ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
The word 'adult' is very appropriate.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,027
A few extracts from our MP's latest missive
https://natalieelphicke.com/2021/07/08/securing-border-jobs-and-investment-at-the-white-cliffs:
"This week’s announcement of investment in new border facilities is good news for Dover."
"HMRC will be building a brand new multi-million pound border facility at the White Cliffs Business Park in Dover. Meanwhile the plan is for Port Health related checks on certain food and animal products to be made at a separate facility in Dover. This second further multi-million pound investment in port health will help to ensure that food coming from the EU meets the high standards of the UK and is safe to eat and free from disease."
"Just as important as securing the new facilities was ensuring that facilities were provided on both of our major roads – the M2/A2 and the M20/A20. At the heart of Dover’s success is that we have, unusually for a port or airport, two major motorways serving the port. This week’s announcements see Dover’s facilities provided both along the M2/A2 and the M20/A20."
I get that increasing the cost of importing foodstuffs can help UK producers and that employing people to unload lorries and reload them again can help the economy. But ensuring EU food meets high UK standards? That seems to me to adulterate Take Back Control into Let's Have Some Controls. What a wasted opportunity to ensure our border is streamlined; I'd much rather my taxes went on employing people to fill in potholes or something else of benefit.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,027
Ramsbotham states that ministers failed to sort out how to apply new rules of origin that determine which goods qualify as tariff-free. If true, that means that goods "made in the UK" can be exported into the EU free from EU Customs duty, BUT we either don't know which goods they are or how to prove that goods were "made" here. Rather renders the "free trade" agreement a bit meaningless in my opinion. Let's hear it for 'Get Brexit Done'!
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,295
It's starting, isn't it? The blame game. As Brexit reality starts to emerge - those at the heart of it are laying the ground to blame others....
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,921
Yup. Greetings from the Midlands. Many shop shelves empty of some items and consumers forced to eat/drink tea, bread, jam, cheese,shampoo from different supplier as they have been ever since I can remember being trusted to do the 'shopping' as a youth.
Most locals fattening up their pets, blaming everything on 'Brexit'.
Much confusion locally as no-one willing to believe anything written on a bus.
Got on bus to Wolverhampton. Talking to bloke next to me he said he was going to Walsall. He claimed the destination board was 'fake news' and was only being driven around so George Soros could send subliminal messages to people who'd been vaccinated.
Ended up in Bromsgrove. Driver recent successful asylum seeker from West Africa using GoogleMaps and saving for return trip to West Africa where will apply for parents, wives and children(some of them his own) to join him + cousin-brother who is apparently pretending to be a homosexualist!
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
Sounds like weed's widely available up there. For sailors, anyway.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,932
Jan Higgins wrote:Ok, as you seem to choose not to understand the context of my wording here is the long winded version, the boarder between Northern and Southern Ireland.
I think he was probably confused with your school of thought Jan as Ray seemed more interested in customs checks than dormitories!
I think I’d better:
Do nothing and nothing happens.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,921
Yup. Shipping costs to Europe (including UK) have soared.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
How I Wrote Elastic Man- Registered: 5 Dec 2020
- Posts: 105
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-58652210
Edwin Poots wants the immigrants back!
Not even a year in, and he´s forgotten what he voted for
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
If you have to lie about something incessantly, doesn't that demonstrate that all is not well?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,921
How I Wrote Elastic Man wrote:
Poots is an idiot.
There's already the SAWS ( previously VOLAG) system and Work Permits for specific jobs and for a specific time (the old Code 4).
F**k all to do with visas (though ALL Phillipinos need a visa to enter the UK as the little tinker's tend to overstay having often 'fallen for' aged UK passport holders like myself)!
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Quie a reverse ferret this one, even by this current government's standards. So let me get this right. Our driver shortage has nothing to do with Brexit - why the whole of Europe has the same problems!
So how do we resolve it? Oh, we let more drivers in from Europe. Even the most gullible of Brexiteers must be choking on their gammon sandwiches with this one.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58670792Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
If we had good wages and conditions for a what is a skilled, dangerous and responsible job, we would have more UK drivers. But it would seem that both the government and remainers are allied in prefering a low-wage sector and the chaos that occasionally results from it.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,027
It would have been more in keeping with COP26 to have given all motorists a free milk float.
And each member of the narrow boat fraternity a free horse, obviously.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,796
If all the learner lorry drivers could manage to get and pass their test we would not have such a problem, maybe blame covid for shutting down the test centres for so long.
Allow the drivers to park up where they are not a problem for free by providing more rest areas, an extra 1p on their fuel should soon cover the cost.
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,932
Button wrote:It would have been more in keeping with COP26 to have given all motorists a free milk float.
And each member of the narrow boat fraternity a free horse, obviously.
Would the milk float come with instructions?
Does narrow boating make you ravenous then Button?
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