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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
I think the Irish border is one of those things being made more difficult than it needs to be by lawyers and politicians.
The UK want an open border, the Irish want an open border so let's have an open border.
It's not like Norway where the border isn't populated, people have the border running through their houses. It could be an open border policed by the locals in that any large scale movement of goods/people etc would be spotted and could be reported. I suppose some form of official monitoring could be in place on the larger roads if really wanted - it probably already is knowing our surveillance culture.
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The issue isn't goods moving back and forth but keeping track of what's gone back and forth. The EU doesn't want a bunch of cheap imported meat going into Ireland and then entering the wider EU unnoticed, passed off as Irish Beef maybe. This is why there are customs checks.