Seems the UK also has reciprocal healthcare arrangements with Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, BVI, Montserrat and Turks & Caicos too
Oh my joke was about you sending my parents on an 18 hour flight. You of all people.
Is Brexit actually going to happen?
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Oh my joke was about you sending my parents on an 18 hour flight. You of all people.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Oh my joke was about you sending my parents on an 18 hour flight. You of all people.
I think your ma and pa would be very grateful to their son for stumping up for them to go in https://www.etihad.com/en-gb/experience-etihad/flying-reimagined/the-residence/
They might die of overindulgence...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yes there are golf courses in all those places
I think, at her age, my mum could be needing access to medical staff, not a shag pad (shudders).
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
That’s proper nuts. How much does it cost?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Round trip to Sydney, £14,217.91 per person for two people sharing, or £22,437.91 for a single traveller.
Compare to BA first class at £10,882.91 for the same journey.
Serbia and Montenegro are more generous to be fair.
What’s the two up with bags cost to either of those? Got to be cheap, flights with a stag or hen do, bang on really. Give it a few years, and we’ll have all the Brit facilities my parents would love. Couple of bars with Sky screens, and somewhere round the back to have a slash.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
kabbes Sorry, going to be boring and back on topic, but something you said a month back has had me pondering. “The Irish border is for the EU to fix”.
I’ve been agonising over this.
I wonder... if we did cliff edge... what would happen if:
UK then says we’ll, erm, not turn up. No UK officials, no border force, no signs.
It could be dressed up as some bollocks. “Temporary non enforcement policy”
With no set end date. Just sit it out. Mental brexiteers would have little capital (who wants a border in Ireland). The EU wouldn’t dare make the first move on a blockade.
Thinking out loud here. (I voted remain, like nobody guessed that already
)
I’ve been agonising over this.
I wonder... if we did cliff edge... what would happen if:
UK then says we’ll, erm, not turn up. No UK officials, no border force, no signs.
It could be dressed up as some bollocks. “Temporary non enforcement policy”
With no set end date. Just sit it out. Mental brexiteers would have little capital (who wants a border in Ireland). The EU wouldn’t dare make the first move on a blockade.
Thinking out loud here. (I voted remain, like nobody guessed that already
)Is that all? Pfft, pay the man and be done with it.
Well, quite. You have to think outside the paradigm that has been set by somebody else. Who says we have to man and patrol a border? Somebody else? What makes them the setter of our rules?kabbes Sorry, going to be boring and back on topic, but something you said a month back has had me pondering. “The Irish border is for the EU to fix”.
I’ve been agonising over this.
I wonder... if we did cliff edge... what would happen if:
UK then says we’ll, erm, not turn up. No UK officials, no border force, no signs.
It could be dressed up as some bollocks. “Temporary non enforcement policy”
With no set end date. Just sit it out. Mental brexiteers would have little capital (who wants a border in Ireland). The EU wouldn’t dare make the first move on a blockade.
Thinking out loud here. (I voted remain, like nobody guessed that already
I’m beginning to think that, if we do fall off the cliff, that’s the option.
Stand back.
You enforce it if you want. We won’t. The DUP will moan like fuck, but even propping up the Government, I can’t see the gov deciding to placate them with a border enforced Ireland.
Arguably we set the paradigm with the Good Friday Agreement, but overall yes. The UK can technically just fail to turn up. Oops, sorry, we were busy. Oh *that* border? Yeah erm, maybe next Thursday or something?
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
No trade.
pocketscience
Well-Known Member
Why?
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
No insurance.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
It wouldn't be a stable situation because if it went on for any length of time would it not lead to smugglers moving in.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
They are smugglers.
Cross border trade with no tax, no insurance, no guarantees on the products.
100% illegal trade.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Would EU workers also take advantage of the unenforced hard border possibly?
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Bottom line is Lord Nelson has been dead over 200 years. Team GB is not under any circumstances going to enter into a war of nerves with the EU and come out smiling.
FWIW, I think in a no deal scenario, neither the UK or the EU would enforce the border, but only because the situation would not be regarded as sustainable by either side and so it would not be considered worth the infrastructure investment.
FWIW, I think in a no deal scenario, neither the UK or the EU would enforce the border, but only because the situation would not be regarded as sustainable by either side and so it would not be considered worth the infrastructure investment.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
You've finally caught up
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Caught up with what? Go on then, don't hold back, tell what is likely to happen. Unstable situation so it reverts to what in practice?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Who is the 'our' in this situation? Who is 'we'?
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
you know we will still (we* being the republic of Ireland) be part of the Schengen Agreement
does Eire have to pat to patrol the border
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
With what has been said a while back
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