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Old 01-09-2021, 22:41   #2202
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
I don't know what you're sniffing, but I don't do desperation.

No deal meant hard border on paper. What would actually have happened we don't know. Ireland would have been the desperate party, with the prospect of its economy being trashed and being forced by its darling EU to put up a hard border. We would be looking on with some amusement - or at minimum 52% of us.
He's right I'm afraid, Seph, there is a distinct odor of desperation in the air.

It is WTO membership that would require a hard border. If the UK had ventured down the route of no deal then all its trade globally would have tariffs which would wreck its economy as companies fled the UK. (As it is, it is just the slowly deflating tyre effect that the country is enjoying.) Ireland would have counted the US and the EU nations on its side. Who would have supported the UK?
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