Photek wrote:Moggy wrote:Squinty wrote:How to keep NI in the customs union eh? Interesting.
Other than a united Ireland or an independent Northern Ireland, how can they possibly keep Northern Ireland in the customs union if the rest of the UK is not in it?
Customs border in the Irish Sea, treat the island as one.
That doesn’t work though does it?
Let’s say a UK business wants to import goods from an EU state, but don’t want to pay the pesky WTO tariffs that exist between the UK and the EU. Why wouldn’t the UK business just open up in Belfast so that they can get hold of the goods with no issues? Once (legally!) in Belfast, a business is surely allowed to operate freely in the rest of the UK?
The solution to the customs union problem seriously can’t be that there will be tariffs between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. But how else would you stop it?
This whole thing gets more and more stupid.