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Trial of Brexit border checks causes five-mile lorry queues in Kent

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    Trial of Brexit border checks causes five-mile lorry queues in Kent

    "Queues of trucks stretching for five miles unexpectedly built up in Kent on Tuesday after the French started a trial of post-Brexit checks.

    Lorries on their way across the English channel were forced to stop in long lines up to junction 11 on the M20 as they tried to approach the Eurotunnel entrance just outside Folkestone and the Port of Dover.

    The queues give a glimpse of things to come in January whether a deal is reached or not with the government last month warning of queues of 7,000 lorries on the main motorway routes to both Eurotunnel and Dover ferries in the worst-case scenario.

    The delays were caused after the Police Aux Frontières, the equivalent to Border Force, rehearsed new immigration procedures. Under the Le Touquet agreement, French authorities conduct immigration checks at the UK side of the tunnel and the port."

    Trial of Brexit border checks causes five-mile lorry queues in Kent | Politics | The Guardian

    If only it was possible to predict this!

    Can't blame the French though - they are getting ready to prevent scores of desperate British residents trying to hide in EU Humanitarian Aid lorries in order to escape post-Brexit collapse.

    In related news - one Amazon seller is gearing up to push sales of dinghy boats.
    Last edited by AtW; 24 November 2020, 21:18.

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    kuatb
    https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...ml#post2833639

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      #3
      1. That was not a dedicated thread
      2. It wasn’t Official (unlike this one)

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        #4
        Is kuatb:<site> one of those Google search things?
        bloggoth

        If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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          Shall we have a trial of sinking French fishing boats in our seas?

          First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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            Originally posted by _V_ View Post
            Shall we have a trial of sinking French fishing boats in our seas?

            Admiral Farage could lead it...

            Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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