Quote Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry View Post
I am not sure the remain voting, people of Northern would agree with your definiton of a clean brexit.
After twenty years they will be back to more than 200 of these again.
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During the "troubles" about 18 of the 280ish road border crossings, were open. It would be impossible to police that as a Single Market border, so it would have to go back to most of them being permentaly closed.
Pat the ideal of the Single Market and this ring of steel around it is quaint, but completely bogus.

The idea that at the Port of Rotterdam (for example) the 10s of 1,000s of containers coming in daily are checked and tested to make sure that the contents meet with EU rules and regs is madness.

The integrity of the single market is in the hands of the importer / manufacturer.

If the importer or manufacturer wants to cut corners they can.

In my time in the footwear industry I've seen it on a number of occasions. I can guarantee that out there in store now there are items of footwear containing heavy metals and azo dyes. They are illegal.
The UK and German customers were very strict. They required a clean chemical test certificate prior to shipping by an independent approved laboratory.

Still, testing a sample doesn't mean the bulk production was clean.

But the Spanish and French didn't give a toss. They just shipped. Price was king.

I'm going back almost 10 years since I was closely involved, but I cant' see anything having changed.