Hola MaHigh-School - August 2017
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Europe: the border<br />
The UK government has come up with a positioning paper describing<br />
their view of the future. They talk about a ‘New customs<br />
partnership’ and ‘highly streamlined customs arrangement’. It is<br />
very thin on details. The key one is that it envisages an approach<br />
where there will be no borders at all between Ireland and UK<br />
(Northern Ireland).<br />
But the spoiler is that Ireland is not just Ireland. It is EU. And EU<br />
might not be on the same page.<br />
EU is interested in having some relationship with UK after Brexit<br />
is final in 2019 of course. UK<br />
is not going to disappear. UK<br />
will still trade with continental<br />
Europe. So UK will have<br />
to talk to EU about common<br />
approaches to things.<br />
And then the next spoiler!<br />
What do the people voting<br />
for Brexit really want? If Ms.<br />
May (the PM!) is seen as<br />
sucking up to EU, there could<br />
easily be a backlash. The people voting for Brexit voted for a<br />
withdrawal from the EU initiatives.<br />
This can only mean the free movement of people, goods and<br />
capital etc. The core of EU in terms of the economy. So if Ms.<br />
May is seen to be too pro-EU, could there then be another election<br />
where she is voted out? And a hard-liner Brexit fan walks in?<br />
time will tell.<br />
And then we have the youth vote. The ‘old-timers’ voted Brexit.
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