Channel travel chaos down to French 'fury' over Brexit and Boris, says Jeremy Hunt

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Channel crossing delays are down to a 'lack of willingness' from a French government that is 'furious' with the UK over Brexit and Boris Johnson, says Jeremy Hunt

He added: "We've got a lot of things in common with the French, we have very similar views when it comes to the big challenges the world faces, and we are the two biggest militaries in Europe and we need to be working together at a time of tremendous peril on the international scene."

Travel chaos erupted at Dover and Folkestone over the weekend, with some families sitting in queues for 21 hours.Drivers are being warned they face more gridlock throughout the summer, with the AA warning passport checks need to be significantly sped up to avoid repeated disruption. He said we are in a "post-Brexit environment," which means the transaction times through the borders are going to take longer because passports require extra checks.

 

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It’s just the bloody French being intransigent bureaucrats. Brits should get out of their cars and take on the role of the Frenchists immigration. If you’re in that queue, take control of the situation yourselves. 🇬🇧 Absolutely Impossible to do a worse job than the French.

Given the state of baggage handling at our major airports, we are no position to throw stones over failures to resource.....

No shit, Sherlock…🤔

We were asked to help contribute to it and we (Boris) refused, this is squarely on the shoulders of the Brexit ToryShambles who mandated the extra checks by ending freedom of movement but didn't invest where its needed.

so it will not be down to brexit and you now have to have all the right paper works and have to show it all and be checked transport has been doing this for months and it has been taking longer to come back in to the country stop telling France what to do with it borders

6 French civil servants not turning up for work to man passport booths on our side of the channel can bring the best part of a county to gridlock standstill? Not sure how that fits in with ‘taking back control’?

So they manned 6 booths out of 14

Turn the tables and buy a dinghy

It’s actually down to Boris Johnson. I’d like him to stop talking now.

Or the day t we asked for all of our passports to be stamped every time we want to enter the eu?

Ha Ha Ha!!! Deluded idiots

'But But we want our blue passports stamped'

That is partially accurate, but down here, THIS HAPPENS EVERY SUMMER! Macron IS putting 2 fingers up to us as usual, but logistically Dover is nearest Port to France, but IS too small when THOUSANDS IF VEHICLES descend in one go , as happens at beginning of summer holidays,

Typical of the Tory government blame someone else for your mess So much for oven ready agreement

Of course as usual we have absolutely no responsibility. The French are really inconsiderate not bending over backwards to get Britain out of the hole we dug!

What a load of bollocks.

it takes about 70 seconds to check each car - those are Border checks the UK helped draw up while we were EU members - for places with third country status BrexitChaos

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