{"id":238528,"date":"2019-08-03T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238528"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:09:22","slug":"ireland-needs-to-prepare-for-a-border-poll-plan-for-reunification-the-alternative-could-be-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/ireland-needs-to-prepare-for-a-border-poll-plan-for-reunification-the-alternative-could-be-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland needs to prepare for a border poll &amp; plan for reunification; the alternative could be chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Of course, all Ireland should be Irish only and the remains of colonialist England should go away.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With Boris Johnson laser-focused on delivering a crash-out, no-deal Brexit in October, Ireland needs to stop the foot-dragging and wishful thinking and begin preparing for a border poll and potential reunification.<\/p>\n<p>This week, a report by a major UK business group called for the UK, Irish and EU leaders to hold emergency talks in Belfast in the event of a no-deal Brexit \u2014 but Dublin needs to be doing more than talking about temporary solutions and short-term contingency plans.<\/p>\n<p>After two years of non-stop Brexit chaos, we all know how embarking on major constitutional change without adequate planning and preparation ends up&#8230;and it\u2019s not pretty. Whether it happens sooner or later, there will be a border poll on the question of reunification \u2014 and we will fail to prepare for that day at our peril.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/465636-ireland-brexit-border-poll\/?fbclid=IwAR0GHb9uCswTExcZZw2LtNIuvbttv2yxmSzoexYJiKMKGoPP4rPGqb1JuNE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/465636-ireland-brexit-border-poll\/?fbclid=IwAR0GHb9uCswTExcZZw2LtNIuvbttv2yxmSzoexYJiKMKGoPP4rPGqb1JuNE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Of course, all Ireland should be Irish only and the remains of colonialist England should go away. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}