Brexit is to blame for Dover hold up, not France | Simon Calder
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 1. 04. 2023
- "There is no suggestion that the French are doing anything other than being diligent."
The French are simply fulfilling Britain's wishes by conducting time-consuming border checks, leading to a backlog at the Port of Dover, says Simon Calder.
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The problem for the Brits is - nobody in the EU particularly cares about Britain's problems, they all have their own.
Absolutely right, they do. One should perhaps point out that nowhere are they as serious as the problems in Britain, though. Take economic growth, for example. Britain is the only country in Europe that is suffering negative growth. Italy and Greece, for example, are performing significantly better than Britain. And the cause of Britain's economic woes compared to every single member country of the European Union is clear and indisputable. Yes, let's hear it for Brexit...
@@eekamoose well, delivered as ordered I suppose.
Yes France has a massive problem and the country is up in arms with huge protests.
Macron wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
Meanwhile, in the UK the government wants to raise it from 67 to 68 and that barely raises a comment because our problems here are 100 times worse.
Inequality is getting worse by the month.
Since Brexit the number of children in poverty has doubled to 4 million.
News out last week, 2.5 million (out of 19.3 million) households missed "must pay" bills.
That is already 13% of households in severe financial distress.
The poorest 20% in Slovenia are now better off than the poorest 20% in Britain.
Never mind, Rishi will take care of things.
He will make sure the UK is a safe place for hedge funds.
Meanwhile, Michele Mone's luxury PPE yacht is safely moored just south of Barcelona.
Enjoy, Michele.
Britain's problems are self inflicted!
@@lenrman969 well, it's not that Britain wasn't warned before Brexit, so delivered as ordered I suppose.
Imagine that... ending freedom of movement actually results in harder movement...
yea and its almost like nobody is actually complaining apart from the people that voted remain.
@@arthurgoonie4596 Which would be a very comfortable majority were the vote to happen again now. And you know it.
@@arthurgoonie4596 actually you'll find it's all the oldies that voted leave who are suddenly confused as to why they can no longer retire to the South of France who are complaining about it
@@Andy1119 savage I guess they'll have to retire someone that isn't France đźâđš
@@arthurgoonie4596 like the UK since they can't retire anywhere in Europe now. Well at least not freely
Brits wanted to "check out from a hotel to avoid payment but still wants to use its facility for free".
Thank you Britain, you showed the rest of the EU members what will happen if someone take risks to leave and dreams of "exceptional great deals" after Brexit.
The EU citizens have now a much more closer and purposeful attitude to each other. I live in Germany and no one talks about leaving EU. Same with other EU countries.
French border control, doing what they are supposed to do. Unlike the UK border farce.
It's the French border officers who are working slow. 5.5 hours to check one coach. Only dover this is happening. Soon digital passports . Finger print checks. Meanwhile millions of migrants wandering around the Eu with no papers. I went through dover three weeks ago. Took one minute.
ââ@@adrianrouse5148 Make your mind up. You say "millions" (it's always "millions") of migrants "wandering around without papers" . I assume you personally checked that these millions were a) migrants b) had no papers.
Then you say you went through Dover "in minutes". I find that frightening.
How do they know you're not a "migrant without papers", or a home grown terrorist or British criminal?
The French side doing great pity the do not stop the migrants
â@@adrianrouse5148 as you unhappy with what french doing you should complain to your MEP đđ can't think how else to influence another sovereign nation?
@@adrianrouse5148 What the French - or any other EU country for that matter - do or not do is none of your business.
The young daughter of a friend of mine went on her first school coach trip to a ski resort in Italy using a ferry at Dover. She and her colleagues were held up without food and water for 24 hours and eventually reached their destination 50 hours after the coach left the West Country. They had only 3 days at the ski resort before starting the return journey. Any government minister saying, as they tend to do, the delays are nothing to do with Brexit were obviously taught at the Trump Academy of lying.
Oh dear a what a shame ! With a war going on and strife all over the place all you can do is moan with the biggest travel Remoaner about a delay caused by bad weather,and the French once again sticking a finger up at DEMOCRACY
How did the parents vote?
Tldr
The following logical fallacies are presented by brexit supporting conservatives below..
They confused holidays with freedom of movement.
They believed the conservative lies about EU citizens claiming benefits
Deflection about blaming middle class kids đ
No, they were simply schooled in England. No need to refer to trump when there is a longstanding tradition of lying in ones own country.
@@ab-ym3bf conservative voters aren't very bright
They voted for Brexit
Trump 2024.
The British public wanted their Sovereignty, they got it. This is Brexit.
We voted for a hard border. What did Brexiteers expect to happen? We have got exactly what we asked for.
This happens every easter
Really hope there are many brexiteers in that queue
So do I, so they can see first hand how incompetent the EU is.
â@@markperrin8098 đđđ deluded fool.
@@markperrin8098 đ I think you missed the point of this interview. The EU is implementing Exactly what the UK government mandated. There is no incompetence from the EU, just proper checks and visas, as required by the UK. All that takes time.... so..... when so many citizens try to go through on one or two days.... guess what..... BACKLOGS. đ€Ł
Way to shoot yourself in the foot. Here in Canada... we negotiated a free trade deal with the EU, and with that.... no visa requirement. Fly in, quick check, and you're done. If your government had any sense, they would negotiate to one of the tier levels like other countries have done, that also, Are Not In The EU. It would make life easier for all UK citizens... but, that is a sensible approach.... so it probably won't be done for decades. Cheers!đ
@@dougwilson4537 No your right, let's get micro managed by a foreign power so we dont have to queue.....
If there is an extra buerocratic workload, the necessary staffing levels should be implemented.
To be fair Priti Patel said she was going to end freedom of movement 'once and for all '. Brexiteers don't seem to understand this also includes us Brits.
It only included you Brits, the EU citizens are still free to roam around 31 countries.
Calder is wtong,lets face it he's a lefty
@@dawnslingsby2324 Care to expand on that wildly sweeping statement?!
