EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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aggi in reply to @Greenbank

Other than staying in the customs union there hasn't been a permanent solution proposed for the NI/Eire border problem that doesn't shit all over the GFA.

The solution there seems to be to just ignore the border. The issue with the border is really whether some other WTO nation complains that we're giving Eire/EU favourable treatment. That would take a while to resolve so would give further opportunity to actually find a solution.

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branwen in reply to @aggi

The issue with the border is really whether some other WTO nation complains that we're giving Eire/EU favourable treatment.

BBC article upthread suggested that exemptions are possible for instances of National Security - presumably intended to allow much harder borders than WTO normal - and that it could be argued that maintaining the GFA is a National Security issue so could defend a non WTO border between NI/RoI

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aggi in reply to @branwen

Yep, there are various arguments that could be used to draw it out. No one knows whether they'd work but it would take plenty of time before a definitive judgement could be reached.

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