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Would the UK want a hard border? Otherwise any EU citizen could travel to Ireland. Walk across the border, and hence enter UK without any checks. If you get dep
by rmc 10y ago
Would the UK want a hard border? Otherwise any EU citizen could travel to Ireland. Walk across the border, and hence enter UK without any checks. If you get deported from the UK, just walk back across the border. etc. Would the UK accept that?
- barking 10y agowhat would most likely happen is what happened during WW2 and that is border controls between NI and the UK mainland
- talideon 10y agoThe political fallout from that was manageable during WW2, but now, not so much. Unionists and Loyalists would have a fit at even the suggestion of border controls between NI and GB.
- CalRobert 10y agoThat would be even less popular than border controls between Alaska and/or Hawaii and the continental US.
- patrickk 10y agoAdditionally, the EU likely wouldn't want the UK to have no border with ROI. Otherwise you could simply fly from (say) Romania to Dublin, travel up to Belfast, and move freely within the UK from there. This would create further tensions between the UK and EU.
- randomtask 10y agoThere's precedent of sorts for this though. Currently a non-EU citizen with a visa to Ireland still needs a visa to travel to the UK. This could be policed in the same way as that case.
- Reason077 10y agoany EU citizen could travel to Ireland. Walk across the border, and hence enter UK without any checks. Yes, but remember: Ireland is not part of the Schengen area. EU citizens (along with everyone else) go through border checks when entering Ireland from outside the common travel area. That information may be shared with the UK as part of the common travel area agreement, so it doesn't make a difference whether someone enters the common travel area in Ireland or in the UK. And of course, being allowed to enter a country (whether checked or not) does not necessarily mean you have the right to reside there and seek employment.