howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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#2
this sounds like an american scare story,talk about being paranoid.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
it was a french chap that has brought this tp the fore, we already know that we are letting in undesirables by the hundred.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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and cameron promised in his relection manifesto it would all stop
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Keith you obviously did not read as far down the article as I did as you seem to have missed this bit:
"Britain is the only EU country to systematically check passports against those registered as missing worldwide. Last year more than 11,000 people were caught trying to enter the UK using lost or stolen passports. Britain carries out more checks against the database than the rest of Europe combined - 140 million last year. France carried out the second highest number, at 10 million."
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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apparently it takes next to no time to check a passport against the database, i would think that most if not all european countries would have a system similar to ours.
there really is no excuse for casually allowing convicted criminals to move freely around the continent.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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and that the no time adds up to big ques in no time causing untold delays and iratable travelers.and dont tell me its nessary because its not,with enough intell they know who they are looking for and can stop at any time or place.so much red tape in todays world,well enough to make you ill to stop you going anywhere apart from blackpool.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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there shouldn't be any delays with the checks brian, an i.t. expert on the box a while back said that things were so advanced it took no time at all.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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wait untill he drives back through the port of callias,thats when the crap hits the fan.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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Turns out passport checks are rather hit and miss. But perhaps the more troubling aspect to this is the lazy quality of modern British Embassy speak: 'People do travel on (the wrong passport), they don't get checked when they come out and stuff like that.' Init.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-47299483'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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As I've been banging on about for years with facial recognition software and biometric IDs (stored in a 'QR' code on your 'phone, international travel is about to catch up with technology.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/02/14/technology-could-make-a-hard-border-disappear-but-at-a-cost"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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