Behaving like sensible adults? In our current government? Yeah, right…
"Scrutiny of British arrivals" and "scrutiny of other (non-British) third-country arrivals" are not mutually exclusive.
Indeed, this simply expands the "Irish border problem" highlighted upthread!
How can you scrutiny either when there's no border or officials? Ie Dublin (EU) > Belfast (UK) and Belfast > Liverpool?
There is no legal requirement anywhere that states you have to claim asylum in the first 'safe' country you enter.
I guess we'll not now be requiring that third runway at Heathrow then?
I have had my documents checked on arrival at Liverpool. Just the once though.
I have also been met once at Belfast. I think there are some limited spot checks but it was the PSNI checking, not Border Force, and I think they were looking for someone specific as they were stopping only men.
In my case it was everyone, and while I can't say with 100% confidence that it was Border Force, they weren't in police uniform. I also had my documents checked when travelling Fishguard to Rosslare.
I haven't come across this scam. So far it has worked in reverse for me: suppliers in EU countries have deducted the VAT from my orders and HMRC have ignored the goods
For some of us Ireland, Norway, Faeroes and Iceland are closer. Not recommended by rubber boat, though...we lived in an alternate universe where Corbyn had won in 2019 and brought about a second Bolshevik Revolution and bands of nouveau-Cheka were now roaming the streets purging counter revolutionaries (I think that's what the Daily Mail said would happen?) should we only be able to flee to Ireland, France and Belgium? They're all the closest safe countries.
You weren't talking about the Ireland - UK border in the post that I quoted.
What O’Leary forgets is that people’s attitudes change with age. The generation of people that voted for Brexit in 2016 were young in the 1970s when they and Britain voted to stay in the EC. They changed their minds about Europe when the reality failed to live up to the promise, and their priorities changed too. Just because young people tend to be more pro-EU now, doesn’t mean that they always will be.
Dunno what you mean, it's clearly going to collapse any day now. Any day now there will be loads of other countries which will trigger Article 50 themselves. Any day now. Any time now.
What O'Leary is expecting to happen is that the critical mass of people who harbour certain opinions about Britain and its place in Europe and the wider world will die off. Color me entirely unconvinced that the generations of remain voters are going to have the same change of heart you're expecting of them.
If O'Leary and his prediction beear fruit, a UK-EU deal is proposed in 10 to 15 years time, what will be the position of the EU? How will the EU change over the next decade or two? Will freedom of movement be so important, will the EU Super-State have formed with greater overall power and control of member states? Will the EU Parliament become more or less accountable to the EU electorate?
Having decided to leave, the UK has no influence over what it might look like by then. I actually hope there will be more of a "two-speed Europe" where those that want closer political union can get on with it, and the others can just participate in the economic aspects.
The loss of the UK was described by as a failure of the Eu by no less than Guy Verhofstadt, agreed we are not able to influence the future shape of the Eu from outside, my question is about the Eu , having seen a key member depart, what long-term constitutional reforms will we see within the Eu as a consequence of our departure?
Keep in mind that a not-insignificant number of those people who voted in favour of Brexit believed it when they were told "...only a madman would actually leave the Single Market."
I’m sure if it was the other way around and Remain won, you’d think it was a bit silly to say “England and Wales are being kept in the EU against their will”.
Quite. Lots of people voted remain. I'm one of them and I live in England. My vote was just as consequential as those in Scotland or Northern Ireland yet seems like some people would prefer to pretend that everyone in England was a nasty leave voter and everyone in Scotland, NI or Gibraltar were virtuous remain voters (ignoring all the people vote leave in those places at the same time!).
There are threats, a number of member states with tension within the Eu, and not much sign of those tensions being quelled, member states Poland Hungary Holland, and the rise of the far-right in France, what if Germany becomes tired of funding the project?
