Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-no-deal-theresa-may-border-force-criminals-national-audit-office-talks-a8598206.html
We have the National Audit Office, Federation of small businesses and National Crime Agency warning the Government of the dangers ahead, I fear they are not listening.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Not so long ago, Captain Haddock suggested that DDC councillors would be wasting their time attending Brexit meetings. I was tempted to suggest that they might learn something. However, Mr Elphicke attended but, it seems, learned little if anything - hence this tweet from him:
'On imports the UK controls passport checks at the Calais juxtaposed controls and would decide whether to conduct any customs/regulatory checks. So talk of shortages is from imports is not right.'
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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inports come on backs of lorrys not cars and coaches button. along with exports.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Charlie Elphicke is in complete denial at this point, hoping that if he utters "juxtaposed" to enough people, everything will be ok. It's literally at that level, I am afraid.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Has anyone else noticed that Boris and Jacob have suddenly gone quiet, normally they are curling out articles for the Telegraph on an almost daily basis. Could be the calm before the storm should a deal be done that keeps us in the Customs Union.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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"Curling out articles" - very evocative, Howard.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,821
More likely they have been severely ticked off with disciplinary threats or as they have no better solutions have decided to keep quiet until after Brexit, then they can claim they did their best when seeking the leadership.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,982
From Jean-Paul Mulot @jeanpaulmulot Permanent rep of @hautsdefrance to the UK.
"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
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#2624: In some ways I hope he is in denial - a worse take on it would be that he actually believes that UK import clearance triggered from French Dover Straits ports (which is only the Max Fac option from Summer 2016) would work. In the absence of a transition period, it won't because we don't have the freight forwarders/Customs Agents to support clearance at the border/on the crossing. To that extent it's worse than a couple of the ideas in Charlie's own pot-pourri.
But the effect on Kent (and the Irish Land Boundary) is more to do with exports and EU sanitary checks on "food", 20 - 30% of traffic at a guess. I saw Mr Gove giving evidence to a Select Committee recently and thought that he was rather well-briefed for once.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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ray hutstone wrote:"Curling out articles" - very evocative, Howard.
I thought it was very descriptive of many of their articles Ray.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Cheese warning. Daily Mail so MUST be true. Have already been stockpiling tinned food, lavatory paper, bottled water and drugs. Where the Hell am I going to put all the cheese now?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6311337/The-price-cheese-soar-no-deal-Brexit-MPs-warned.html"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: 3,033
Oh calamity! You would've been better advised to seek a sojourn near Wells: cheddar and water on-tap, and we Wurzels have even been known to get the Daily Mail delivered!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Near Wells? My carer and I shall be attending the Glastonbury Frost Fair next month! It was described by someone as 24 hours of people dressed as pixies and druids staggering up the main street stoned out of their heads, all to the sound of ambient music and badly played pan-pipes, to an overwhelming smell of rotting Afghan coats. Can't wait! Travel Lodge, Street here we come.
https://www.facebook.com/glastonburyfrostfayre/
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I don't think Charlie understands the problems that a cliff edge leaving would cause in Dover. Between 150,000 and 200,000 have never seen let alone filled out a customs document as they have only dealt with EU member states. Other politicians seem to think that using other ports than Calais will solve all problems for some reason. Some exporters and importers could use freight forwarders local to them but many will just stop shipping.
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
- Posts: 637
Red Leicester and Stilton are delightful too.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
that's the least of our problems, poor old germany will have to fork out an extra £3.2 billion quid when we leave. aprantley the germans are not happy about it.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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What a calamity we just might not get all the foreign foods that we have at the moment.
I wonder how we will all manage, do you think we will starve or will we happily go back to good old UK produce.
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