{"id":6196,"date":"2019-12-18T17:33:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpol.qub.ac.uk\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2019-12-18T17:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:33:40","slug":"northern-results-do-not-make-a-united-ireland-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/northern-results-do-not-make-a-united-ireland-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern results do not make a united Ireland inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"no_name selectionShareable\">Minutes after the general election exit poll results were known on Thursday night, the term \u201cUnited Ireland\u201d was trending on Twitter in Northern Ireland. It is easy to see why. The electoral map in the North is now starkly different in style and substance to that of Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"no_name paywall selectionShareable\">For a start, the strongest message coming from the region\u2019s voters in this election is a rejection of Brexit. And a common concern of every single one of its 18 MPs is wariness of the withdrawal agreement negotiated by Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To continue reading, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/northern-results-do-not-make-a-united-ireland-inevitable-1.4114756?mode=sample&amp;auth-failed=1&amp;pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fnorthern-results-do-not-make-a-united-ireland-inevitable-1.4114756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/northern-results-do-not-make-a-united-ireland-inevitable-1.4114756?mode=sample&amp;auth-failed=1&amp;pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fnorthern-results-do-not-make-a-united-ireland-inevitable-1.4114756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Irish Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<a 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