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Originally Posted by nomadking
If the EU can cope with a newly created 900+km border, then they can cope with a smaller NI one. It's for THEM to deal with. We can ship out whatever we want, whether the EU accepts something is up to them.
Denmark has to accept products with lower standards from WITHIN the EU.
The Withdrawal Agreement has NOTHING to do with "long term" or the future. That is the subject for a potential FUTURE agreement, which has not been set out and negotiations cannot even start until after we've left the EU.
Article 50.2
The WA is optional.
A "Withdrawal" cannot have any ongoing conditions. That goes with the definition of the term. Be interesting to be able point all this out to certain quarters, so they can use it. Not likely to be that many of them around here. The problem is that there is no Leave equivalent of Gina Miller.
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I’m still lost as to the point you are making. Nobody disputes that the EU can operate borders with countries adhering to their legal obligations around it.
What the UK is essentially proposing is that the UK partition of the island of Ireland doesn’t need a robust one, or any at all, which is where the hole in the Single Market comes from.
I ask again would you be happy if unlimited illegal immigration crossed from France to England because nobody bothered to make any attempt to control the border?
The same applies to uncontrolled movement of goods. No established standards, no tariffs or duties paid etc.
Again it’s good that Denmark holds goods to higher standards than the EU. You cannot say with any certainty that’s what the UK intend to do.