â@@vladimirputin4822 well I'm Bdit and I've visited 6 European countries in two months. So thanks for your ill wishes "Vlad"
Such acdrama queen. Sure....we're all stuck here đ
"Brexit means Brexit."
"A rose is a rose is a rose".
A costly tautology indeed.
spot on
If only
Your ignorance of both 'Brexit' and the EU is manifest. Do not post your inane comments here - or anywhere.
Brexit is without doubt the worst political disaster in the history of British politics
Well they did have civil wars. So probably not the worst but certainly high up there.
its not, if you look at the original Brexit when Britannia left the Roman Empire the subsequent drop in living standards and e.g. cross border migration issues were much deeper and quite a few orders of magnitude worse.
So this Brexit 2.0 is far from even the top 10 worst disasters in British political or any other kind of history. History didn't start in 60s or with WW2 as many would like to believe nowadays.
@@rehurekj Ok, we'll accept that Brexit is not worse than the affects of the Roman's leaving 1600 years ago.
I'm pretty sure that life then generally was much, much worse than 21st century life and if you were a peasant as most of the population were, even staying at home would be much worse than spending 24 hours on a modern coach. However, in comparison to what we had pre- Brexit when travel to continental Europe was pretty much friction free, this is a pile of dog poo and the people that pushed this for ideological and personal financial reasons should be held to account and the the morons that voted for this should be informed of the consequences of their decision.
@@rehurekj history didn't but I was referring to the houses of parliament when I said British politics
@@rehurekj I thought it was the Romans that left us as Empires come and go as surely will happen with the European Empire. This idea that the British not being able to pile up to have a weekend break in anywhere but Britain is a crisis to equal the historic hardships faced by the people is amusing theatre from the sidelines. Equal to the misery of living to the end of your days in the workhouse at least. How many people have died then? Surely there can be no greater noise in the universe than the whine from a mass of UK tourists inconvenienced in any way. Like a luxury cruise when the unexpected outrageous inconvenience of an ocean storm arises. Brexit has never been and never will be accepted and the punishment for the citizens for their sheer impudence will continue from both within and outside of these islands. The French will put up barriers and the parliamentary and civil service establishment say 'I told you so' and 'It is all your fault' and do absolutely nothing.
You may have to queue and wait hours, but it's all worth it to get out of England
Go back to Wales then!!...
Goodbye then Rob, don't hurry back.
Rob Davies, location Australia? Ex-pat or just Aussie gobshyte? Either way we ain't missing you!
ÂŁ7.50 to get out of bonkers Brexitannia to see how the Continentals are managing without us - worth every penny!! That's the price of a few copies of the Daily Mail, but rather more enjoyable.
@@oldbloke135 Currently living in the sinking ship that is jolly old England
It used to travel to Italy regularly and since Brexit and end of the transition period it has become ESSENTIAL to have you passport stamped on exit? Why? Because if they failed to âsign you outâ, you could be considered to still be in the EU and to then breach the 90 in 180 rule simply by having not been âclocked outâ when you left. And the consequence of that? Well, in Italy, and it varies by EU country, it would be a âŹ10,000 fine. Does that sharpen up you interest in being stamped in and out accurately?
People travelling within the Shengen region should take note of this too, as you can freely cross the borders once in it. Be sure to get it stamped on first entry and last exit when coming back to the UK!
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A fine đđđđđ I would like them Iâd like to see them try and find me Iâll ask them approximately how much would a find me and then proceed to give them that much amount of punches and kicks
@@sabinehahn9774Please donât judge of all by âenglishjonaâ. Plenty of decent respectful Brits, unfortunately âenglishjonaâ isnât one of them.
@@chrisd5964 completely agree with you, as a matter of fact, he probably is part of the minority. However, if you look at Amsterdam, Spain, the Balearic Islands - the vocal minority of Brits there quite often give the whole of Britain a bad name. And I don't deny that a minority of Germans do the same for Germany
Plenty of Brits don't want foeigners just wandering into their country. It just doesn't seem to have crossed their minds that the EU doesn't either.
Borders have two sides.
It's so bizarre to blame France for it. It is as if some media and mainly the government don't realize that GB is the island not France. They cut off themselves. This affects the UK way more than continental Europe beyond the inconvenience for those who for some particular reason need to reach the island.
Those who blame France know the truth, but don't want to admit that Brexit was an utter disaster.
Since they got away with lying for years, why stop now?
This situation was 100% accurately predicted before the Brexit vote.
Because it happened multiple times even before brexit
@@ccclcsr Not like this, and this will happen every time there's a surge of travellers around the holidays.
@@ccclcsr did you even watch the video? It really clearly explains the current problems.
Nonsense
Brits decided to travel CPTPP, but they forgot ...
@@ccclcsr There have often been reasons for delays in the past and that won't change going forward. but here we are discussing one particular set of delays and their cause. Entirely predictable.
Well they wanted a closed border , they got their wish. Itâs not Franceâs problem that we signed up to this.
They are LITERALLY On Strike and On Fire!
@@greatestytcommentator Please stop reading the express
@@Cheeseatingjunglista are they not?
If only the border were closed - no holdups for the little boats . . .
It's not goods, it's people. Harms their economy not the British.
Remember, it is ALWAYS (name the country / the EU / the foreigners) âs fault.
Or the last Labour government.
@@johnhollyoak9295 Or the future Labour government.
â@John Hollyoak not blaming the Tories who actually caused all this, is such Quitling logic. Your denial shows that you know it's the Tories, and that you voted for this, so you're blaming anyone else.
â@@b62boom1 I voted for brexit and what? I'll even go into detail for my reasoning. You clearly want to be in a dictatorship of the EU with having unelected beaurocrats decide the fate of you're own nation state
â@@longdongsilver1255and that's why everybody is very ok with the UK leaving
It's a classic Brit response from Alexis: "but can't we be exempt from those checks?"
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Why not? We're exempt from other things despite being in the EU.
Classic remainer masochism.
Punish us EU daddyyyyyy......
Alexis is Greek!
