Viper wrote:Guest wrote:WTO would say put in a hard border - because those are the WTO rules and the UK would have to abide by them.
The first customs post that goes up would be attacked within a week.
Hi sorcha.
Please dont threaten criminal violence on behalf of NI.
Maybe more prisons needed?
Don't be such a fucking moron.
British customs houses have been targets for Irish Republicans since long before either of us were born and it won't change should they be reintroduced.
WTO rules - and remember the UK is not presently a member of the WTO as all that is handled by the EU and the UK would not become a member in its own right for at least two years - state that if the UK is outside of the customs union then there must be customs posts along the border.
Interestingly what was proposed BY THE UK was called parallel harmonisation of regulations, a formula by which the UK was not a member of the customs union but gave a legally binding undertaking to 'harmonise' all of its tariffs and regulations with the EU, this would be accomplished by a mechanism called a Royal Prerogative - essentially giving Brussels the power to make British law without reference to the British Parliament (something that could never happen while Britain is a member of the EU). What the DUP objected to was an amendment, inserted by the British, that made this a part of the powers of the devolved administration in Northern Ireland so the EU's power over customs and tariffs would only apply to Northern Ireland and would set up a 'hard border' between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
Essentially, in the eyes of the DUP, it handed sovereignty over Northern Ireland to Brussels.