After two years of Stormont collapse caused by tensions over post-Brexit trading arrangements, an opinion poll has found two-thirds of voters in Northern Ireland would choose to rejoin the EU.

Weighted to reflect the population, 62% chose to rejoin, 35% to stay out while 3% were unsure or offering no opinion.

In the original 2016 referendum, the UK-wide result narrowly passed Brexit by 51.89%. At the time in north, 56% of voters had chosen to remain with 44% choosing to leave.

  • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Maybe lets use the opportunity to flip the script. Reunite Ireland and offer Scotland to join, creating the United Republic of Ireland and Scotland.

    Then demand the UK to change it’s name to Kingdom of England and Wales as a prerequisite to any negotiations with the EU

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Much like the rest of the UK then lmao

    It’s a complete pisstake that a referendum with such slim a majority result, held immediately after the EU refugee crisis when anti-EU sentiment was at an all-time high both in the UK and elsewhere, has caused so much upheaval.

    The likes of France and the Netherlands actually had greater anti-EU sentiment at the time than the UK had. Fortunately for them, their leaders weren’t reckless morons like David Cameron was.