Second border point revilled
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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8 December 2021 19:48373624no need to hold your breath, second fight to look forward to.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/location-of-second-inland-border-facility-announced-258841/ - Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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8 December 2021 21:36373626Thank you for that, Mr Dixon - though I think you mean reviled! Took me a while to work out where it is - up behind Perry's I reckon, so that should help sod-up traffic flows nicely! https://property.jll.co.uk/rent-industrial-and-logistics/industrial-and-logistics-rent-dover-ct16-3pt-16445.
I suspect Lucy (a civil servant) really had to struggle to come up with "Bastion Point plays a key role in the increased inspection regime that ensures the smooth flow of safe food through Dover and onto the shelves of the country’s supermarkets.” Exquisite phraseology.(Not my real name.) - Button
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9 December 2021 08:48373632I wonder if DDC is no longer responsible for Eurotunnel's "Port Health".(Not my real name.) - 9 December 2021 11:01373635Whitfield is becoming such a delightful place with its long queues for fast food, refuse tipping and no doubt custom checks.
Perhaps the fast bus service is designed to whisk the potential homeowners of all the new builds past this and hope they don't notice. - 9 December 2021 12:04373637Button wrote:I wonder if DDC is no longer responsible for Eurotunnel's "Port Health".
Good question. My understanding is that they do all they can via barcode tech nowadays, with Border Force on hand in case enforcement is necessary. Not sure but I think DDC's involvement is over. - Button
- Location: Dover
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9 December 2021 12:59373638Could be, though I can't see UKBF knowing their rump from their silverside. It certainly wouldn't make sense to turn them around at the Stop 24 interchange to go back to Whitfield, to say nothing of any satnav temptation to use the Alkham Valley!(Not my real name.) - 9 December 2021 15:16373640I can't see UKBF knowing their rump from their silverside.
I don't know. It's easy to laugh, Ms.Button, but I met EOs and HEOs in my early days, some of whom were exceptionally bright and climbed the greasy pole right to the top. Others were lazy, indolent and became alcoholics or just day job journeymen. Happy memories and great characters. No names. no pack drill.
Maybe I'm just getting nostalgic. - Button
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9 December 2021 16:25373642Ah yes, the days of the OCX and liquid brekkie! At least, until some newbie splashed heavy oil into the bucket of Nuits St Georges under the sample room sink!(Not my real name.) - 11 December 2021 13:10373671Looking forward to trying to get to B&Q when this all starts, it will probably be easier to walk up the Roman Road, when they've finished mess with it
- Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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9 February 2022 08:53374645I'm maybe reading too much into this, but it doesn't sound like temporary facilities at Whitfield to me:
"Physical checks on the import of food products are due to begin in July, and the British Port Authority [someone's mistake for British Ports Association, I'm guessing] told the PAC it needs greater clarity about the precise arrangements, including the percentage of products which will be checked.
The MPs also raised concern about the potential for smuggling before new border infrastructure is completed close to Dover.
Lorries arriving at the port will have to travel 60 miles to Ebbsfleet, if their consignments need to be physically checked by customs officers. That increases the risk, the committee warns, that goods could be offloaded on the way. "
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60308494.
"Where did you get that sausage sir?"
" Fell off the back of a lorry Officer! "The Gov likes this(Not my real name.) - Button
- Location: Dover
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9 February 2022 09:19374646Button wrote:I'm maybe reading too much into this, but it doesn't sound like temporary facilities at Whitfield to me:
There again, I don't think I am, since Conclusion 6 of the report says "We note also the potential risks caused by delays putting in place the necessary permanent infrastructure: for example, until the Dover White Cliffs site becomes operational in 2023, trucks arriving in Dover that are carrying goods selected for physical checks will have to travel 60 miles to Ebbsfleet."(Not my real name.) - 9 February 2022 11:04374649I'm not convinced that the July import checks will the implemented on time. The legal obligation is there but the political motivation still seems lukewarm at best. The government are much more concerned about minimising public perception of any negative Brexit impact than they are about deterring smuggling or the importation of sub-standard goods.
Unless WTO inspired pressure grows, of course.
My guess is that Natalie got her way about kicking the import control ball down the road.
British Port Authority (someone's mistake for British Ports Association, I'm guessing)
Must be surely, unless they've changed their name. But they're not an authority but essentially a trade organisation. - Button
- Location: Dover
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9 February 2022 14:25374653ray hutstone wrote:I'm not convinced that the July import checks will the implemented on time. The legal obligation is there but the political motivation still seems lukewarm at best. The government are much more concerned about minimising public perception of any negative Brexit impact than they are about deterring smuggling or the importation of sub-standard goods.
Well, this is what happens when you try to apply "wheels-up clearance" to a short-sea ro-ro environment. Although I have known a "high-street" name to deliberately smuggle (and more to mis-describe goods), I would've thought that the greater risk overall is to the exchequer - from declarations that do not abide by the rules of origin of the trade agreement with the EU. I wonder if Mr Rees-Mogg gets that.(Not my real name.) - 9 February 2022 17:17374656He's the new minister for BO, don't you know!
- Button
- Location: Dover
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9 February 2022 17:27374657ray hutstone wrote:He's the new minister for BO, don't you know!
Quite, and policing rules of origin is an opportunity, both for the exchequer and, potentially, for UK manufacturing.(Not my real name.)