Pablo wrote:Bob, almost all our exports to EU countries will enter through Calais/ Dunkerque so France has the responsibility of ensuring everything is hunky-dory before they let the trucks in. Can they be trusted to be pragmatic or will they insist on being totally officious as per usual?
Unless a deal is negotiated to the contrary, they will continue to apply the same regulations as they (and every other EU state) is obliged to do to any 3rd country. There is nothing new here: it's been that way since Brexit was first thought of. It's called project reality.
And as for the Cap'n's mad musings, I stagger at the naivety of it all.
Why has the government have finally started planning for the inevitable then? Did you read Grant Schapp's magnum opus or are you just more knowledgeable than even he is as a matter of course?