I have noticed that there are quite a few people in the UK who don't seem to realise that it is an English parliament, not a UK one given the sneery approach that Tory ministers take with the other three countries, and in many cases the regions north and south west. One could even call it a London parliament only.

​@@patrickjr11 Northern Ireland isn't a country

@@roisinmalone3015 not sure I am convinced that is correct as a reality. It is certainly treated as such by everyone I talk to, same as Scotland and Wales. It's a union of 4 countries rules by just one.

@@patrickjr11 Northern Ireland isn't like Scotland or Wales or England. Look it up It's a manufactured Sectarian statelet, manufactured by Britain to ensure a perpetual protestant majority loyal to the UK. Even all the major British media outlets reported its history in that manner when Sinn Féin won the most seats in the last Stormont election. The statelet was designed for there never to be a nationalist majority, that's why the border meanders, to keep protestants in, catholics out, only that is failing now re demographics. Some people in Northern Ireland consider themselves Irish, some British, a much smaller percentage Northern Irish. Re the Good Friday Agreement, some sectors are run on an all island/Ireland basis, eg Agriculture agrifoods tourism biodiversity environment etc, some aspects of health also, eg cross border A&E, all island congenital heart disease network. Northern Ireland has a frictionless land border with Ireland and the EU. Northern Ireland retains frictionless access to the EU Single Market re goods post Brexit unlike Britain. The island of Ireland is already reuniting economically. Northern Ireland's constitutional status can change ie it can vote by self determination with the South to form a United Ireland re the Good Friday Agreement. Unlike any part of Britain. Northern Ireland isn't a country or a nation.

​@@patrickjr11As someone from the middle of England, agreed!

Take note on how she says "Northern Ireland people". Can't even bare to say "Northern Irish".

Scots came from Ireland and wiped out Picts or at least their language and culture.

@@julianshepherd2038 “Scotti came over from Ireland” The Scotti did… so what? Surely you can be saying the British have a right to northern Ireland today (or indeed durring the Seeding of Ulster) because the Scotti migrated from Ireland to Scotland in the dark ages? I guess the English could take over northern Germany, the Hungarians could take over Siberia and the Americans could take over the UK.

@@julianshepherd2038 Typical lowland anglo/hun lie, Vikings killed off the Picts politically, the Scots king inherited their kingdom after his dad/king died in battle with the Pictish king against the Vikings who also died. The sons mother was a Pictish princess as was his wife. Picts were assimulated they were already very interwined with the Scots by the viking era by political marriages, alliances against anglos, trade, language (they wrote in ogham spoke scots gaelic) and no evidence of their own written language, religion(Geals brought christianity to Scotland) and celtic culture similarities, their origin legend is them asking a Irish tribe a place to settle then telling them we're full but there's a land across the sea but they lacked women so the tribe gave them some too lol. The Battle of 839, also known as the Disaster of 839 or the Picts’ Last Stand, was a battle fought in 839 between the Vikings and the Picts and Gaels. It was a decisive victory for the Vikings in which Uuen, the King of the Picts, his brother Bran and Aed son of Boanta, King of Dál Riata, were all killed. Their deaths led to the rise of Kenneth I and the formation of the Kingdom of Scotland, as well as the disappearance of Pictish identity. It has therefore been described as "one of the most decisive and important battles in British history."[1]

certainly her eyes looked in disarray.

FullFact was that after being told to vote yes the 2nd time or they would keep being made to vote until the required answer was reached.

​​@@douglastodd1947 total nonsense that uneducated people like yourself like to push. That never happened.

The UK still has tiny territories roundthe world. The sun never sets on all of them at the same time.

The place went dim many moons ago 🎉

@@julianshepherd2038 if the sun never sets then why are the British peasants pale and inbred like their monarchs

And look how great it is as a result 😀

@@deanunio Broken up, with warring factions, where our BROTHERS AND SISTERS in Northern Ireland have suffered in ways people don't understand or even care about this side of the pond. I have Irish blood in me, Welsh blood and English. I should be a person who is classed as a product of love in the UK, but instead if I go to see my father in Wales, welsh people verbally attack me, if I say I have welsh and Irish blood then the english attack me. We are tearing our own country (and countries) apart with divisive politics of small minded childish people. Nationalism is on the rise on ALL fronts. And they turn each other against each other thinking they are so clever and this will make things better. F%^% the tory Ba$^£&$, peace and love to Northern Ireland!

@@ghostlyphantasm2352 the nationalism doesn’t just come from the English and in fact comes more from our brothers and sisters in other parts of the Isles. As you’ve actually said yourself. Most people alive today (most of them anyway) can’t complain about English imperialism, it went a long time ago. The English bashing is getting a little boring now

Nah Cymru was Englands first colony I’m afraid

@@mrso9399 grow up. England (or what was Mercia, Wessex before that) was the Norman French’s colony and then the Angles and Saxons. It’s all history. Get over it

Time for NI and scotland to work together on leaving the union

Too bad.

I'm no fan of the shinners, but they got more votes.

She won’t call it that. Too Catholic. She prefers Belfast Agreement.

Are the rest around her having a sound sleep or what?

She can't cope with the fact that she won.

She needs to take her medication.

Look at her background hard DUP

Hold up yourstallions Kate and go back immediately to the asylum, time for your therapy.

Think it was Bowwis.

She needs some hair combing.

First Pass The Idiot Voting System 🎉

Won't count on it.

In fact gammons know no nationality, we have them by the millions down here in Yankland.

Yes, it is insane to hear all her nonending BS.

I guess she is at the point of no rtrn.

GB would have to take back some of the planter decendents as they would refuse to live in an Irish Republic. That's where the biggest cost to GB would come from.

It must hurt to see Ireland doing well. Just to let you know, the ROI is a sovereign country.

Northern Ireland voted to stay in the EU. It's funny how NI's economy has grown. They have benefited from brexit.

Wtf you talking about ruSSian bot...

congratulations! you have identified yourself as unhinged.

It's an English colony. I don't remember there ever being a referendum on English occupation. Thank goodness reunification is coming, and this old bigot can do nothing to stop it.

Utter nonsense. It was the sovereign UK Parliament that voted twice to allow the EU rules to function in NI. None of it was forced on the UK. The UK was always free to leave the EU without a deal. The UK Government chose not to.

No she isnt. Are you from northern Ireland?

lol nope kate heoy is part of the problem of the past lol Ireland will now be united way way sooner because of BREXIT ;lol thank you very much tory goverment and unionist support of brexit for bringing it forward by 50 years lol

Kate Hoey is absolutely wrong.

the irony of trying to call NI an EU colony when its part of the UK, a kingdom which still holds several overseas colonial territories, pot meet the kettle love?

No, she is ignoring the fact that the people of NI (which is a UK colony) voted to remain in the EU, her need to use emotive language stems from a deep seated hatred of anything that isn't British, there is no logic applied.