David Davis made it quite clear the other day, but I will condense what he said: The government has told the Brexiteers if you don't vote for May's deal, Brexit won't happen. The government has told the Remainers if you don't vote for May's deal you won't get the Brexit you want. Seems contradictory to me - It is as though you can't have Brexit but you can have Brexit. F-knows what will happen (apart from it won't happen, like wot I said). All I know is I voted OUT / LEAVE / DEPART - no option to vote on 'A Deal'. It was IN or OUT and not Shake it all about.
If they didn't do it they would get ridiculed for not doing it, not too worried and it's also worth mentioning, the only time in the U.K. history we have needed to turn roads into lorry parks, has been whilst we have been IN THE EU, with the Frenchies often going on strike and the eu did fuck all to stop them. Aston left it a bit late haven't they? whether we leave under wto or Mays deal(which we are told would end at some point) Aston would still have had to have made different provisions than they have now.
Good to see the government planning ahead for a no deal, shame they didn’t get as many lorries turn up as they hoped though.
Exactly who is going to delay these wagons, most of them European I guess - will it be one of the 'punishments' that the EU wishes to impose and sod their industries, just to 'get at us' or will it be our government for some reason that is not clear to me at all? Quite pathetic really - I can only hope we do leave totally with no deal (not crash out - pathetic project fear terminology) and pay Brussels fuck all
I happened to catch Sky News this afternoon with two of the most odious human beings on the planet on screen, Anna Soubry and Kay Burley. They were standing on the platform thingy they have been occupying for months outside the HoC. Anyway there were a group of leave supporters shouting at them and Soubry way almost in tears because they were calling her a Nazi and a traitor. She was citing a hate crime and racism. Burley said the police had been called but said the people were well within their rights to protest. Let's hope they are there every day for the next 2 weeks. I don't remember hearing a peep from Sky and Soubry when that nut-job with the placards has been disrupting every TV interview for over a year now with his rantings. As soon as they are "Leavers", Officer Dibble is called in. Her lip was going and she was on the verge of bubbling. Now I get no pleasure from watching a female cry, but I'd have rewound that over a few times with a cup of tea and biccies.
What would be the point in delaying wagons? We'd have left by then and aren't coming back in. Anyway, just stick the European wagons wanting to go back home, behind the UK wagons travelling to the continent. The Frenchies will soon get bored.
Calais leaders are very worried that the economics of the port could be damaged long term if there are problems so they will do everything in their power to minimise disruption. Mr Bertrand said closing the port of Calais or the Channel Tunnel to cross-channel traffic in the event of a no-deal Brexit "was not envisaged". "Who could believe such a thing? We have to do everything to guarantee fluidity," he wrote. And Jean-Paul Mulot, who represents Hauts-de-France, France's northern-most region, in the UK said that while there might be delays if the event of a no-deal, it was in France's interest to minimise these. With new veterinary and food checks expected regardless of the Brexit outcome Calais is preparing to invest €20 million into a new customs system complex enough to handle the millions of cargo and passenger vehicles that cross to or from the UK by ferry or the Eurotunnel each year. Calais is planning to build a new 40 hectare servicing complex of warehouses, docks and admin centres on the outskirts of the port town – equidistant to the Eurotunnel and the port, the mayor, Natacha Bouchart, said in an interview with local daily Ouest France. Bouchart says both the EU and the French government have so far stayed silent on covering the costs of the upgrades. Calais will have to hire up to 150 new customs officials, yet all French ports engaged with the UK will face costs of between €10 and €30 million, estimates Bouchart. “It's quarter to midnight and many stakeholders have woken up late,” Bertrand Xavier, president of the Hauts-de-France region, which includes the ports of Calais and Dunkirk, commented recently, according to Le Monde.
Her lip was going and she was on the verge of bubbling. Now I get no pleasure from watching a female cry, but I'd have rewound that over a few times with a cup of tea and biccies. ach aye, you cant beat a bit of harmless protesting. https://twitter.com/BBCNormanS/status/1082332103646371840 after watching that you will recognize the fella in the second vid https://twitter.com/Angry_Voice/status/1082315643632959488
On the Soubry thing, as a tory and given her constituency voted to leave, I've always felt she was more suited to the lib dems than the tories and you're right robbo on the "I've called the police because of the nasty names", no one else had a problem when brexiteer interviewee's were being shouted at whilst being interviewed. What I did have an issue with is this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46785357 I'm big enough to slap a few of these idiots around the head to see if some sense could be found but even I would feel unsure what might happen next when surrounded by a pack of hyenas getting within inches of me and shouting in such a manner. If you watch the video, if that was your mum, sister, relative or even if it was a male family member and this was happening, you would feel concerned and worried for them. I'm all for passionate debate or even being blunt with your own mp, I didn't like that side of what happened to her today
