Labour MP Kate Hoey spoke alongside Mr Farage at the Leave Means Leave rally and caused a stir by appearing to equate Brexit with the IRA as a threat to a united Ireland.She said: “We didn’t spend 30 years in Northern Ireland stopping IRA terrorists killing soldiers, police and civilians in order to get a united Ireland, to allow a few jumped-up EU bureaucrats and a complicit prime minister to try and do the same thing by the back door.
“Even more ridiculous is that it would not even be in the economic interests of Northern Ireland who depend on so much of their trade to and from Britain. Why is a British prime minister dancing to the tune of an Irish Taoiseach? There’s no need for a hard border and there’s no need for a backstop.”
Goods need to be taxed (as there is no trade deal); people's movement need to be monitored (customs guards etc.)
The only alternatives are:
1. normal border (think US-Mexico)
2. No border - but then an internal border between NI and the rest of the UK.