Schrödinger's Border

A quick post to show how marvelous Brexit is going, especially with DD at the helm.

David had an idea, a 10 mile buffer zone along the border, like the DMZ in Korea, where the zone would be in both the UK and the UK.

There would be no infrastructure on the border, and we all lived happily ever after.

Only, there would be two sets of infrastructure, on either side of the zone, it was technologically unworkable as other suggestions, Ireland would veto it, the EU would veto it, it would probably be agaist WTO rules, take ten years to set up. And Arline Foster's house would be in the buffer zone.

Number Ten killed that "plan" this evening.

Last weekend, the Irish Republic voted to repeal the 8th Amendment, which is about abortion. Now I'm not going to get into the whys and wherefores of that, but the point in bringing it up is that in regarding Brexit, Foster and the DUP have said NI being any different from the rest of Britain was unacceptable. And yet, both Ireland and NI had similar draconian anti-abortion laws, laws that are very different from Britain, so when it suits the DUP, NI can be different, but not on Brexit.

And any attempt to change NI's abortion laws would trigger the DUP bringing down May's Government.

And the border (between UK (or Britain) and the EU) is going to have to be somewhere, and wherever it is, it is unacceptable.

Brexit was always going to be interesting.