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andrewducker- Poll: Brits Would Rather Leave EU Than Keep Northern Ireland In The UK
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- The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker
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- Apple thinks you should have to sign up to multiple music services to get access to all music.
- Make it harder for me to access music and I will stop spending £120/year on music and go back to downloading it.
Frankly, I hadn't spent £120 on albums per year since I was about 25. Spotify gets me paying far more than I otherwise would.
(tags: music apple OhForFucksSake ) - Microsoft Bans “Offensive Language” from Skype - can fuck off
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- ‘Solo’ Actor Says Phil Lord and Chris Miller ‘Weren’t Prepared’ for ‘Star Wars,’ Alden Ehrenreich ‘Just Not Good Enough’
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- French waiter says firing for rudeness is 'discrimination against my culture'
- Somehow not satire
(tags: behaviour france food restaurant job headline ) - First self-driving train launches on London Thameslink route
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- All the Things the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Novelization Adds to the Movie
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- Same-sex marriage bill for Northern Ireland to be introduced at Westminster in absence of power-sharing at Stormont
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- It all made sense when we found out we were autistic
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- Fitbit Versa review: What the Pebble did next
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- G Found in 31 Non-Western Cultures: Strong Evidence That G Is a Universal Trait
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- One Strange Rock is a Cosmos for the Earth-bound that’s worth watching
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- Does the UK’s case against Russia stack up?
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- Music lessons improve children's cognitive skills and academic performance
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- Neuroscientists say daily ibuprofen can prevent Alzheimer's disease
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- Global carbon emissions could be cut 3 percent by following the UK's example
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- The 30 Best Protest Signs from the March For Our Lives
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- Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads
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- And producing whole new ways of making new life
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Date: 2018-03-27 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-27 03:17 pm (UTC)The vehicle for demanding a referendum is the NI Parliament. I think the Scottish experience suggests that the convention is that the devolved parliament is the body that has to request a referendum. So in order to have a referendum in Northern Ireland you need a majority in favour of holding one in Stormont. Which means you need a Parliament.
It's going to be a couple of years before the NI Parliament is back up and running. The DUP I think have no particular need to have it re-instated as they currently own the Conservative Party and Sein Fein have no leverage in Westminister because they don't turn up.
Parliamentary terms are 4 years. I don't think pro-referendum parties will win the first election after Stormont is re-started. So that's one parliamentary term. Assuming that a coalition of pro-referendum parties win a majority in the second parliament it's going to be at least a year, probably two before they get the referendum process sorted out. They'll need to get the NI equivalent of a Section 30 Order through Westminister. I guess the Irish Parliament has to give some sort of legislative consent too (it would be foolish to have a referendum on joining a country that didn't want you to join).
Then the actual referendum campaign.
So, 2 years before Stormont restarts, 4 years for the first term, 2 years for all the to-ing and fro-ing to set up the referendum, a year long campaign - 9 years, rounding up to ten.
But I fully concede that in the current climate anything could happen at any time for any reason or none.
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Date: 2018-03-27 03:28 pm (UTC)But your argument makes perfect sense.