Shoppers still paying for Brussels red tape despite Brexit (Express)

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8 hours ago, pellinore said:

You think every custom official is carrying high tech equipment, X-rays and CT scanning and technology yet to be developed? Your ideas belong with the sunlit uplands full of unicorns.

Now, you're assuming that, because there has never been a "thing" before, that "thing" can never exist. So you persist in brushing off the notion that technology can innovate. But wait; look around you. Everywhere you look you will see examples of technology doing things that had never been thought of until somebody did. So your insistence that "it can't be done" is no more valid than my insistence that it can.

8 hours ago, pellinore said:

Paper forms are used by the people carrying out checks.

Do you think that a human being actually hand-checks every single item, in every single consignment of goods, that passes through a port? Don't even bother answering that pellinore, because we both know that they don't. 🤦

8 hours ago, pellinore said:

Explain how a computer can check what is actually carried on a car, or a 40-tonne vehicle?

I don't need to pellinore. Here, read this - your beloved EU has already commissioned their own study into how it can be done using already existing technology that was available as of November 2017 - over 6 years ago.!! (Note: This study - "Smart Border 2.0 Avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland for Customs control and the free movement of persons" - was commissioned by your beloved EU to see what could be done in order to avoid a border between N Ireland and Ireland in the event of a No-Deal Brexit). 🤔

The study identifies international standards, best practices and technologies, as well as case studies that provide insights into creating a smooth border experience. The technical solutions provided is based on innovative approaches, with a focus on cooperation, best practices, and technology, and offers a template for future UK-EU border relationships, making the UK-EU border almost friction free, but that's obviously not what you want to hear is it pellinore. Now who's stupidity is tiresome? 🤦

Now, go off and read about 'Supply Chain Management' ('SCM'). Focus in particular on how the integration of already existing technology can quite easily be used to streamline cross-border operations, thus already ensuring the seamless movement of goods between nations all over the planet, except in your beloved EU of course, which just proves to me once again that your beloved EU is a lumbering arthritic dinosaur that's obviously not fit for purpose in today's fast paced modern world. 🤔👇👇👇👇

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/596828/IPOL_STU(2017)596828_EN.pdf

Edited March 8 by Destination Unknown