Off Topic The Politics Thread

thats my job
get your own

 

We had passport control on the French side, before brexit...and the English staff commuted there every day.

Not much has changed except everything is now checked... it was what we ( well some of you, not me) voted for.

Brexit is done, you got what the people wanted, to get back control of out borders... huzzah...get over it

 

Because they can't do their job properly, which impacts French lorry drivers and tourists too, which will revert to crossings to Holland or Belgium and damave the French economy.

France benefits from tourism from the UK.

 

Ah, yes. That must be why net immigration last year was over a quarter of a million. But then, you want the whole world to come in.

 

Brexit is a contributing factor. It's also true that half the French didn't turn up for work and the EU still have a punishing attitude to the UK.

 

Of course it's a factor, that and the infrastructure not being bothered with. I wonder why its still so busy now that the French are fully manning their stations. I'm sure we can and will find someone else to blame

 

Nadine Dorries on the radio.

****ing hell, nasty and stupid is a horrible combination.

 

I’m sure she must be a parody? Surely?

(what’s with all this ‘radio’ nonsense… I thought we both referred to it as the ‘wireless’?)

 

It was just a joke, dear.

 

Waiting times are down now the French are working. Queues on the busiest vacation days of the year will be reduced when passport control is computerised and people realise there are departure ports available (Southampton, Plymouth etc) other than Dover and Folkestone.

 

So was mine. I don't really think you want the whole world in. But now you've got me wondering...

 

Uk border officials in Calais don't commute daily. They work long shift patterns and stay in local French hotels

 

The whole world doesn’t want to live here. It’s a stupid gammon argument to justify **** immigration policies which ignore the fact we have an ageing indigenous population.

 

Yeah, that's the wokies argument. But Uk population in 1950 was 50 million. Now it's 67.5 m. How do you fit that into your argument?

 

This isn’t a densely-populated country. If successive governments hadn’t used immigration as a weapon and had focussed on the infrastructure required for a population growing under 0.5% per year then it wouldn’t be an issue.

 

The south-east of England is highly densely populated, and England is beaten in Europe only by the Netherlands which has become one big suburb. At the moment we are taking immigrant totals the size of the city of Birmingham every 3 or 4 years.

 

What part has this 'fantastic' brexit deal has effected it?

 

Brits are now third parties re EU. So the time taken processing passports and wet stamping is a bit longer, though computerisation will reduce this. In return, we don't have to pay £10 billion service fees each year and EU citizens do not have a legal right to come and live here.

 

Hence the que at Dover.

 

Que?