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NI is too small for that, if we had oil maybe but no...nothing like that. Just a lot of good rain :p
A different federal Ireland with NI in some sort of "joint custody" may be an option, bit of an experiment but I think Malta has something like that, I can't recall but there is a European country with a system where you can choose which government you vote in/pay taxes.
Sure, as somebody wrote "unionism is like a beaten dog, the more it gets abused the more it tries to love its owner" but I am not buying that the DUP who cynically took dark money did not know they could use the deep ingrained sentiment that to enrich themselves. D**ds / Arlene / Ian Paisley Jr your man in Lisburn aren't stupid.
Then with FPTP if you vote any other party in many NI seats your vote is effectively lost, reinforcing the orange vs green voting. The unionists feel stuck and that I can understand as well. (but as they did vote for it, well, I don't know what it will take them to find a more positive view)
RE Labour, if whole of the UK was like NI (customs union/goods and agriculture EU rules) that may work, I get they cannot touch FOM atm. And Starmer can point out Corbyn offered that to May but she refused. Hard Tory Brexit!
Of course it has to go wrong badly, and all the promises of decentralization/investing in the North of England are already broken, but Starmer also needs to go hard with ideas, many of Corbyn's ideas were popular. They need rebranding and people are more positive towards better benefits than ever.
Immigration has dropped out of the news cos "we have control now" (vomit) so that is not a big problem for him.