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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
It was a big mistake for the Guvmin to allow the EU to dictate our internal affairs. Any decision to close the Irish border would have been taken by the EU and they + Ireland should have been left to stew in that.
Your second point is, of course, perfectly correct. The UK is caught on the horns of a failure of its own making. Nevertheless, the matter needs to be resolved in a way that allows British sausages into NI. Equivalence is the answer and that is an EU decision.
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I would imagine that some kind of equivalence agreement will be the end result of all this. As far as I can see, it's the depth of equivalence that might be the sticking point. If it were as simple as the UK SPS standards are equivalent to EU ones, that's all good until one side or the other changes standards. There's a fine political line between agreeing equivalent standards and being a vassal state of the demonic EU.
Going back to the old trope of chlorinated chicken, the UK accepting this would not be equivalent SPS standards so we would either need 1 level of SPS standards for GB only and another for Northern Ireland with some serious amounts of paperwork to handle this or we're back to where we are now.