Bob Whysman wrote:Nothing wrong with that as I feel the checks will need to go both ways if we are truly going to take our sovereignty back. It may initially clog up our roads and ports but it will also do the the same in Europe.
The negotiators should focus on obtaining a good deal from the EU without any of their restrictive rules or go for no deal and look elsewhere for our perceived needs.
Indeed there is very little wrong with what it seems that Mr Johnson will say - only the 'if' part in fact. There will be customs checks in any scenario and although most need not take place at the border, some do.
As for restrictive rules, the EU will continue to have them on the goods it imports and produces. For example, if you want to sell cars to them, they need to be LHD and if you want to sell babies' toys to them, they need to exclude choking hazards. We'll also be having restrictive rules of our own, which may or may not be similar to those of the EU, and we'll be applying them to imports and usually to the goods we produce ourselves. "No deal" is therefore somewhat ambiguous in that it isn't a straight alternative.