Unless someone corrects me:- Unionists = loyalist = loyal to the crown = NI+GB
Unionists tend to be labelled "protestants" as well but that's more of a generalisation. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David King Sent: 02 February 2005 19:43 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:32174] RE: Belfast Telegraph Forgive my ignorance, but I can never remember what the term Unionist means in Northern Ireland. Is it meaning wanting a union between NI and GB or between NI and ROI? David King ** Get Fast Broadband from �14.99 ** http://tinyurl.com/5y7mf Excellent web hosting and email http://www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=3899401 Stephen Humphreys wrote: ><<It is also a pro-Unionist publication,>> > >I wan't aware of that. > ><<so their metric stance cannot be dismissed as a politically motivated >one (as for example, a similar article in say An Phoblacht could be).>> > >I'd liken it more to the British Mirror where one "full page" regular >columist had a right go at the so called "metric martyrs" and took the >P--- out of imperial an dhow the UK is "lagging behind" and being a >"laughing stock of thre world". But the Mirror is hardly a pro-metric >paper. > > > >
