Sir Lancelot
Striker
Not a sound basis on which to base policy making. The Tories cant even agree on what they want never mind get a 'good deal'.
Volumes of cross border traffic would make that difficult and as the European Commission are taking enforcement action against the UK about the lack of prevention of smuggling across the NI/ROI border i suspect that would be a difficult one to get the EU to agree to. You would also be relying on government IT systems and time after time Civil Service IT procurement has been hopeless and takes years to implement. This system needs to be ready to go in 11 months- Time is against Britain on this perhaps if the government had triggered Article 50 later progress would have been smoother and more options available?
It still doesnt solve the problem of tarriffs, duties and duplicate bureacracy either.
What does it have to do with volume of cross border traffic? The verification is done in the same place where the lorry is packed and will be tracked door to door. This technology already exists.
And we have three years to implement systems as there is a two year transition process.