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13 May, 2021 00:59 I think that the setting up of the Northern State was perhaps one of the greatest, undemocratic Political Entity creations of the 20th century. In the preceding Election 1918 the vast majority of the seats were won by parties, none of whom wanted partition. Had Churchill not given Collins an ultimatum akin to the Godfather “either your signature or your brains are going to be on this document”  would he ever have signed the treaty? Then to accurately name this place ‘Northern Ireland’ it would have been necessary to draw the border from Newry to Sligo. When the state was being set up, had there been a referendum more than 75 per cent of the citizens of the country (based on 1918 Election) would have voted against partition, even a substantial number of the PUL community (including Carson) did not want the country divided but the British wanted rid of Ireland so a border was needed to solve a British problem just as 100 years later a border

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