The picture of chaos at the border might be familiar from a similar set of projections made for no-deal Brexit a year ago as part of what was known as Operation Yellowhammer.
The disruption is assumed to build in the first two weeks of January, and could last three months, or longer should France rigorously apply Schengen passport checks on hauliers at Dover and the Channel Tunnel.The purpose of this stark communication is to try to get traders to act now to get ready for new border formalities that could help mitigate the disruption.
There are further issues should there be no trade deal agreed. Hauliers would have to rely on special permits rationed by the Department for Transport, though a mutually beneficial deal here is possible. And there is a specific new reference to France imposing strict passport checks at the"juxtaposed controls" currently designed to offer seamless travel across the Channel.
That's fucking ridiculous. A disaster.
Is this the same michaelgove who promised in 2016 that the UK would be part of THE “free trade area that stretches from Iceland to the Russian border”? How’s the application to join going, Michael?
YAWN
How many of those 7,000 trucks will have RoI plates or will it not be as economic to run their produce by road through our country to the rest of the EU instead of shipping?
Scare tactics yet again, always the doom scenario- but hey ho 7000 trucks better than 7000 gimmegrants
the hell that is to come-turkeys voting for Christmas
Shit stirring again BBC
You have to give it to the BBC they never give up they have been consistent we have had the same tactics for 4 years
There wont be cos nobody will have a job after the govt covid restrictions
FrancaisFarage By my reckoning, 7000 trucks parked end to end is about 150km.
Well done Brexiters 👍 BrexitShambles
And it will get worse
Go on spread more good news why don’t you.
So much for the post Brexit utopia they sold you! Gullible people sold a lemon.
if you were a haulage company in the EU. Would you be planning to have all your trucks out of action in the UK. Or would you be planning to supply clients in the 27 other countries? BrexitReality
Curious; should they (Like PPE in care homes already doing it) already be checking trucks? This suggests no checks are done and this is a new practice. This should be more of what we do (already). Scare tactics to bypass checks by those who feel they will get found out?
Don't motorways look like this most of the time anyway?!
Yawn
Not this again! They bring this story out nearly every 8 weeks. Trailer parks, motorways used as car parks. Our ministers need to get a grip and make inroads into the negotiations.
Written by Gove, but it is scaremongering by the BBC according to some. Are these people thick or didn't they read the article?
An oven ready deal he said 🤡
Just like the M25 then.
Just what Britain needs as she battles with covid.
If Gove says 7,000 we can round it off at 50,000
Still glad we are out!
But everyone already said this in 2018 and it was 10,000 trucks then too? So is this just to freak everyone out a little?
Kent, England's soon to be shit hole.
Is that 1 queue of 7000 trucks or 7000 queues of 1 truck? Either way sounds like a pretty normal day
We will all be struck at home with covid 19. So makes no difference really.
While showing a picture of truck queues while in the EU...🙄
Tear it up.
A single-lane queue of 7,000 large delivery trucks one car length apart is roughly 93 miles long. If correct michaelgove's 3-month queue would stretch from Dover to the centre of London or to Brighton, gridlocking the entire south-east of England – for everybody who lives there.
Not quite as bad as Parliament first thought then! 🙄
Project Fear becomes Project Fact. This is a letter from Gove, the driving force of Vote Leave and an ardent Brexiter. This is the reality of Brexit. Yet I'm sure Brexiters will dismiss it, such is their delusion and desperate rejection of evidence.
What do you expect with NatalieElphicke and silly Kent Nigel_Farage on border patrol?
This is great news for Kent's booming prostitution industry!
Do shut up
Imagine all these crazy remainers who still want to be part of the EU when it has pencilled in Cyprus style bail-ins. You have to be insane if you want to be part of a union that is that desperate.
I can imagine the trucks queueing from Dover to London
Congrats to conservative geniuses and their highly intelligent voters👏😂 Sorry I forgot, it’s all Bruxelles fault...
Kent is panning out to be a bit of a future dump. It’s a real shame.
DefundBBC
Not to worry as we Will be returning to a blissful state that was 1950’s Britain before those nasty Foreigners started interfering with our way of life.🤪
Ahhh England’s Greenland pleasant land. Kent...truskstop of England.
‘But, but, but, it’s project fear.’ ‘Michael Gove said it. You voted for him to carry out your plan.’ ‘Oh, well, he’s a closet remainer.’ ‘.....’
From the BBC
Some replies here from brexiters unaware we're leaving the SM and CU
🤦🏻♀️Not just about queues. Booking slots alone to rebook them on to delivery sites will be a nightmare to manage and what will happen about the taco times for drivers? Hugely damaging. When there is poor weather, it’s bad enough. This will be a nightmare michaelgove
This was written by Michael Gove... The article actual says: 'The government says this is not a prediction but an illustration of what could be reasonably expected.' And yet many in the comments are still doing mental contortions to blame it on 'remainers'? beyondhelp
The average length of a truck is around 17m, so you're looking at a queue of at least 119km. That's the distance between London and Dover. Naturally EU will be imposing checks on shipments. UK is a third country, that's what brexit means.
Brexit chaos ✅ Covid doom ✅ Climate Emergency ❌ Cummings fault ❌ Russians fault ❌ 2/5, 40% = D must try harder
Let truckers do their jobs! Its up to the government to do theirs. No excuses such as this are acceptable
Scare tactics driven by the remainer driven media
Worth it for blue passports. Brexit
Zzzzzzzzzz
It’s actually happening get over it! Even the “pandemic” won’t stop it good try though!
Now is the time to plan and sort Brexit before the chaos comes in Jan 21. Need to wake up now.
Remember Brexiteers parroting 'Project Fear' ad nauseum whenever anyone pointed out the many negatives of Brexit pre-referendum? Now govt says this is 'an illustration of what could be reasonably expected.' BrexitReality BrexitShambles BorisHasFailed
Look on the positives - we will be out of the EU :-)
Worst case senario - just like Bank of Englands comments that were proved wrong. Anyway - with virus bringing world 2 halt nothing can b predicted.
Yawn
Britain is the capital of the 'worst case scenario' 😂😂😂
No EU trade deal means no EU exports means no border traffic issues. Don’t worry. It’ll be fine.
Taking back control 😂😂😂
OperationStack will save us..
'Worst case reasonable planning' does not mean it WILL happen!! Just as the 'worst case reasonable planning' for the RoI is the land bridge through the UK impacting them & they will have to undertake direct sea routes Fra/RoI. But then, this is remainer faisalislam article.
Being a foreigner I’m not familiar with that area at all. What happens to the non-freight traffic that has to share the roadways with 7,000, essentially, parked trucks?
Soon the land of unicorns and sunny uplands will be blighted by thousands of trucks parked up waiting customs clearance at Dover, Portsmouth, Southampton, Weymouth, Felixstowe, Harwich, Tilbury, Pembrokeshire, Holyhead, Stranraer Docks. BrexitShambles
Give it a rest for Christs sake.
Well done.
Is Farage a c***?
Whomp whomp
Leave voters will be so pleased, this is just what they voted for. Partying till 9.59pm i reckon, to celebrate this one.🎉🥳🍻🥂
What about the live animals..
As an island nation, Britain's departure from continental Europe will only become a vassal of the United States.
Loos for 7K ppl? 💩
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