Apparently. I thought you were saying that a sovereign state with multiple legal and education systems is a mess, and I disagree. That's why I was asking why you think that, because it's not a question of simple logic. On the contrary, requiring every school to work in exactly the same way sounds quite authoritarian to me.
World leaders and skirts and apparently a conversation on Scotland becoming separate from the United Kingdom 😏
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The mischievous part of me loves the fact that a bunch of middle aged guys wearing various skirts and dresses are debating the hegemony of the European superstate and the future of the United Kingdom God bless the western liberal way of life
When life gives you lemons, slice them and put them into your G&T!
Re: World leaders and skirts and apparently a conversation on Scotland becoming separate from the United Kingdom ㈴
Normally I keep out of political discussions on this forum. Most people here are (at least chronologically) mature and have already reached their own conclusions on most issues, and are unlikely to change their opinions because of what other members write, so there is an inclination for debates to just become willy-waving contests.Kirbstone wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:55 pm Rivegauche needs to update his info. on a possible reunification of Ireland.
Chancellor Kohl very nearly bankrupted Germany when on reunification he gave the East Germans a Deutschmark for an East German Mark and it took the country a great many years to recover from that....a whole generation in fact. I was living there when it happened and every English-speaking dentist working there then got burnt fingers through negative equity, including myself.
We in the Republic simply don't have the financial clout to bankroll the North as Westminster does. Apart from any 'idealist' political goal, the real decider is economics, and it would be a no-no.
Tom
However, since the issues raised here concern the future of my own country I will throw in some information which might be useful for those who want to plough through these reports.
On the issue of how the economy may be likely to develop after unity there have been studies.
Here are two reports from Canadian company klconsulting
https://betaklconsult.files.wordpress.c ... deling.pdf
https://betaklconsult.files.wordpress.c ... n-book.pdf
Also see-
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/urban-rur ... 0llxhmr-en
and
The Northern Ireland Economy: Problems and Prospects
John FitzGerald1 and Edgar L. W. Morgenroth2 2nd March 2020
http://www.ssisi.ie/SSISI173_Fitzgerald ... _Final.pdf
As regards opinion in the 26 county area-
67% in Republic favour united Ireland - poll
Updated / Saturday, 1 May 2021 11:50
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0501/12132 ... land-poll/