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  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,042
    MikeSmithson said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Just wondering:

    We've been banging on about the RoI/NI border 24/7, but what about the Gib/Spain border?

    Surely just as problematic?

    That is a hard border.
    Ah OK - so no different to crossing from the UK to France.

    However, in future they will have to check goods crossing the border, not just passports.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,732
    SandyRentool said:

    MikeSmithson said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Just wondering:

    We've been banging on about the RoI/NI border 24/7, but what about the Gib/Spain border?

    Surely just as problematic?

    That is a hard border.
    Ah OK - so no different to crossing from the UK to France.

    However, in future they will have to check goods crossing the border, not just passports.
    There are customs checks now. Gibraltar is outside the customs union.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,894
    williamglenn said:

    SandyRentool said:

    MikeSmithson said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Just wondering:

    We've been banging on about the RoI/NI border 24/7, but what about the Gib/Spain border?

    Surely just as problematic?

    That is a hard border.
    Ah OK - so no different to crossing from the UK to France.

    However, in future they will have to check goods crossing the border, not just passports.
    There are customs checks now. Gibraltar is outside the customs union.
    Hmmm. So why were they given a vote at EURef?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,894
    SandyRentool said:

    Sad news:

    "Jeremy Hardy: Comedian and Radio 4 panel star dies aged 57"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47056671

    RIP. I think I first saw him on TV as part of the firing squad in Black Adder Goes Forth.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,692

    NEW THREAD

  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,732
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    williamglenn said:

    SandyRentool said:

    MikeSmithson said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Just wondering:

    We've been banging on about the RoI/NI border 24/7, but what about the Gib/Spain border?

    Surely just as problematic?

    That is a hard border.
    Ah OK - so no different to crossing from the UK to France.

    However, in future they will have to check goods crossing the border, not just passports.
    There are customs checks now. Gibraltar is outside the customs union.
    Hmmm. So why were they given a vote at EURef?
    It would have been bad PR to exclude them, and they could be relied on to stir up the Tory press if they were ignored. They didn't get a vote in 1975, incidentally.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,279
    The major European powers (including the UK) just agreed to set up a special purpose vehicle to facilitate trading free of US sanctions with Iran.
    Could we do something similar with Gibraltar/Ireland...?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,279
    Slackbladder said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Sad news:

    "Jeremy Hardy: Comedian and Radio 4 panel star dies aged 57"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47056671

    didn't like the man, didn't like his politics, but still sad and too young.
    He was a very rare thing - a genuinely amusing socialist.

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