Reply To: More on Brexit
Correction: it is only until the end of 2020 (not 2021) that there will continue to be free entry for EU migrants into the UK.
However, there is a hare-brained scheme proposed by some Tories to unite their party that is being considered by the government. Under this free entry would be extended until the end of 2021. This scheme is hare-brained because, instead of the backstop if no comprehensive trade deal is reached by then, it propose an automatic free trade agreement, but this won’t address the EU’s concerns since it is not so much customs checks to see if tariffs have been levied that is the problem as checks to see if goods imported from Northern Ireland into the EU meet the EU’s single market regulatory standards.
And nobody is mentioning how the UK will preventing “illegal” migrants coming in through the backdoor that NI will be.
If/when Scotland votes for independence and applies to rejoin the EU, as the SNP proposes, then the same problem will arise over the Scotland/England border.
The whole thing is crazy. Reconstructing borders that the development of capitalism has already broken down. That’s what the capitalist class get when the are foolish enough to ask the working class to settle a disagreement they have amongst themselves.