Loiner

4 minutes ago, baboon said:

The border officials are not on strike or in dispute. And why aren't nationals of other countries complaining?

Not turning in for work is just to similar to striking. Don't worry though, their air traffic controllers will be on strike soon. It's that time of year.
They are not doing it to the borders of other countries, why would they complain. I'm sure nationals of other countries stuck at Dover are complaining too. UK MSM don't generally publish complaints about the EU. Why not have a read of European Truckers Weekly where I'm sure there will be plenty of other nationals complaining about being caught up in French bullheadedness. (Again, like last Christmas.)

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

Come to think of it, doesn't that make the case even worse for the UK? It's saving all that money but can't even match the contributions that came from the EU.

Nothing came from the EU. It was only a small fraction of our own massive contributions being allowed to return for EU vanity projects.

54 minutes ago, Bruno123 said:

Saved some for you:

 

 

So you managed to take a snap at the shelf stackers' tea break, or just before they were cleaning fridges. Its all still spin to try and portray doom and gloom.

1 hour ago, baboon said:

Why would the French deliberately create the queues?

Because they're like that. You'd have to ask one of them for the full details though. Why didn't they come in to work? Why haven't they fixed the glitch? Will they be going on again strike soon? Maybe it's all part of  plan for their own working conditions - who knows?  

25 minutes ago, baboon said:

Who is suffering, us or the French? That makes it our problem, not theirs.

Like their other problem, illegal migrants camping in Calais, the French are always happy to push their problems our way. Do you think they work on the principle of a problem shared is a problem halved?

1 hour ago, sandyf said:

Rubbish, there will always be queues, only the depth will vary. People voted to  queue up and have their passports stamped.

When I disembarked at Vienna on my way back to Thailand a few weeks ago, had to queue up and get passport stamped, no longer able to use the fast lanes for EU passports.

This weekend’s queues at Dover are wholly a French problem. 
Queues for you through Vienna are acceptable. We would rather have a free UK than your convenience in foreign airports. 

3 minutes ago, Bruno123 said:

 

Spin.....my pics say otherwise.

Photographs. A picture of a finite point in time. Who knows what the scene was a minute before or after the shutter fell. Next thing you know, you're in newspaper spin stories.

7 minutes ago, Bruno123 said:

 

So the empty supermarket shelves were not real; but then suddenly they were real but it's the Russian's fault.

The Dover queues are clearly just another illusion, created by the French.

 

How about some reality of the great benefits of Brexit then?

 

 

 

Again: They are not real. Who mentioned Russians, do you know something I don't, or do you have something against them?

Dover queues may or may not be there tomorrow, but it's blinding obvious they were created by the French. They are well known for spitefully and regularly disrupting British holidays.

4 minutes ago, Bruno123 said:

 

You were claiming that empty supermarket shelves were not true just a few minutes ago.

I guess being a laughing stock is no deterrent to your posting.

I still am claiming they are not true. Have you missed a post or two?

3 minutes ago, Bruno123 said:

I'd rather do that, than to be seen as an ignorant racist and xenophobe; proudly exhibiting those traits to all and sundry.

Thanks for that accolade. I shall wear my Legion d'dishonneur medal with pride. (Not the gay pride.)

9 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

He should take up Trainspotting because you don’t like being presented with Brexit reality?

 

 

It's not reality in the real world. It's just an illusion created by the press for consumption of people like you. 
They say the camera never lies, but the Rejoiner MSM does.

7 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Voters want to reverse Brexit amid shortages and EU clashes, polls show

 

‘Momentum shifting towards a majority who would now vote to rejoin the EU’ – including one in ten Leavers

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-rejoin-eu-shortages-polls-b1956786.html

 

 

More Rejoiner spin from another rag. I'm not even going to look at the link but I suppose there is some sort of poll which finds the result they wanted? You know it's not true don't you.....don't you?? 

