Dover Ferries : Long Delays

Last year when returning, we got held up due to the French not stamping our passports on the way through the tunnel. I was asked for my French residency visa when returning, I don’t have one. You must have one, you live in France. Although I would love to live in France at present, I don’t. You have been here 57 days!!

Thorough checks on how many days we had spent in Europe since travelling and passport marked accordingly.

This year, passport stamped a Folkestone by the French, bon vacates and off we went.

Travel booked to avoid the rush.
 
We used to live in a democracy. All I expected from politicians, from any party, is they did they best for the good of the country and showed honesty and integrity. Not much to ask really.

Now, f*ck me. UK politics is a huge cesspit of lies, corruption, zero accountability, personal gain, for the few not the many. Controlled by a very small % of rich, white RW billionaires who have been ally to Becky more powerful than the governments they now control

And moving forward, the worry is we have gone over the edge, the honesty and integrity expected of our politicians is now perceived as a sign of weakness so lying and deceit is fully expected. Where the country goes from here ......🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
 
Maybe the 6 week school holidays should be staggered for different areas, that might ease the annual queues.
 
Stocko said:
Maybe the 6 week school holidays should be staggered for different areas, that might ease the annual queues.
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You don't need to do that Stocko. Just seen live feed from Dover and the cars are currently flowing straight in. The conclusion - don't travel at weekends. Travel out Monday, Tuesday etc. and go early or late.
 
Stocko said:
Maybe the 6 week school holidays should be staggered for different areas, that might ease the annual queues.
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Or maybes we should reverse brexit? That would be a quicker, more economically intelligent way to reverse this problem. Or join Schengen. Which I would really love. Because it would still mean brexit but all the bigots who voted for it would be apoplectic with rage
 
Zoophonic said:
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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Moaning?? They and the rest of the “Little Englanders” will be apoplectic with rage when they finally think they’ve made it through to then get sent for a secondary security check, only to find that a high percentage of those working there seem awfully similar to those poor people coming across the Channel in dinghies.
 
WoodallServices said:
Moaning?? They and the rest of the “Little Englanders” will be apoplectic with rage when they finally think they’ve made it through to then get sent for a secondary security check, only to find that a high percentage of those working there seem awfully similar to those poor people coming across the Channel in dinghies.
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That last sentence sounds awfully "Britain first" I hope I've read it wrong
 
SmallTown said:
That last sentence sounds awfully "Britain first" I hope I've read it wrong
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Yes you have, that’s why I especially put “similar” rather than are for people looking for offence. As I travel through there once sometimes twice a week I know in fact they are……..all legitimate…..but as they live around the Dover area they would look for work somewhere that employs a lot of people.
What’s annoying ST is you’ve been on enough threads with the rest of us regulars on here to know well enough which side of the fence other posters stand on certain issues!
 
SmallTown said:
Or maybes we should reverse brexit? That would be a quicker, more economically intelligent way to reverse this problem. Or join Schengen. Which I would really love. Because it would still mean brexit but all the bigots who voted for it would be apoplectic with rage
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As much as I would like to see Brexit reversed, these queues were happening long before Brexit happened.

I was one who could only travel during the school holidays and have previously had to sit in the Euro Tunnel queues.

The wife and I soon learned to travel very early of that weekend or the Monday afterwards.

Brexit certainly hasn’t helped but it isn’t the only factor contributing to it.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
As much as I would like to see Brexit reversed, these queues were happening long before Brexit happened.

I was one who could only travel during the school holidays and have previously had to sit in the Euro Tunnel queues.
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I've lived in Ashford for 20 years. Since brexit it has been far far worse. Project Brock is a regular occurrence since brexit, we have a fuqin great big lorry park and yet we still have lorries at the side of the roads in the industrial estates because it's full. In the last 2 years we've had tailbacks from Dover to Maidstone on at least 4 occasions and they don't clear for a week. You can kid yourself that this used to happen before, but the reality as a resident of Ashford, is that it didn't, not to these levels or anywhere near it.

I also used to work for HMRC and saw what a mess it was trying to sort out CHIEF, they've done that, but it simply wasn't ever going to simplify a complex problem to the levels that the MPs claimed at the time. The infrastructure in dover and at the tunnel wasn't designed for the workload required as a non-EU member, the road systems creek as the queues build and the workarounds are inadequate.

Brexit has messed up this little part of the world.
 
BoroMart said:
I've lived in Ashford for 20 years. Since brexit it has been far far worse. Project Brock is a regular occurrence since brexit, we have a fuqin great big lorry park and yet we still have lorries at the side of the roads in the industrial estates because it's full. In the last 2 years we've had tailbacks from Dover to Maidstone on at least 4 occasions and they don't clear for a week. You can kid yourself that this used to happen before, but the reality as a resident of Ashford, is that it didn't, not to these levels or anywhere near it.

I also used to work for HMRC and saw what a mess it was trying to sort out CHIEF, they've done that, but it simply wasn't ever going to simplify a complex problem to the levels that the MPs claimed at the time. The infrastructure in dover and at the tunnel wasn't designed for the workload required as a non-EU member, the road systems creek as the queues build and the workarounds are inadequate.

Brexit has messed up this little part of the world.
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I’m not saying none that isn’t the cause of Brexit and understand it’s spiralled out of control with the wagons parked up on the approach roads. Something I found daunting when I first seen it and must be a nightmare for locals.

What I am saying and I am sure you would agree, is that during the first school holiday weekend there was always large queues of families trying to get through the tunnel. This part isn’t something new and solely down to Brexit.

All major routes to holiday destinations are crippled that weekend. I am sure the M4 and the approach routes to Devon and Cornwall will have seen there busiest weekend of the year. Bristol was always a nightmare to get past.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
As much as I would like to see Brexit reversed, these queues were happening long before Brexit happened.

I was one who could only travel during the school holidays and have previously had to sit in the Euro Tunnel queues.

The wife and I soon learned to travel very early of that weekend or the Monday afterwards.

Brexit certainly hasn’t helped but it isn’t the only factor contributing to it.
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It’s a shame everybody doesn’t have a brain, we came off the tunnel late Friday with the M20 eastbound a car park with traffic for the tunnel and ferries. Once we got further on barely a car in sight. I said to my wife you would have thought anyone due to travel tomorrow having watched the news all day would be thinking……right get the gear in the car now we’re off!! No….they will have just trundled on down then sat in queues for half a day moaning that the backlog hadn’t been cleared.🙄
 
exiledinboro said:
No we voted to leave but had not chosen to leave the SM/CU at that point

It is 100% the conservative voters who voted for a hard brexit and Johnsons deal who are responsible

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That's just a desperate way of trying to absolve yourself from the fact you were lied to during brexit. It won't wash: you voted for Brexit you need to own it.
 
Simon Calder (travel expert) is trying is hardest to explain to those who blame the French how it is in fact, us getting exactly what we voted for. 3rd Country status.

But no, how dare the French enforce their own boarder control.
 
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