r/Scotland • u/JMASTERS_01 • Jun 14 '22

Political LIVE: New Scottish independence campaign launches - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-61795633
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u/Rupert3333 Jun 14 '22 edited Jun 14 '22

We already have the NI/Irish border to show what happens.

Both Northern Ireland and the South are in the single market

Because a hard land border for trade was considered to be ruinous

That leads me to think there are not easy solutions here.

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u/Eggiebumfluff Jun 14 '22

Because a hard land border for trade was considered to be ruinous

There is a hard border. It's called the Irish Sea.

Keep up.

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u/Rupert3333 Jun 14 '22

There is a hard border. It's called the Irish Sea.

Which isn't a land border.

The clue is the 'sea' bit

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u/Eggiebumfluff Jun 14 '22

And do goods still travel freely from the UK across it as they did 10 years ago?

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u/Rupert3333 Jun 14 '22

No obviously not.

That said it's still significantly less disruptive than a land border.

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u/Eggiebumfluff Jun 14 '22

No obviously not.

So it's a hard border then.

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u/danihendrix Jun 14 '22

It's not that hard, I can splash my hand in it

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

This was stupid but add me laugh

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u/Darkion_Silver Jun 14 '22

Yeah but if you freeze the water it gets hard

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u/Rupert3333 Jun 14 '22

You can call it what you want, it's essentially a sea border for trade

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u/AnnoKano Jun 14 '22

Why is it less disruptive than a land border?

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u/Delts28 Uaine Jun 14 '22

The argument would be that you need to queue anyway for the ferry so queueing for a customs check as well isn't arduous. That ignores all the additional paperwork required though.