1 minute ago, Bruno123 said:

 

No need for a link; these are personal pics. Hardly any goods on shelves and they weren't replenished whilst in the supermarket; so more useless remarks.

Really quite sad that is the best spin you can put on Brexit.

Not nearly as sad as somebody taking pictures of empty supermarket shelves. You should take up another more interesting hobby. Ever tried trainspotting?

2 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Is that a French genetic trait or just racism and nationalism?

They've got plenty of both.

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

Opinion polls are pretty clear that the same referendum held today would fail. Links to these polls have been posted here several times.

Polls mean nowt. The same polls showed that we were going to all vote Remain at the referendum. You'll probably find some that say Starmer will be next PM too.

7 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Then why are brexiteers so vehemently claiming these waiting times are unrelated to Brexit. After all, we don't care. 

But glad to see at least someone is admitting it is Brexit related.

They're only related to French sheer bloodymindedness and incompetence. 

8 minutes ago, baboon said:

Speak for yourself. I care.

There are more of us than you. That's why we have Brexit.

5 minutes ago, Bruno123 said:

 

You really should stop attempting to gaslight the readers here. There are most certainly empty shelves and shortages of goods in the supermarkets.

Would you like picture proof or are you still living in Brexit fantasy?

Don't bother trying yet another Garuniad link to doom and gloom. If I wanted leftist fiction I'd try Pravda. Supermarket shelves get emptied as people buy stuff, then they get replenished. Strange but true.

15 minutes ago, phetphet said:

UK was France's second largest number of tourists in 2018 at 13,000,000.

Only 3 or 4 million French to UK.

 

And UK was No.1 in 2019 for number of nights spent in France 19,800,000.

 

That's a lot of money to say good riddance to over sour grapes.

 

Of course, plenty of rich Chinese tourists shopping in Paris, and Russian oligarchs on the Côte d'Azur this year. ????

 

 

You'd have thought the French tourist board would have some sort of campaign to their own public and service sectors: "Be nicer to Les Rosbifs, they are pain et buerre for some of us." 

7 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I guess the abysmal economy, shortages in shops, businesses shipping their operations to the EU and the absence of the promised ‘post Brexit green and sunny pastures’ might swing it for you.

Nope, not even slightly. You really should not get your observations of life in the UK from the Garuniad,, it's not true you know.

1 hour ago, baboon said:

Yes, the freedoms to be poorer and queue for hours at Passport Control are precious indeed and should be cherished....

But we are not queuing for hours at Passport Control. There are 66 million of us still here in the UK, beginning to enjoy the fruits of freedom from the EU. If a few europhiles are so desperate to all leave for France at the same time, more fool them. They should know what the French are like, especially at their holiday time too. Are there any air traffic control strike planned next month? 

In the whole scheme of Brexit a few hours delay at Dover is nothing important. We don't care.

21 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I’m not celebrating anything, nor am I taunting.

 

I’m pointing out a fact, Brexit was predominantly voted for by old people.

 

In the past six years very many of these Brexit voters are no longer with us.

 

In another six years plenty of Remainers will have seen the error of their ways and Remainer lies. There still wouldn't be a majority to rejoin.

In another six years after that the EU will have collapsed anyway, there will be nothing for the remaining diehard Rejoiners to rejoin.

33 minutes ago, Phoenix Rising said:

No, they're stuck in passport lines cursing the Brexiteers.

Another Brexit plus!
The irony of French bloody mindedness sticking it to the very Remainers who would have had us shackled to the EU, just so they could nip across to the villa for the school holidays. 

28 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I wonder what introducing tax cuts into an economy already experiencing painfully high inflation will do?

Make me richer, as one of your previous anti-Tory posters claimed. 

1 hour ago, Slip said:

You miss the point.  The "all politicians are as bad as us" thing is a right wing trope.  As long as the Tories go there should be some improvement.

 

Not so. We have already seen that Labour is always worse that the Tories have ever been. Things would be much worse under Labour.