But if there is an independent Ireland, there's probably going to be a union of economic elites in both polities over an amended constitution over the Irish Republic, which would, as Sheehan writes, maintain existing inequalities and steer the fortunes of the north out of the sputtering wreckage

of the UK. The biggest beneficiaries of this arrangement are going to be the soft unionist

middle and upper classes who would remain in control of northern capital and whose children,

I found this a fun sort of image.

Their children would doubtless be given plenty of arts council funding to write plays and novels about reconciling their unionist identity with their new political home.

So in other words, now you have the opposite, which is poems and plays and things, cultural exports that are waxing poetic about a one Ireland, even with the self-plagulation stuff, there is a lot of, you know,

sort of romanticizing of that in the arts in Ireland so but if you

had that actually come to fruition and that that new republic then you would have the opposite you

would have people waxing romantic about being aligned with the UK once again the new punk rock the real punk rock is to be with the UK once again.

The new punk rock,

the real punk rock is to be with the crown or whatever.

Yeah.