Re:Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges...
by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:40AM
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Nobody cared about the Irish border. I remember talking to my boss a few days after (he's English, I'm Irish) and I mentioned the North. He assumed that I meant the North of England, rather than Northern Ireland, which just goes to show how little thought was given to Northern Ireland during the referendum.
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Re:Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges...
by cameronbrown on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @12:37PM
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Yup. Ireland is by far the biggest issue we've got to deal with. I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that a soft border (with CCTV cameras only and no hard barriers) is our only option.
The problem is no govt. has the ability to set this all up within six weeks and is what they should've been doing these past three years rather than endlessly bike-shedding the little things and ignoring the biggest issues at hand...
Legitimate traffic which is the vast majority will have to go over official channels anyway, so it's feasible that moving goods across the border could be as simple as registering your vehicle and declaring the contents.
It's not perfect, but the alternatives are much worse.