The Brexit Thread

[ursus arctos]

The county council is delivering 200 more

[Amor de Cosmos]

I think the Government's reasonable worst case Brexit planning scenario was that there'd be a need to handle 5-7000 queued lorries, and once all the elements of the Kent traffic management plan are in place there'll be capacity for 9000. This is quite a useful dry run tbh.

Is it true there's only one portable toilet for all the drivers?

[Eggchaser]

Good on the local Sikh temple in dishing out 800 lentil curries to help feed the drivers, but I worry that it's going to end up like the scene with the cowboys round the campfire in Blazing Saddles.

[San Bernardhinault]

Yeah. I'd view this as the actual run, but with a bit of a convenient excuse- and virus to blame - for when it turns out to be a monstrous fuck-up and that they hadn't actually planned for anything

[Ginger Yellow]

Not sure it counts as a dry run if it's a little over a week before the actual run, and many of the remaining days are holidays. This is just starting the actual run early.

[Third rate Leszno]

I think the Government's reasonable worst case Brexit planning scenario was that there'd be a need to handle 5-7000 queued lorries, and once all the elements of the Kent traffic management plan are in place there'll be capacity for 9000. This is quite a useful dry run tbh.

[Antepli Ejderha]

This reminds me of the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1341345938124771328

I've just seen this on Twitter and was going to share but you beat me to it.

How many HGVs are we talking about here? it's clearly hundreds. Is this going to be the new norm or will things get worse?

[Snake Plissken]

Don’t bother resisting. It’s just as funny if they don’t notice.

[Eggchaser]

https://twitter.com/matthewchampion/status/1341357568606744577

I really have to resist the urge to say "Top. Men." whenever someone asks me who.

[Duncan Gardner]

That's not even the most ridiculous Torygraph headline this week:

https://twitter.com/thhamilton/status/1339639229362692104

My favourite: 'French PM was Trotskyist with Afro hair' (the guy who looked a bit like Randy Newman. Jospin?)

[Snake Plissken]

This reminds me of the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

https://twitter.com/matthewchampion/status/1341357568606744577

[Eggchaser]

I thought that Michael Howerd was going to send gunships or something?

Maybe we can stretch to a pedalo with a crack two man team armed with spud guns?

[Snake Plissken]

I think that you will find that the 2020 British Truck Racing Grand Prix series is off to a fabulous start. Look at the size of that starting grid!

[Diable Rouge]

This reminds me of the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1341345938124771328

[Snake Plissken]

I thought that Michael Howerd was going to send gunships or something?

[ad hoc]

Gibraltar looks set to become part of Schengen. UK citizens will undergo full passport controls (performed by the EU under Frontex) if they arrive by air, but the land border will be open

https://elpais.com/espana/2020-12-21...html?ssm=TW_CC

[Diable Rouge]

Ireland to join the Schengen police database just as the UK loses access to it.

[Ginger Yellow]

That's not even the most ridiculous Torygraph headline this week:

https://twitter.com/thhamilton/status/1339639229362692104

[Nefertiti2]

To be fair to the Tories and their ilk, I've really started to admire the internationalism and universalism of their outlook.

The sooner everyone realises that it's the rest of us that need to understand that we are the ones with the problem.because we're looking at issues in the wrong way the better, what what.

It gets better

https://twitter.com/L_J_Brutus/status/1339989513704239107?s=20

[gt3]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...m-sandwich-ban

The law of unintended consequences bites lorry drivers in the proverbial (if not in their cheese and ham sandwiches). It's all these little details which no-one (myself included) ever thought about when this (Brexit) was done to us - and I say one to us deliberately. I had absolutely no part in it happening.

[Kowalski]

To be fair to the Tories and their ilk, I've really started to admire the internationalism and universalism of their outlook.

The sooner everyone realises that it's the rest of us that need to understand that we are the ones with the problem.because we're looking at issues in the wrong way the better, what what.

[Diable Rouge]

Didn't take them long to forget BoJo's own affliction.

[San Bernardhinault]

Holy crap.

I can only presume from their logic that the British PM having covid much earlier indicates that the British (English) government has even more astounding arrogance. I think that's what the Telegraph is sayng, right? That all their accusations against the French are multiplied when applied to the English?

[Nefertiti2]

The British press

https://twitter.com/telegraph/status/1339953323848454149?s=21

[Diable Rouge]

As in Dover, Holyhead/Caergybi has seen much stockpiling in advance of New Year's:

https://twitter.com/DarranMarshall/status/1339838191583584257