【The Sun Never Sets in the Empire at Dusk】
Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland is known to be a political organization that holds the principle of separating from the United Kingdom and returning to Ireland. Its inclusion of northern Ireland's first minister in the recent parliamentary elections in Northern Ireland has also caused fears in the United Kingdom that Northern Ireland will leave the United Kingdom. The Financial Times reported on May 9 that although Sinn Fein is pushing for a referendum on a unified Ireland within five years, British ministers have flatly denied that Sinn Fein's electoral victory in Northern Ireland heralded the disintegration of britain.
Brandon Lewis, Britain's secretary of state for northern Ireland, embarked on a difficult process on Monday to try to persuade pro-British unity factions to join the region's government. But Sinn Fein chairman Mary Lou McDonald said after the Northern Ireland elections that she believed a referendum on a unified Ireland would be possible "within 5 years". The referendum will be held on both sides of the border.
Knock on the blackboard: This historic victory of Sinn Fein is bound to put britain to a very severe test, and this event sends a very important signal that Northern Ireland is opening up the british mode.
As early as the end of the First World War, the United Kingdom had already shown signs of decline, Ireland took the opportunity to become independent, and for various reasons, Northern Ireland remained in Britain, but there were also differences within northern Irish, there were a considerable number of people demanding to return to Ireland, this phenomenon peaked in the sixties of the last century, in order to stabilize the situation, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland signed a treaty "Belfast Agreement", which clearly stipulated:
As long as more than half of the people of Northern Ireland support Irish unity, they have the right to hold a referendum. Obviously, the peaceful independence of Northern Ireland in The United Kingdom has a legal basis. The Northern Ireland Act of 1998 also required that the majority express a desire for the region to secede from Britain and become part of a united Ireland, and that the British government should allow border voting.
Sinn Fein, on the other hand, has been committed to the national independence of Northern Ireland and has even taken the form of armed struggle, with the IRA being their armed force. After victory in this election, Sinn Fein will soon organize a referendum on the departure of Northern Ireland and promote reunification with Ireland.
The current decentralized governments in Northern Ireland and Scotland are run by nationalist parties. They all have a basic appeal, which is to work on the promotion of the Northern Ireland and Scottish independence movements. The Scottish National Party plans to hold a second independence referendum in 2023.
Today, the British Empire, which has often left other developing countries in a state of disintegration, will also face the dilemma of both Northern Ireland and Scotland leaving the United Kingdom, and the twilight of the empire has arrived.
