Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,751
Dover the losers again
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,753
I have not yet watched the news this morning as it was all doom and gloom late last night with the UK people or transport not allowed in virtually all of Europe for 48hrs or so.
Are the lorries still blocking our roads in this area or have they being moved to Manston, if not what is the point of the lorry park there?
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,442
The A2, A256, Whitfield are quiet, helped by lack of school traffic.
Full operation Stack has been implemented back to Maidstone.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,753
I have answered my own question as I succumbed and watched the increasingly depressing news and apparently Manston
could be used.
Absolutely pointless having it when the appropriate powers do not make full use, they prefer to park the lorries on the motorways and let the drivers chuck their pee etc out of their windows.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,955
If you try to scare your own population with childrens' horror stories of 'mutant' viruses in order to justify locking them up, then you shouldn't really be surprised if your equally irrational continental neighbours take you seriously.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,283
Weird Granny Slater wrote:If you try to scare your own population with childrens' horror stories of 'mutant' viruses in order to justify locking them up, then you shouldn't really be surprised if your equally irrational continental neighbours take you seriously.
I think this is exactly what's happened. It's more cakeism.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,979
Perhaps the continentals are pondering the ratio of positive to negative test results coming back from the labs to these parts.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,955
Never a better time to buy that bridge someone was selling.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,979
Frexit: Mr Shapps said the situation in Kent was "not too disrupted" saying "it's mostly European and French hauliers getting caught up in this"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55391289.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,979
So much for the Flying Kipper
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,733
When we went to Lidl this morning it was beginning to look like a truck park around the whole of the industrial estate,looked like the height barrier had been broken and quite a few HGVs were parked up in there with others coming in as we were leaving,trucks parked all over the place,up the road at the new leisure centre etc.
The Gov- Registered: 24 May 2020
- Posts: 151
Polton close has more then normal tonight
DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
- Posts: 126
When you elect clowns.
You get a circus.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,979
Now look, I heard Mr Johnson tonight and there are only 170 lorries, OK? One ferry - problem solved! Simples*.
* Not Mr Johnson, obviously.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,751
Bad advisors me thinks
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,442
There’s probably 170 lorries parked up in Dover this morning.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
They did not close their borders to the uk in 1938 they came over here and the UK went over there to do the job they could not do. Lets get out and stay that way.
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,927
Will Emmanuel Macron be sending food parcels and washing and toilet facilities over for the many continental drivers that we are providing with free parking, or will he be relying on the U.K. to provide this?
I hope also that he is making plans to accommodate the possible frustrated European drivers reaction when they arrive back home, especially if it’s after Christmas.
I suspect if this is resolved by only allowing the drivers back into France if they have tested negative for Covid will delay things further, especially as he may well opt for the laboratory testing results as proof.
If this goes on for another 10 days or so, will this mean the correct paperwork will not be in place for the drivers to continue their journeys though Border Control in January?
Looking on the positive side we could plant potatoes and other crops in the fields alongside the motorways, as I suspect there is already an increase in the fertility of the soil contributed by drivers taken short!
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,979
Bob Whysman wrote:If this goes on for another 10 days or so, will this mean the correct paperwork will not be in place for the drivers to continue their journeys though Border Control
Correct for artics - either side of the Channel, although Mr Matcham states that most outbound from the UK are empty anyway. As for the vans, it depends on what they're carrying!
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PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Speaks for itself.
Herr Schnapps says only a few lorries bound up with this so no problem. Perhaps he should visit Dover in person and speak to the hundreds of foreign drivers who are, in the main, good natured but frustrated to get back home for Xmas as you would expect. All courtesy of the Macaroon across the channel.
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