Chris

RoI wants us in the customs union and the single market because once we’re outside, it is a lot easier for us to import produce from other places that are cheaper than Ireland. Beef would be a prime example. They are trying to make life as hard for us as possible with that aim in mind. Unfortunately their politicians are thoroughly inept and haven’t understood the public mood in the UK or that of the key brexiteers in Parliament. CU/SM, or any ‘lite’ version of it, simply isn’t going to happen. All they are going to achieve is a great pile of ill will from their closest geographic neighbour and a key trading partner.