UK Pub chain JD Wetherspoon shuts its social media accounts

Re:UK Pub chain JD Wetherspoon shuts its social media accounts by threeseed on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:57AM (#16848055)

No. The UK has said there must be no hard border in Northern Island.

But what they are basically proposing is a soft border with number plate recognition etc. Which everyone at the EU working group literally laughed at. Because it is a ridiculous and dangerous suggestion especially when you think through the scenario of what happens if cameras are destroyed over and over again. Police will be required to protect the cameras and then you have an armed borer.

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Re:UK Pub chain JD Wetherspoon shuts its social media accounts by pjc50 on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:22AM (#16848158)

You're absolutely right that the soft border is ludicrous.

The draft agreement: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/d...

"A common regulatory area comprising the Union and the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland is hereby established. The common regulatory area shall constitute an area without internal borders in which the free movement of goods is ensured and North - South cooperation protected in accordance with this Chapter"

They're free to submit daft proposals all they like but until then this is the one that's been agreed on.

(That document lists Gibraltar and the various islands, but also one nobody's mentioned in the news so far: "Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus").

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Re:UK Pub chain JD Wetherspoon shuts its social media accounts by jen20 on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:00AM (#16848066)

It doesn’t matter what the U.K. says, that outcome is not grounded in reality.

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