"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"

[AtW]

'Have people inspected' at Irish border after Brexit, says Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg has sparked a fresh row about the status of the Irish border after Brexit after a video emerged in which he suggests a return to checks “as we had during the Troubles”.

The Conservative MP is seen on the footage from the public meeting suggesting the government could “keep an eye on” the border.

“Ireland would not be a free for all. It would be perfectly possible to continue with historic arrangements to ensure that there wasn’t a great loophole in the way people can get into the UK, to leave us in as bad a position as we are already in,” Rees-Mogg says.

“There would be our ability, as we had during the Troubles, to have people inspected. It’s not a border that everyone has to go through every day, but of course for security reasons during the Troubles, we kept a very close eye on the border, to try and stop gun-running and things like that.”

The shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, was sharply critical of his comments. “This man knows nothing of Northern Ireland,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...acob-rees-mogg

Good idea - as long as Moggy character (and his clique) is doing the body searches in person for the first couple of years...

[NotAllThere]

The longer I monitor the Brexit thread, the more I'm reminded my Mogg and his ilk of the erstwhile CUK member, sofa kingdom.

[AtW]

The longer I monitor the Brexit thread, the more I'm reminded my Mogg and his ilk of the erstwhile CUK member, sofa kingdom.

We need a dedicated Sofa subforum

[scooterscot]

What an idiot. It's one thing to suggest a return to practices that belong in the past and yet the part that really raises my disappointment is the way 40+ years of efforts to a peaceful Ireland is just undermined.

Very sad state of affairs the UK now find's itself.

Labour might of bankrupted the country, but the Conservatives seem hell bent on destroying it.

[AtW]

Look, Moggy just wants to protect his Irish Hedge Fund from riff raff, okay?

[Eirikur]

Good opportunity for Ireland to join Schengen, and throw of the shackles of their former imperial oppressors, the only reason they didn't join was the because of the border with the UK

[WTFH]

Those appear to be moderately well-cut uniforms.

https://twitter.com/NSoames/status/1032749211069165570

[AtW]

Good opportunity for Ireland to join Schengen, and throw of the shackles of their former imperial oppressors, the only reason they didn't join was the because of the border with the UK

Lack of Shengen is a big commercial loss for the tourism industry for sure

[PurpleGorilla]

Good opportunity for Ireland to join Schengen, and throw of the shackles of their former imperial oppressors, the only reason they didn't join was the because of the border with the UK

You mean the border with NI.

[meridian]

You mean the border with NI.

Is there a difference?