https://www.reuters.com/markets/euro...-1-2022-07-05/
Oh dear
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Now the EU is worried about it's own inflation and trade issue great time to force them to fix the NI Protocls , as they won't deploy trade sanctions in these critical time of worry across the world and EU .. Truss of the Thatcher will love that gig ..
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Investments post Brexit in Wales yey
WORK on an alternative motor for electric vehicles that’s less harmful to the environment is to get underway in Wales with £1.8 million in support from car manufacturer Ford.
Caerphilly-based advanced research and development firm Deregallera will lead a project that will see it work with Cwmbran-based commercial brake manufacturer Meritor and academics at Cardiff University to design, develop and test a new low-carbon electric vehicle motor which uses fewer “rare earth” materials.
https://www.ey.com/en_uk/news/2022/0...arrows-further
The UK are blaming France, France are blaming Eurostar. The only people blaming Brexit are the Japanese WW2 fighters who still haven't given up arms.
Why do you guys insist on spreading misinformation? It's so weird. And before you say "bUt iT nEvEr hApPenD bEfoRe BrExIt!...It did, you just probably weren't paying attention.
2012
https://www.channel4.com/news/olympi...eathrow-queues
2013
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-n...border-queues/
2014
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/a...s-9308640.html
2015
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-until-monday
Should we listen to the Chief Executive of the Port of Dover, or @Tarquin39485FBPE ?
"The chief executive of the Port of Dover said being “let down” by poor resourcing at the French border was “immensely frustrating”.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/u...-b1014249.html
They stamp the passport now. But they opened and looked at the passports anyway. I've been trough customs and borders since. It literally takes a second longer if that.
Before or after brexit, there are still a myriad of other reasons that can cause issues; IT, transport, staff sickness, strikes, poor management, bad practices. These things happen. For people to knee-jerk blame something that happened several years and applies to all ports, all airports and eurostar, yet is clearly focused on one port route, is disingenuous.
And before anyone says.."what about airport queues?" it's the same across the States and Europe. Again, it just wasn't reported. For people who consider themselves so pro-european, they often don't follow the news from there very much..
https://time.com/6192903/why-air-travel-is-bad-now/
Doug Bannister, Chief Executive, Port of Dover said: "Since the UK left the EU, we are subject to full passport checks. Before, all of our freight traffic would go through in about zero seconds and now it's 60 seconds to maybe up to 90 seconds per truck. All of that adds up.
"What we have done, as the Port of Dover, is install new infrastructure and put in new operational processes to make certain that the traffic can flow through as best as it can with the new control regimes that are in place.
"Now, we are reliant on other players to do their part to staff the booths.
"Well, we have had lots of good dialogue and we work well with French immigration police and they certainly have high attention on our operation down here. Ultimately, it comes down to their resourcing levels and we know resourcing around Europe and the world is tight these days.
"The European Entry Exit System (EES), the way it's currently thought through is that it will work well in an airport, but as of now, there is no technology, no process and nothing designed for vehicular traffic in a busy ferry terminal.
"This is something that is concerning us because if we don't get that right, everything will stop."
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/20...-reduce-delays
No one doubts that changes have occured Jon. I appreciate you may not, but most people react to change positively and implement new systems to deal with it.
That doesn't change the fact that irrespective of being inside, or outside of the EU, that systems can (and do) still break down. If there aren't enough staff to look to passports then there aren't enough staff to look at passports, whether they are stamping them or not.
I just don't understand why you are so keen to spread mistruths when neither side of this dispute is blaming Brexit?
If this is down to Brexit, why isn't it happening at Portsmouth? At Plymouth? Hull? Folkestone? Felixtowe etc?
In two days we will still be outside the EU, but I am willing to bet that the queues will be largely gone - hence, the cause was not the thing that hasn't changed in those two days.
I watched a string of TV interviews with French officials and politicians yesterday that all blamed Brexit. All describing in detail the scale of the additional checks required, the limits on expanding facilities at Dover, and the expectation that this particular bottleneck will be with us for several years more until technology, capacity or changes to processes can be introduced to mitigate it. There may have been some French border officials missing at the start of play yesterday but the traffic was still backing up once all the booths were fully staffed.
Latest line from that Richard Tice of whatever party he belongs to today is that it’s all the fault of Remainers who are not putting in the required effort to make a success of Brexit.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-france-border
Brexit means security checks taking longer, says port chief
Doug Bannister, chief executive of the Port of Dover, has said that extra checks needed since Brexit were causing longer transaction times at border control, after French politician Pierre-Henri Dumont blamed Brexit for the disruption seen on Friday.
Bannister told the Today programme:
We are operating in a post-Brexit environment which does mean that passports need to be checked, they need to be stamped and indeed the capable people that do man the booths – police aux frontieres – they’re doing their job that they need to do now.
He added that the port had “created more border capacity so that the overall throughput can be maintained”, and that their modelling had shown there will be some “very peak busy days during the summer season” but “for the most part we should be able to cope with the traffic”.
Earlier, the ISU – the union for borders, immigration and customs staff – also said Brexit was to blame for additional checks.