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.

I'm so sorry this has happened to you and your child. I hope you can get your money back.

My dc school went in February half term and they had a 8 hour delay on the Eurostar.

So yes the Government know this would happen it's happened every holiday last year and this year. And those people who have booked holidays for May Half term and Summer holidays should expect the same delays.

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Yeah. Funny how people never admit to voting for brexit when their opinions clearly show they did. I guess it must be an embarrassing thing to admit!

Most of the kids on my daughter's trip are skiing for the first time. We're just an ordinary comp with ordinary families who've saved all year. Don't think that's entitled.

You sound lovely too.

What utter bollocks. How on earth would this be happening if we hadn't gone through the sheer folly of Brexit? Which is totally down to the Tories.

"British nationals travelling to and from European Union countries from May 2022 and on will no longer have their passports stamped, as the information on the date of their entry to the block, or the exit, will be recorded through a new automated system"

Hmm, interesting
So I wonder if this is yet another case of a system going down/not being fit for purpose and they just don't want to say

Sorry to hear this and the conservatives are pure scum can't stand any of them and all a bunch of liars

Someone will be along to blame Corbyn soon, I expect.

It's safe to say that TomatoFrog's comment is about halfway between Dagenham and Stratford.

Barking.

You seem to forget @TheColourofspring that it was a referendum that caused Brexit. People had a choice.

Also, the reports online say that the port authorities have underestimated the amount of coach traffic by 15% and there have been delays on channel crossings due to the weather.

I am so sorry. That’s horrible for your ds as well as the driver and the teachers. I am glad to see there will be a system from May for dealing with this element of the act of self harm our country inflicted on itself.

You didn't vote Remain

What a silly comment. The Tories decided to hold a referendum.

They could easily have not done so. But we’re more worried about the impact of UKIP on their party, than about the impact on the country and its 60 odd million inhabitants.

Then they decided to go for a hard Brexit instead is a soft one.

It’s on them. They need to accept responsibility.

And? The vote would not have happened but for the Tories. It's also a fair bet that, even if it had happened, any other party would have managed it better to so as to stop the electorate being peddled all those horrendous lies by the Brexit camp.

Oops scrap that. It was 2022!

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Even more loveliness...

So a lad from a family that can save for a ski trip over the period of a year deserves to be disappointed, just because his family aren’t on the absolute bread line?

Nice.

A referendum that never should have happened.

So are you going to tell us what caused this "unfortunate situation" then?

This, is it not about a lack of staff and preplanning at the boarders given visitor figures are largely known and by now surely they know how long it takes to check passports using the new system.

Sorry about your son OP

But it wasn't the majority of the population, was it? It was around 36% of the population. Any government with half a brain between them would never have wasted time with the referendum. If they had gone ahead with it, they would have set it up sensibly, for example to require 60% to overturn the status quo, or to require a second vote. And they would have campaigned effectively.