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Let’s cut the pretense that this is somehow an unexpected outcome that needs any explanation beyond ‘Brexit’. The impact of Brexit on cross channel traffic was widely predicted (refer your ‘Project Fear’ files). The British Government knew it was going to happen, they built massive lorry parks near the ports in readiness for the delays they knew Brexit would cause. Nor are these delays and jams new, they’ve been happening daily since Brexit, they are in the news now because of the scale of the problem over a couple of days, but they are now routine in cross channel traffic. The bill for this Brexit created costs and delays is being paid by the UK economy. And it gets worse. The UK have not yet implemented the border controls that Brexit necessitates. There is absolutely no reason why any EU nation needs to check goods arriving at their own borders if those goods are destined to be shipped directly to the UK. (Their duty to do so was removed with Brexit). By example, a container can arrive from anywhere in the world at a French port, then be put on a lorry without being checked and trucked across The channel to the UK, where it won’t be checked. No taxes and duties being collected, no safety/security checks. The UK got its borders back, then immediately lost control of them.
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Brexit: UK's divorce bill from EU could rise to £42.5bn
Chomper Higgot replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
Oh, so all that extra paperwork for freight lorries, nothing to do with Brexit. And perhaps you never travelled this route pre-Brexit, it was never a mess like this. -
Brexit: UK's divorce bill from EU could rise to £42.5bn
Chomper Higgot replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
Here’s the salient bit. All of the checks and the delays associated with the checks are a direct result of checks being necessary. The checks are necessary because the UK chose a hard Brexit. And it’s going to get worse, biometric checks are being introduced later this year. Luvly-Jubly. -
Brexit: UK's divorce bill from EU could rise to £42.5bn
Chomper Higgot replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
Are sure about that? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-loses-foreign-investment-crown-to-france-after-two-decades-at-top-57cllp0g9 -
Brexit: UK's divorce bill from EU could rise to £42.5bn
Chomper Higgot replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
From the article you have linked: “But EuroTunnel responded by saying the incident had absolutely nothing to do with a malfunction on its end. Its director of public affairs John Keefe told the BBC: ‘The incident at the port started overnight well before a minor technical incident in the Channel Tunnel. ‘There is absolutely no correlation between the two. It had absolutely nothing to do with problems at the Port of Dover.’”