> For another thing, it conflates economic disalignment with having a hard border, the whole argument of the UK government is that you don't have to do that. T

> For another thing, it conflates economic disalignment with having a hard border, the whole argument of the UK government is that you don't have to do that. This pretty much the case in the entire rest of the world. Political or economic misalignment == hard border, so people and goods can be checked and charged for. It's not so much a conflation as just becoming any other country outside the EU. The solution to this, a soft border managed by technology just doesn't exist, it's science fiction. Even if you believe it is possible, you've got 6 months to 1. Negotiate this between the UK and EU, 2. Get the UK political system to agree to it, 3. Create and test the system and 4. Deploy it. That's a tight timescale for any project of this size, let alone one that has so much required work that needs to be done beforehand.