O/T DDay for Brexit..well sort of...

[ragingpup]

We don't want and won't install a hard border and neither will the Irish. Its the EU insisting on a hard border. If we and the Irish won't do it how will the EU make us?

I believe the the either the EU will enforce it with the Irish as it will become an EU customs check area. How else can you check goods coming in and out of the EU are of the border? The EU wanted to avoid it but we wouldn't run with it. I'm less sure, but the WTO may also insist on it will become an end point of their zone also.

Just a thought for the immigrant focused voters - if somehow a soft border was achieved, how will you stop car loads of immigrants driving through Ireland and across the Irish Sea?

[mellowmiller]

I believe the the either the EU will enforce it with the Irish as it will become an EU customs check area. How else can you check goods coming in and out of the EU are of the border? The EU wanted to avoid it but we wouldn't run with it. I'm less sure, but the WTO may also insist on it will become an end point of their zone also.

Just a thought for the immigrant focused voters - if somehow a soft border was achieved, how will you stop car loads of immigrants driving through Ireland and across the Irish Sea?

The cars would sink once they got into the Irish Sea. Problem solved 😉

[Timbertop]

Let's get the hell out of it now with NO Deal. This is the opinion of most people I know,some of whom previously were remainers. Despite project fear this country will survive and prosper away from the money grabbing clutches of the corrupt EU.

[rolymiller]

Not against us coming out of the EU but how can you be sure we will survive and prosper? Could we be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire? Better the devil you know and all that! Personally, I won't be happy till someone convinces me that there is concrete evidence there will be life after the EU. Nothings persuaded me there will be yet.

[great_fire]

Not against us coming out of the EU but how can you be sure we will survive and prosper? Could we be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire? Better the devil you know and all that! Personally, I won't be happy till someone convinces me that there is concrete evidence there will be life after the EU. Nothings persuaded me there will be yet.

I think you're guilty of short-term thinking, much like our "here today, gone tomorrow" politicians.

[great_fire]

Let's get the hell out of it now with NO Deal. This is the opinion of most people I know,some of whom previously were remainers. Despite project fear this country will survive and prosper away from the money grabbing clutches of the corrupt EU.

Their lack of flexibility both before and after the referendum show exactly why their share of world trade is falling.

[Timbertop]

Can somebody explain to me why,if we are retaining membership of the CTC (Common Transit Convention), transit of goods should be a problem with a hard Brexit ? Doesn't it mean traders only make customs declarations and pay import duties only when goods arrive at their final destination ?

[frogmiller]

It looks like the UK is going to place the EU into a panic move by leaving them little options. This is a great drama with politics at it's very best and worst in action.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Brexit? What’s that?

If it’s that important you would have thought they would have mentioned it on the tv news or in the papers.

[great_fire]

At least May is at last showing some negotiating skill whereas Corbyn wants to take away no deal and leave no room for negotiating at all.