Another thing the Brexiteers forgot to mention. Bringing your pet from Scotland/England on the ferry to Northern Ireland now involves red tape, several trips to the vet, paperwork and a considerable amount of money.

Before this year, you could get on the ferry from Cairnryan or Liverpool with your cat or dog and travel to Belfast or Larne for zero cost (if sailing with Stena) and no red tape to cut through or a mountain of paperwork to bring with you.

From this year on, your pet will need all their vaccine boosts updated prior to travel. Dogs need a special treatment for worms (doesn't apply to cats). Both cats and dogs also need anti-rabies injections.

With the rabies jab, cats and dogs will not be allowed to travel until 21 days have elapsed from the date of their rabies jab by which time they will require a rabies booster jab.

Pets also need an Animal Health Certificate to get through customs at both departure & entry points. Your vet will have to examine your pet and certify your cat or dog as being of good health and fit to travel. The certificate is 10-pages long and costs between £150-160.

Throw in another £120-130 for the vaccine boosters and the anti-rabies jabs.

Before we left the EU, all you had to do was inform the ferry company that you would be taking your domestic pet on board. This involved very little, if any, paperwork and a grand total cost of £0 when taking the cat or dog over to N. Ireland on the boat from Sco/Eng.

Now it's red tape galore and a sizeable dent to your wallet. Like so many things that have cropped up since the 2016 EU-referendum, I can't recall seeing this on the side of a bus. Slipped your mind did it Boris?