years from now we may be in an entirely different situation . Much depends on economic recovery . What makes me somewwhat more optimistic is that despite the USA economy being in the doldrums and despite unemployment being very high the American voting public seem to have rejected the glib and farcical Romney/Ryan Republican agenda that reducing taxes on the rich and cutting public expenditure in education and health and welfare together with further deregulation and increasing defence spending will somehow have different consequences from those which resulted from George Bush jr's implementation of the same policies from 2000-2008 . American voters are not dumb even if many in the Tea Party and the far right give that impression . They know that Obama inherited the worst economic mess since the 1930?s Great depression and they know that electing Romney would just be a recipe for a repeat ! Apols for going off topic but a UI can wait and we may have to wait to see how Scotland decides in 2014 on it's constitutional future . In the event of an unlikely Euro wide implosion and currency mayhem and resulting political uncertainty some Irish people of a formerly 'nationalist ' persuasion might be tempted to reconsider a UK link . But would any British Tory with half a brain want to relink the UK with an Ireland that would send 60-70 MP's to Westminster and with the vast majority being of an Irish nationalist background and thus anti Tory