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.

Exactly, things are really fantastic under the tories aren't they? Our economy is boomi....oh wait.

Anyway, I'm sure things will turn around soon with all that extra investment and trade deals coming into the coun.......oh wait.

Well, to be honest it's been a tough few years but thankfully the tories, as the party of fiscal responsibility, have gotten the national debt mountain under con.....oh wait.

Ok the economy might not be so great but the NHS! The NHS has never been in a better posit......oh wait.

I suppose we could console ourselves with the fact we've got world class public serv......oh.

Right, forget all that at leat we've taken back control of our borders and got immigration under contr........oh.

Well, things will be OK in the future as we've invested so heavily in our children's educa.....fuck.

Em, this isn't going quite as I'd planned. I'm gonna need some of our resident torypuppets to jump in and tell us all exactly what has improved over the last 13 years of tory rule??

I notice people who voted Brexit are mainly denying it now. Bloody idiots.

Yes Brexit is the Tory Brexiteers' fault. That said, it's not as if Labour took a coherent stance against Brexit either. They were all over the place on this issue.

The only party with an anti-Brexit manifesto was the LDs - but nobody voted for them. Why not? I did and I live in one of the few LD constituencies. Why the hell did people vote Tory or Labour because it was obvious this shitshow would be inevitable?

@ThunderDad let me guess… that is the sort of think you would say to your child heading back from a 17 hour delay for a holiday ultimately cancelled?

@Villssev I think you misunderstand me. If one says that the Easter holidays are two weeks in November, then that is when they are and it is not term time.

Much like if one says that every year when the UK was in the EU there were delays at Easter at Port of Dover then it must be true, whether or not it actually is.

Yet even the ferry companies aren't claiming that that is the reason for the problem.

And which of you voted for Brexit? I didn’t but many of you did.

That's even funnier than some of my posts, well played.

Have you even read one word of my post?

You could have 100 people checking passports but that won't speed up the loading.

ANPR won't speed up loading either - it just moves the 'bottleneck' on to the dock.

So if they can't load up the coaches and lorries at speed why are they actually selling and running the number of boats they are?

So,etching in your argument dies t add up even though I know what you're saying about loading is correct.

Indeed. They are running extra sailings over night. But perhaps the wind goes to bed then...

Love it! Well said! 😁

@Villssev is that for the nonsesne statement that there were long delays at the Port of Dover every year at Easter when the UK was a member of the EU?

Em, this isn't going quite as I'd planned. I'm gonna need some of our resident torypuppets to jump in and tell us all exactly what has improved over the last 13 years of tory rule??

Lots of rich Tories have got even richer? Oh and we got rid of some disabled and old people via benefit cuts and mishandling of covid.

Not really a good example. This was an actual delay in response to a terror attack.

I was working in an airport abroad during 9/11. Very few (literally a handful only and 1 woman was about not having a clean thing for the morning 🙄🤔) people complained about being diverted or grounded.

This is a delay at a time where it's known to be peak travelling season. Nothing has been put in place to prevent such troubles.

The Tories have totally FUBARed the UK since 2010. It will take at least another 20 years to even get us back to where we used to be, by which time I’ll be 80. Fair to say the Tories and the ducking aunts who voted for them and the catastrophic Tory Brexit have ruined my retirement. I will never forgive them/you.

Yes after all the things they missed out on from Covid. This is a ‘learning curve’ too far. Poor kids.

@Sockloon genuine request: please can you share how you've made the most of it and are better off? Many of us are struggling so if you have tips that could help it would be good to hear them.

This thread may now have reached peak batshittery.

Do tell, how exactly do you contend that Blair engineered every utterly stupid decision the Tories have taken about Europe since 2015?

OP. How dare you spend your hard earned money on your son doing a school trip where he not only gets to do a sport, but to expect to travel to another country to do it? What fancy ideas! You've only yourself to blame you know.

@jgw1 when you say Keir do you mean Keith? You've missed a trick

At night the French can't see the ferries, so they can't interfere with them.

Start another thread about economic inequality, it's not relevant to this one.

I think until we have a post saying that the problem is that the French don't know what a woman is and that is the problem, then we haven't reached the peak.

The Ukraine isn't our problem. Do you know any Ukrainians? Have you ever been there? There are plenty of people in the UK who would love to have a home. If we deported everyone who is here illegally / pretending to be a refugee then there would be homes for everyone, perhaps even at a price that normal people can afford. But yes you are right that there are even bigger problems in the world than gas bills. Really though you are just bringing up Ukrainians to show everyone that you are a kind and empathetic person.. am I wrong?

You do realise that if Corbyn, in all his votes, is against Europe-even sometimes breaking the party line to do.

So Fuck Corbyn too, eh OP?

And you do realise that the ferry companies have admitted taking too many coach bookings but maybe you know that the Tories insisted that they did so.

You sound about 16. Are you on a coach with your teachers?