Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
Again, i return to my question: what is this "hard brexit" thing of which you speak? **

http://openeurope.org.uk/today/blog/...tions-answers/

The irish border is a fun problem, but nothing in this is easy.
Importantly, there is no rule/law/norm the EU has ever acquired that it hasn't been willing to drop in an instant if expediency demands it.
There is good will on both sides to solve this problem, it will be solved.

It does not [require] EEA access as the [only] possible mechanism to achieve this end.




** to me it means acrimony and wto terms, not whether we escape the clutches of the ecj (inshallah!), or leave the great tariff wall, i.e. the customs union.
Hard Brexit is anything that loses us our current economic situation within the EU. I don't really care about the political situation, as long as the economic situation retains the (pre-2016) status quo. Soft Brexit is anything that retains said status quo whilst finding workarounds around the edges of that.