The answer is quite simple. If France doesn't want our kids to go there, stop sending them. We all know the only reason French is on the UK schools' curriculum is so that middle class teachers can have a nice holiday. Change it to Spanish. It's far cheaper to fly to Spain than go to France by coach and it knocks at least 15 hours of the journey.
And that's not me being a Francophobe, the British Council have been saying Spanish is more a useful language to know for a decade now.
@@oldbloke135 you are aware passports have to be stamped on exit and entry into the EU? And for Dover, this is done in Dover? And France asked the UK to build the facilities in Dover when the UK decided to leave the UK to allow for the additional task of stamping passports?
December 2020, the port of Doevr asked for ÂŁ33 million to eapand the number of checking booths.
The government supplied just ÂŁ33,000.
Donât worry, all those billions of pounds saved as promised by leaving the EU will be flooding in soon⊠any time nowâŠâŠ
They forgor one or two 0 đ€
@@Lostouille 3 0s
@@lenrman969 đđProving, if there was ever any doubt, that CONservatives are terrible at Maths & Finance!
@@Lostouille 0, 0, 0! They suffer from dyscalculia!đ”âđ«đ€đ€Ż
Well done Simon Calder, the only mainstream journalist so far to say that this chaos is entirely the fault of Brexit!!
yes, i mean ... of course, before we joined the eu huge queues where a fact of life right?
You might want to compare what the volume of traffic was then as compared to now.
He's gonna get the boot from the bbc soon...
Everyone will get a praise by blaming everything on brexit this day
@@ccclcsr in the same manner the EU was blamed for absolutely everything wrong in the UK (according to right wing media) prior to Brexit.
The good thing about being from NI is that all born in NI are citizens of both the UK and the ROI, so we all have both passports - including the DUP!
My father is Irish, so I also have an Irish passport. It makes traveling as easy as it was before 2021. Even at a quiet airport it takes like 4 times longer per person having their UK passport checked than someone with an EU one.
I'm in the DUP and the UVF. I have an Irish passport. Essential for importing/exporting drugs.
@@bastogne315 Enjoy your business, it is a sustainable money maker.
@@TalesOfWar Likewise, my mother was Irish and I claimed my passport, and boy am I glad I did. Even in Perpignan airport the delays for those on UK passports was difficult to observe. The man in front of me was renovating a house and hence crossing o and fro incessantly. so much so that it took nearly an hour to work out if he had overstayed or not.
What about their dinosaurs? đ
The government does have a perfect brexit solution to the brexit problem. Deny brexit has anything to do with it.
It's not perfect though, is it? Only the brain-dead believe them and that's not enough people to win a majority. If you're still looking for a Brexit benefit that's it.
There were never delays when half the country tried to go to France at the same time, before Brexit.
Right?
â@@fredmercury1314 Of course there were delays from time to time. They were almost never on the scale that is now routine.
@@fredmercury1314 : "half the country"? The number of vehicles travelling into Dover only corresponds to the number of advance ferry bookings - no more than a few thousand a day. The ferry operators and port authorities know how many are coming weeks ahead.
@@fredmercury1314 It's quite simple really. When you have to manually check every passport for each person going through the border, going through every page, checking it's stamped, then adding up the days to make sure it doesn't go beyond 90 within the last 180... it takes longer than showing them the page where you have your photo and date of expiration. Most of the time they didn't even check that, they just checked you actually had an actual passport to speed things up. They can't do that any more. When I've travelled to the continent since Brexit, even at quiet airports like Gothenburg, it still takes like 4 times longer to check someone with a UK passport than an EU one. They check your photo, dates (it has to have at least 3 months left on it, ie, those 90 days), check to see how many days you've been within the EU in the last 180 and they ask you a few questions like do you have a return ticket and somewhere to stay, how long you're intending to stay etc. It doesn't take that long, but when you multiply it by hundreds of people getting off flights compared to just checking if you have an in date passport and your photo matches you can easily see how such delays happen.
Everyone who voted for Brexit asked for this. Our government specifically asked for it by becoming a third country with a hard border. This is how it is for everyone not in the EU, they don't give us any different or special treatment. Membership advantages only apply to members.
I look back to the exciting and optimistic years that included the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Travel to and from the continent was a joy.
The current situation was bound to happen as a result of choices made in UK.
This happens every Easter holiday
The channel tunnel should never have been built the choice to leave the corrupt EU dictatorship is one of the best decisions we made as for the Tories sell out the U.K. public will deal with that one in future elections we have had enough of the demented lefts agenda.
@@firstname4865 There always was a little chaos at holiday time but the delays since brexit are on a different scale but by all means continue to live in denial.
@@fitzstv8506 sure they are, nothing to do with 13 million more people in the country ?
The channel tunnel was an amazing achievement. Now sadly I can see it being mothballed.
for UK citizens, you voted for it, you got it, live with it!
It angers me that Brexit has been a reality my whole adult life and yet I had absolutely zero say in it.
@@epender yes, you are not a French!
We are, thanks.
@@epender yup, unfortunately that boomer, racist generation that couldnât die sooner has absolutely wrecked the future of jobs, living and retirement because of their low IQ actions.
Not all of us did. I was only 24 when the vote happened, I could see it would be a disaster. Wisdom of old age, yeah right. Children have more intellect than these brexit gammons.
We asked for control of our boarder now we are telling the French how to control their boarder, go figure? Would we want the French to demand that we spend more money to control our boarder? As the commentator said we got what we asked for!
Border.
SPOT ON
Because we have given the French tax payers money to stop the illegals that are currently under no threat from leaving the French shores. But we all know that the French have been guiding most of them half way across the channel
The people voted to leave the EU and be in charge of their own affairs, in reality the tories made the UK a vassal state of the EU so the EU controls the UKs border policies, the UK has to defend the EU hence Poland and Ukraine, the UK has to still make payments to the EU, the EU can fish in UK waters, the crown just gave the EU NI with the windsor framework.
What's this we? If you were English, you'd be able to spell. You'd also have a basic understanding of English grammar.
Could this affect tourism revenues? As a Canadian visitor I loved zipping back and forth via ferry and Eurostar. Perhaps it would be easier to fly into the Schengen Area and stay there.
