Oh FFS. "Mutual enforcement":
a hard border between NI and IRL, but the border officials swap around - Irish check NORTHBOUND goods for compliance with British rules and British check SOUTHBOUND goods for compliance with EU rules.
Was there ever a more stupid idea?
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a hard border between NI and IRL, but the border officials swap around - Irish check NORTHBOUND goods for compliance with British rules and British check SOUTHBOUND goods for compliance with EU rules.
Was there ever a more stupid idea?
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A. IT CREATES A HARD BORDER BETWEEN NI AND IRL.
Is a young nationalist firebrand, who objects to "Brits asking for papers" really going to be mollified by the check occurring on his southbond journey, instead of his northbound return?
I've never heard anything so dumb.
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Is a young nationalist firebrand, who objects to "Brits asking for papers" really going to be mollified by the check occurring on his southbond journey, instead of his northbound return?
I've never heard anything so dumb.
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B. It means asking the EU to trust the UK to enforce EU border controls. However, after 5 years of lying, lawbreaking, treaty-reneging, threats, insults & general f*ckery, the UK can be trusted to honour an agreement like you'd trust Jimmy Savile to give your daughter a lift.
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C. Even if the UK could be trusted (despite all evidence to the contrary), and even if NI nationalists suddenly got all gooey at the prospect of presenting papers to "the Brits" every time they return from a different part of their own island, it is a SMUGGLERS' CHARTER.
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There is decent chance of intercepting smugglers at the ports of Belfast, Larne and Warrenpoint. But a 500km border with 300 major and minor crossing points? No hope.
The mutual enforcement clowns have an answer to the "hard border" objection: in-market surveillance.
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The mutual enforcement clowns have an answer to the "hard border" objection: in-market surveillance.
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Basically, raids on premises throughout NI to check for... what? Are they checking for illicit EU goods in NI - but that is not "mutual enforcement" - or for "UK goods going to IRL"? This IS "mutual enforcement" but how do you prove where they were headed?
What a joke!
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What a joke!
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The more I look at "mutual enforcement" the more ludicrous it gets. (NOWHERE else in the world has it ever been tried, BTW)
I can only conclude it is a con; a decoy; a ruse de guerre.
The people behind it KNOW it won't work; its only purpose is to distract while...
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I can only conclude it is a con; a decoy; a ruse de guerre.
The people behind it KNOW it won't work; its only purpose is to distract while...
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they trash the NIP and bin the GFA.
It is like a canvas Spitfire in a field in WW2 Kent. It's never going to fly, but may fool the enemy for a while.
So lets hear no more "mutual enforcement" nonsense and just fully implement the NIP?
You know - like we promised?
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It is like a canvas Spitfire in a field in WW2 Kent. It's never going to fly, but may fool the enemy for a while.
So lets hear no more "mutual enforcement" nonsense and just fully implement the NIP?
You know - like we promised?
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