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Originally Posted by nomadking
How do we know they are just transiting? Just as the EU complains that they wouldn't know what happens to goods arriving in NI from the rest of the UK or from abroad. Goods would end up in the UK, either from Ireland or from France that were not UK compliant and without UK tariffs applied because they were just passing through. If the NI related issues as the EU keeps claiming, are up to the UK to resolve, then these issues are up to the EU to resolve. Still means 2 sets of border/customs checks, even if the "border" is in the Irish Sea, as the Irish seem to be aiming for.
Ireland could always bypass the UK by moving everything via Cherbourg. These issues would also apply to an independent Scotland or Wales, regardless of whether they were in or out of the EU. It is a geographical thing.
If only there was a pre-existing scheme to cope with all this?
Perhaps they could call it the Common Transit Scheme?
Common Transit Scheme.
As long as the UK is added to that list in it's own right, then backstop issues SOLVED. That's assuming the issues that the EU(ie Ireland) is claiming are there, are the true ones. |
Except the concern of the EU isn’t transit. It’s essentially smuggling across an “open” border.
I think the best way for you to visualise it is EU citizens freely walking across the border and working in the UK, despite not having the right to do so. Would you be happy for uncontrolled migration into the UK over an open border?