What's Happened At The Borderd After Brexit, Any Hold Ups?

[dave50]

Anybody know if there has been hold ups at customs and queues of lorries waiting at the borders because of paperwork as was predicted? It seems to have gone quiet, I have heard the occasional snippet about the fishing industry and individual firms struggling to get things through but that's about it.

[Bobbisox1]

Hi Gully , Hyacinth calling :0)))

[ichkeria]

“ That is only true if you believe that there must be a barrier between the UK and the EU”

Erm, if the UK and EU part company then there’ll be a barrier of sorts.
Otherwise what would be the point?

[New Judge]

Why? So long as there is mutual trust with both sides agreeing to adhere to whatever rules are agreed for the passage of people and goods, why does there have to be a barrier?

When the UK was an EU member huge amounts of goods entered the UK (and hence the EU) from outside with no physical checks whatsoever. That free passage depended on trusted arrangements where goods would be "pre-declared" electronically. Now the EU is concerned about the two pennyworth of goods that cross the Irish Sea which might find their way to the south.

The current situation is ludicrous.