Another Brexit Benefit For Easter,

gulliver1 | 12:03 Fri 29th Mar 2024 | News

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Three hour wait to board Ferries at Dover as extra processing time because of Brexit, is causing delays. Wonder how many of these delayed travellers voted for Brexit...Enjoy.

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NMA 14,05 What link ?

retrocop

that link

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68688810

theshedman

The link at 13.53 gulliver1, or can you not put on links but also cannot read the ones others put on. Nothing to do with Brexit but to do with the weather.

DTCwordfan

a lot of this has been caused by Gulliver trying to reverse off the ferry at Dover as he realised that he has a load of Brexit fuel and goodies aboard and must ditch his position. His 'hrad v oblacích' in the Prague countryside is looking a long way away.

gulliver1

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TSM 15,17 That's your excuse is it.

Hymie

Once British citizens are required to have a visa to travel to Europe (coming in the not too distant future), delays at all ports of exit will become a permanent Brexit benefit.

newmodarmy

It looks to me as if Hymie and gulliver trealise that the current Easter delays are nothing to do with Brexit. Some seem to rub their hands with glee at the prospect of Brexiteers getting stuck in queues.... makes me wonder whether they'll be laughing when they get caught up in queues

davebro3

//Once British citizens are required to have a visa to travel to Europe (coming in the not too distant future), delays at all ports of exit will become a permanent Brexit benefit.//

Why?

douglas9401

Maybe it's the over-supply of thick-necked baldies in the south east that causes the problem, some trying to push in and others not giving an inch.

Old_Geezer

Get your paperwork in order and there is neither benefit nor detriment to speak of. If the UK or EU members fail to get visitors through customs promptly then that's their inadequacy, which they should tackle as a priority.

jourdain2

I can't, honestly can't, understand why so many people do head south at Easter. There have always been traffic jams reported.

Easter for us has always meant heading North, East or West for holidays in interesting/beautiful places - you can't guarantee the weather anywhere.

Our kids knew more than any others in their classes about British history and geography.

newmodarmy

gulliver has moved on now he realised we knew he was telling porkies or he'd completely misunderstood a simple news story about bad weather

New Judge

"Once British citizens are required to have a visa to travel to Europe (coming in the not too distant future),..."

There are no plans for UK citizens to have a visa to travel to the EU

Hymie

OK it’s an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorisation System) and not a visa, but you’ll still need to apply for it and pay a fee.

I’m off to the USA soon, and have applied to visit under their visa waiver program – it might as well be a visa, given the amount of information and money they want; and they won’t let me in without it – just like you won’t get into an EU country without a valid ETIAS.

davebro3

Yes - but how will it cause any more delay at ports/airports as you claim? Presumably it will just be a stamp in your passport which they are looking at anyway.

gulliver1

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It looks like it's going to be grid lock at Dover at every UK Holiday thanks to Post Brexit rules where it can take up to 20 mins just to process Passengers on ONE coach. And thats a hell of a coach queue out there

New Judge

"OK it’s an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorisation System) and not a visa, but you’ll still need to apply for it and pay a fee."

It will cost £7 (or 7 euros, I'm not sure which), will take five minutes to make an application and will last three years. Such a chore.

It will be attached electronically to the holder's passport (in the same way as the "Passenger Locator Forms" required during the pandemic were). As a result, it will cause no more delay at borders than simply producing a passport does (which, remember, has always been a requirement of UK travellers to Europe, even when the UK was a member of the EU). In short, it's a manifestation of the UK resuming its status as a "normal" country (along with the rest of the world outside the EU), which it lost during its time as an EU member. As I've said earlier, it usually takes me longer to gain entry to the UK than it does to get into EU countries and I don't really understand your gripe (other than it's a change which you did not want to happen).