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And you'd have tribal warfare in Europe.

Huh? As a consequence of your island infighting? No.

As I think has been made clear by the various local expertise, most of the yearnings for independency you found in wikipedia are jokes, extremely weak or non-existent. Exceptions are UK, Spain and Belgium (and possibly Cyprus depending on how you count).

And the EU makes it possibly a worse idea to start independent states as they do not automatically become members.

But your diary was a very good startingpoint for interesting discussions. So congratulations. And thanks.

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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Nov 30th, 2006 at 05:18:58 PM EST
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Oh wait, did you mean in Ireland, in Europe? Because then I retract my first paragraph.

I figured you meant "in Europe" as on the european mainland, and that was what I answered.

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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Nov 30th, 2006 at 05:21:09 PM EST
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No.

I was thinking of only in Northern Ireland.

I'm saying that the situation in Northern Ireland is fragile, and the the Protestant majority is waning.

Another thing about Belfast is that the only thing that the Protestants and Catholics can seem to agree upon is that they both don't care for the Asian minorities there.

Fucking charming isn't it.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu Nov 30th, 2006 at 05:35:00 PM EST
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