Que será, será

[BlasterBates]

Who is going to enforce it? You may not be aware of it but member states flout vast swathes of EU legislation every day and nobody bats an eyelid. In fact the most stringent enforcer [internally] is the UK.

We leave, a few technocrats wave their fists in rage. This is the part that you don't understand.

That's interesting what "vast swathes" of EU legislation have been flouted ?

(I'm not really expecting an answer )

[TwoWolves]

That's interesting what "vast swathes" of EU legislation have been flouted ?

(I'm not really expecting an answer )

I've worked in France, Germany, Brussels (lived a short walk from the EU parliament), Spain and Greece. Local enforcement is applicable to what suits or matches internal legislation.

[BlasterBates]

I've worked in France, Germany, Brussels (lived a short walk from the EU parliament), Spain and Greece. Local enforcement is applicable to what suits or matches internal legislation.

So they haven't flouted it, because that is exactly how EU legislation works.

[TwoWolves]

So they haven't flouted it, because that is exactly how EU legislation works.

Germany now 'biggest breaker of EU rules', according to official figures | The Independent

[Old Greg]

Who is going to enforce it? You may not be aware of it but member states flout vast swathes of EU legislation every day and nobody bats an eyelid. In fact the most stringent enforcer [internally] is the UK.

We leave, a few technocrats wave their fists in rage. This is the part that you don't understand.

You are fantasising. This is the part that you don't understand.

[meridian]

Germany now 'biggest breaker of EU rules', according to official figures | The Independent

You've read the headline and put two and two together to get five.

As you said earlier, local enforcement matches local legislation. The article linked here explains that the member states haven't implemented the required legislation, which is a different thing.

Which implies that local businesses are not flouting the legislation, because the member state(s) may not have implemented it.

Which also implies that if the UK decides unilaterally to ignore any relevant EU legislation, the consequences would not be the same.

Let us know how you get on when you refuse to pay any import duty after 29th March.

[BlasterBates]

Germany now 'biggest breaker of EU rules', according to official figures | The Independent

Not exactly vast swathes really, and the EU commission seems to be doing it's job and bringing them to account.

A great slogan though to agitate the baying masses.

[Old Greg]

Not exactly vast swathes really, and the EU commission seems to be doing it's job and bringing them to account.

A great slogan though to agitate the baying masses.

But but but... He thinks the UK will leave the SM and CU with no deal and still enjoy barrier free trade. It's only fair.

[Cirrus]

The French are hardly going to block the road with tanks, now are they?

But but but... He thinks the UK will leave the SM and CU with no deal and still enjoy barrier free trade. It's only fair.

I think he effectively said 'it's all in the mind'. As long as we don't think about too much it we can just keep driving our lorries through EU customs barriers with nothing more than a cheery waive. Seems logical to me

If you walked out of your golf club because you didn't like the green rules, well you could still go there and play - just as long as you keep your head down and hope people won't notice. We could paint all our lorries in camouflage, or try and slip through during the early hours of Sunday morning. There's all sorts of things we could do if we just think creatively. Like 1940!!

[TwoWolves]

I think he effectively said 'it's all in the mind'. As long as we don't think about too much it we can just keep driving our lorries through EU customs barriers with nothing more than a cheery waive. Seems logical to me

If you walked out of your golf club because you didn't like the green rules, well you could still go there and play - just as long as you keep your head down and hope people won't notice. We could paint all our lorries in camouflage, or try and slip through during the early hours of Sunday morning. There's all sorts of things we could do if we just think creatively. Like 1940!!

This analogy that you've pulled out of your arse simply doesn't make any sense whatsoever. European countries need to trade with us, their economies will be severely disrupted if they can't - think man, two large agro-economies right on our doorstep. Think they will just let their food rot? Thousands of farmers go bust?