French and German tourists turn their back on Brexit Britain

[transam]

Just now, Caldera said:

Read the headline and take your pick, Sir. You seem to prefer to spend time in Thailand instead, too. Did I actually write anything that is factually wrong?

Where I retire is my business, but knocking the UK with silly comments deserves a reply..

No mention of your amazing country then.........?  

[Chomper Higgot]

3 hours ago, transam said:

I see the Brit, Brit bashers are out, any excuse......................

Bashing Brexit because of the harm it’s done, is doing and will continue to do to Britain is ‘Brit’ bashing how?

 

[ozimoron]

The Brits turn their back on Europe and then wonder why Europeans disdain travelling there. Go figure.

[Chomper Higgot]

2 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Port? I normally go to the airport to catch my flights. I don't go anywhere near a port. Who gets a ferry to the UK from Germany?

 

If our French friends have to save money by getting here on a ferry, they are probably not high value tourists anyway. Or possibly the type of "tourists" who never leave, in which case the fact they are put off coming is probably another benefit of Brexit.

The idea of motoring holidays never reached you then.

Your argument regarding the value of tourists who arrive by ferry is baseless nonsense (putting aside blind prejudice being a basis).

[transam]

Just now, ozimoron said:

The Brits turn their back on Europe and then wonder why Europeans disdain travelling there. Go figure.

Clueless............

[transam]

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Bashing Brexit because of the harm it’s done, is doing and will continue to do to Britain is ‘Brit’ bashing how?

 

No, Brits, Brit bashing, at every opportunity...Sad ...

[BritManToo]

"French and German tourists turn their back on Brexit Britain"

Good riddance!

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, Confuscious said:

The same in the early years of the EU.
Belgium wanted to introduce a "Peage (= tax)" on their highways like France did and the reaction of the French was crazy.

I always wondered why the British (and other nations) lost so many lives to free the coward French in WW2.
Trying to save a snake and when it is saved it will bite you.

The small minded jingoism and bigotry that defines so many Brexiteers.

[JonnyF]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The idea of motoring holidays never reached you then.

Your argument regarding the value of tourists who arrive by ferry is baseless nonsense (putting aside blind prejudice being a basis).

Staying in a caravan in Skegness? Nah, not really my bag.

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1 minute ago, JonnyF said:

Staying in a caravan in Skegness? Nah, not really my bag.

Now I get it. The issue is all about you.

[Chomper Higgot]

6 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

"French and German tourists turn their back on Brexit Britain"

Good riddance!

To all that foreigner currency and business.

 

The self harm of Brexit. 

[Chomper Higgot]

4 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Staying in a caravan in Skegness? Nah, not really my bag.

Again, another baseless assertion.

 

[transam]

I drove from London to Italy in 1971, I/we needed a passport, it was plain sailing and cruising on the black top, a fond memory wiv no EU............????

[JonnyF]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Now I get it. The issue is all about you.

Not really. She asked, I replied.

 

[Chomper Higgot]

10 minutes ago, transam said:

No, Brits, Brit bashing, at every opportunity...Sad ...

Yes, Brexit is indeed Brit’s committing self harm, Brit bashing on a grand scale.

[transam]

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Yes, Brexit is indeed Brit’s committing self harm, Brit bashing on a grand scale.

It would be for the anti-Brit Brits here....

[Chomper Higgot]

3 minutes ago, transam said:

It would be for the anti-Brit Brits here....

I guess that’s all you’ve got.

 

Name calling the people who point out the damage Brexit is doing

 

 

[JonnyF]

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

To all that foreigner currency and business.

 

The self harm of Brexit. 

It seems the Brits on here couldn't care less whether they come. 

 

It's only our left wing American posters who seem so upset about the French and Germans not coming to Britain. A curious phenomenon if ever I saw one. Maybe they could visit the states instead, that 10 hour flight is so much easier than 5 minutes showing a passport to UK immigration. Those US immigration officials are so friendly after all.

 

Of course, they'd still have to wait 6 months for the French to give them a passport unless the US chooses to join the Schengen area. Somehow, I don't see the American voters going for that although they are convinced the British should.

