LeoV
Super Anarchist
Good luck with your supply lines with one ferry every six hours in Dover.
I am all for it, close French Dover booths.
I am all for it, close French Dover booths.
Brexit WTF, WTF
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Laser1
Super Anarchist
Jambo, again a very asinine comment coming from you.
Portsmouth to Caen : 2 sailings daily
Portsmouth to Bilbao : 2 crossings weekly
Portmouth to Cherbourg : 1 crossing weekly
Portsmouth to Le Havre : 5 sailings weekly
Portsmouth to St Malo : 5 crossings weekly
Newhaven Dieppe : 3 sailings a day.
In peak season Dover to Continent : over 50 ferries a day
Oooooh oooohhh my friends didn't have to wait on the Portsmouth-Caen or Newhaven-Dieppe ferry routes. No off course not. 25 trucks, 40 cars and a donkey per sailing FFS
Waynemarlow
Super Anarchist
Talk about a bit of Brexit hysteria coming onto the thread, we are now all communist sympathisers and close off the borders from the invaders.
Actually the French seem to manage to close the border on a regular basis already so nothing new there, but likened to communists, thats a tad hysterical to say the least Panoramix.
Laser1 you must work in the French civil service or a very heavy unionised industry in France, have you ever heard of the basic rule of a successful business, supply and demand ?
Panoramix
Super Anarchist
I've met Brexiters and communists and I am honestly not sure which group is more ideologically stubborn!
Panoramix
Super Anarchist
Yes....
The chinese government seems well aware of it when they talk of their Russian friends in front of their western customers but seem to still be wondering how to implement it!
dogwatch
Super Anarchist
Price. Shortest crossing = lowest cost.
Also for ski trips, which apparently many of these coaches were, Calais puts you straight onto the autoroutes heading south and avoiding Paris.
Waynemarlow
Super Anarchist
Waynemarlow
Super Anarchist
You haven't met a UK Expat living in France then, they are way out there on the "everything is wonderful in France".
Panoramix
Super Anarchist
The one I met seemed quite relaxed but sometimes puzzled by the idiosyncrasies of French administration. They soon learn how to shrug it off the Gallic way.
Waynemarlow
Super Anarchist
Closet Communist type sort of thing then ?
Waynemarlow
Super Anarchist
Hear Nanny Nichola is heading towards France on a rubber dingy and will be claiming asylum, blaming the missing £ 600K on the Tories, claiming that they have set her up.
Panoramix
Super Anarchist
Why would that make you a closet communist ?
It is just a practical approach to life...
Waynemarlow
Super Anarchist
Bit like Brexiteers then, they won and have gotten on with life since. Seems its only the Remoaners who still are all bitter and twisted, perhaps they too should just shrug their shoulders and get on with life.
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Increasing numbers of Brexit voters aren't getting on with life Wayne, increasing numbers are starting to ask where all the things that the leave campaign promised them are... Latest poll suggests "right to leave" down to 32%.
Brexit opinion poll 2023 | Statista
As of August 2023, 57 percent of people in Great Britain thought that it was wrong to leave the European Union, compared with 32 percent who thought it was the right decision.
www.statista.com
Laser1
Super Anarchist
Hmmm not quite. The majority are bitching why their passport has to be stamped on their cheap booze cruise with the bus to Calais or kicking off in Tesco because the veg isle is empty or standing huffin & puffing in a queue a mile long on their way back from Torremolinos.
Waynemarlow
Super Anarchist
Not seen any of that sort of thing, you've been reading the Guardian too much.
Even my cycling mates who were largely Remainers are no longer Remoaners and travelling quite freely through Europe. They have a whinge and moan occassionaly but then as soon as they are reminded of just how much they would have to contribute towards the EU's bar bill since Covid, they just buy another pint and toast their good fortune. Pragmatism is a great thing when one has to dip into your pockets to pay for another mans pint who you don't know.
Waynemarlow
Super Anarchist
Didn't LeoV say Statista statistics were totally worthless, lol.Increasing numbers of Brexit voters aren't getting on with life Wayne, increasing numbers are starting to ask where all the things that the leave campaign promised them are... Latest poll suggests "right to leave" down to 32%.
Brexit opinion poll 2023 | Statista
As of August 2023, 57 percent of people in Great Britain thought that it was wrong to leave the European Union, compared with 32 percent who thought it was the right decision.
Care to quote a Brexit poll where the support isn't haemorrhaging then?
Jambalaya
Super Anarchist
Jambo, again a very asinine comment coming from you.
Portsmouth to Caen : 2 sailings daily
Portsmouth to Bilbao : 2 crossings weekly
Portmouth to Cherbourg : 1 crossing weekly
Portsmouth to Le Havre : 5 sailings weekly
Portsmouth to St Malo : 5 crossings weekly
Newhaven Dieppe : 3 sailings a day.
In peak season Dover to Continent : over 50 ferries a day
Oooooh oooohhh my friends didn't have to wait on the Portsmouth-Caen or Newhaven-Dieppe ferry routes. No off course not. 25 trucks, 40 cars and a donkey per sailing FFS
Yes my point EXACTLY. French customs are dramatically understaffed on the Dover/Calais route
