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To ask of you're stuck at Dover?

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aholidaynotacarpark · 02/04/2023 08:23

We're travelling tomorrow morning and I'm dreading it! The reports I'm reading mainly mention problems with coaches and we'll be in a car. It sounds seagull for al the school kids stuck there, I really feel for them.
I need to work out how much food and In car entertainment to pack!

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SerendipityJane · 03/04/2023 07:34

Labour are p1ssing themselves that the Tories are taking the rap when they were equally staunch supporters.

I can easily see the next election seeing Labour having been conned into supporting Brexit, while the Tories slither off and make loads of noises about "maybe" something about an "improved deal" or even "Brexit 2.0" as if it's somehow an improvement.

FinallyHere · 03/04/2023 08:26

itsgettingweird · 02/04/2023 11:01

Yes it's a consequence of Brexit.

But I can't help think that it's also a little bit of point proving by the French border control of reports are true that they had 2 port staff on duty.

I mean - 2 for a whole ferry load of people is too low before you then add in the number of coaches known to be expected this time of year.

And yet, and yet, it was exactly plenty when the UK was in the EU

Why should France carry the additional costs of more staff, for the convenience of the people who chose voluntarily to put in place the checks which are now necessary, because the UK left the EU?

ToodlePipYouLongHairedGit · 03/04/2023 20:46

Kendodd · 02/04/2023 10:49

My family were all stuck in massive queues at Schiphol last year as well. We were on the plane and then in the queue with a group of about 30 young men. A few of them were lucky enough to have EU passports, and were showing them off (in good humour) while they swanned past the queues, chanting 'Brexit losers' and saying they'd see them in the hotel bar. I suspect none of those lads were old enough to have voted in the referendum. Our young people should be very, very angry about what we have taken off them.

A (Leave voting) couple I know were complaining recently about how their daughter can't do a ski season now and that 'nobody told them'. I found it very hard to keep my mouth shut. An American friend of mine said ages ago how he'd kill for an EU passport and couldn't believe that we'd voted to take them away from our own children. All for the 'benefit' of shrinking our economy by 4%. Honestly, the longer it goes on the angrier I get with Leave voting idiots.

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Cool story bro 😂

Purplebunnie · 03/04/2023 21:45

LakieLady · 02/04/2023 11:53

I live in a Remain voting area, as are the two adjoining areas. I think we should join forces and fight for independent status so we can rejoin.

I live in an echo chamber and consequently only know 6 people who voted to leave. Only 1 of them was over 50 at the time. Four of them (inluding the now 84 year old) now regret their vote and feel that they were lied to.

The two that don't regret it have fucked off to live in Australia.

The ferry thing was entirely predictable, checking passports was always going to take a lot longer once we'd left. People organising coach trips need to factor this into their planning imo.

For travellers who don't mind a longer ferry crossing, they don't seem to get these problems at Newhaven, but I don't know if they take coach traffic. I've certainly never seen coaches heading for the ferry terminal, and I go past it fairly regularly.

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Newhaven to Dieppe only 2 crossings a day at the moment, 1100 and 2300, 4 hour crossing and cars and foot passengers. 3 sailings from May to September

Wish they did more crossings as always fancied a day trip

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