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Originally Posted by papa smurf

Does any one wish to borrow 1/2 ounce of patriotism, this thread is rapidly running out of it.

Sod the EU. Long live the UK, with or without Scotland. Sod the Macronites, sod the Spanish, long live democratic Gibraltar.

Sod Prince Charles, sod Labour, sort of sod Boris.

All the above is normal patriotism!

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh

It's like getting a parking ticket because one of your wheels touches the white line around your space. Yes that breaks the rules, you "should" get a ticket but if its say an arbitrary line next to a wall with no real space remaining and there is a big SUV on the other side that would block your exit (i.e. it's not causing anyone a problem) common sense would dictate not to bother.


The rules are there to try to stop stuff crossing into the EU that the EU doesn't want or wants to "tax" on entry and visa versa. Is there evidence of industries getting ready to do that and use the island of Ireland as a conduit? They should just let people get on with being people, let goods flow as they have always done, you should be able to spot outliers indicating something odd happening and deal with that. People on either side of the border travelling to buy stuff at better prices really isn't going to hurt either economy and the cost of policing would likely outweigh any income you'd gain.

Hugh, take note.