Off Topic Christmas, Boris and hypocrisy ...

[Sunderpitt]

I thought most of our food from overseas comes by boat.. containers and ate then trucked out from there, or by air!

 

[Smug in Boots]

I thought most of our food from overseas comes by boat.. containers and ate then trucked out from there, or by air!

The PM referred to the 80% of driverless freight as the 'vast majority' which is more hyperbole. (A vast majority iis actually 90+)

That 80% of containerised goods is generally non perishable items such as car parts, Chinese electrical goods, etc. The remaining 20%, carried in lorries, is more likely to be perishable goods such as Italian tomatoes, Spanish citrus fruits, French vegetables, etc.

 

[Makemstine Roger]

A crisis should never be a tit for tat red v blue affair, I'm not affiliated to any party so don't have this automatic defence response. I'd be appalled at any government claiming these lorry parks had been planned over many months only to see the Salvation Army arrive with basic necessities.

I had a little transport company, called RediToGo, and know how brutal Dover-Calais is at the best of times. Me and Mrs Smug used it as free travel from Nice to Nottingham and back. People may believe modern trucks have water beds, Sky TV and hot tubs but many, like ours, have nothing but a radio.

To sit in a transit van for 3 days and nights would be an absolute nightmare.

did Macron ever ban you before from crossing

 

[rooch 3]

There will be food shortages.

Trucks from Europe, carrying goods, won't risk going to the UK and getting stuck ...

... they'll just sell their produce cheaper on the continent.

The UK will really suffer.

I would imagine our lads will now be bright enough to do the same so we will be fine. The Froggies can stick there garlic up their hoops.

 

[Makemstine Roger]

The PM referred to the 80% of driverless freight as the 'vast majority' which is more hyperbole. (A vast majority iis actually 90+)

That 80% of containerised goods is generally non perishable items such as car parts, Chinese electrical goods, etc. The remaining 20%, carried in lorries, is more likely to be perishable goods such as Italian tomatoes, Spanish citrus fruits, French vegetables, etc.

we should demand a refund of our monthly 1 billion bill, for him stopping foreign drivers going back home for xmas that Macron has some neck on him

 

[Smug in Boots]

did Macron ever ban you before from crossing

We had to run a blockade at Calais once but that was port employees acting up ...

... I just put my foot down and drive straight at the barricade.

Mrs Smug was well impressed!!!!

 

[Smug in Boots]

I would imagine our lads will now be bright enough to do the same so we will be fine. The Froggies can stick there garlic up their hoops.

In what way?

 

[Makemstine Roger]

We had to run a blockade at Calais once but that was port employees acting up ...

... I just put my foot down and drive straight at the barricade.

Mrs Smug was well impressed!!!!

i was thinking more when the frog fishermen did a blockade or when the French farmers did one, time to tell the twat to f off

 

[Smug in Boots]

we should demand a refund of our monthly 1 billion bill, for him stopping foreign drivers going back home for xmas that Macron has some neck on him

It won't happen though, this was all totally predictable ...

... this will be a decade of 'yes buts' tbh.

 

[Smug in Boots]

i was thinking more when the frog fishermen did a blockade or when the French farmers did one, tell to tell the twat to f off

Calais has us by the bollocks now mate, no going back.

 

[rooch 3]

In what way?

Turn round and sell the food in our own stores cheaper seeing as we are all starving.

 

[Makemstine Roger]

It won't happen though, this was all totally predictable ...

... this will be a decade of 'yes buts' tbh.

how was it predictable while we are still in negotiations for him to ban his own trucks going back to France for a new corvid strain that was from South Africa, and only spotted by the British as we have the technology to detect it, same as Novichoik, Ebola Aids and Monkey pox

 

[rooch 3]

Calais has us by the bollocks now mate, no going back.

I think that’s supplies they want not the other way round mate

 

[Smug in Boots]

I think that’s supplies they want not the other way round mate

But what do we have they can't live without?

 

[Makemstine Roger]

Calais has us by the bollocks now mate, no going back.

if my memory is correct Frogs have blockaded us 4 times now and its never really hurt us

 

[rooch 3]

But what do we have they can't live without?

Whatever is in them 6000 lorries I would guess or they wouldn’t be going there.

 

[Makemstine Roger]

But what do we have they can't live without?

the 1 billion a month we pay to the EU

 

[Makemstine Roger]

the 1 billion a month we pay to the EU

AND THE FISH LETS NOT FORGET 150 MILLON IN FREE FISH

 

[Makemstine Roger]

I dont see DH4 liking every one of Smugs posts if its anything to do about decisions the Tories have made, don't think he loves you anymore mate funny lad that one bit creepy

 

[rooch 3]

When the 6000 lorries don’t arrive in France with the goods they want because of their government let’s see how long it lasts before they kick off, don’t worry it won’t be long.