Martin Rafferty at a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference entitled The Labour Party for a united Ireland.
On the Panel was Paul Maskey SF Geoff Bell author and Ken Loach film director of such films as The Wind That Shakes the Barely and Jimmys Hall.
Both Maseky and Bell claimed that calling for a boarder poll was the best way for the people of Ireland to archive a united Ireland,
They both also claimed that a boarder poll would be the first time that the Irish people alone would decide if there would be a unification of our country or not.
When asked if the poll would be an all Ireland vote they both said yes.
Martin felt he had to tell the people in the room that that was not the case and both Maskey and Bell, when pressed, admitted they know this was not the case.
When Ken Loach got up to speak he agreed with Martin that it should be for the Irish people alone to decide their future and Britain should begin the process of leaving.
It is important that we Republicans go to these places and expose the lies being peddled and inform people looking to get involved in the unification struggle that constitutional nationalists will never deliver and the best thing for them to do is to campaign for their government to start the process of withdraw.
