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The best way to protect people from Tory policies is to keep them out of government.
The second best way is to reduce the amount of land that they can govern.
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United Ireland #think32

That's about 6-7 million people.
I won't sleep with this knot in my stomach. I have to think about possible up-sides to such a monumental fuck-up.
Just looked it up.
7.2 million
Could we get 7.2 million people out from under the fist of those pricks in the next 5 years?
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Belfast in 2019 is a divided city, much like Berlin had been from 1961 to 1989. Britain likes to think this is because the Irish are violent. But what Britain likes to ignore is that it is at the heart of the division.

A thread on causality. The 'peace wall' in Belfast.The building of the Berlin Wall.
From the early 17th century, in order to make the "wild Irish" more governable from London, James I and VI began the Plantation of Ulster. Gaelic Catholic Irish people were dispossessed of their land to make way for Protestant 'planters' from Scotland, England, and Wales.
From the time of the Plantation of Ulster until the present day, the British media has consistently presented the Irish people as savage, animalistic, and uncivilised. This has made it possible for Britain to treat Ireland with increasing indifference and brutality. 17th century image of Irish rebels killing English settlers' children.Victorian image of an Irishman depicted as a gorilla.Jeremy Clarkson, famous for his anti-Irish bigotry on the BBC.
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