School ski trip cancelled due to chaos in Dover - fuck the tories

[TheColourofspring]

My 15 year old son has just spent 17 hours in a coach in dover waiting to go on a much anticipated ski trip. It’s cost us over £1500 over a year and we hoped, given everything our kids lost over covid, it would be a positive experience.

The school just notified us to say that now- due to health and safety, drivers hours etc- the trip needs to be cancelled and the kids are on their way back from dover.

Absolutely FUCK the lying Tory cunts - they ruin everything. They try and blame the French yet all of this lies at their door. Fuck them all for ruining 100 kids trip (and probably thousands more) and ruining everything they touch with their stinking corrupt lies and their lies about brexit.

My son was in tears.

directly caused by Brexit

Absolutely. A safeguarding nightmare.

I never really understood what 'project fear' meant, what does it mean in this context, sorry to be thick!

It's a DIRECT result of Brexit and the ensuing hard border with France.

I thought even those who were really enthusiastic about Brexit understood that.

Absolutely the fault of the Tories. This is one of the more clear cut “definitely their fault” things

Can you explain what has caused this situation @TomatoFrog ?

OP it is crap for those kids and all the other kids caught up in this. Your poor son. The only upside I can think of is they will not vote Tory when they are of voting age.

That is awful OP.

I feel so bad for all those students who have had their trips ruined

Oh that’s heartbreaking. Agree, fuck the Tories. Just hope everyone remembers at the next election.

Of course it's the government's fault. And the fault of every single idiot who voted for Brexit.

I really feel for to your son, OP, and for all of his peers and for the poor teachers having to look after the kids through this disappointment. They must all be totally gutted.

Before the referendum, every reason that was given about why brexit would be a bad idea was put down as "project fear" by the right wing press/tories. We are now seeing that everything that was dismissed as project fear was correct. For example https://www.itv.com/news/2022-12-20/brexit-costs-government-40-billion-a-year-in-lost-tax-revenue

I’ve never understood why people vote Tory but it would appear that it is due to being absolutely clueless.

@TomatoFrog

Sometimes I agree but this time it's purely down to the tories as they caused brexit. Every passport needing to be stamped is the problem particular to coaches, before it was streamlined especially for school groups.

Brexit is a pain in the backside and I hold every person who voted for it responsible, that includes my dad and I tell him so. Cancel brexit!!!

TomatoFrog · Today 11:35
Oh ffs you can’t blame everything on the government. This is just an unfortunate situation”

Bollocks. This is entirely due to Brexit.

OP will you get any money back? If so, plan an amazing lingerie weekend away with your boy to make up for it.

Fuck the Tories. Whoever voted foe this shitshow??!

Oh and the passport stamping is done by the French so the government cant even through more money at it!

Your poor son - and poor teachers and drivers having to cope with all this as well, it must be horrendous for everyone.

Completely agree. Fuck the lying Tory twats and fuck Brexit.
What a shit show.
I’m really sorry for your son, that sucks.

Oh dear what an unfortunate typo. 😂😂

OP I'm really sorry about the current situation, it's shit for your son and his classmates.

None so delusional as a die hard Tory. Of course this is Brexshit related

Absolutely FUCK the lying Tory cunts - they ruin everything. They try and blame the French yet all of this lies at their door. Fuck them all for ruining 100 kids trip (and probably thousands more) and ruining everything they touch with their stinking corrupt lies and their lies about brexit.

Well said.

I'm so sorry OP, your poor son and his classmates :(
Fucking brexit, its ruined so much.

Errrrrr

My dc are going on a ski trip next weekend. I have to say if it gets cancelled for whatever reason I would expect the large sum of money we have paid to include insurance so that we get a full refund in case it gets cancelled. Can’t afford to pay over £1,000 per child and get told “can’t happen because of health and safety, and no refund by the way”

Probably meant luxury

@Wittow slightly inappropriate 😂