Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Brexit: UK to spend €790m on new GB-EU border control systems ready for 2021" video.

It is not a choice,it is a requirement of switching to WTO rules. It will act as a hidden tariff that will make EU imports far less attractive.
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It did not happen during the forty plus years of membership, why do you think it would happen now?
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If the increased costs act like a hidden tariff that reduces EU imports, it will be good for the UK. It will make the UK less dependent on the EU and give UK producers a chance by allowing them to supply to the home market.
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@redred7289 I did not say that, I pointed out that it was not adequately funded in the forty years we were a member of the eu. That is under both labour and conservative governments. Why do you think it would be any different if we remained in the EU? One definition of madness is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. Brexit is a catalyst for change, with the prospect of doing things differently. It is not clear which way post brexit Britain will go, but there is the potential for positive change. Certainly the last forty years have been a disaster for the uk. The apparent economic growth of the uk economy can be attributed to creative accounting in the calculation of GDP and a huge fire sale of uk assets to fund our membership and pay the day to day bills. Necessity is said to be the mother of invention, and brexit will force the uk economy to be more inventive. I maintain the view that the uk must become much more self sufficient and reduce its dependency on imports. We have become a nation of consumers, buying rather than making. If the NHS is to be funded, then the uk must produce and sell goods and services abroad to fund it. We cannot make money by selling each other expensive imports or building houses with expensive imported raw materials. When faced with a financial crisis, there are two priorities, cut outgoing expenditure and increase income. The UK has been living on debt, and has been forced to introduce austerity measures in an effort to control that debt, but the real reason for it is that we no longer do things for ourselves, preceding to import goods and services and allow foreigners to do our manufacturing for us. We must be like those who do DIY rather than pay for a tradesman to do the work. We must sell the thing we produce, not the means of production.
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£790 million to discourage EU imports. That's money well spent.
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@jackkruese9929 that really is not a problem, since the uk needs to become more self sufficient before it can sell to anyone else. Application of tariffs by the EU will be reciprocated.
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@fitzstv8506 there is no reason to believe it will not. The only things that the uk must import are those that geography and geology have denied it. The world is currently suffering the iniquities of globalisation. A trading model that is destroying the planet's environment at an accelerating rate in a process that is designed to make a very few super rich. It was never in the interests of the uk to delegate the manufacture of the products it uses to foreign companies. It is not in the interests of the human race to concentrate manufacturing in a limited number of regions of the globe, as this reduces the resilience of the species. It was madness to allow the UK economy and security to become dependent on China and the EU. It was insane to allow our software and electronics industry to wither and die, while becoming dependent on foreign imports of the technology. The same can be applied to many other technological industries. The only reason that increased self sufficiency is regarded as impossible or undesirable, is because it would deny the vested few their revenue stream.
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@rsrs8632 the weakness of the eu is that it is a market in which to sell, not buy.
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@jackkruese9929 in a financial crisis, there are two priorities. First reduce outgoing expenditure, second increase income. The only way to reduce expenditure is by reducing imports. The only way to increase income is to manufacture thing the world wants to buy. The latter can only be done by developing and supporting local producers and manufactures, this can only be done by having a strong local home market. Reengineering and rebalancing the uk economy is going to take time and must be done in a particular order, continuing as if we have not left the EU will not work.
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@fitzstv8506 no it will become the new USSR and will disintegrate.
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@redred7289 the EU's ambitions will be its destruction as it will lead it into conflict with one or more of the big power blocks. Unfortunately, as France is setting itself up to be the prime target of the member states, the uk will be in range of the nuclear fallout.
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