Reply to post: Re: Majority of trade already outside of EU

Re: Majority of trade already outside of EU

"There's nothing in any treaty that says we have to turn away imports we need"

Unfortunately, there is no way to get those things over the border efficiently.

You could have an ingress lane for regular stuff, and a priority 'no checks' lane for the smugglers, and anyone who doesn't want to spend ten or twenty hours in a queue. Want to guess where everyone will go?

And a 'no checks line' doesn't really square with 'taking control' or 'controlling immigration'.

And there are still mandatory checks for some types of goods - agricultural and food, at a minimum.

And most of the vets who can do the checks for incoming animal products are from the EU.

And about a third of the (British) truck drivers are from the EU.

And the trucks, if not elsewhere, will be lined up for tens of hours waiting to get back into the EU to complete the round trip.

And....

The idea that you could just wave the trucks through is another Brexidiot's fantasy that they will give you for free along with that cool bridge you can have cheap.