That’s been a running theme of yours- to conveniently put on naive ignorance only to contradict yourself later on.
Really? Examples...
She said it, and sage Brexiters on here nodded in agreement. I can't be bothered to trawl through the pfm archive, but it was after her daft red lines (and before she lost the GE), when it was pointed out some sort of border would have to run either through Ireland or through the Irish Sea. Brexiters at that time were counting either on magic technology or on the EU folding.
ISTR blockchain, the panacea of the technically illiterate, was mentioned quite a lot.
I saw it coming from some 'technically literates'. I have no reason to assume they were less so than you.
What has been quite an education since December 31st is the degree to which the EU refuses to acknowledge technical border solutions at all, to the point of insisting upon signed pieces of paper, probably sent by 2nd class post, in regard of moving goods across the EU borders. I concede that I really hadn't acknowledged the degree to which they actually repel technological solutions, as that would make the process too easy, and easy is not what the EU wants it to be. It matters not a hoot that customs declarations can be efficiently processed electronically if numerous paper-based documents still have to be submitted.
I believe that the country which is most rapidly advancing a fully integrated and seamless customs clearance procedure (known as uCustoms) is Malaysia. Where there's a will etc...
Correct.
Indeed, at the time EV had indulged in some extensive tech-Googling or more likely Daniel Hannan’s blog and was waxing lyrical about blockchain and other goodies. The invisible border that no one would notice was there.
All things are possible. Perhaps you should start focussing your extensive intellect on it, given that your ambition is to place one of those fabulous old-tech EU borders between your economy and 60% of its customers by value.
Takes a righty to know a righty, eh?
EV:
Excellent. One more brain cell and someone around here will qualify as a fully-fledged amoeba. We're not there yet though.
and how does that relate to Brexit?
Went through this the other day. The EMA spent a good fortnight or more box-ticking, whilst the EC procrastinated about how to roll out the vaccines 'fairly'. The UK, thankfully, got on with it.
A bit early in the piece to be crowing too, because despite the advantages of earlier supplies, smaller territory and denser population - I wouldn't put it past Johnson's clowns to fvck it up. Certainly the lengthening times between jabs is beginning to look iffy.
Exactly as I wrote on the last incarnation of this thread...
Well, I would have liked to have said 'too early to tell', but the fact that the UK put the green light on the covid jabs weeks before the dithering EU did is a definitive positive and potentially long term one. Let's hope we can keep the pace up.
...so crowing only cautiously.