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Soph0571

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2. The Northern and Southern Irish border

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 06:37 AM

Aug 2019

Is the only land border between the UK and the EU. If we crash out without a deal free movement will end immediately. That is movement of both goods and people. That would mean custom posts on the border between the North and South. Everyone (bar the far right zealots in Downing Street) is trying to avoid that - in the troubles the border was known as the Bandit Border for a reason....

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Why would there need to be a closed border? 3Hotdogs Aug 2019 #1

The Northern and Southern Irish border Soph0571 Aug 2019 #2