Brexit slowly becoming a Farce.

[Dan Steele]

Vote Brexit for Taking Back Control. 

Except Passport Control, obviously.

[10menwent2mow]

Aye, but did we not get Blue passports to make this quicker. They were made in France as well were they not??

 

[HTG]

3 hours ago, RiG said:

So just to be clear, the people who voted to have a hard border with France are now unhappy that there is a hard border with France?

To be fair, the people who didn't vote for the hard border are also thoroughly passed off - just without the sense of irony or entitlement that Los Gammones exude.

 

[BFTD]

33 minutes ago, Antlion said:

To be fair, they expected it hard in one direction only.

Yeah, the idea has always been that anything foreign should be cracked down on, while somehow the foreigners should feel compelled to allow Britons to do whatever they like?

That genuinely appears to be the world that these folk think they should inhabit. Successive governments and the media have a lot to answer for in perpetuating this bizarre notion of British exceptionalism.

[Granny Danger]

55 minutes ago, BFTD said:

Yeah, the idea has always been that anything foreign should be cracked down on, while somehow the foreigners should feel compelled to allow Britons to do whatever they like?

That genuinely appears to be the world that these folk think they should inhabit. Successive governments and the media have a lot to answer for in perpetuating this bizarre notion of British exceptionalism.

‘British’ exceptionalism.  Of and in itself a reason why we should extricate ourselves from this mess.

[oldbitterandgrumpy]

56 minutes ago, BFTD said:

Yeah, the idea has always been that anything foreign should be cracked down on, while somehow the foreigners should feel compelled to allow Britons to do whatever they like?

That genuinely appears to be the world that these folk think they should inhabit. Successive governments and the media have a lot to answer for in perpetuating this bizarre notion of British exceptionalism.

But they need us more than we need them, em don’t they?

[BFTD]

3 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

‘British’ exceptionalism.  Of and in itself a reason why we should extricate ourselves from this mess.

Yeah, I'll be mortified if Scotland ever ends up being a place where the majority of people, even die-hard nationalists, don't have a sneaking feeling that we're actually a bit shit and have plenty to learn from the rest of the world.

[Mark Connolly]

41 minutes ago, oldbitterandgrumpy said:

But they need us more than we need them, em don’t they?

Exactly. Look at the number of German and French cars in those queues

[Clown Job]

Check the date 

The UK cabinet office has rejected a £33m proposal to double the capacity for French government passport checks at the port of Dover, raising the prospect of long delays for passengers after the end of the Brexit transition period.
 

The English Channel port, which handles 2.2m passenger vehicles every year, had requested the funding as part of the £200m Port Infrastructure Fund announced by the government in October to pay for additional border facilities required as a result of the UK’s departure from the EU.

According to a person familiar with the matter, Dover applied for £33m to double the number of French government passport booths from five to 10 in anticipation of more stringent requirements including stamps in passports after January 1.

The application was rejected, however, with Dover receiving just £33,000 for an unrelated project, according to a list of the PIF awards seen by the Financial Times.

Dover has repeatedly warned that it will need to substantially boost capacity for French controls, which under a reciprocal bilateral agreement enables passports to be checked before boarding the train or ferry to France in order to ease traffic flows.

A National Audit Office report released last month said the government’s reasonable worst-case scenario was that passenger queues could last one to two hours after January 1, but warned that in the summer “the queues and delays could become much longer”. Tim Reardon, the head of EU exit at Dover, echoed those warnings in evidence to the House of Lords’ EU select committee last month, saying that French controls would become “more intrusive, and therefore slower” after January 1. “That means we need more French kiosks in order to maintain the rate of flow,” he added, confirming that Dover had applied to the Port Infrastructure Fund and was “hopeful” of a positive response. 

However, Dover was disappointed when the results of the fund’s bidding process were detailed in a letter to affected MPs ahead of an expected public announcement on Wednesday. France is deploying 700 extra customs officers and veterinary inspectors to its Channel ports, including the entrance to the Channel Tunnel near Calais, and has spent €40m on a new IT system and handling facilities. New parking zones have been paved and set aside for trucks without the correct paperwork. 

Edited July 23, 2022 by Clown Job

[ICTJohnboy]

5 hours ago, BFTD said:

Yeah, the idea has always been that anything foreign should be cracked down on, while somehow the foreigners should feel compelled to allow Britons to do whatever they like?

That genuinely appears to be the world that these folk think they should inhabit. Successive governments and the media have a lot to answer for in perpetuating this bizarre notion of British exceptionalism.

 

And if confirmation of this was required, Truss has very kindly obliged by blaming the French entirely for all the problems at Dover.

Her comments will, no doubt, go a long way to help her become elected as the future leader of England.

(sorry, a wee bit of wishful thinking there!)

[Salt n Vinegar]

Let's not pretend that the attitudes of the French are some surprise. 

Why, years ago Sir Humphrey pointed out that our nuclear deterrent wasn't to protect us from the Russians, it was for the French. 

[Benjamin_Nevis]

9 hours ago, ICTJohnboy said:

Boris Becker's big pal, Andrew Castle, saying on LBC that the French need to do much more to speed up the process for Brits entering France and be more welcoming.

"We fought in the war for the likes of them, didn't we"

Yes, by running away fairly effectively from Dunkirk in 1940. 

[Highlandmagar]

16 minutes ago, Day of the Lords said:

Yes, by running away fairly effectively from Dunkirk in 1940. 

To be fair, if we hadn't scappered back to good old blighty we wouldn't have had army to speak of.

[sophia]

6 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

‘British’ exceptionalism.  Of and in itself a reason why we should extricate ourselves from this mess.

I wouldn't say that this is the most important reason that I want out but it's definitely in the top one.*

It is wearyingly ignorant, backward facing and so unattractive.

 

* B Clough

[Soapy FFC]

I take it the French were also to blame for the long queues that were seen at border control in various UK airports last year?

[ICTJohnboy]

8 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:

I take it the French were also to blame for the long queues that were seen at border control in various UK airports last year?

 

Of course they were.

Time to restart The Auld Alliance.

[Clown Job]

They need to blame the French for this, because the only other option is to blame Brexit and they’ll never do that 

[Granny Danger]

54 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:

I take it the French were also to blame for the long queues that were seen at border control in various UK airports last year?

And inflation, and the state of the NHS and don’t even get me started on these Froggies and their ‘extreme weather conditions’.

[ICTJohnboy]

15 minutes ago, Clown Job said:

They need to blame the French for this, because the only other option is to blame Brexit and they’ll never do that 

 

That would be akin to an act of High Treason.

[Clown Job]

8 minutes ago, ICTJohnboy said:

 

That would be akin to an act of High Treason.

You’re not wrong