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For all the talk and bluster on this I still don't understand why the answer isn't one of:

• Customs border in Ireland
• Customs border in the Irish Sea
• Customs Union

We seem to be asking for a version of the third where we're not in a customs union but we say to the EU that really we haven't got different regulatory standards so what's the problem? If we do that then just opt for the full customs union and sort out the problems in Dover as well.

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4: No Northern Ireland.

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I think you're right - it's a Customs Union lite whereby we can set our own standards but in practice, won't upset the apple cart by doing so to any significant extent.

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The government's National Audit Office delivers its verdict on how the UK regulators are struggling with their increased workloads.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/othe...e3cc9e5fd72b8a
https://www.nao.org.uk/report/regulating-after-eu-exit/

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The NI protocol specifies that GB and NI are in the same customs union. Under WTO rules that means no tariffs and restrictions.
The revised NI protocol is "better" than the previous one, in that at least NI has a opportunity to vote on ending it. Before the EU had to agree to it.
So much of the detail was to be left to the Joint Committee, which relies on the EU agreeing to things. That is the real problem.
The only reason for any protocol in the first place is because the IRA says so. Would the US be happy with a situation where there were tariffs and restrictions between Hawaii and California, or Texas and New York?

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The more I learn about the hidden dependencies inherent in EU membership the more glad I am we’re out.

There is nothing here that can’t be solved via the development of processes that - astonishingly - work well enough for the other 165 countries of the world. So much of the hand-wringing nonsense we read on here really is afflicted by a weird sort of reverse exceptionalism in which the UK is somehow uniquely incapable of coping with its status as a non-member of the EU, despite this being the normal state of affairs for the vast majority of the planet.

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BREAKING: UK to Start Legislating Against Brexit Deal Within Three Weeks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...uthor_15116245

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It’s almost like there’s an uncomfortable story we need to displace from the front page of the Mail and Express tomorrow.

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"Get Inflation Done" :) A clear & present Brexit bonus:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTHYn_LX...png&name=small

Core Inflation: definition

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I think you're in danger of heading into Kim Jong-un reality levels if you think that only one party can form a competent government.

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I am surprised I have to spell it out: we were told over & over again that we would be financially better off out of the EU when all the evidence said otherwise. It is important that the liars are held to account.

It is delusion that "all the economic stuff can be put right", at least in the next decade. Economic gravity + hard Brexit says otherwise. These are the hard facts and always have been. Ideology won over Economics and Ideology won't keep you warm at night or feed your children.

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How are you finding it over there in EU land, do you regret leaving the UK? are you having a better life over there?

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All three main parties have formed competent governments in the past. No reason why this can't happen in the future.