[BritManToo]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Name calling the people who point out the damage Brexit is doing

I would consider less foreigners in the UK a win situation.

Especially if it's less of the foreigners we keep fighting wars against.

[transam]

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I guess that’s all you’ve got.

 

Name calling the people who point out the damage Brexit is doing

 

 

"Name calling", where have I done that, now get a grip, chap...????

Now I thought Brexit was not finalised yet, chomping at the bit eh.........????

 

[markclover]

England has Stonehenge, a pile of rocks.  I don't think they missing out on much.

[Chomper Higgot]

28 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

It seems the Brits on here couldn't care less whether they come. 

 

It's only our left wing American posters who seem so upset about the French and Germans not coming to Britain. A curious phenomenon if ever I saw one. Maybe they could visit the states instead, that 10 hour flight is so much easier than 5 minutes showing a passport to UK immigration. Those US immigration officials are so friendly after all.

 

Of course, they'd still have to wait 6 months for the French to give them a passport unless the US chooses to join the Schengen area. Somehow, I don't see the American voters going for that although they are convinced the British should.

The point remains, a drop of several hundred thousand tourist visits to Britain.

 

[Chomper Higgot]

25 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I would consider less foreigners in the UK a win situation.

Especially if it's less of the foreigners we keep fighting wars against.

More jingoism.

[Phoenix Rising]

Brexit, the biggest self-own in history, keeps hurting the UK. Who knew, right?!?! 

 

[JonnyF]

8 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The point remains, a drop of several hundred thousand tourist visits to Britain.

 

Of course it's down, you may not have noticed that there has been a drop in tourism worldwide post Covid/war in Ukraine

 

Show me a link that less tourism to the UK is down to Brexit, and not the cost of living crisis engulfing so much of Europe.

 

Less tourists are coming to Thailand as well. The whole world in fact. Is that down to Brexit and the need for a passport? Or is it because people are more concerned about heating their homes than taking holidays? I can see the Guardian headlines now - "Chinese tourism to Thailand decimated by Brexit". ????

 

It's laughable that you ignore the knockon effects of Covid lockdowns and the War in Ukraine and blame absolutely everything on Brexit.

 

Below are graphs for tourism worldwide and tourism to the UK? See any similarities after 2019? Damn that Brexit for ruining global tourism post 2019, so inconsiderate of Brexiteers to affect the whole world's tourist industry at the exact same time as Covid struck. ????

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/209334/total-number-of-international-tourist-arrivals/

 

 

 

 

[Goat]

4 hours ago, transam said:

I see the Brit, Brit bashers are out, any excuse......................

Harden up mate.

There is no law in Thailand that says you have to like Brits.

You really need to ask yourself why so many people dont like Brits.

I dont like them either. Uo to me.

[Goat]

3 minutes ago, Phoenix Rising said:

Brexit, the biggest self-own in history, keeps hurting the UK. Who knew, right?!?! 

 

Yep. The only country in history that voted to have sanctions put on themselves. 

It does make me laugh.

That Boris bloke. What a clown.

[JonnyF]

4 hours ago, placeholder said:

Tell that to the British enterprises which are severely affected by the loss. Another dubious but convenient assumption from you.

For the sake of completeness we should tell that to the Thai enterprises that have been hurt by the loss of tourism post Brexit.

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/994693/thailand-number-international-tourist-arrivals/

 

Damn those evil Brexiteers.

 

[JonnyF]

6 minutes ago, Goat said:

Harden up mate.

There is no law in Thailand that says you have to like Brits.

You really need to ask yourself why so many people dont like Brits.

I dont like them either. Uo to me.

There's no law that says you have to like Bogans either. However we should probably stay on topic.

[Goat]

53 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I would consider less foreigners in the UK a win situation.

Especially if it's less of the foreigners we keep fighting wars against.

You are referring to Gernmany in WW2?

 

According to a report of December 1945, the British forces dropped 18,583 bombs on Thailand, resulting in the death of 8,711 people and the destruction of 9,616 buildings, 617 trucks, 73 locomotives and 173 other vehicles. A further 1,194 buildings were damaged. The prime target of the campaign was Bangkok, the Thai capital.