Saturday, 19 January 2019

British Pensioners Living Abroad

Australia - 234,880 USA – 134,130 Canada - 133,310 Ireland - 132,650 Spain - 106,420 France - 66,970 New Zealand - 65,370 Germany - 42,050 Italy - 35,160 South Africa - 33,790 Cyprus - 18,180 Netherlands - 12,910 Jamaica - 12,840 Switzerland - 11,530 Portugal - 10,920 Jersey - 9,180 Malta - 6,380 Japan - 6,270 Greece - 5,940 Sweden - 5,920

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Support For A United Ireland Increases

A new poll by Lord Ashcroft Polls has revealed 44 percent of Northern Irish residents would vote in favour of quitting the UK and joining the Republic if a referendum was held tomorrow.
Forty-nine percent of respondents said they would vote to stay in the UK while seven percent said they did not know how they would vote.
Pollsters, who interviewed 1,666 Northern Irish adults between May 24 and 28, revealed even those who opposed a united Ireland believed a referendum would eventually be held.
Lord Ashcroft Polls said in the full report: “More than half of DUP voters said there should never be a referendum but fewer than one in five of them thought there never would be.

Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Four Parties Issue Joint Statement On EU

Northern Ireland should remain in the single market and customs union after Brexit, four political parties have said.
Sinn Féin, the Green Party, Alliance and the SDLP have issued a joint statement.
They said there should be no hard border on the island of Ireland or between Ireland and the UK.
"This is critical to protecting investment, jobs, trade and the hard-won peace," the statement said.
It was signed by the leaders of the four parties: Michelle O'Neill, Steven Agnew, Naomi Long and Colum Eastwood.