Dover Ferries : Long Delays

Ziggy said:
The M20 tailbacks, mainly affecting lorries, have occurred before Brexit, bad weather and strikes and various reasons. That was operation Stack. There is now a more or less permanent situation, Operation Brock.
They have altered the road flow arrangements with new bollards, some concrete, it just looks permanent like it’s expected to last for a long time, a very long time.
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Message to the south of England residents ;

Go north and come to Yorkshire for your holidays
That mess ain’t going to get better as brexit has consequences
Yorkshire is just as nice as France and you won’t need your fabulous new blue passport!!!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
Just say IF France is doing this deliberately I would suggest that this government's approach to post-Brexit negotiations has played a massive part in this. The UK’s relationship with the EU is at a all time low
 
I drove over 3 4x4s to Ukraine on different trips via Dover and it was straightforward. Only once was I asked for my Covid passport and I was never held up for more than 15 minutes. I just don't what has changed in the last 8 weeks? They are being more thorough in checking vehicles and I guess more people leaving the UK for a holiday? Our ferries were always after 10pm, so maybe that as well?
 
sadgit said:
I drove over 3 4x4s to Ukraine on different trips via Dover and it was straightforward. Only once was I asked for my Covid passport and I was never held up for more than 15 minutes. I just don't what has changed in the last 8 weeks? They are being more thorough in checking vehicles and I guess more people leaving the UK for a holiday? Our ferries were always after 10pm, so maybe that as well?
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You comprehensively answered your own question there.



Do lots of factories still close down for the same two weeks every year still? I never quite understand why people have to get away on the first day of the school holidays. I appreciate some have to but if I had school age children I’d wait a few weeks before travelling on a channel ferry. Or at least to midweek.
 
Cardiffdaffs said:
Do lots of factories still close down for the same two weeks every year still? I never quite understand why people have to get away on the first day of the school holidays. I appreciate some have to but if I had school age children I’d wait a few weeks before travelling on a channel ferry. Or at least to midweek.
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Absolutely this. I suppose there are limits on when people can take time off work but if that were the case then every weekend throughout the summer would be the same and that is clearly not the case.
 
Brian Marwood said:
52% of people in that queue for hours and hours should be feeling quite smug.
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Can you guarantee that 52% of the people heading to France voted for Brexit?

Like me, I would think the majority heading to France would have voted to remain.

That’s just a cheap Brexit shot.

On another note, I traveled over on 6h July at 13:20, I had completed all my API before leaving Teesside and had no issues going through. In fact, our train wasn’t supposed to be until 15:00.
 
Are more people that usual travelling?

I get the feeling some people are travelling more to make up for lost overseas holidays in 2020 and 2021. Many seem the coping with Cost of Living crisis but are not broadcasting the fact.

Then there were the horror stories about airports which could have pushed more to car on holiday in their car.

Add in the Covid horror stories and need to avoid other people, which could have pushed some into travelling in their own car and avoiding "unwashed" at airports.
 
We voted (collectively) to end free movement of people. Great to see we have taken back control of our borders.
 
Start of the school holidays and there’s queues at the access to ferry and channel tunnel?
Been across a couple of times at this time of year, always the same, and always had to show our passports 😏
This year we avoided the queues by going across out of the school holidays. 👍🏻😏
 
An elderly rather grumpy retired couple on the news this morning moaning at the French because they had missed their cruise start in Germany. As a retired couple they had no need to book a holiday in the first weekend of the school holidays - no forward planning whatsoever. Why don't these reporters challenge these people.
 
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