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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Theresa May has not moved on the customs union issue and she would not be able to get Cabinet agreement on that. If there is a trade deal, there will be no need for a hard border. If there's not, the government has alternative plans to deal with that.
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A trade deal does not mean no hard border. The EU has a trade deals with several nations and there are still bordered. America has borders despite being in NAFTA. That’s not what a trade deal means.
The government clearly does not have alternative plans because if they did we would know them by know. There is either a border or there isn’t and irrespective of your personal faith that May has not moved on the Customs Union it’s there in black and white that the fallback option should the border not be sorted that the U.K. will not put one up.
If you want goods to move freely between nations without custom checks then you need to be in the Customs Union. If we say we’re simply not going to put up a border in the special case of Ireland the WTO says the same applies to other nations.
You’re entitled to believe whatever you want and overall I think May has down well by Brexiters but even the most loyal hardcore Brexit people can see there has been movement on the issue of the border.
I am not even sure if you’re serious because it seems every item of the agreement was a fantastic win for May to the point of parody.