
The Unionist strategy against Irish Unity: Poverty
The David McWilliams Podcast
00:00
The Northern Irish Office's Strategy of 10 X
The Northern Irish office are trying to recreate the strategy of 10 X, which is multiplied things by 10 over the course of 20 years. The politicians on the union side don't want the North to get rich. By being prosperous, the implication is that when the demography changes, the bill for unification will be lower and the Southerners will actually embrace it much more quickly. So this is the whole strategy. It's like a piss taken devil air. We'll be so fucking poor, but we'll be pure Irish poor. Right? And the real gale could never be rich. Because to be rich was an antithesis to the bail books,. But only in poverty can we be
Transcript
Play full episode