Don't Like It, Change It?

In the 19 sixties, there was a 60% chance you were never going to have a job. The vast majority of catholics either lived an a council house or in some kind of rented accommodation. You therefore did not pay local rates directly, so therefore you were not even eligible to be on the electoral register. There was also the double wamy that unless you were actually paying rates directly to the council, you couldn't even qualify for the electool register. I think a lot of us, even people with apostrophes in their surname, have been somewhat ashamed to discover how little they understood about northern irish politics and history as a result of focus brexit has brought on the