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4 hours ago, baboon said:

No they are not. It is all in your head.

No it’s not. It’s all in the English Channel, or queued up on the roads to Dover. 

4 hours ago, baboon said:

Spite because of what? Intransigence, why? There is no reason. It is just your imagination working overtime.

No, it’s the French not working at all, or working too slowly. No overtime at all there. 

7 hours ago, candide said:

Entry through Spain, Poland or France is subject to exactly the same procedure because it's an entry into the Shengen area. Exactly the same checks are made in any Shengen area country per EU regulation, and they are not allowed to do things differently. One country cannot be more lenient or more intransigent. There is no reason an individual check in one country should require more or less time than in any other country, I.e. they all have to check Covid documents.

 

The incident in Dover was obviously caused by a mismatch between the flow of entries and the processing capacity (booths, staff or whatever), and as usual France and UK are pointing fingers at each other. 

 

How do the Spanish and Portuguese manage the same checks without causing massive queues?

So the queues at Dover were caused by French incompetence in not matching their processing capacity to the forecasted flow of entries? Sure there’s not also a tiny touch of French buggeration factor in there too? They are not exactly well known for their bonhomie. 

1 hour ago, candide said:

Even if there is a single queue, there will still be more (longer) checks for non-EU passports than for

That is the point. Spain and Portugal have arranged their desks to accommodate the checks. Hence their times take no longer. 
France hasn’t. Inefficient organisation of the officers, a system not working, and still checking covid vaccination papers, then trying to divert the blame on Brexit when it’s their own sheer bloody mindedness. 

20 minutes ago, baboon said:

But I thought they had to do what Brussels tell them as they have no sovereignty? 

Whatever is going to happen next? Spain and Prortugal making their own rules at borders; Hungary and Poland keeping their own rules and blocking EU budget, France and Germany breaking fiscal rules. 
Brussels can’t rule its roost properly. The whole thing is falling to pieces. It won’t take long. 

38 minutes ago, RayC said:

I've made no comment about the situation at Dover.

What, not even in this thread?

Long traffic delays at Dover ferry port are fault of Brexit, claim French

1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

Remainers knew exactly why brexiteers were voting for it. In a word, xenophobia, without understanding how the economy runs. No other issue mattered at all to them.

1 hour ago, RayC said:

That is your recollection of events. I'm sure many others would disagree with it.

I remember the Remainer abuse very well, in fact there’s one of them still at it today. (I’ll add that to my medals from the weekend.)

The other one has a recollection problem similar to Boris’s. 

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

You do realize he takes his cut?

Don’t they all? Listening to the Rejoiner howls on here makes me think I should put a few bob in his fund too. 

On 7/23/2022 at 6:44 AM, Excel said:

In 2 years with those policies the Tories will be pushed to the sidelines

 Only in the land of labour make believe will the Tories be pushed to the sidelines. The voters are not stupid enough to go for Labour again. 

1 hour ago, baboon said:

In the meanwhile, his hedge fund blooms. What is the definition of those who seek to collapse the economy and currency to enrich themselves and their sidekicks? Oh yes, 'Treason' is the word.

You do understand that it’s not his money don’t you? Given your comment, maybe not. 

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

Given that the UK is paying 600K per refugee, it's more likely they'll each be given a luxury suite.

Another deal to renegotiate.

Or we send them to a tent on the outer Hebrides. Safe enough there and keeps us safe from them too.  
 

41 minutes ago, baboon said:

'Arbeit macht frei'

Benefits come even more free. The lazy scroungers won’t work.

3 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

The Good Friday agreement and the E.U agreement are two separate agreements with conflict with each other .

   The former requires an open Irish border and the latter requires a closed Irish border .

   There cannot be both , so one needs to go 

When we kick the NIP sea border into touch the Irish can decide what they want to do. Either honour the GFA or allow the EU to build a fence over their beloved land. 
Guess that’s a hard border coming then. 

3 hours ago, placeholder said:

All 200 of them.

Rwanda farce: Kigali admits it has space for just 200 migrants as UK forks out £120m bill

RWANDA can currently only accommodate a maximum of 200 migrants sent from the UK, Kigali admitted today.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1644481/rwanda-uk-migrants-kigali-priti-Patel

Squeeze ‘em in and stack ‘em high. 

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Why would the Welsh have a problem with bucket loads of cash?

It sounds like they didn't and are now suffering withdrawal symptoms. It's cold turkey time from the EU teat.

1 minute ago, baboon said:

Yes, but from which news story was the accusation derived, is my question.

Plenty of them, unless you are very restrictive in your reading. Go have a look elsewhere than the Garuniad.

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

Except that the EU doesn't get to shape these projects. That's done by the locals. The Welsh are not asking for more money. They're asking for as much money. Which is what the Conservatives promised.

So the EU sent bucket loads of cash to Wales for the senedd to spend?

Just now, baboon said:

It was a perfectly honest question. I hadn't read that it was the case, so can you point me in the right direction? 

Look here, I'm pointing towards the previous posts in this thread.  ????

You could also see other current threads where the same subject is discussed.

11 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Those must be amazingly advanced cycleways given that the shortfall for 3 year amounts to 772 million pounds.

 

Written Statement: Loss of funding to Wales as a result of the UK Government’s arrangements for replacement EU funding

https://gov.wales/written-statement-loss-funding-wales-result-uk-governments-arrangements-replacement-eu-funding

Yep, they would probably by typical of our own (EU for you) cash being squandered on vastly inflated vanity projects. 
Oooeer, a written statement by the Welsh asking for more money? Try a pinch of salt with every word in there.

12 minutes ago, baboon said:

Who is saying they aren't / weren't turning up for work?

Have you been asleep at the key board since Friday?

17 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I think they work on the principal that a problem isn’t a problem if you can get rid of it.

I think we've notice that, also in their getting rid of illegal migrants.

35 minutes ago, baboon said:

How is any of this relevant to what I posted?

You wanted to know how the French problems of not turning into work, still applying covid pass checks and system glitches have impacts on our side of the border.

1 minute ago, Bruno123 said:

Wow....gaslighting or genuinely deluding yourself?

Sorry, I don't submit to your lefty anti-Brexit group think.

4 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Tell the Welsh that those were vanity projects.

Why, did I miss the EU funding Welsh steelworks or reopening mines? EU rules prevented us supporting many parts of Welsh industry.
EU funds for a few cycleways don't cut the mustard.