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Originally Posted by Pierre
Not really.
If you know what you want and what your prepared give, you only need a team of 1.
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There was also the story from The Telegraph, hardly a Remainer paper, saying that Cummings said the talks are 'a sham'. Denied by No 10 but then why would The Telegraph of all papers lie about this and they claim to have multiple sources? It fits with the story about reducing the team and in the end if they had another idea for the backstop they could tell us.
They don't have another idea. Because there isn't one. If you don't have a customs union or agreement of some sort then there has to be a border with another country. That's it. There isn't any technological solution out there yet. People can say 'blockchain', 'AI' and 'the cloud' as much as they like but none of that tells us how you get around the prospect of regulatory divergence in a region there you want products to flow back and forth unchecked.
Therefore the Government must, just has to have, one of the following planned:
- A Deal before October 31st or be 'forced' into an extention
- A border in Ireland
- A border in the Irish Sea
- An unchecked border which would be a customs union essentally