In 2011 we welcomed the Queen of the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland to the Republic and apart from some ultra republicans it was a celebration and a peaceful affair for all concerned. It was also a time, when we as a nation should have begun in earnest "Thinking the Unthinkable" in questioning the value in rejoining the union with Britain. We have lost our sovereignty and are effectively bankrupt as a country - not just financially but also in hope, ideas and in a sense of who we are as a nation. Our leaders are clueless about how we can get out of this situation still believing that the endeavour of monetary union with an uncaring Franco-German axis of power, somehow will save us. However it is this monetary union which created the conditions of our ruinous "Celtic Tiger", removed all economic and political mechanisms to correct it and finally will ultimately kill our nation with the debt medicine forced down our collective necks. Unfortunately our leaders have striven - in some delinquent sense of inferiority complex inherited from our colonial days - to "prove" we are as good a nation as anyone else. But in doing that and disassociating us from our nearest neighbours, we have been led over the cliff of the EMU in a blatant political attempt to "prove we are as good as the Brits". But it has failed - for the simple reason that we share far more in common with Britain than any other culture or country (including the United States). We share language, culture and indeed genes with our nearest neighbours who are our largest trading partner. We share an island with them and judicial, economic and cultural systems. In short we have much more in common than not and deep down everyone knows that. Not the imperialist Britain of a hundred years ago or the aggressive "Gall" of our last eight hundred years, but a peaceful, prosperous modern, important country who may just also need us, in the years ahead. So we in the Democratic Unionist Party of Ireland (dup.ie) are Thinking The Unthinkable, and which may just have already happened....
So unless you have a better idea??????
