Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
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Looks like us at Aycliffe village will be suffering for years from lorry horns and diesel pollution. It does not need a degree etc or take a long study and report to work it out what is required.. If only all the agencies involved were not passing the buck or bury their heads in the sand
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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The whole report is an interesting read in so many areas. For a conservative hegemony like DDC, it's really quite surprising how objective they have been in saying (management summary here) - we're going to be f**ked and will just have to scramble around and look for potential benefits where we can find them.
The same applies to the whole country but the local pressures are obviously that much more intense.
Button
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I doubt the report has much of a political colour, if any; besides, you'd look a right plonker if you said it was going to be a walk in the park and it turned out it wasn't. How is Transport Minister Grayling by the way?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This must be a record with the same link on three different threads within a few hours.
Brian Dixon
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sick of Brexit I bet.
Keith Sansum1
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never get sick of this one
still waiting for results
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
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They cannot sort out one weekend and Dover TAP.. This is before BREXIT …
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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indeed gary
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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In which some poor sod at Fort Whitfield spends a few days cutting and pasting 105 times to fill up 48 pages, after a bit of Google research on anything written recently with the words Dover + Brexit, so that, in the words of one senior councillor in a wonderful mixed metaphor 'this way it will look as though we've covered our arses in case it all goes tits up'..............................
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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oh dear sounding grim ,,,,,,,
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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#110 - "in case it all goes tits up"? Open your eyes for once. We have a government that's playing vanity projects against the future prosperity and well being of this country. And in particular our children and grandchildren. I'm not her greatest fan but I think Amber Rudd summed it up well likening the Brexit ultras to climate change deniers. As for Dover. Lord help us. No preparation. No leadership. No understanding of the likely outcomes. I'm sure you fit in perfectly.
Button- Location: Dover
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Captain, I think you talk a lot of sense on most occasions; equally, I think that your post 10 isn't one of them. I suspect that your Port Health Officers will be wondering why they bothered contributing, pointing out the storm clouds brewing over the heads of you and your Council. Get a grip or go back on hols. And take the senior councillor with you.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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So on day one the PHOs are worried that the French, for reasons best known to themselves, will start flooding the UK with food not fit for human consumption so we'd better check it all?
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Button- Location: Dover
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Not quite; they're worried that the sodding UK rulebook will force them to - that's what they're trying to tell you.
FWIW, note that POAO isn't limited to food and that other UK agencies are much more enthusiastic about getting stuck into freight.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Who or what are POAO when they are at home?
Button- Location: Dover
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Products Of Animal Origin. Basically anything a vegan wouldn't use or consume.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Button wrote:Not quite; they're worried that the sodding UK rulebook will force them to
Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools. Brickhill 1954.
It's about time we took a more 'continental' view of rules. I was talking to a businessman who has spent time money and effort getting his UK company GDPR compliant (forced by EU legislation). Speaking to businesses he works with in Holland they have done 'f**k all' as they don't view it as important though they are 'hoping to get around to it one day'.
I was also in a wonderful restaurant in Avignon asked for the whereabouts of the lavatory last year. It was behind the door marked 'No Toilet'. Apparently if they admitted officially to having a toilet they would have to provide disabled access and didn't want the cost ......................
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
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Captain Haddock wrote:Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools. Brickhill 1954.
It's about time we took a more 'continental' view of rules. I was talking to a businessman who has spent time money and effort getting his UK company GDPR compliant (forced by EU legislation). Speaking to businesses he works with in Holland they have done 'f**k all' as they don't view it as important though they are 'hoping to get around to it one day'.
I was also in a wonderful restaurant in Avignon asked for the whereabouts of the lavatory last year. It was behind the door marked 'No Toilet'. Apparently if they admitted officially to having a toilet they would have to provide disabled access and didn't want the cost ......................
Silly me, I thought we voted for Brexit because we didn't want to take a more 'continental' view of rules. Perhaps we can also have our cake and eat it.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Nah. We didn't want any more continental 'one size fits all' rules.
The continental attitude (excluding the Germans) has always been pragmatic to put it mildly with most laws and rules viewed as aspirational rather than enforceable.
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