It's Easter. Everyone goes on holiday at Easter. đ
@@chrislansbury3618 yes, but 450 million people in 31 countries the EU single market have free movement, and this is why they have no delays at their borders, only the Brits voted to end their free movement, and now they are complaining about delays at the borderđ€Ą it is what you voted for
@@RainerMichelle After decades of no borders at all it seems a lot of Brexity types didn't really know how they work. All the while insisting they were critical.
The Brits did it to themselves. Fly to the continent.
@@chrislansbury3618 Maniacs go on holiday at Easter!
Who knew the U.K. benefited from freedom of movement đź
We voted for lack of freedom of movement. Why are people complaining?
They knew what they were voting for - increased food costs, a hit to their GDP, businesses closing down, businesses leaving the UK, less influence on the world stage, reduced investment, and longer delays entering the EU. As you say, they should be over the moon, they got it all!
you did?
I'm not
Well done to The Brexitears... Taking us all down with you.
This happens every easter
â@@firstname4865 does it.
Citation required from before brexit?
Do our food shortages happen every year?
What about our cost of living crisis?
Cast your mind back to the 1970's and you'll see the stupidity of your comment
@@NeilCWCampbell What about the EU's cost of living crisis? Try watching the German news.
@@philipareed really citation and comparison between how UK handing cost of living crisis and how EU handling it...as I not seeing our UK issues when I in Germany
Remember comparison must be comparable..you don't study much do you? .
And never forget. I'm not trying to convince you
The gift that keeps on givingâŠ
Given the damage Brexit is doing to the UK and its people, I call it the gift that keeps on taking.....
Very simply British people stay home. You ask for it. đ đ đ
Well said Simon what a sad insular country we have become âčïž
On what way are we insular?
go and live in frogland then Simon and Christopher
100% agree, itâs pathetic what weâre becoming
@@JohnSmith-ii9ci Never heard of frog land?
Can't say BREXIT elephant in the room
Itâs in the title of the video but generally yes the UK politcians donât talk about the effects of it, even those that opposed it. They should push back and point out negative effects
@@adrianbrown1492 Hey, it's what you voted for, leave means leave etc.
@@JHatLpool Anything to stay out of the EU.
@@markperrin8098 Well .... yes !
@@JHatLpool don't live in brexit land but we do worry
We, in the EU and before that in the common market have been working to make exchanges and travels as smooth and easy as possible and we made real progress (no borders between France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, no currency exchange needed, no duties, no roaming charges, etc). This is about CONVERGENCE.
In the meantime, Brexiters have done all they could to stop this Freedom of Movement by getting the hardest possible Brexit they could and reneging on many of their past commitments. This is all about DIVERGENCE. (Remember UKCA, phitosanitary rules, and all EU standards to be deleted?)
In the meantime, terrorist threats and war in Ukraine are a reality and so, border control is a very serious matter. France is doing EXACTLY what it is stipulated in agreements.
So the UK voted repeatedly to be out of the EU (2016, 2017, 2019) and sovereign and a third country and this is ITS ABSOLUTE RIGHT. The result are full checks at borders. Have you landed in Chicago or NY and have to wait 2 hours at the airport? (Happened to me many times). All these Brexiters WANTED IT and now they are moaning about it? and the preregistration for visas does not provide a shortcut. So it is fair to say it will get worse when full biometric checks are in place (supporsed to be in fall 2022 but postponed at UK's request.
Behind Gove, Johnson, Daives, Frost, Baker, Rees-Mogg, Farrage et al, were the goons at Tufton st.
They wrote Truss' insane budget for her and they drive this suicidal entry into the CPTPP.
Like most empires in human history the British empire was not defeated militarily - it rotted from the inside.
Along with layer of external plunder to come via CPTPP there is one last layer of plunder form the inside to come.
That is the freeports.
That will make the PPE plunder look like a picnic and will finish off this country for good.
Sounds all so dystopian. EU can take back all their undesirables they sent over on dinghies to the UK, through their open borders. Stop driving through Britain to Ireland via Europe and vis a vis. And leave our seas and fishing, which is what would have happened if we had a hard Brexit, but instead we got given a rotten deal in punishment for leaving with total compliance from our anti-Brexit woke WEF controlled government.
If you are a member club, and pay the annual fee, you get the perks that comes with it. When you leave the club, stop paying the fee, you lose the perks. If they kick you out for still using the clubs pool, and sauna, don't cry about it. It was your choice to leave.
A hard border with another country causes massive delays? And in other news, water continues to be wet. It's almost as if the whole EU membership thing was aimed at removing delays at borders.
And all we had to do is have unaccountable judges telling us what laws we could or could not pass
Yes, for millions of Africans and Middle Easteners.
@@thomasprice7893 instead of unaccountable tories using covid as an excuse to channell all our money into their friends' offshore bank accounts. Yeh, take back control!
@@thomasprice7893which laws are they?
@@QwadLuzr Brexit doesn't seem to have improved things for the UK on that front.
How strange that nobody saw this coming. If they had, we probably couldn't hear the warnings because of all those " Project Fear" people making too much noise.
Brexit means Brexit. This is what the 17.4 million majority (of 46 million eligible) people voted for.
It really does not matter who is at fault or what is to blame for the queues and delays, the truth of it is that this will keep happening and blame will keep being shared around but no one will take responsibility for fixing it. How can France be blamed for operating within the EU laws that the UK helped to put in place when they were members?
France can be blamed because THEY ARE NOT OPERATING EU LAWS. Go and look at t the way the Belgians and Dutch do this.
@@uingaeoc3905 Stop lying. The crossing at Dover is simply much more difficult because of the higher volumes. In other words, there are more people waiting to be processed at Dover-Calais than at IJmuiden-Newcastle.
Also, the French have asked for more space to do this(iow more douane personnel) & both the port of Dover & the UK government have turned this down. The boss of the Port of Dover is a tory stooge that sows misinformation on the tory party's behalf.
@@lauriewood3916 Watch out, the British don't like to be told they are not special.
