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Could be worse than that, at least from the viewpoint of the Conservative and Unionist Party, to give them their full (and oft-forgot) name:

> "For the first time in my life, the prospect of a united Ireland is not only credible but inevitable"

Unionist means union between Northern Ireland and England, not a united Ireland - the term for that is Republican.

That might have been m0nty's exact point

Yes, that's what I meant. It's coded into their DNA (and their name) to not want the union to disintegrate.