in Northern Ireland so yes it is

And just ignore the vast majority of northern Irish people who don’t want to be in the ROI and want to be in the U.K.?

Ken M? Is that you?

@1984 IsHere The UK begged to join and applied multiple times

Kier_C Are you for real? UK was one of the Countries who created it in the first place. Fool

The UK was one of the countries that originally created EFTA, it wasn't a founding member of the EU.

Will Briggs well a soft brexit

Daniel JG Donegal is a part of the republic of Ireland, it never experienced terrorism.. Aside from acting as a passageway for Ira ghouls to creep over into the state of northern Ireland to kill or inflict harm upon Northern Irish British people.

ms xyz: there is no such thing as a northern Irish British person, Irish people are from the island of Ireland and British people are from the island of Britain.

magicrulz101 according to whom? No clue what you are or where your from.. Whatever the case may be - you're far from an officially appointed spokesperson for all inhabitants of the aforementioned location. Therefore grossly unqualified to make such remarks.

ms xyz: if you’re from the island of Ireland you are Irish by definition, if you are from the island of Great Britain you are British by definition... some in Northern Ireland may be of British planter decent but they are still Irish born and bred and the same goes for people of Irish decent in Britain, they are British born and bred.

but the British aren't known to be religious, so what's up with the hate of ppl of a diff sect

Kaike Fernandes I don’t think so? Since we have places like Gibraltar and a few protectorates, I though that changed things? Could be wrong.

No the offcial name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland so if a united Ireland happens it'll just be The United Kingdom of great Britain.

Yes but it's likely Scotland will leave the UK before northern Ireland so it won't be Britain either

@Evan Scollan not really not all nationalist would vote for United Ireland because it's gonna cause the troubles again

@@davidbunting4045 why would you call yourself a nationalist and vote to stay in the UK?

LochNess 96 there was no Irish war of independence.

eh idk easter rising 1916

I mean it lead to something right, sacrifices were made and now theyre independent

Cliff Smith cause realistically England would not have been able to hold on to Ireland, independence was inevitable

Cliff Smith England sold all the food we had during the famine and our population dropped from 8 million to 4 million and now it’s only just at 5 million

Vox is biased as hell in a lot of their videos. How they have any credibility left at all astounds me.

Compassionate Curmudgeon Yeah, anything to do with politics on Vox is usually biased af, they also didn't mention the fact that if Nationalist and Unionist birth rates in NI remain the same it could be 50:50 by 2022.

Americans are dramatic about everything. I don't think they know they are doing it.

completely agree. this stood out to me in an otherwise good video

lol, that would be relevant if this was a video about projecting scenarios, but it's not. It's just an introductory video. Stop fishing for excuses to push your beliefs.

Instead we learn random snippits of unrelated world history. It's completely stupid to learn about the Mayans and know NOTHING about your own country's history and relationships with others.

Interesting, I had no idea about that. Kind of like how Finland is barely mentioned in swedish history lessons even though it was part of the country for over 600 years

Cameron Smith why would we ever need to learn about that? I’m not gonna go for an interview and go “oh btw Britain had the biggest empire ever and took Hong Kong during the opium wars in the 1890s”. I know that, but I’ll never use it

Are you even from England?

Most of english history is colonisation, and in irelands case the suppression of a entire culture. A lot of it potrays england as "the bad guy" so i could see why there isnt any in depth explanation of british history in schools.

Maxuras this is what leftists want

To be far, those places didn't belong to the UK to begin with.

Maxuras gibbons is British and wants to stay British

Pretty sure Gibraltar (who did overwhelming vote for remain) do want currently to stay in the UK. If a hard Brexit happens lets see how long that will last...

+Alex Jones - It's a lot easier for them because they are an overseas territory, so they're not necessarily bound by all aspects of Brexit, and could negotiate a free trade deal independent of Britain proper.

Scotland would collapse after independence lol

@@RackHasAttacked seriously doubt it. It wouldn't be amazing economically but I doubt things will turn out like South Sudan.

@@MegaSkiboy Scotland relies too much on England. Even if the EU pours hundreds of billions of dollars into Scotland it will problay collapse

@@RackHasAttacked if Scotland got billions from the EU then they wouldn't have a problem surviving.

@@MegaSkiboy the Scottish don't have anything to sell