@@uingaeoc3905 How can you compare with Belgium as that country has only one passenger ferry to the UK left, the Zeebrugge - Hull line ? With only one overnight crossing each day.
If that line even still exists, it was suspended during Covid.
@@LeafHuntress Not the point - as a French national here just commented to me that they have increased the area in Calais to handle this.
So my comments stand uncontradicted by you - an EU stooge.
just think about your statement for thirty seconds will you - why should the UK disrupt its own traffic leaving the country?
We used to enjoy our trips on the ferry to Dunkirk and the onward drive to see our relatives in central Europe. No more car trips for us, thanks to Brexit. Expensive trips on planes now for we pensioners. I curse all those that voted the wrong way, as they probably never went abroad.
Iâm starting to think this Brexit thing was a bad idea. Farage/Murdoch /Johnson wouldnât lie to us, would they?
And would the BBC let them get away with it?
â@Andrew Mitchell yes they did and the mugs that you British people are believed them when told leaving will not effect you you have your Sovereignty back and control of your laws money and borders that is what you voted for now get on with making Brexit work
Farage definitely.
They wouldn't dare đ
(say the people who took several safe and effective boosters)
Love Simon Calder, "be careful what you wish for".
Ships are sinking but the orchestra is amazing
It's great being Irish and able to swan around Europe with none of these worries. Ohhh LA LA
You sir/madam are engaging in Schadenfreude! God I wish I had the luck of the Irish! đ
Oh, I misread that, I thought you wrote ISIS. Who also swan freely around Europe.
@@QwadLuzr They also swan freely around the UK. So, jog on, son.
Salut, it is even better being Irish and a permanent resident en France!
You guys deserve itâ€
Everybody learns at school:
Brits love queuing!
Queue-Anon
well today they dont learn to think for themselves they do learn a lot about marxism nd globalism though.
Home school every time.
@@BradleyUK58 Don't fall for the oligarchs telling you that educating your children is somehow a 'socialist' nightmare... Ignorance and alienation work very well for them.
Of course, being free from the EU and its rules does not mean that you can enter the EU freely.
i used to go by ferry to the UK al least once a year as a tourist, 2022 was the last time i'm afraid, plenty of european countries where i'm welcome
When I was a child 1950's-1960's, we were cautioned to 'Look before you leap', 'Be careful what you wish for', 'You can't have your cake and eat it' and 'You made your bed, now lay in it'! This sage advice made me cautious & risk averse. UK seems to have thumbed its collective nose at such cautionary sayings, but like a spoilt child blames others for its predictable predicament. Holiday at home!
You were told a whole bunch of cliches?
Here's some more for you.
One good turn deserves another.
Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.
A stitch, in time, saves nine.
You can't make an omelette without breaking an egg.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
Never send a boy to do a man's job
Butter wouldn't melt in his/her mouth
Yabba dabba doo.
@@p.g.u.d I dumb down to suit the audience level!đ
@@noelryan6341
It comes very naturally to you.
@@p.g.u.d The really great British Education System of 1960's - 1970's has clearly by-passed you and your fellow-BREXITEER discontents!
@@noelryan6341
It's more of a ceiling than a floor. Dingbat.
We are just controlling our border with a foreign country. What's wrong with that ?
We know that, but the 52% just don't get it!! Ils sont les idiots!! (j'espere que ca est le mot juste!)
We? Are you talking of the UK or France?
Thank goodness we got Brexit done! Just think of the chaos we'd be in if Boris hadn't sorted it for us.
They told you it was going to happen, but no, you didn't believe them đ
At least it's still more difficult to get into the UK than it is to leave. Oh, wait...
I just got in and I travelled from Somalia. The easiest part was getting across the channel. Getting into Greece was the worst.
The dingy divers get in no problem,while legitimate people cant.Punish the Tories come voting time....
@@DJPaulgee1 um, you might need to pay taxes to get free health care:) and benefits? You kind of need a lot of papers and proof that you will work legally. You need to undergo a lot of things to get these two, my friend, as an asylum seeker :) the benefits are taken by brits. :)
â@@DJPaulgee1
Successful refugees get that in the EU.
In fact the benefits are better in France, Germany and the Nordic countries.
Yes, there's no true equivalent to the NHS but most have some form of state funded healthcare, even if it's insurance based.
The whole of Europe is easy to get in if its governments want you to get it.
Invaders don't get through the UK's leaky asylum border without getting through Southern Europe's first
If this government has the answer, it must be a damn silly question
This is hilarious. When you are part of the club, you can get in. If you're not part of the club you can't or you have to pay.. Is a simple concept! You left the Union. đ
Unfortunately the 52% missed that incredibly obvious fact of life!
yes now we Brits should take back our fishing grounds that would be fair we are a sovereign nation now we should also hold Macron and his government for allowing the people smugglers to enter the UK illegally all through the pandemic.
perhaps we Brits should start trading with the rest of the world.
@TuxedoBoy You really believe that the United Kingdom wasn't allowed to trade with the rest of the world before? You truly believe that the French were somehow taking your "fishing grounds," England decided, instead of being part of the biggest coalition of countries trading club to now go around the globe on the hopes to get the same goods and services you had before from your neighbors. You guys understand that driving on the truck to Europe from England is better than flying or navigating around the globe to some far away land that you believe the UK was "not allowed " to trade.
@@josuerodriguez9682
Yes the EU stole our fishing grounds and destroyed our fishing industry go do the research not to mention their role in encouraging illegal immigration into the UK ll through the pandemic.
Just think of these Brits as you call them that are lying many of your cemeteries that freed your country from the fascism your government now inflicts on their allies and even their own people.
The Eu lost one of their cash cows that's what really bothers them.
@@BradleyUK58
Youâve nothing to trade boy !!!
it's so strange to hear a british man accept the consequences of his actions...
It is somewhat baffling that people in the UK didn't think this was going to happen as a consequence of Brexit? This was completely obvious and known well in advance - it's not like this a new issue - any person from a 3rd country needs to go through passport control - the issue here was the complete lack of any highlighting of this and other similar issues to the British people during the Brexit debate - watching afar from Ireland, the man on the street over here knew that British peoples' access to Europe was going to be impacted by Brexit, but they didn't seem to know this themselves! astonishing really....
