Port of Dover Critical Incident

[AndreaC74]

Why are we blaming the french? they didn't vote for Brexit and aren't responsible for increasing/paying for extra capacity at the French border posts on UK soil.

Stamping passports is what happens to 3rd country nationals & that adds time, a lot of it, when dealing with 100s of '000s of passengers, plus having recently been to France, i ve seen UK people arguing with French officials because they don't want their passports stamped!

The UK seems incapable of organising anything at the moment, the numbers travelling across the channel is entirely predictable and delays we are now seeing were talked about pre 2016, i remember seeing the graphs on how long the queues would be for just a few seconds of delay for each passenger.... all Project Fear.

I go over to France each year to stay in the same place and especially like eating out at the local Fish and Chip restaurant run by a lovely couple from Grimsby. The French should be grateful that I am spending my hard earned pounds in their country.

I'm not a wanker and I didn't vote for this government, or Brexit. So I refuse to loathe myself.

Can quite see how other countries don't have the rosiest impression of the UK as a country but hopefully they have the sense not to tar us all with the same brush, just like we hopefully don't generalise about people from other countries

Well I voted for ending freedom of movement to stop foreigners coming here and taking our jobs and living on benefits. I did not vote to make any changes for me going on holiday

Too right. How dare they treat us like foreigners. We're British, not foreigners.

@ColadhSamh The French have caused disruptions at Dover for years , it's nothing new
They've just ramped it up but you crack on...

Exactly plus tariffs, resulting in higher prices for exports and imports from EU countries , our closest neighbours. So not reducing our carbon footprint either.

FFS 🤦‍♀️

Something wrong?

Why would people not want their passports stamped? I love looking at all the stamps in my passport from countries I’d been to

I agree - at last we have found one actual Brexit Benefit! 😂

Doug Bannister used to run Ports of Jersey so has huge experience of arguing with French border authorities. It's entirely possible that this whole situation is just to wind him up.

It's even better than that. The French stamps have a little picture showing how you arrived in the country - so far I've collected a little plane, boat and car. I'm going for train shortly to have the set.

You need to know that jgw1 is a master of the ironic post

Avid remainer here! I'm going to go outside of the box, and say its more likely to be the fact that its a mega busy time for travel with the summer holidays, huge swathes of the travel and transport industries have been whacked with staff shortages and covid cases are quite huge so there will be lots of staff absences. when you add all this together it is that which is causing the delays delays.

True, but what we really, really need to solve this is Jacob Rees-Mogg for PM.

There's a substantial proportion of Brexit supporters who simply never understood that coming out of the EU meant losing the advantages as well as the perceived downsides. If, for instance, they had membership of the local golf club and decided to give it up, they would fully expect to carry on using the golf club exactly as before and would complain vociferously that the golf club management was just being spiteful when they wouldn't let them in.

Full Brexit checks on imports haven’t even been fully implemented yet. Then it will be mega queues trying to get back into uk.

<sips ‘Don’t blame me I voted remain’ mug>

I agree it is great fun looking at all the stamps with their strange pictures and funny writing.

I have it on good authority that Truss is more Brexity than Mogg.

Are they indeed "a master" of ironic post? Then why, if they are so proficient inthe art of irony, do their fan girls need to explain their posts?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36877177

Happens every July, with or without brexit!!

just blame the bastards of Brexit

Exactly. We should start parachuting in or sailing over in a flotilla of small boats with our M&S and Asda picnics. That would teach those Frenchies.

The trouble is first we had May who didn't want to leave the EU.
Luckily after that Boris did manage to get Brexit done for which we should all be very grateful, but then he was ambushed by remoaners with cake and since then there has been an unedifying witch hunt against him.

How is this the fault of Brexit? Or do you just want a dig?

before Brexit passports didn't need to be stamped, now afterwards they do - why should the French pay more staff due to Brexit?

Thats garbage.
i ve travelled in and out of France for many years, sure you get the odd disruption, usually a Calais blockade but by enlarge, the ports cope well and we never before needed a permanent operation Brock with its own holding zone...

Yes, doubtless the queues would be shorter if all booths open BUT they 'd still be very many hours long.
This was looked into by various studies based on how long it takes to physically check and stamp 4 passports per car and all booths open.

Johnson is a proven liar as all leadership candidates said live on TV, so why is anyone still so sure he told the truth over Brexit?

Luckily after that Boris did manage to get Brexit done for which we should all be very grateful, but then he was ambushed by remoaners with cake and since then there has been an unedifying witch hunt against him.

johnson didn't do Brexit - its not sorted and a fecking mess, NI and ports are in chaos to name two, with no exports moving smoothly