As part of our 'special relationship' with Ireland we've had pretty much a soft border for the last hundred years or so, maybe it was a form of reparation for our earlier 'shenanigans', prior to the Common Market, our border with Europe was, in your parlance, a 'hard' border.
No, a border will be more than sufficient thank you, with a reciprocal arrangement for trade movements, but with the UK government having a say on who can and cannot enter the country.
Can we at least first come to an understanding on what your idea of bordering on a hard one is? Explain what your meaning of a 'hard border' is? The link you posted earlier meant didly squat.
Free movement of people and goods, but the Government can say no, so its not free movement? And the EU can also say no too, so again its free movement but its not. You wanted hard borders to reclaim them, a major point of your votes to leave. Anybody else smell the burning rubber of swerving? Answer clearly? Do you want border checks with the EU or dont you ?
WHOOOOOAAAAA!, I didn't mention free movement of people (other than with Ireland where it's existed for 100 years). No, I want passport controls, a points based system allowing workers in as required.
Either you want borders with the EU (and the rest of the world), or you dont. You seem confused. You want these borders, but not with the EU (Ireland).
They didnt ask us to leave did they. Just to sort out the border issue we have created. But of course its the EU's fault.
I'm not confused at all Jack, Of course I want borders, read my last few posts, and I want to maintain a special relationship with Ireland which we've always had. And it really isn't as difficult as you think to resolve, do you have a hotline to May, Davies and Junckers, brinkmanship, game playing, politics.