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https://twitter.com/DPhinnemore/status/1042147943984373761That means we’re now switching to Irish Sea. How to reconcile May’s talk of no new economic barriers within UK and EU’s need to protect both its own economic integrity and the open border in Ireland? Provided EU gets both those assured, it can try to accommodate some UK anxieties
Hard to over-state how important this is. The can will be kicked down road for precisely three more months. And then May will either decide to follow EU’s plan for NI and keep us all in customs union and single market for goods, or the whole thing goes up in flames.
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2/ If we leave EU with no deal - which, remember, is still advertised by gov as preferable to a ‘bad deal’, there’ll be no customs cooperation deal with EU at all. Which means chance of EU collecting any UK tariffs is absolutely zero. (It’s probably zero even if we have a deal.)
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2/ First, let’s clarify the problem. Say we agree a full CU outside EU. Because we’re in CU, we apply all EU’s tariffs. But because we’re not in EU, we’re formally a third country and don’t join EU’s trade deals.
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2/ Border issue isn't just about customs barriers or phytosanitary checks. It's existential for Ireland. Speaks to entire history of British subjugation, partition, Troubles. It is not an irritant to be fudged away simply so Global Britain can sign a trade deal with New Zealand.
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2/ EU was always going to negotiate with a country that had almost no cards to play. Not even Winston Churchill as PM could change that
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