Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Of course Brexiteers want to keep an open border.

We are saying the issue was invented by remainers as a barrier to Brexit because there are alternatives to the hard border. The vast majority of trade between NI and Ireland will still be as it is now - there is a very small percentage that will need additional checks post Brexit. The UK has put forward a number of solutions, all of which appear to have been rejected out of hand by the EU.

If they wanted to resolve this matter, they could. If the EU don't want a hard border, and we know they don't, the last thing they will want is a no-deal Brexit, which would bring that very situation about. This is just one good reason why a deal will be brokered in the end.