Why Is Barmpot Bothered About The Irish Border?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43001931
they don't seem to give a rats plaster about their other borders do they?

[Jackdaw33]

Just to sow dissent and controversy where none need exist. It is up to the UK to decide on its borders, not some Brussels lackey.

[Islay]

The Irish border is of a huge concern to those of us in Northern Ireland and you would have to be a Bampot not to see that!!

[ToraToraTora]

yes it is but why do they want to interfere?

[Jackdaw33]

Just another symptom of Project Fear.

[Kromovaracun]

Because it would be a border between an EU country and a third country. If we leave the customs union, that is. This obviously would mean that a border is necessary.

There is also a political element. Making an exception for NI means that Scotland will want one too, as Sturgeon has already said. Which, obviously, is an extremely difficult thing for the govt to commit to. So it also serves as a way of manoeuvering the UK between a rock and a hard place and rendering them incapable of choosing either way.

Again, Brexit has put us in a politically dominated position. None of this should be surprising.

[ummmm]

Immigrants could fly into Eire, over the border into NI, ferry to Holyhead.

[Togo]

Hmmm I suppose all those illegal immigrants would be hard to spot in Ireland as well. Or Holyhead for that matter.

[ToraToraTora]

err sorry kromo not with you, Scotland is in the UK.

[Togo]

Plus if Ryanair want to fly planeloads of immigrants in we could turn the tables and fine them.....like they do half the passengers who use the airline.

[ToraToraTora]

they can do that now ummmm

[Khandro]

And he [Barnier] said the UK decision to quit the customs union and single market meant Irish border checks were "unavoidable".

For once, he is correct -isn't he? If the UK is out and the Republic is in, there has to be ipso facto a border, whether the Irish, north and south, like it or not.

[Togo]

Perhaps wee Burney is afraid that if N.I. does indeed become isolated, people from there will want to flee to their ancestral home.........which is in the main Scotland. Making the N,.I. "problem" a Scottish "problem".

[ummmm]

I'm not talking about illegals.

[ToraToraTora]

they don't seem bothered about the border with Norway for example.

[Khandro]

If there was to be a referendum in N.I. along the lines of "Do you want to remain a member of the UK at the cost of having a border with the South", what would be the outcome, I wonder?

[youngmafbog]

I suspect two things.

1) He is trying to prove a point and he knows May is too weak to stick two fingers up and walk away (with our wallet)

2) He does not want any cosyness between Ireland and the UK. Although we taunt each other there is a bond between the Irish and the UK. The EU will be afraid that could end up with Ireland forming a trading bond with the UK and leaving the EU once the EU money runs out, which it will.

[webbo3]

Ummm
\\Immigrants could fly into Eire, over the border into NI, ferry to Holyhead.//

only if they have a passport, which most of them dont.

[Jackdaw33]

I thought the ferry to Holyhead was from Dublin, not NI.

[youngmafbog]

\\Immigrants could fly into Eire, over the border into NI, ferry to Holyhead.//

Highly unlikely Eire would want to have a 'Calais' crisis I would have thought.

[Kromovaracun]

//they don't seem bothered about the border with Norway for example//

Norway is in the single market (if not the customs union). We're currently saying that we want to leave both.