Sinn Féin victory in local elections
Sinn Féin have now replaced the DUP as the largest party in local government. Its electoral victory will accelerate political progress in Ireland, north and south.
Ireland
The Windsor Framework – political unionism’s turning point
The Framework represents the defeat of the anti-Protocol campaign. It restates the essential core of the Protocol’s outlines. The changes it makes are a rationalisation of the outstanding economic issues from the Protocol which will benefit the economy and majority of people in the north.
“The end days of partition” – Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 2022
The mood at the Ard Fheis was very upbeat. At the heart of the party is the commitment to Irish reunification. The key issue being how to further encourage and channel the debate around unity.
Jeffrey Donaldson’s DUP gambles against history
Sinn Féin has become the most popular party on the island of Ireland, and on both sides of the border.
“..Ireland is on the cusp of an historic opportunity to unravel the generational political, social and economic trauma which partition has brought about.”
Voters are sick of Tory policies, so the Tory slump did not benefit Starmer
5 May elections:
Starmer’s policy of ‘constructive engagement’ with the Tories prevented Labour from making significant gains.
The most important political development and most positive one was the emergence of Sinn Féin as the largest party in the north of Ireland.
Even as Britain caves in over Protocol, the crisis of British rule in Ireland deepens
Barring some dramatic and unforeseen development, Sinn Féin is on course to be the largest party and win the First Minister’s position. This would be an historic development, completely shocking to Unionism and undermining British governance in Ireland.