As a person who would travel to France regularly from Dover I was never waived through once because I was entering the Schengen Zone so for security reasons my entry into the zone had to be registered because if someone was waived through and then that person then went on to blow themselves up in a Paris shopping center there would be a outcry on why that person wasn't registered as entering the Schengen Zone because that could have raised a red flag that he was already a person of interest to another police force. So for that reason this idea that people could just be waived through is not correct because if that was the case then what would be the point of the Schengen Zone?
What does "waived through" mean and how is it different from "waved through"?
All the years I traveled, normally we would show our passports exactly as Simon Calder described on the video, normally they would quickly look at the photos but sometimes didnât bother and on a one of occasion the French post was unmanned.
It is mandatory to submit your passport details at the time of booking your crossing, and presumably these details passed on and you are under surveillance through the port, to confirm the occupants match the vehicle. When you check in, all occupants are checked your passports are processed which ferry companies were obliged to pass on, so you were more than registered as entering the Schengen zone. This was Clearly enough when we were a EU state, but now obviously all has to be done at the French immigration post which is time consuming.
@@glumonion1454 I have read comments from people who thought you didn't need to send your details before you traveled you just turned up at Dover and they would let you through which is because the UK and France was in the EU so they obliviously dont know what the Schengen Zone is and how it works . I live in a mainland EU country and travel back to the UK once a month so on my return trip I have seen non permit holders UK citizens being served by the passport control and it takes no more than a few minutes to ask them a question stamp their passport and them let them through and I have read comments from people who have also said the same thing flying into other EU countries so this idea that because we are now no longer in the EU is causing delays for UK citizens is not actually true because how could it be when the only difference to travel now is to just ask a person what is the purpose of their journey
@@davidsummer8631 When the UK was in the EU, there was freedom of movement. In other words, any UK citizen had the RIGHT to go to any EU country, and work and live there permanently. Because the UK was not in Schengen, you still needed a passport check but that was a formality. EU countries couldn't refuses access unless you were wanted by the police. They didn't have to check anything else. Schengen is exactly the same, except that checks are completely removed so the borders are completely gone. If you drive from the Netherlands to Portugal, there are ZERO checks in Belgium, France, Spain and then Portugal. After brexit, the situation is completely different. UK citizens have lost the right to freedom of movement, so they are treated as any other citizen in the world, which includes full border checks. This takes a bit longer than just checking who you are and if you are wanted or not. Sure, if there are enough booths and officers to do the checks, there wouldn't be a problem, but you cannot deny that because of brexit, passport checks take a bit longer, and so because of brexit, the current capacity to do the passport checks is not sufficient. Is brexit the cause of this? Yes, absolutely. Is it something that can be fixed? Yes, absolutely. Is this one of many examples of how the Tories didn't prepare the country for the consequences of brexit? YES!
@@janickpauwels3792 , yes, as a German, I Love the way I can drive all over the Schengen area, with absolutely no borders whatsoever. We went on holiday to northern Belguim two years ago. We started driving in Germany, then went to Netherlands, then to Belguim, then after a few days, we drove a few kilometres down the coast and ended up in France. Absolutely seamless movement. The only way you even know youâve entered another country is when you see the road signs in a different language. Iâd never want to give this freedom up.
Well done Brectums !
I went to Spain recently when I came back I was in a queue in the air port to go though customs a woman officer saw me in the queue and noticed my British passport she took me to a booth which was unmanned another officer went into the booth looked at my passport and waved me though (Why because I have a carte sejour ) I live in France Oh the joys of Brexit
Cool story
I am happy for you , enjoy your carte de sejour you applied for, you deserve THE PRIVILEDGE TO TRAVEL FREELY IN THE EU
Wow I bet that never actually happened did it?
Why don't they paddle with their British passports, it'll get them faster to the other side?
Won't the salt water fade that lovely sovereign blueness?
Despite what the interviewer implied, the ESTA system to enter the US does not exempt you from checks when going into the US or having your passport reviewed
and your fingerprints taken.
âThe EU is giving us what we asked for - third country statusâ. Very well explained. The EU is not trying to punish the Brits as some media sources would have you believe. And this is not yet the full Brexit.
Lol. Come on the eu itself is a third world countryđ€Łđ€Łlook at how backward most of the countries are. Would you also consider USA a third world country? Surely they get the same treatment as the UK when it comes to border control
Yet France keeps sending invaders in little boats . . .
People will have to decide, sit in a queue at Dover, or go elsewhere for your holiday.
It's basically like leaving a gym and moaning that we are not treated like a member anymore.
Once a country leaves the EU it is a third country.
Britain chose their path and this a self inflicted wound.
Suella Braverman said, its a bid unfair to blame it on BrexitâŠđ€š
So, as an American, let me understand this. Britain wants to be completely independent with no obligations to the EU, but then get frustrated when their holidays are inconvenienced at an international border they insisted upon? Incredible. Try entering or exiting the US over land borders, why shouldnât it be any different at the international border at Dover/Calais? Britain asked for this, the fact that they didnât seem to realize the potential inconvenience notwithstanding. Elections have consequences as we have learned on both sides of the pond.
The border isn't the issue, this is just the french being ignorant, why should britain put up with a bullying neighbour? This is why we left the EU the europeans hate us & have always been our historical enemies for a thousand years.
you are 100% correct. However, a lot of Brexiteer politicians lied about the consequences (or even believed themselves that they could cherry pick what they wanted from the EU) and a lot of voters didn't bother to verify the lies (or called those that did 'project fear' and 'remoaners').
Hold ups at Dover are not unusual. Iâve been stuck fkr several hours TWICE long before Brexit. Itâs not a hard thing to look up.
12 hours sat I a queue is unusual, but don't worry, the real queues will start once the biometric checks come in. These will be the good times.
