A guest Venn diagram from John Murray:
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i could run rings round that.
🙂
Sad. So much space in-between. Blank everywhere you look.
I think it’s time I reread Puckoon.
The diagram doesn’t work as humour for me. After all, there are 5 non-EU territories in Northern and Western Europe which have land borders with the EU. All of them have some form of solution to their border with the EU and all of those solutions involve technology to a lesser or greater degree. All the UK has to do in extremis is to pick one of them and copy it.
Utter nonsense. You don’t have a clue. Go read Tony Connelly’s book “Ireland and Brexit” (2nd ed out now) and educate yourself why Ireland is completely different. In any case, regulatory divergence is what matters, not technological solutions to problems associated with moving things across a line on a map. As in, eg, the legal regulation of drugs, medical devices, and qualifications in shared crossborder health services — to mention just one of over 140 areas affected by Brexit on the island of Ireland.
Seriously, go away and get a clue.
It’s called sardonic humour….and for evidence, read this… https://twitter.com/martinbeckford/status/1043847861035773952
They could not organise consumption of alcoholic beverages, sufficient to inhibit consciousness, in an alcoholic beverages manufacturing establishment
Well It amuses me.
Even if it isn’t really funny under the circumstances.
I would think those Venn circles should totally overlap because the people usually suggesting those IT projects are the people who will gain most out of them, I.e. those in the IT sector who like taking government money.
I can well believe that technology will be needed, whatever policy position is finally reached on the Irish border. But someone needs to write a specification, commission the technology, get it manufactured, installed and implemented. And then you need to people to use it.
Despite advances in AI, the machines do not yet do all of that themselves, and it is not the sort of thing that you can pull off the shelf (unless of course you think the Irish border will be the exactly the same in all respects as the EU’s border with Switzerland or Norway or Andorra, or Albania or Bosnia or Macedonia or Moldova or Serbia, or Belrus or Russia or Ukraine, or Turkey ).
How much is it going to cost to create and run, and how long will it take before it all works?
Andrew says:
“I can well believe that technology will be needed, whatever policy position is finally reached on the Irish border. ”
Agreed. That’s a given in this day and age.
How much is it going to cost to create and run, and how long will it take before it all works?
About as much as it would take to fund the NHS properly and for about as long as it takes, post Brexit, to sell it off in bits to consortia of Americans and their UK government ‘agents’. ??
Only guessing…..