Leave aside the lunatic it'll-be-just-like-the-troubles stuff and Rees-Mogg's comments remain a towering heap of idiotic misconceptions.
Border inspections would "ensure there wasn’t a great loophole in the way people could get into the UK to leave us in just a bad a position as we are currently in".
So there is mass migration from the EU because citizens are physically allowed to come here?
So there is mass migration from the EU because citizens are physically allowed to come here?
And not, say, because they have the right to live and work here? Has Rees-Mogg been terrified all these years that the Common Travel Area renders the UK defenceless against illegal immigrants from outside the EU?
"It’s not inconsistent to have a border that people can pass through but that you’re keeping an eye on."
This wasn't quite how the border worked in The Troubles. news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d…
This wasn't quite how the border worked in The Troubles. news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d…
There is a neuralgic fear in border ares that Brexit will resurrect the frontier of old. Yet no comparable EU border remotely like the Troubles-era border. Through a mixture ignorance and Little Englander isolationism, Rees-Mogg has raised the spectre.
Here's something I wrote last year touching on some of this: medium.com/@marcusleroux/…