You mean when strikes etc? All the additional passport checks which wouldn't have been needed under EU membership
Shhh...you can't mention that...this is all about Brexit and giving the Brits a chance to have a good old moan...which they love doing...đđđ
â@@leethrelfalllt no, it's actually about genuine facts, not half truths and idiotic takes. There were never massive queues when there were no staffing issues. Anyone who says that is a liar and/or an idiot.
And it's smug morons believing lies which got the UK into this mess.
I'm now in favour of iq tests for voting after what I've seen past few years.
@@problemchild1976 No, not during strikes, just because the French decided to be all French about something.
It's a nice change to see a government promise and deliver what the English electorate voted for.
But did they, I have many Brexit friends that were shocked to learn that they had only 90 days in every 180 in their European holiday homes. If you believe that democracy was served with 49% of the electorate dissatisfied than I disagree.
3rd country national rules âŠback of the queue
Our government insisted on implementing these restrictions on US! This wasn't advertised on the side of THAT bus! If it'll be around 10 minutes to process a car with 4 people, plus the 30 - 40 seconds gap between vehicles, how long for coaches with 50 or more? This hard brexit is an unfolding slow motion disaster!đ
I love how this Alexis guy asks in the end "but, but, but... can we not be exempted from the procedure?" Why, of course, Alexis!!! It should be done ASAP!!!! Just order your cake and then eat it and we'll get you another one immediately so you can have your cake and eat it too!!!
Dude, majority of Brits wanted out and then their government rejected all kinds of agreement proposals until the time ran out and until everyone in EU was fed up with Britain's unreasonable expectations. This is what you get when the people that don't travel outside their own towns decide how travel will be for the next generation. No desire to have proper information on what they are voting, but at least they stuck it to those awful EU bureaucrats!!!
One word Brexit
I've never just waived my passport to go to France been regularly travelling from Portsmouth for the last 13 years and border control have physically check my passport before I got on the boat and when I got off every single time for the last 13 years
I was frequently just waved through by French Border officials in Dover. The only people who gave me a hard time were British officialsâŠ.where are you going, why do you want to go there , how long are you going for ??? I was NEVER checked on entry in Calais EVER and I went back and forth for 15 years. Now it costs me an additional ÂŁ250 for an animal health certificate which is valid for 10 days, and invalid immediately on return to the U.K.
SAME!
Different level of checks now though
U maybe , but we don't even need to show it on. Border control before and now loom
As an Australian working in the UK, it was typical for my work mates from the UK to flash the photo in their passport and wait on the other side while I lined up for a minimum of 15 minutes to get stamped in. Often much longer. On the bright side, this is no longer necessary as all the clients we would visit on the continent have gradually gone elsewhere over the last two years - so we donât need to worry about passport control anymore. Every single client. German, Dutch, Polish, French, Danish and Portuguese. So the company has been laying people off due to the lack of contracts and Iâm going back to where I came from - Shocked and saddened at the unbelievable stupidity of the worldâs biggest self-own. I thought I knew the Brits pretty well but this insanity proves I have no idea. Iâm outa here, you lot are as mental as the Russians, luckily just not as violent.
"You're a Brexit government, push it through." - what, you mean the government that hasn't solved a single problem effectively in the last decade?
"Be careful what you wish for". Simon says right at the end. Another Brexit Benefit.
Bravo, truth and facts.. finally, consequence of action... welcome to Brexit Sir x
I am a huge fan of Simon Calder. Telling it as it is. I love the - "we asked for this" narrative....it's true, we did....
And they all thought they had the last say when they put the cross in the wrong box.
An old Italian adage goes; you wanted your bike, now pedal....
Last year when I went to spain and breezed through boarder meanwhile my wife and daughter had to queue for 2 hours ! When we went back to the UK I went to the French embassy and done my daughter passport and in January we went to spain and my wife had to queue for 1 hour and me and my daughter breezed through boarder I felt bad for my wife but it is what it is
âI'm British and we can still travel all over Europe. Don't consider stamping a passport as a major issue when I go anywhere. I'm a socialist anti Globalist so wages and employment rates of the people matter most to me.
Don't listen to the hype. It's designed to stop nations fearing leaving the EU.
I now live in Portugal much of my time. If they voted to leave I'd support them too.
I was a Remainer but when I studied the EU set up to persuade us to stay in it turned me to the Brexit camp.
Within a month of voting all UK papers reported a pay rise for the lowest paid and an unemployment drop for the first time in 25 years!!! I was SO pleased I changed my mind.
Truck drivers went back to work on LIVEABLE wages etc. The EU HAS to make it difficulties for UK but the majority low waged are much better off. GDP in UK is higher than Germany and USA together đđ
@@mikeedwards1096 You can still travel to the EU but you can't live there permanently anymore. Or at least that has become much more difficult. Low wages in the UK are not the fault of the EU. Proof: minimum AND average wages in countries like Germany or Belgium are higher than the UK. The EU never stopped the UK government to increase minimum wages. By the way, minimum wages in the UK are STILL lower than Belgium or Germany. Unemployment is at an all time low in the EU. Employers are desperate to find enough workers to fill the vacancies. This increases wages, but not in a good way. It also harms growth, as companies cannot grow as much as they could, simply because of a lack of people. The EU is not making it difficult for the UK. You did that all by yourself. You are now treated as any other non-EU country. Isn't that what you voted for? Note how many problems (Dover, empty shelves, lack of workers, more boat people,...) only started after brexit. We didn't hear you complain about any of those problems in 2019. Also note that shelves in the EU are currently (and always have been) full of tomatoes, of all kinds and sizes, at affordable prices. Remember when you were member of the EU and you could just walk into any supermarket and buy whatever you wanted? The reality is that brexit is not discussed in the EU anymore. It's not our problem. We don't need the UK and we are not harmed by brexit. It's so funny how NOBODY in the UK is satisfied with brexit. Remainers didn't want it in the first place, and brexitears are dissatisfied with how it was implemented. Meanwhile, the EU has moved on...
And your point is? 'Border', by the way.
@@acjdf My point is Brexit Britain is in the mud nwith zero growth , crazy food inflation, sewage dumping all over the place ........
