Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Does he agree that a Border poll campaign would only serve to unleash a torrent of sectarian division, a platform for inflammatory sectarian politicians, who have nothing other than mayhem to contribute to the working class in Northern Ireland? Does he recognise that Nationalist and Unionist parties, as they have done on the union flag controversy, would simply use such a poll to divert attention from their failure to resolve any of the critical issues facing working-class people in Northern Ireland and distract from their implementation of atrocious austerity mandated by the British Government-----

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