How the Good Friday Agreement created an ‘all-Ireland’ economy

Re:How the Good Friday Agreement created an ‘all-Ireland’ ec... by NoboruWataya on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:10PM (#35562809)

I have travelled to the continent several times on the Eurostar and each time I got my passport checked twice in St Pancras Station in London, within a few metres of each other. Once by UK authorities and then by French authorities.

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Re:How the Good Friday Agreement created an ‘all-Ireland’ ec... by Symbiote on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:58PM (#35563300)

And I have walked past the unmanned UK booths to the French one several times, but anecdotes are pretty useless in these discussions.

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Re:How the Good Friday Agreement created an ‘all-Ireland’ ec... by NoboruWataya on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:20PM (#35574215)

We're not debating statistical trends here, so blanket dismissals of "anecdotes" are themselves pretty useless. I was sharing my experience. Maybe you happened to be passing by while they were on their tea break, I don't know. I'm going again in a few weeks so will be interested to see if both booths are still functioning.

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Re:How the Good Friday Agreement created an ‘all-Ireland’ ec... by Symbiote on Saturday April 15, 2023 @06:31AM (#35579311)

The UK introduced exit checks in 8 April 2015. My anecdote is from travel before then, yours after.

Discussion-by-anecdote is pointless without dates etc, and a waste of time when it's easy enough to find the policy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exit-checks-on-pa...

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