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Originally Posted by jfman
It’s called an analogy. I framed it in terms easier for you to understand.
You’ve denoted a risk there that could be picked up by border checks - which is why the backstop is necessary to prevent a hard border. That’s literally the whole point.
The UK could, for example, conduct random exit checks.
That’s not the same as an open border leaking products into the EU.
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Unless you block non-UK compliant goods coming from Ireland/France and going on to France/Ireland, you have the SIMILAR risk of leaking into the UK internal market.
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In Brussels and Dublin it was decided that the UK now “had to own” the border issue.
All they had extracted out of Britain so far was a line in May’s speech that there would be “no return to the borders of the past”.
“That was no good to us,” said one source. “That referenced watchtowers and guns, but this is not what the border issue was about, we were never going back there. This was about the customs union and the single market.”
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