Ahh, the Oven Ready Deal. Looks like we've cooked our Goose chaps, nice one Boris et al. How's that feeling of isolationism working out ?!!
Boris et al live in the EU and have moved their businesses there, which I strongly recommend to GB businesses
It would be feeling great, if we actually had control over our borders and didn't still have to answer to the EU.
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The gift that keeps on taking, Brexhsh3t! Bon voyage mes amis
The corruption that keeps corrupting.
The peeuugh.
Bexit will go down in history as one the STUPIDEST moves ever. đ Congrats MO RONS
The 2 stupidest move is to sign up for corporate plunder in the CPTPP racket.
There is no going back now.
(Notice the US is staying well out of it).
Farming bankruptcies will begin before Christmas.
We can blame Putin maybe?
By the way, Friday, March 31 was the day that European Social Fund support for UK community groups and charities ended.
The Johnson government promised that money would be replaced by money from the "Shared Prosperity Fund."
This once again will hit the poorest in the country.
Many charities like women's refuges are going to close. It is about to get much uglier.
Suella Braverman says its got nothing to do with Brexit. So letâs see what ChatGPT has to say. This is itâs response: âYes, the border queues in Dover are related to Brexit. After the UK left the European Union, new border controls were implemented, which have led to longer waiting times for vehicles crossing between the UK and EU.â Any chance we can replace the UK government with Ai⊠seems like its has more integrity?
Do you actually understand what exactly ChatGPT is? It isn't A.I able to answer questions like that...
The Little Englanders have never had any inspiration to travel, trade, or to generally expand their horizons.
A lot of Brooklyn Bridges were sold, but there was no bridge.
WHEN YOU DEPART FROM EUROPEâŠ..YOU HAVE TO GET BACK TO EUROPEâŠ..BY THERE RULESâŠâŠSIMPLE
Britain didn't leave Europe, it left the political organisation called the EU
This describes the situation at Dover but what is it like for the other cross channel ports Newhaven, -Portsmouth? Then there are the longer routes from Harwich or Newcastle to the Netherlands as well as Plymouth to northern Spain. What happens there?
Exactly the same, except there may be far fewer people crossing, so the process is that much quicker.
Takes about 2 hours each way with passport checks instead of 20 minutes
Iâll be interested to see when I go to France later but I have my Irish passport but my husband doesnât have one so I canât skip the queue sadly.
@@amayastrata4629 Get him an Irish passport then.
@@maxinlux6570 MISINFORMATION -it is NOT the same at all.
I got a flat tyre yesterday.......and I'm convinced if we had remained in the EU this would not have happened.
Actually that's not too far from the truth, most flat tyres come from badly cleaned or maintained roads, the government that took you out of the EU, that most voted for to get Brexit done, also have a policy of low taxes for the rich and austerity for the rest of us resulting in local authorities with no funds to repair roads. They do say what goes round comes round!
@@teddyboysdontknit810 Lol, what a bunch of twaddle.
Brexiteers wanted their border controls back BUT ask the French to help with migrants. Brexiteers wanted their border controls back but blame the French for cheking out the passports. Bexiteers need mental care
I don't see why the French should increase their border staff, and allocate extra resources for something that isn't their problem
In other words, you asked for it, deal with it...
Quite right. Brexit made this mess and a mess it will stay.
Afaik the French are ready to put more agents at the border but the facilities at Dover are just too small
I agree, itâs not their issue its ours.
Gee! Red tape holding up travel! Who would have thought it.
Let's abolish freedom of movement.
That seems to have worked.
There was a comment that the "lorries had been cleared". I don't suppose there were many of those on a Friday as they cannot use the roads in France on the weekend! That wasn't mentioned by anyone.
10,000 lorries a day dross the channel.
Each has 1 passport to check.
A coach could have 100 passports to check.
The port of Dover begged the government for ÂŁ33 million to vastly increase the check in kiosks
The government stumped up $33,000.
0.1% of what was necessary.
Quelle domage.
@@lenrman969 Trucks over 7.5 tonnes are forbidden to drive on French roads on the weekend unless they are delivering perishable goods. I doubt that many trucks use the ferries from the UK on a Friday night because of that which makes the situation last Friday all the more amusing.
@@daveroberts1 that depends. If they have to go to Belgium or the Netherlands they can quickly get to that border and then drive on. From Calais to the Belgium border is only about 1 hour in a lorry from the moment they get out of the port, and maybe double that if they don't use the moterway. And I thought that this ban on trucks was only on Sunday, not Saturday (and public holidays).
Brexit has made me a 2nd class traveller in my own continent.
Most of the people on earth cant roam around freely in their own continent
â@@ccclcsr So why choose to lose something many people could only dream of having?
You can always go and live on Your continent.
@@jjwatcher I already do as do you if you are in the UK. Unless you think the UK is part of the americas?
"your continent' - arrogant pr!ck. It isn't your continent and this isn't the EU's island.
But we feel Freer - don't we ?
Yes, we're getting there. It's all a learning process, so this time next year France knows to up the staffing level for the weekend before Easter.
Easily done with goodwill on both sides.
@@darrenowen3338 wow ! Itâs so easy then. Whoopi
Well I do.đ€Ł
@@darrenowen3338 why should they đ€·ââïž if the UK want to pay for it then maybe, otherwise tough đ© itâs what 52% voted for.
@@hoofhearted1102 Why are you so upset we left?
Last year it was Brexit. People were surprised by the amount of time it took to clear customs. This year it is government incompetence, they failed to invest in facilities (as per the French suggestion)
Free to misrule ourselves?
Bro the queues are effectively the same Dover's been like this for over a decade
@@randomlygeneratedname No there not I'm a frequent traveler Dover was built and expanded for Roll On Roll Off there isn't the room to expand to a full check system
@@SlowhandGreg the queues were bad even then
The port of Dover's pleas for help were ignored.
Good luck! Hope you get it sorted out. Thank you đ
Remember travelling in Europe before EEC/EU? If not, that is exactly what you got now. đ
It's like trying to teach a dog to meow - it's just not in Brexiteers' nature to admit fault.