The Fail wants to unite with the EU

[ladymuck]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...reaucracy.html

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Let's unite with the EU to crush the curse of border bureaucracy

Bureaucratic rigidity threatens to condemn this country, and the EU itself, to a wholly needless crisis over trade between the UK and the Brussels-ruled bloc.

In a powerful article today in The Mail on Sunday, Marks & Spencer chairman Archie Norman dissects the problem and warns of dire consequences to both sides if it is not quickly resolved. He says border inspection arrangements have been ‘set up to fail’, being wholly at odds with the modern world.

Thanks to obsolete rules drawn up nearly a quarter of a century ago, when computers were still a comparatively minor feature of life, British exports to the EU are already being pointlessly hampered by multiple demands for paperwork that will mostly never be read.

Mr Norman, a former Tory MP who almost uniquely in this country combines direct experience of Parliament and business, reveals that M&S lorries now each need 700 pages of documentation to pass through EU customs controls imposed since Brexit.

[DaveB]

Surely we can come up with something. I don't know, maybe some sort of "Customs Union" and an agreement on "Freedom of Movement" to facilitate cross border trade and travel. Add some "Common Standards" on quality and health controls. Can't be that hard, can it?

[GigiBronz]

I’d say to build a wall around London and ask for it to re-join the EU.
It it will be a staggering majority in favour of this.