Comments by "Hookah Smoking Caterpillar" (@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar) on "Sinn Fein eyes historic victory in Northern Ireland election | DW News" video.

Unionists in Northern Ireland are not British, they are northern Irish - that's why the country is called The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland! If they were British there would be no need for the 'and Northern Ireland' bit now, would there?
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@kincaidwolf5184 Assuming you are living in NI, you are not British, you are northern Irish. I am British because I was born in England, which is part of Great Britain. Northern Ireland is not. You can claim whatever identity you like, but make believe doesn't make it real. If you are living in GB, then sure, you can have a British identity, just the same as any other immigrant can. Though I have to say most NI people of a Unionist persuasion I've met tend to stand out by the very un-Britishness of their self proclaimed British identity. You claiming to be British is like someone born, raised and living in Timbuktu asserting to be so! Stop living in fantasy land.
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@gryph01 No it isn't. The name of the country is: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As a fact Northern Ireland is not part of Britain and the people who live there are not British.
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@gryph01 No there isn't, most people in Britain don't really care and a fairly large chunk of the population would be quite happy to see a united Ireland. The only people who really want NI to remain in the UK are Unionists in NI (because they don't like Catholics) -and they aren't British - and the more rabid elements of the Conservative Party.
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I like your screen name 🙂!
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As there was only one Conservative candidate even standing for the Stormont Assembly it would have been rather hard for them to have a majority, regardless of being in power in Westminster on not anyway
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@babblo1389 A Pict was a member of a Britonic tribe living in the north and eastern parts of Scotland from about the first century to about the eighth AD. They were reputedly called that by the Romans due to their painted skin (probably tattoos) - 'pict-' being the Latin for painted. What they called themselves in unknown, as is there precise cultural origins.
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@gryph01 DNA has nothing to do with national identity. The idea of 'nation' is a comparatively modern one and is a political construct, and of course the Kingdom of Great Britain didn't exist until 1 May, 1707. As such, the settlers you refer to, had they considered a national identity would have described themselves as Scots or English; and until the C17/18 if you asked most people in what is now England, at least, about their 'country' they were most likely to tell you about their county rather than their nation.
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@deirdremcglinchey1850 I agree, but then all nationalities are political constructs.
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