Bewick:
I heard the best and most workable solution to the “Irish” Border problem from a very practical German politician yesterday ! He more-or-less said that the easiest way to solve this balls aching problem was to pull back the EU Border to Mainland Europe and cut Eire out of equation completely then it would be easy for the EU to control their territory. Southern Ireland could still remain part of the EU but outside of the Customs Union ! Great idea I say so what’s the problem ? No hard Border, No problem ! Cheers Bewick.
Probably getting worried about pushing the legality of a so called EU ‘border’ between Eire an NI when the EU isn’t even a declared de Jure state let alone a de Facto one.With any such declaration obviously being the final straw for European Nationalists like AfD,Fidez and FN.While when that legality is shown to be invalid it then obviously becomes invalid at all so called EU ‘border’ crossings.The reailty is that there is absolutely no need for any so called hard border between EU member state Eire and non EU member UK.Because 1 the EU isn’t a country and therefore has no right to define any border as part of that regardless of any trade agreements and 2 therefore the established border protocols,between Eire and UK,apply just as they did before we both joined the EU.At least until the point when the EU officially declares de Jure Federal nation state status which would be interesting.
The result being a panic fudge in the form of the laughable idea that being an EU member state can be mutually exclusive with the EU customs union which is an oxymoron.