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It's a pretty nitpicky reasopn, if that is the reason. But if France chooses that a British disabled person can't park in a disabled space because the definition of disabled is, or might become, different in France from in the UK, you would support France's decision?

The UK has unilaterally said that EU citizens who are disabled can use their EU blue badges in the UK. Eleven other countries have not made that decision. How can it possibly be the UK'#s fault that those 11 countries have not made their decision?

At no point did anyone on the Remain side say that disabled drivers would lose their parking rights abroad. I suspect that even some Remainers didn't think the EU would use that particular bargaining chip.

I know this is a very pro-EU board, but supporting EU countries in their unwillingness to allow parking rights for disabled drivers? Is it really right to use disabled people as a negotiating tool in a political agreement? Is there anybody on this board who opposed Brexit, who broadly speaking...

Why should it be put in the withdrawal agreement? Are you trying to defend France's (and 10 other countries') decision to refuse or delay parking concessions for disabled people? Two questions. 1. In principle, is France correct to disallow parking concessions for disabled people if they...

It doesn't matter who reports on it. Thirty months ago, the reciprocal agreement ended because of Brexit. But thirty months on, any nation that hasn't had the common decency to say "yes, we will continue to accept them" is not doing it because of Brexit, they are doing it because they don't...

That Guardian article (belatedly!) should be called out. They say that certain countries don't accept UK blue disabled badges "because of Brexit", but they have had plenty of time to renew the agreement. Any country that has still not recognised the blue badges is doing it because they think a...

The point being that if either Belgium or the Netherlands pulled out of the EU, there would be a customs man checking your passport, reservations, financial resources and so on every time you spun your chair.

I don't know the size of Sainsbury's finances compared with the size of mine, but I;ll be going there tonight to make a free trade transaction that will have mutual benefit. Just because one party is smaller than the other doesn't mean that a deal can't be good for both parties.

I wouldn't expect there to be any kerfuffle crossing that border, because I would expect both sides to exercise pragmatism and to use the exemptions permitted by EU rules to cut down the bureaucracy to the minimum necessary (in this case, none at all). That's been the point all along. They are...

St Maarten is one of the four countries that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and it's not in the EU. The Netherlands is another of the four countries that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and it is in the EU.

St Maarten isn't part of the EU, nor is it part fo the Schengen agreement.

Free trade within in the EU meant that there was no obstacle to importing or anything between Ireland and the UK. Now, there is an obstacle.

I was proposing that, on one side, the EU gets free access to the UK market, and on the other side, the UK gets free access to the EU market. It isn't all benefit one way. It's mutual benefit.

Did swine fever, foot and mouth disease, and so on, travel differently when we were in the single market? I don't see why those particular regulations should change.

And if you go back far enough you can find an article where the government refuses to build the Channel tunnel. But it isn't relevant to delays crossing the channel because they built it since. Please, forget about articles complaining that the government should have increased the numbers of...

It's an agreement, not a free trade agreement, with lots of conditions in place that work against the UK. If it was free trade, then what's the point of all these checks across the Irish Sea? Why is the EU so bothered about the possibility of goods getting from England to Ireland if there's...

If the French customs are unable to cope with the number of tourists visiting France, then the only two ways to solve it are by increasing the productivity of the customs officers or by reducing the numbers of tourists. And stop banging on about the rejection of a plan to build extra booths...

No, of course not, and I think from your post that I have a better understanding of trade agreements than you do. There has never been a free trade agreement where only one side gets the free trade and the other side gets no benefit at all. the idea of a free trade agreement is that both...

Why shouldn't I be indignant about long delays because the French customs posts aren't working efficiently? The USA has control of its borders, and no-one disputes that they should. But I was still indignant about having to queue for 4 hours at Los Angeles to get off the cruise ship (and...