If freight isn't allowed in from France

[justgeton]

What does this mean for our food chain?!

Where did you read that?

Atm freight isn't allowed out... but surely they won't come if they're not allowed back

Fuck knows. I’m not sure how much more I can take!
Trial run for non real Brexit I guess...

Cobr meeting in morning has been called

It's only France that have said that for 48 hours. We will still have freight coming from other countries so no need to worry.

Just when you think things couldn't get any worse.......

No deal!! Not non real

Armageddon.

They said only 48 hours. It's a very worrying development. However, there are other options to get us food and medicines if need be. I guess planes could do drops ect. But it's concerning.

no need to worry

That's a tad, erm, delusional, if you don't mind me saying.

Get to supermarket early tomorrow.

And panic buy? Oh no please...

We would really be in the shit if they have to do food/medicine drops

@Mamamia456

It's only France that have said that for 48 hours. We will still have freight coming from other countries so no need to worry.

Almost everything which comes by truck comes via France even if it’s from other countries

@Mamamia456

It's only France that have said that for 48 hours. We will still have freight coming from other countries so no need to worry.

I might be missing something but surely if we can’t get road and rail freight from France then the only option is air freight which is much more expensive

Officially they've said 48 hours. But the same BBC article said from the French perspective it was until further notice.

How bad is this new strain, really, for everyone to ban flights from the UK?

Is there any chance that it will be under better control before Brexit kicks in?

Cobra meeting chaired by Boris tomorrow to discuss the freight problem.

It's going to be quite rocky but please don't risk your health to panic buy.

@Mamamia456

It's only France that have said that for 48 hours. We will still have freight coming from other countries so no need to worry.

How does almost all the road freight from Europe get here @Mamamia456 ?

The answer is through Dover.
We're in a huge mess now, deep in the shit.

It’s not only France, although I don’t think it applies to unaccompanied freight.

I should imagine an emergency plan will have to somehow prioritise food, medicines and essential goods (water purification chemicals for example) either as unaccompanied freight or by military aircraft, we will have to wait until Europe realises they almost certainly already have it too anyway (it’s been around for months and most prevalent in Kent....), and it’ll probably be Brexit deal leverage. There will be disruption to supplies, but they’re disrupted anyway and going to be worse under Brexit.

A full lockdown now surely. We have to get this under control as soon as we can. In the absence of any other ideas surely there's no choice

Oh no this seems really really bad?

JamieLeeCurtains - Course it's not delusional. We're not going to starve. The worst thing that people can do is to start panic buying.

Boris has looked at really well worried in past days, very deeply in thought and he's usually quite chipper.

We have however very many more means to get through this. We are a spoilt western nation, many more countries in the third world deal with awful things every day.

We will survive and get through...

@WhoWants2Know

Officially they've said 48 hours. But the same BBC article said from the French perspective it was until further notice.

How bad is this new strain, really, for everyone to ban flights from the UK?

Is there any chance that it will be under better control before Brexit kicks in?

The cynic in me says it's an opportunity for a negotiation tactic over Brexit. The French give the British public a taste of what No Deal will be like and a weak and panicked government thrash out a deal before the end of next week.

User, same, but if that's true then I'm sure he could be hauled up to crime against humanity court! (macron).

So I doubt it.