Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,206
They still cut open the curtain sides and hang of the axles though, I thought the cable locking system was a legal requirement in france is that not so Ken?
As for Charlie he's busy looking at the bigger picture ie. his own, he has suddenly gone quiet on a whole range of local issues, perhaps he's busy trying to decide what to do with his pay rise!
Arte et Marte
Guest 687- Registered: 2 Jun 2009
- Posts: 513
Most truckers don't secure their vehicles before entering Calais which should be a minimum requirement. Slashing curtains can only happen when parked near Calais, me and my colleagues don't stop within a 100 kilometres of the port. Charlie has to take no interest in anything for the next 4 years as he is proving beyond doubt, I may just bypass him altogether.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
You will get no joy there Ken, Charlie is with the higher echelons now and when pressed on the issue of Calais merely passes it off as an internal French problem. It is a Europe wide problem and not just with trucks, I keep reading about tourists being wrongly stopped for speeding by French police and handed instant fines that have to be paid on the spot.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,658
I am a great believer in instant fines for our foreign drivers with clamping until paid. The present M20 problems are caused entirely because of problems in France which no UK government (regardless of their political persuasion) can do anything about.
This was on Charlie Elphiphicke's Facebook page...."
Charlie Elphicke The Kent MPs are working together as a team to bring forward lorry parks and to end the troubles at Calais. Best in mind this is not a UK internal matter - the problems are in France and so we have to do all we can to get the French to take action to get Calais working Tunnel wise and Ferry wise.
This is a great concern to us all. The Dover TAP system has done much to deal with the problems in Dover itself but we need lorry parks on the M20.".....
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Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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I've heard from someone in the know that the strike is over and the French Foreign Legion had something to do with it
Can anyone confirm?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,658
DFDS back running but now Eurotunnel problems yet again.........Will this chaos over in France ever end!!!!!!
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
the A 20 from wetern hieghts roundabout is stacked right back to Folkestone, [inside lane only ].has been like it since yesterday afternoon.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
More waffle from a local MP but they are off on holiday by plane so none are really interested.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-33619110Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
not a word from Charlie then.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
This plan doesn't seem very acceptable to the unions, one of the side effects of this dispute is that Pharmacies are experiencin shortages of some medications. I only found out yesterday having had a nasty bug for 9 days and being housebound for 3 I asked for a home visit from my surgery. Had a very thorough examination and he decided to prescribe an antibiotic and the shop would deliver to me that afternoon. When I checked later in the afternoon I was told that operation stack was leav ing a shortfall of stock.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/French-Government-reveal-plan-save-MyFerryLink/story-27471905-detail/story.htmlGuest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Sorry to hear you're unwell Howard, hope you are feeling better soon.
The French have a lot to answer for - including your continued illness.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thanks Roger. I hope people with serious heart conditions are not left short, so much for free movement of goods throughtout Europe.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
6 weeks of it is getting beyond a joke.all this hot air and no real action to solve this problem.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,658
They have had years to come up with a solution and still they waffle on hoping the various problems that cause the hold-ups and Operation Stack will suddenly evaporate never to appear again,
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Busiest weekend of the year for channel traffic and already "migrant activity" has disrupted eurotunnel leaving a 5 hour delay.
I hear that French farmers are blocking many tourist routes which will make the nightmare worse.
Guest 1555- Registered: 23 Jul 2015
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I don't know why Britain has to put up with European hi-jinks. Having spent most of my life deep sea in three different Merchant Navies I have always wanted Britain to be a sea going Island Nation with a Merchant Navy container fleet of its own. We can make it on our own. After all we still have a commonwealth to trade with... Don't we?
I have been in Dover since coming over from India in 1947 when all the British nationals had to leave. I went to St Mary's School in Queen Steet Dover, which no longer exists. I do not like the changes being done to the Dover seafront by people who do not really have the town's people at heart. I used to play in the rock pools with my twin brother under the prince of Wales Pier and had my first job in Dover painting the wrought iron legs, which are now filled in with concrete.
I feel a sense of loss at what The Dover Harbour board is contemplating. If the Yacht Marina is moved out of the inner harbour and into the bay it will become just another rubbish dump. It is obvious that big business is moving in against the wishes of the Dover people.
I worked at the Dover Harbour Board for thirteen years on the small boats before I retired in 2003 as a survey and environmental cox'n. The last ten yearssurveying the bottom of the harbour and its approaches. I know the tides and the bottom better than my own hand...and a lot of silt moving out there. If they fill the Granville Docks in, where I used to help unload fruit boats in the good old days. It will just become another huge lorry park in the future.
I also think the small boats are open to abuse by the swarms of immigrants coming over from France and further afield. With fewer customs, once the immigrants twig there is another way in they will take it. I have been to sea in three Merchant Navies since 1959 and have always believed Britain, being an island should have had a container fleet Merchant Navy manned by british sailors, the best in the world, trading with its Commonwealth. The Greek fiasco has proved the politicians cannot be trusted,nor the big Banks, to have any intrest in the working people of Britain, only in themselves... Who owns the town, is it business interests in Europe, the Harbour Board, or is there a hidden agenda. What is the plan for the Western approaches from Shakespeare Cliff to the Admiralty pier. QUESTIONS have to be asked and honest ANSWERS given. Already European countries have huge interests in our utilities and other, used to be publicily owned, businesses. We may as well not had a war, not when we are being slowly taken over by foreign interests. Britain was once a country to be proud of and brave people defended its honour and died for it. I am seventy-seven years old now and retired. I still remember the gaps left in the high street by German bombers, and those Dover people whomust have lost their lives there. Just what did my father and those brave people fight for? I had the honour of sailing with two or three merchant seamen in the fifties and sixties, who had actually been in the water a number of times after being torpedoed. Over fifty thousand seamen died and thousands of our Navy, Airmen, and Army died for our freedom. Will the young remember them when those left are gone. I no longer free free any more, only a sense of foreboding for our younger generation.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Welcome to the forum John, very interesting resume you have there leaving you highly qualified to make a judgement, most of us go by gut instinct alone. I share concern about the planned marina and the problems it may cause with less and less Border Agency Staff able to carry out thorough checks.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,658
Maybe the time for the UK to be as insular as France seems to be and we retaliate by banning anything that is French until their officialdom actually deal with the problems that are ruining life for so many both sides of the Channel.
I will not knowingly buy anything from France until they sort themselves out and actively police the immigrants and strikers in Calais. I am certainly going to miss my Camembert cheese.
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