@glynmoody but whilst the government gets it the citizens lose out to higher prices in Ireland. It's really a tax on the Irish for buying British goods
@glynmoody@harriettmb Indeed! The whole set-up, with Northern Ireland still inside the Single Market (de facto, if not de jure) & Britain outside it, is barking mad, & not doing the British economy any favours at all. But will either the Tories or Labour acknowledge that, or do anything about it? Will they heck! Oh no, we mustn't restore freedom of movement, must we - that would upset the racists & xenophobes!
@glynmoody I used to buy things from GB regularly. Since it left the single market I have bought nothing*. Instead I buy from NI if possible and otherwise from the rest of the single market. There's no bonanza of any kind here except a boost for the single market and lost trade for the UK whose value far exceeds the "bonanza".
*Except when deceptively sold on a ".ie" website with surprise customs charges once shipped from GB.
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