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Mick Fealty, the Northern Irish political blogger of ‘Slugger O’Toole’ fame, recently speculated, in the aftermath of the Scottish vote, as to how an Irish border referendum would go. He rightly pointed out that the NHS would become a key part of the debate, and asked why would nationalists, never mind unionists, vote for unification without a guarantee of service comparable, and free at point of delivery, to the NHS?

It’s a fair ...