Current Affairs Irish Border and Brexit

[Ruairi77]

did I hear right. In the case of a no deal brexit, there'll be no tariffs or checks on goods going south to north but there will be tariffs on goods going fro the Republic to Britain??
So the port of Larne is going to be mad busy!
bonkers.

 

[Neiler]

did I hear right. In the case of a no deal brexit, there'll be no tariffs or checks on goods going south to north but there will be tariffs on goods going fro the Republic to Britain??
So the port of Larne is going to be mad busy!
bonkers.

Its the latest technology.

 

[Khalekan]

did I hear right. In the case of a no deal brexit, there'll be no tariffs or checks on goods going south to north but there will be tariffs on goods going fro the Republic to Britain??
So the port of Larne is going to be mad busy!
bonkers.

A cheap and transparent way to force the Republic to do Perfidious Albion's dirty work and impose a border itself.

I wonder how the honchos in that great panacea the Brexit Looney Tunes keep harping on about, the WTO, are reacting to this latest piece of nonsense.

With great hilarity I should have thought.

 

[davek]

did I hear right. In the case of a no deal brexit, there'll be no tariffs or checks on goods going south to north but there will be tariffs on goods going fro the Republic to Britain??
So the port of Larne is going to be mad busy!
bonkers.

It's like murder-suicide on a geo-political level.

This is what a Tory Government looks like when they're completely defeated and finished. They'll take everyone and themselves down and leave a booby-trap bomb in their hotel room.

They've always been the same. Utter scum.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

did I hear right. In the case of a no deal brexit, there'll be no tariffs or checks on goods going south to north but there will be tariffs on goods going fro the Republic to Britain??
So the port of Larne is going to be mad busy!
bonkers.

There's going to be an economic border in the Irish Sea, the one thing the DUP desperately didn't want.

They have been snookered by the government they are propping up. Hilarious.

 

[Sharpattack]

did I hear right. In the case of a no deal brexit, there'll be no tariffs or checks on goods going south to north but there will be tariffs on goods going fro the Republic to Britain??
So the port of Larne is going to be mad busy!
bonkers.

What that means is that NI would become the staging post for French beef, Italian wine, Spanish fruit etc as they could all be imported into NI through the ROI without any tariffs thus totally undercutting indigenous suppliers. I don't think this has been thought through fully

 

[Khalekan]

What that means is that NI would become the staging post for French beef, Italian wine, Spanish fruit etc as they could all be imported into NI through the ROI without any tariffs thus totally undercutting indigenous suppliers. I don't think this has been thought through fully

Brexit summed up in one simple sentence, Sharpie

 

[thirdmantackle]

What that means is that NI would become the staging post for French beef, Italian wine, Spanish fruit etc as they could all be imported into NI through the ROI without any tariffs thus totally undercutting indigenous suppliers. I don't think this has been thought through fully

But they would still have a tarrif imposed on leaving NI to go into the UK

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

Mmmm, according to RTE....

'The UK Tariff plan – and its timing - is designed to pressure the Irish into abandoning the backstop at next week’s European Council, to give Theresa May the opportunity to bring the rest of the Withdrawal Agreement back to Westminster for another "meaningful vote". This tariff plan was supposed to be published last week, but was delayed until today to give the UK government new leverage and energy in the run into the summit.'

Hang on in there Leo.

 

[peteblue]

Mmmm, according to RTE....

'The UK Tariff plan – and its timing - is designed to pressure the Irish into abandoning the backstop at next week’s European Council, to give Theresa May the opportunity to bring the rest of the Withdrawal Agreement back to Westminster for another "meaningful vote". This tariff plan was supposed to be published last week, but was delayed until today to give the UK government new leverage and energy in the run into the summit.'

Hang on in there Leo.

I don’t think the U.K. wants the ROI to abandon the backstop. They just want the ability for the whole of the U.K. to walk away if trade negotiations are held up.

I think the above cunning plan will probably now happen.

What is it that you want Varadkar to hang in there for, what exactly is the benefit seeing as the U.K. has even said that with a no deal they will not put in a border. As I’ve said before, the only people who will insist on one are in Brussels.....

 

[peteblue]

What that means is that NI would become the staging post for French beef, Italian wine, Spanish fruit etc as they could all be imported into NI through the ROI without any tariffs thus totally undercutting indigenous suppliers. I don't think this has been thought through fully

I’m pretty sure that you haven’t.....

 

[Neiler]

Mmmm, according to RTE....

'The UK Tariff plan – and its timing - is designed to pressure the Irish into abandoning the backstop at next week’s European Council, to give Theresa May the opportunity to bring the rest of the Withdrawal Agreement back to Westminster for another "meaningful vote". This tariff plan was supposed to be published last week, but was delayed until today to give the UK government new leverage and energy in the run into the summit.'

Hang on in there Leo.

Nah, just turns NI into bandit country, what they did today will have massive consequences for the U.K., smuggling and the black economy will thrive. Those who lead out and control that will make vast fortunes and funds. I think we can all suspect the type of organisations who might be in the vanguard of that.

Potentially all they have done is trigger the ability for financial means of crime and violence to escalate.

Zero lessons learned from the past.

It’s hardly surprising with Karen Bradley pulling this strings on the U.K. side and Michael Gove threting reinstating direct rule in NI.

What do they think is going to happen.

Absolutely playing with fire.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

Meh, just turns NI into bandit country, what they did today will have massive consequences for the U.K., smuggling and the black economy will thrive. Those who lead out and control that will make vast fortunes and funds.

Potentially all they have done is triggervthe ability for financial means for crime and violence to escalate.

Zero lessons learned from the past.

It’s hardly surprising with Karen Bradley pulling this strings on the U.K. side and Michael Gove threting reinstating direct rule in NI.

What do think is going to happen. Absolutely playing with fire.

100%. It is a sneaky underhand tactic that will backfire spectacularly.

 

[Ruairi77]

I’m pretty sure that you haven’t.....

how's he wrong?
If there's no tariffs on goods heading south to north, what's to stop all these commodities being imported tariff free to the UK via the land border with the RoI?

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

The Taoiseach has said that there is a "supreme irony" in the tariff proposals put forward by the British government today.

The proposed new tariff regime is on agricultural and other products being exported from Ireland to Britain if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union without a deal. Under a temporary and unilateral regime announced by the British government, EU goods arriving from the Republic of Ireland and remaining in Northern Ireland would not be subject to tariffs. However, tariffs would be payable on goods moving from the EU into Britain via Northern Ireland under a schedule of rates also released this morning.

Speaking in Washington, Leo Varadkar said many of those who voted against the backstop did so because they feared Northern Ireland may be treated differently to the rest of the UK. However, he said that what the British government is proposing "will treat Northern Ireland differently in a few weeks time, in terms of customs rules and regulations."

The DUP's Brexit spokesman S.A.Tache was unavailable for comment *



* I made that last sentence up. Bet he's fuming though. lol