My 3 Point Plan For Brexit.....

[ToraToraTora]

Dear EU,

1) we are not paying any more money
2) we will do trade deals with you and mirror any anti trade measures you take.
3) If you want a border in ROI build one on your land.
Good bye.

[Mamyalynne]

!st class stamp will be best.

[Mamyalynne]

1st would be better actually.

[jim360]

Secretary of State for Seppuku .

[Gromit]

1. We are paying them £39 Billion.
2. We will follow WTO rules.
3. Funny how people who have been saying we should leave the EU and take charge of our own borders, suddenly don’t want us to protect our border with the dreaded EU. Odd that.

// Good bye // If only.

[ToraToraTora]

1) not agreed yet, you're always telling us parliament must approve
2) Will the EU?
3) We don't want a border with Ireland if the EU do that's their problem.

[jourdain2]

Just add - we're friendly, accept these offers and all the help we can give with your projects.

That just about covers it.

Yep! Type it out on parchment TTT and send by recorded delivery.

[Gromit]

TTT,
We have agreed to pay it. We would be a laughing stock if we welshed on the deal (Apologies Welsh people).

// The fee was jointly-agreed in a meeting between the Treasury and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, Downing Street said. //

What happened to take back control of our own borders ? We don’t want one is hardly fitting with the retoric we have been hearinf from the Leavers.

[New Judge]

Readers should understand that there has not been a border on the island of Ireland for a hundred years. That was long before the EU and its predecessor was thought of. Quite why there should be one because Ireland joined a supra-national "trading bloc" (which we chose to leave) is a little hard to understand.

[jim360]

Because Customs rules -- it's not *that* hard to understand...

[Old_Geezer]

Then change the rules to accommodate a new situation whereby two aims conflict. Simple.

[jim360]

Do what now?

[Gromit]

NJ
No it is not.

We were both not in the EU. Then we were both in the the EU. The circumstance of the UK being out and the ROI is a new reality. And needs addressing properly.
I actually do not want or see the need for a border, but am amused by the people (NJ included) who have been saying we need to control our own borders, and then instantly throwing in the towel.

[ToraToraTora]

"We have agreed to pay it" - yes but as part of the overall deal to be approved by parliament surely?

[Zacs-Master]

One word. Tariffs.

[ToraToraTora]

both sides impose tarrifs what's your point?

[ToraToraTora]

both sides "can" impose tariffs

[Zacs-Master]

But different tariffs at different rates.

[Zacs-Master]

Parliament doesn’t have to agree the Brexit final settlement. Here have a read:
http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-8039

[New Judge]

Yes, the EU's customs' rules. So let the EU erect and police the border. There is much talk that the UK is "not prepared" to police a border by the time we leave. Since the UK has no wish to see such a border, perhaps the question of readiness should be directed elsewhere.

It seems that the EU is concerned about dodgy goods entering "its" territory from Northern Ireland. Since the UK has no worries about the movement of goods in the other direction I suggest the onus is with the EU to do whatever they think is necessary.

To equate such a "problem" with the UK wanting to regain control of its borders is about as specious as it gets. It wants the restoration of the borders that it once had before the EU decided they were to be opened. It does not want the imposition of one that was never (in living memory) there. It is the EU we are leaving, not the Common Travel Area that is the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. It is scarcely the UK's fault that Ireland continues to sacrifice its sovereignty to the EU.

[ToraToraTora]

see point 2) ZM.