Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
the above are on strike all sailings to calias has been suspended until they go back to work.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#2
It's traditional. The French always go on strike for a random day if there is an 'R' in the month. No-one actually ever gets to find out what the grievance is, but whatever it is it is never quite resolved.
Next strike free months May - August.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#3
Oh! Is that the reason Captain I thought the poor fishermen were recovering from seasickness after the choppy seas caused by those high winds yesterday.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#4
I cannot see how it is legal to blockade a port effectively hold people who are nothing to do with the dispute hostage.
So much for all that freedom of movement stuff.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#5
That's the French for you - always taking matters into their own hands. At least in this country we have Highways England to do it for us.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#6
at least they have the balls to do it, unlike over here a mere whiff of a court order and the threat of the government sending in the sas in and we back off.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#7
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
#8
Calais has re-opened - I bet there's an almighty rush to load the 4 ferries sitting at the berths in Dover!
Lew Finnis
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#9
The argument is mainly against Dutch fisherpersons so why did they not blockade a port in the Netherlands?
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#10
Possibly for the same reason that no.2 son, when young, gave for preferring a career as a fighter pilot over that of an airline pilot - no overnighting in foreign lands with foreign food, but home again quickly for some real local grub. Although when faced with the choice between Dutch and French cuisine...
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#11
Captain Haddock wrote:It's traditional. The French always go on strike for a random day if there is an 'R' in the month. No-one actually ever gets to find out what the grievance is, but whatever it is it is never quite resolved.
Next strike free months May - August.
feb
Ruary! Told you so!
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Holiday-plans-hit-as-strike-grounds-Air-France-flights"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#12
dosent worry me, I don't fly to my holiday destination.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#13
Brian Dixon wrote:dosent worry me, I don't fly to my holiday destination.
Only because Scunthorpe doesn't have an airport Brian.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#14
Scunthorpe where is this please.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#16
Yet again our childish French friends are about to have a major sulk at not getting their own way.
Longer bit of reading here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58894876-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#17
as maggie would say " let them eat porridge ", probably go poaching over night with there gps turned off.
Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
#18
One way or the other, they will just go on doing what they have done for the last 30 years or more. A trade war with Europe is to nobody's benefit. Least of all the UK, given the state of our economy.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#19
While we go around being shafted by everyone
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
#20
I've experienced several French fishing blockades in the past, one finished when it started raining and the other stopped when apparently their wives told them diner was on the table
The first one is true but the second I'm not too sure but knowing the French.......
