If Republic of Ireland were allowed to vote and voted to return to being British would the Uk accept them back?

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The Nine Lives of Laura Gonzales

I love you Alan M. Seriously, you're like my 12th favourite troll ever. You don't even TRY to make sense. It's kind of endearing. <3

In answer to your question; lol. But no. That would make even less sense than any of your questions and be about 100 times more amusing.

Sshhhh! It's Podge and Rodge

We were never British to begin with.
We were always Irish, even during those 800 years.........

froggequene

Surely this is a question for the UK section, seeing as you're asking if the UK would take the Republic back?

Soul Jacker

Darling Alan, if the ROI held such a referendum and if the vote showed that the people in the republic wanted to form the new British isles it would clearly be April fools day.

However IF Mr & Mrs M didn't snuggle all those years ago we wouldnâ€™t be able to answer this question now would we? As â€˜if' questions go this oneâ€™s a little bizarre, I think if you really want an answer take froggequene's advice and try the British travel section.

However I think a more interesting 'if' question would be what would happen Britain and the UK if Scotland decided to leave (something theyâ€™re ACTUALLY very close to doing). If that were to happen it would be interesting to see if the Welsh would follow suit, then Britain would cease to exist and the UK would only contain England and NI which is, in anyoneâ€™s books a couple of countries short of a kingdom no?

Good luck x

catdubh1970

I just wanna say that Irish people are great!
I don't care about what the UK would do, Irish people will always be IRISH people.

dollymix (now geeky for a month)

To return being British? We were never British in the first place love.

And I don't think anyone would welcome anyone with open arms. There are people who are die hard republicans, and they wouldn't go down without a fight. The IRA would then get involved, then some other countries and what do you know WW3 would have started. And nobody wants that.

Well maybe not WW3, but still quite a big war, and no one really wants innocent people to die.

tom b

i would i think the irish are great

Cheeky Monkey

Interesting question, personally I'd say that too much water has flowed under the bridge.

1916 wasn't THAT long ago, in the scheme of things. There are some deep feelings involved on both sides.
And the re- fuelling of U-boats was unforgivable.

tzddean

You're asking in the wrong section. It's UK people you should be asking.

Polilical conundrum...

Probably so if for no other reason but to settle an old score, it was a smack in the face to the British when Ireland sought its freedom & an even bigger one when they won it.
Churchill himself said .."the Irish would not know what to do with it if they got it" he was refering to independance.
It was an arrogant view then & some not many stil behave (think) that way.

I should be doing something else

Ireland and Britain are two seperate islands so how could it go back to being British?

The entire island of Ireland used to be part of the UK, but was never part of Britain.

PS. Soul Jacker just made a fantastic point there as I have been thinking about that possibility myself..

Anyhow, you should have posted this in the UK section as the others have quite rightly suggested.

cormac o

we were never british in the first place, its like calling indians british, think u should read a little more on the subject if u are interested

tony_rly

I'm English and living and working in Cork. I love Ireland and it's people and it's culture- that's why I moved here.
In view of what the British did to this country in the name of feck knows what- why should they ever think of voting to return?
Michael Collins, Padraig Pearse, Edmond Caintt all died as a result of Britain.
All down to a Papal Bull 800 years ago?
May Ireland remain Irish and may it prosper!

Johnny

No i doubt it very much.
I think its far more likely the UK will continue to devolve.

ash1

probably-the British have always enjoyed expanding their "empire" as they like to call it

Orla C

You are SUCH a troublemaker, you know that?

It's just not going to happen, friend. Not because of the IRA, but because we DON'T WANT TO BE BRITISH AGAIN.

Chris

1. Ireland was never British in the same way India wasn't.
2. If something as stupid as this were to happen, the IRA would not take that lying down. British people would start to die and not just in the North, but in mainland Britain as well.

GreenBrigade

No, because then they would have a war covering the whole of Ireland and most of the uk on their hands. The UK and Ireland would be destroyed. The British couldnt handle that kind of war.

My answer has to presume that the vote was jerrymandered in some way as we all know it would never happen.

boofuswoolie

That's a Boshtoon idea. Irish for Numskii

How can anybody ever "return" to where they never were ?

Parkin your a$$ in a country doesn't mean you ever owned it ..

You are just an " iFFer "

Misty Blue

Not a lot of point asking that in here sunbeam, unless of course you're on a wind up.As stated you can't return to being something you never were in the first place and I bet you've got lots of nice Irish blood flowing through you too.

Bianca

i would imagine so

Matt, From N Ireland

I dont think they would acept them. What type of trouble do you think that would cause. We were never british and are still not british in the first place, The british goverment controlled all of ireland, then they gave it back but still control the north.

Papercut

I doubt that the UK taxpayers would be happy to take on the burden to be honest. Also, you have to remember that the United Kingdom hasn't been very united of late. Nationalism in Scotland, Wales, and most recently England, has been on the rise for some time now. Would there even be a United Kingdom for the ROI to come back to?

Another thing to consider, as you have already pointed out, would be that even if (by some miracle) the majority of Irish people wanted to become British again, there would always be that minority who disagree - and have no qualms about resurrecting the IRA again.

I don't think that Britain would be tolerant of any new Irish terrorism, especially if it threatened civil war. And I doubt the Unionists in the north would just stand idly by either. Can you imagine it? "team IRA" versus team SAS, RAF, UVF, UDA, etc... it would be a bloodbath.

Louise L

Are you crazy, Ireland was NEVER part of the Uk and we never will be. The English just want to be Irish that's why they wanna rule us.

cherrydarling

deffinately NOT. the uk has been trying depertely for over 80yrs to get rid of NI the last part of ireland it controls and get it to shut up and be peaceful.

also seen as a small number of hardline republicans will always exist and after 300 yrs of the irish trying by violence to get rid of uk from irish shores the brits would never take that risk again. They have enough terrorist problems without the risk of irish ones again, no matter of the financial benefits of joining with roi.

Kev L

We fought for 800 years not to be a part of it we would never go back

plus our "terrorists" dont blow themselves up ;) imagine having to deal with that again , the al quida got nothin on us

Steven J

i dont think ROI has ever been british. unless maybe your talking about cromwell

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