They know what they signed up to in the so called GFA. That the British government decides when the time is right to hold a referendum on Irish Unity. So it doesn't matter if this bill is overwhelmingly passed, the British will just ignore it.
More recently this is what Sinn Féin signed up to in order to get the Unionists back into Stormont so that Michelle O'Neill could become the Colonial First Minister.
The very first line tells us in no uncertain terms that the British government is committed to strengthening NI's place in the Union, that they will never be neutral on this issue and that this is a position held on a broad, cross party basis in Parliament.
In the part highlighted in blue, the British state quite clearly that on the basis of all recent polling they see no realistic prospect of a border poll leading to a United Ireland.
It is their belief following the restoration of the devolved institutions that NI's future in the UK will be secure for decades to come and as such the conditions for a border poll are unlikely to be objectively met.
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