Dover. It's what we wanted.

[Notch7]

Quite simply, they didn’t. And they probably didn’t care either. Anyway, they are doing away with stamping passports in November.

EES will create more delays.

and I doubt if tomatoes will be available at all by then

 

[Brigadier]

I'm trying to do the maths but not sure I've got it right. On a busy day I think about 30,000 passengers in vehicles sail to the continent from Dover. There are 6 border control booths. Say each passport, after Brexit, takes an extra fifteen seconds to check and stamp. This would take an extra 312.5 hours. So, divided by 6 control booths, that's an extra 52 hours needed at each booth. If this maths is right, I think they're doing a really good job to keep the queue to 18 hours!

30000 passengers per day, through 6 booths.
5000 through each booth then.
15 seconds extra each.
1 additional minute for 4 passengers.
1250 additional minutes per day per booth then.
21hrs extra?
(done over pint of Hobgoblin Gold, in t'battle cruiser)

 

[Notch7]

done over pint of Hobgoblin Gold

But how many beer mats scribbled on

 

[JonathanM]

21hrs extra?
(done over pint of Hobgoblin Gold, in t'battle cruiser)

Yes, thanks, your calculation is definitely correct. I can see now I made a very silly mistake I'm having one of those days!

 

[Brigadier]

But how many beer mats scribbled on

None, but attracted strange looks with my eyes averted upper left, and tongue poking out a bit....

 

[Brigadier]

Yes, thanks, your calculation is definitely correct. I can see now I made a very silly mistake I'm having one of those days!

You're not Les the barman, are you?

 

[JohnD]

JDs failed to mention it's put his nose out of joint, that's got to be a Brexit bonus.

Tw@.

 

[Mottie]

I guess you don't understand the 'biometric' bit about your passport then

But imagine a time when that totting up of your 'travel allowance' wasn't necessary...

How much easier would that be?

I can imagine a time when us Brits didn’t even need to show a passport to the French when we travelled there. I think they started giving us unchecked and unlimited access on 6th June 1944 and stopped it on 8 May 1945.

 

[JonathanM]

30000 passengers per day, through 6 booths.
5000 through each booth then.
15 seconds extra each.
1 additional minute for 4 passengers.
1250 additional minutes per day per booth then.
21hrs extra?

The extra 15 seconds per passenger was based on something I read from a spokesman for Dover port. Based on last summer and this weekend, 21 hours would be about right. I wonder whether the French are being awkward, or whether an extra 15 seconds is actually needed for the additional processes they need to carry out. It's a long time since I used a passport, so I can't really remember what's involved.

 

[JohnD]

The extra 15 seconds per passenger was based on something I read from a spokesman for Dover port. Based on last summer and this weekend, 21 hours would be about right. I wonder whether the French are being awkward, or whether an extra 15 seconds is actually needed for the additional processes they need to carry out. It's a long time since I used a passport, so I can't really remember what's involved.

It was Brexers that chose to make travel between UK and EU more difficult.

 

[gant]

Not the administrators then, brexers then, as mixed up thinking goes that's right up there.

 

[JohnD]

Not the administrators then, brexers then, as mixed up thinking goes that's right up there.

In your crazy mind, who do you think it was that chose to resign from the EU?

And wanted the hardest possible Brexit?

 

[ellal]

Not the administrators then, brexers then, as mixed up thinking goes that's right up there.

Typical brexiteer mentality...

They wanted to 'take back control of our borders' and then have a hissy fit when the EU simply apply the rules that the UK helped write

 

[gant]

So it's not the French being awkward or the British relying on a port that's not fit for purpose at peak times. It's brexers who are the administrators, which seems a bit bat **** crazy to me.

 

[securespark]

Tell anyone that wants to get some tomatoes to get up Sainsburys, Hornchurch. Or Lidl. Or Marks', Waitrose, Co-Op or Aldi in Upminster. They’re drowning in them.

Did our usual regular shop in Aldi the other day: no eggs. Not a sausage. Tomatoes, only 4 packs.

Our Sainsbury's Local was out of eggs and salad the other day. Really annoyed me as I was looking forward to an egg salad sandwich....

Some supermarkets have supplies up here, but many suffer interruptions in their supply chain.