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What does an allegation about how Biden is regarded have to do with Trump being booed at his rally? It's just an irrrelevant all-purpose taunt that can be trotted out for just about any political occasion. It's clear you don't understand what a deflection is.

This was a conversation but not an order. There was no official "pre-authorization". Ya think Miller just could pass along the claim that President Trump wants troops deployed without something in writing? Maybe you're confused because the White House operated so much like the mafia and we know wise guys don't like to leave a paper trail. Anyway, we know it's nonsense because on the actual day, despite entreaties from those around him, he refused to authorize the deployment of the National Guard. So you're claiming he pre-authorized the National Guard but when the need became urgent he refused to do so? Laughable.

Well, virtually all the people being afflicted with it in countries where it hasn't been before are gay men. So is there something about the way gay men merely touch that's different from the way other people do?

I'm not sure what you think you're proving. I cited an ITV article that said 2 more booths were being installed. Vinny41 preferred what he believed was a more authoritiative version from the Port of Dover itself which said that 50% more were being installed. Well, as I pointed out that that come to 7. 5 booths. Is there such a thing as half a booth?

They can't staff booths that don't exist. It wasn't the French who limited the number of booths.

So what is a 50% increase on top of 5 booths which is what the Port of Dover article claims. Do you think that they've installed 7.5 booths?

And yet we are told that delays are due to the increased number of checks required because of Brexit. But to your way of thinking, more booths wouldn't help.

Then why did you raise the point that for the last two and a half years there was no problem? And as I pointed out Dover requested 5 additional booths. Didn't get them. And no, it's not the responsibility of France to build infrastructure in the UK. The port of Dover wanted this for its own benefit. Not to benefit France.

I found a link which reports that 2 extra booths are being installed. An additional 5 were previously held to be necessary. So that's a shortfall of 3. https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-07-20/port-of-dover-installs-more-border-control-booths-in-attempt-to-reduce-delays

Even if it has happened, which is not at all clear, the original request was to up the booths from 5 to 10. A 50% increase wouldn't amount to 10 booths.

Do you understand that for most of the last two and half years covid greatly depressed the tourist business?

"But now French officials have to stamp passports and carry out a number of checks including: checking the identity page checking the traveller hasn't been to the EU for more than 90 days in the last 180 days checking if you have at least 3 months left on your passport checking that your passport is issued less than 10 years before the date you enter the country checking the traveller has a return ticket checking proof of insurance for your trip asking whether the traveller has enough money to stay Checking each person can take up to a minute, rather than a few seconds, transport expert Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast." https://www.bbc.com/news/62294901

And wyouare assuming an awful lot of overbuilding in the UK tourist sector.

If there were a large gay community in Thailand, then there would be legitimate cause for concern. But since, as we all know, gay men are virtually nonexistent here, what me worry?

Again, you think that what remains of tourist destinations in the UK would be enough to accommodate the huge exodus to the continent? And you think a lot of choice options remain?

But not limited to...

What does "many" amount to in the face of the huge exodus to the continent? Do you really think it makes economic sense that there would be enough vacanies to accommodate them? That for years Dover tourist accommodations were massively overbuilt just for the day that a situation like this would arise? This is the same kind of irrational thinking that led to Brexit.

More nothing still amounts to nothing.

You've got nothing.

Stop making things up: Cornwall 'already over 85 percent full' for 2022 but ‘overrated’ warn Britons SUMMER 2021 isn't over yet, but for Cornwall-loving Britons, it's already time to think about summer 2022. https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1485839/cornwall-staycation-uk-complaints-summer-2022

You can say it as many times as you like. It was foretold that there would be major backups if the number of booths wasn't increased. And there are other reasons as well: "But now French officials have to stamp passports and carry out a number of checks including: checking the identity page checking the traveller hasn't been to the EU for more than 90 days in the last 180 days checking if you have at least 3 months left on your passport checking that your passport is issued less than 10 years before the date you enter the country checking the traveller has a return ticket checking proof of insurance for your trip asking whether the traveller has enough money to stay Checking each person can take up to a minute, rather than a few seconds, transport expert Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast." https://www.bbc.com/news/62294901

You mean if were both sitting somewhere in Kent posting to this forum it would make a difference? How does that work?

How could I make it clearer? Ya think that during the high season all those lovely hotels and beaches are empty and just waiting to accommodate disappointed UK citizens?

Yes, you did.

He waited many hours before he did that. And at no time did he order assistance to put a stop to the incursion despite the pleas of members of congress, the vice-president, his own staff, and even his daughter.