Booze Cruises could return.

• Guest 1831

  • Registered: 1 Sep 2016
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  30 March 2017     19:11325914
  #1      
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/30/return-booze-cruise-ferry-chiefs-plan-slash-wine-beer-prices/
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  30 March 2017     19:14325915
  #2      
  it would good to be a fly in the customs hall if the report is right.
• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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  30 March 2017     21:37325924
  #3      
  Hmm. On a 90 minute crossing with some of it in French waters? Lord give me patience, but hurry!
  (Not my real name.)
• Guest 1831

  • Registered: 1 Sep 2016
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  30 March 2017     23:39325928
  #4      
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4365132/Return-Great-British-booze-cruise.html
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  31 March 2017     07:28325932
  #5      
  I hope that will not happen it will not help Dover to see all what happen then happing again, there was a lot more unrest in the town etc.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  31 March 2017     08:48325937
  #6      
  I think that most of the problems locally were caused after the abolition of duty free because then people could buy much more at French prices which were then very low thus encouraging smuggling and the side effects.
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• Guest 649

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  31 March 2017     08:54325939
  #7      
  you could be right I do not know but we had fights on the ships etc,And of outsiders not from Dover as you say smuggling and all what goes with drinking to much .
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• TheThinWhiteDuke

  • Registered: 7 Jul 2016
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  31 March 2017     23:37326004
  #8      
  "If" we leave the customs union.
  
  I would also hate to see the return of the certain type of low level criminals (who seemed to be under the impression that they were some kind of modern day gangsters) that that trade attracted to this town.
  
  Also a possible return of huge queues to get through the docks, is among the media's battle of the scaremongering:
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39430999
  
  We've been told we can't cherry pick which conveniences to being in Europe we keep, and apparently we're going for a pretty hard brexit.
  
  We certainly live in an interesting area in interesting times.