Public Debate: 7pm, Wednesday February 11th, Portcullis House, Westminster.
“We are extremely limited by being part of the UK. It feels like a straight jacket. We are low down their list of priorities. Unity isn’t a magic wand but it takes us closer to a connected, dynamic economy”. ( SDLP leader Claire Hanna – Irish Times).
“The best thing we can do for Scotland’s health service, the biggest step we can take to bring down energy bills, to make daily life more affordable for people, is for Scotland to become an independent country. I guarantee indyref2 if the SNP win a majority” in May. (SNP leader and First Minister John Swinney – The National)
“The conversation on Irish Unity is live, happening in real time with great enthusiasm especially among our young people. It is increasing in intensity despite the British government rejecting the demand that it set out the criteria or date for a unity referendum”. (Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou Mc Donald. Report on the Future of Ireland)
Is the UK a union of consent or coercion? Keir Starmer says we live in a voluntary union yet thwarts all attempts to leave. There are differences between Scotland and the North of Ireland. But both Tory and Reform parties support the Labour PM in refusing referendums on Scottish Independence and Irish Unity. So where do we go from here?
Nationalist parties top the opinion polls in the Six Counties, Scotland (and Wales) but still the British government refuses to even clarify criteria on what is required to trigger referendums on leaving the Union. Join us as we debate whether we live in a union of consent or coercion, discuss if the Union is dying and explore what it will take to exit the Union?
Speakers invited – SDLP, Sinn Fein, SNP, Plaid Cymru.
To reserve a place email name(s) to [email protected].
Public Debate: 7pm, Wednesday February 11th, Portcullis House, Westminster.
“We are extremely limited by being part of the UK. It feels like a straight jacket. We are low down their list of priorities. Unity isn’t a magic wand but it takes us closer to a connected, dynamic economy”. ( SDLP leader Claire Hanna – Irish Times).
“The best thing we can do for Scotland’s health service, the biggest step we can take to bring down energy bills, to make daily life more affordable for people, is for Scotland to become an independent country. I guarantee indyref2 if the SNP win a majority” in May. (SNP leader and First Minister John Swinney – The National)
“The conversation on Irish Unity is live, happening in real time with great enthusiasm especially among our young people. It is increasing in intensity despite the British government rejecting the demand that it set out the criteria or date for a unity referendum”. (Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou Mc Donald. Report on the Future of Ireland)
Is the UK a union of consent or coercion? Keir Starmer says we live in a voluntary union yet thwarts all attempts to leave. There are differences between Scotland and the North of Ireland. But both Tory and Reform parties support the Labour PM in refusing referendums on Scottish Independence and Irish Unity. So where do we go from here?
Nationalist parties top the opinion polls in the Six Counties, Scotland (and Wales) but still the British government refuses to even clarify criteria on what is required to trigger referendums on leaving the Union. Join us as we debate whether we live in a union of consent or coercion, discuss if the Union is dying and explore what it will take to exit the Union?
Speakers invited – SDLP, Sinn Fein, SNP, Plaid Cymru.
To reserve a place email name(s) to [email protected].