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.

Sympathies op. Yes, they’ve completely fucked the country.

Amazing what you can get away with when you wrap yourself in a Union Jack and pretend you’re acting in the interests of the country, when infact you’re intentionally breaking everything so that a tiny minority can profit from the carnage.

I agree except it’s not just the tories, I feel their just puppets and even if it was labour the same shit would be happening cos it’s about who the real power is behind the scenes

Oh ffs this IS something you can very clearly see the government IS to blame for.

Why are some people so frightened of the government/their pet party ever taking responsibility for their fuck ups?

Come on. Grow a pair. Face up to what’s gone on. Take some fucking responsibility. That’s the only hope we have of things being sorted.

@Newusernameaug oh please spare me the gaslighting conspiracy bollocks too. It’s the tories fault.

How very disappointing for him, your poor DS!

What a huge disappointment; so sorry.

Gutting. Our school chose to fly to avoid chaos in France

Rubbish. Labour didn't hold a referendum to leave the EU. The tories did. If Labour had been in power we'd still be in the EU and the ops son would be skiing
And we wouldn't be losing 40 billion a year in tax revenue due to brexit https://www.itv.com/news/2022-12-20/brexit-costs-government-40-billion-a-year-in-lost-tax-revenue

How do you work that one out? The Labour Party would never have held the referendum in the first place, so we wouldn't have been stuck with the shitshow that is Brexit.

Yes. Yes we can.

That was in response to saying everything can’t be blamed on the government. Oh for an edit button 😅

Ah I am so sorry! As a pp said, he has already lost out on so much over the last years, I am sure he was so excited for this trip. I really am so sorry.

What an entitled titled thread.

A ski trip (which most people can't afford) cancelled and its blamed on the Tories.

Could it be this level of being out of touch that caused so many non-Tory voters to vote for Brexit?

For the avoidance of doubt, I voted Remain but I accept that the majority of those who voted wanted to Leave because that's democracy.

Oh Dear.
Heres a tissue - it would be more accurate to blame to majority of the population who voted for it not the political party who were duty bound to impliment it.
Very bad planning on your schools part to travel on a known extreemly busy time of year expecialy with the added troubles in France at the moment.

You can't name everything I guess, true.

This situation though - yes, you can.

Your poor son I get the anger and upset
Pretty sure the tories alone didn't vote for brexit though

OP, I know it's not consolation for your son, but does insurance cover refunds for this?

Presumably holiday insurance now has exclusion clauses about border delays?

I'm so sorry for your son.

Absolutely the Tories fault and Brexit. Shower of bastards.

I do blame the people stupid racist enough to vote for it. But there was nothing on the ballot about leaving the Single Market and Customs Union without which we would still be able to sail through the borders easily.

That is entirely down to the Selfservatives who saw an opportunity to steal money from the country to enrich themselves and their donors.

A friend's son also had his skiing trip cancelled due to ferries, but FFS, why couldn't the tour company have foreseen that over Easter there would be tailbacks and factored in another driver?

Yes the root cause is absolutely the Tory party though.

How disappointing for those children :(

And yes, without a doubt, the government (and those that keep voting to keep them in power!) is absolutely to blame for this.