Button
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FWIW I notice that Swains have cracked the thorny problem of haulier economics and evidently don't need to back-load their trips:
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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The more absurd this stuff becomes, the more you know that they are going to do a deal at the eleventh hour.
Button- Location: Dover
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Neil Moors wrote:The more absurd this stuff becomes, the more you know that they are going to do a deal at the eleventh hour.
Yeah, but that ain't gonna change the methodology!
The next thing I can see coming is to hide Kent completely by taking away or falsifying the signposts!
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Bob Whysman
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Button wrote:FWIW I notice that Swains have cracked the thorny problem of haulier economics and evidently don't need to back-load their trips:
We’ve bin robbed!!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Button wrote:Yeah, but that ain't gonna change the methodology!
The next thing I can see coming is to hide Kent completely by taking away or falsifying the signposts!
......and keeping schtum until someone lets the cat out of the bag Button. (You must have friends in high places).
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Yup. Queues from here to eternity at all sorts of international borders all over the developed world.
What! You tell me there's something 'special' about Dover/Calais?
Do grow up. It ain't going to happen. The frightening creature under your bed does not exist (but sells loads of newspapers).
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Brian Dixon
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talking of news papers i note that sun sells have rocketed. lol
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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You know what it'll be....."The Remoaners told us there would be huge queues at the Port of Dover, well, there isn't! They are in Surrey and Essex instead".
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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realiy neil, is that because the A20 is running slow then.
Button- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:What! You tell me there's something 'special' about Dover/Calais?
Do grow up. It ain't going to happen. The frightening creature under your bed does not exist (but sells loads of newspapers).
I can do the first bit: it's special because it's new in a sort of Halley's comet way.
As to queues in Kent or wherever, it depends on how soon hauliers realise they that need a Common Transit movement to get beyond Calais, know where the Offices of Departure are and refuse to load goods that haven't been through export formalities. Or, as Logistics UK (formerly the FTA) said recently, they could always smuggle.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Button, hardly 'new' just 'a bit different'?
Remember the legions of 'freight forwarders' shuffling bits of paper around at Eastern Docks in the eighties pre computer?
It's not actually that difficult if it's merely 'paperwork' and I don't think the Froggies are holding back loads of sub standard meat to send us on first of Jan or vice versa.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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'french dock workers on strike from midnight tonight'.
Yup. There's an 'R' in the month!
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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theres an r in august some where. lol
Button- Location: Dover
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I surely do - from 1975 I was that Officer! No, it's not that difficult to put details and inside leg measurement of your goods on 'paperwork' or, indeed, yer actual paperwork. It's a question of doing it and finding an Officer to process it. The same applies for Calais coming the other way.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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'finding an Officer to process it'.
I rest my case. THIS is not 2020 between two industrialised nations.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Captain Haddock wrote:Yup. Queues from here to eternity at all sorts of international borders all over the developed world.
What! You tell me there's something 'special' about Dover/Calais?
Do grow up. It ain't going to happen. The frightening creature under your bed does not exist (but sells loads of newspapers).
Given your proven track record of posting comments subsequently shown to be hilariously wide of the mark, I would have thought you might have been a bit more prudent. You're beginning to display Raab like symptoms on Brexit.
Button- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:'finding an Officer to process it'.
I rest my case. THIS is not 2020 between two industrialised nations.
Mm. Ah well, I said 'yer actual paperwork' because, guess what, under CT, TIR and the pan-EU export procedure, the driver presents pieces of paper for the nice customs officer to process. It's an EU external border/CT Contracting Parties sort of thing.
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Button- Location: Dover
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A Defra spokesman said: "To aid in the transition, we have ensured there will be no checks on 'high priority plants' imported from the EU at border control posts
until July 2021. Checks will instead happen at place of destination from January 2021.
"It is vital we maintain our high biosecurity standards and we will not compromise on these as we move forward."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54210558
Defra PHSI have got form for suspecting every truck of carrying dodgy plants.
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