Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,000
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
And once again the main losers will not be those at whom the protest is directed, but the honest and hard-working business people of Dover.
These XR people just don’t give a monkey’s about anyone else. B4574rds.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,000
The other loser is of course the environment with diesel engines and refrigeration units ticking over while trucks go nowhere.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,040
Has Brexit been brought forward to 20th September then?
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
button you wish.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,040
Oh well, look on the bright side - think of all the environmentally-friendly yachts that will be coming to the marina!
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,496
How’s it going?
Luckily i’m in Manchester, so avoiding it all
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Just been down on the bus from Maxton mate and there were no problems at all as far as I could see. You watching footy? Curry on Tuesday at the Calcutta Port?
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,496
I see on Twitter the A20 is shut westbound.
( football is at Hartlepool today, so no
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
The planned massed protest has been a disaster. The organisers didn't factor in that your average protester would shudder at the thought of visiting Dover.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,496
The picture i’ve seen has a few a them glued to up carriageway in Jubilee Way.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,040
Cool; stick a traffic cone on their head and leave 'em to it - sorted! Move along please, nothing to see here..
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
a bit of a let down,expected traffic back as far as courtwood intercahange it has been as quite as xmas day Aycliffe end.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/environmental-protesters-stage-blockade-at-docks-212694/Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,835
""We are actually directing this (protest) at the government, because we want them to start talking about this rather than ignoring it and actually start a process of taking action so we can improve our own agricultural resillience.
"We are not actually directing this at ordinary people although it may feel that way because obviously we are causing disruption, but we feel that we don't really have any choice."
What a load of tosh! Go up to Westminster then, rather than have a little jolly in Dover on a nice sunny day.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,239
I think a lot of them head for Saint Tropez at this time of year, weather still good and the crowds have gone! They'll be back though for a few weeks before the ski season starts.
It must be a Bind juggling a social calendar with saving the planet.
Arte et Marte
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,835
I got castigated on FB for calling this protest group a bunch of idiots, nothing I have read about them or their protest has changed my mind.
I wonder how many of those who ticked me off and thought the protest was an ok thing to do actually went and joined in.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
I guess the octogenarians and even the wheelchair bound nonagenarian who was arrested count as either idiots or St.Tropez loving hypocrites in your estimation. I applaud them for standing up for something they believe in and that will have its greatest effect on those who come after us.
It's so much easier to rely on emotive language and simple solutions, isn't it?
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,024
Well said, Ray. That degree of historical amnesia is frightening, inexcusable and disrespectful to the ancestors upon whose broken heads and backs our relatively leisured living stands.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus