@Waxingtonknee Let's look at this logically. The problem is "Leaving" Dover, and yet the UK hasn't implemented any overt excess in checks when "Leaving" the UK, only entering. It is for the guest country to ensure entry criteria have been met.
True, the French will have increased checks, but that won't cause delays at Dover unless the Ferries are not being allowed to disembark in France, and therefore there are no boats to load the "getaway" Brits.
@dick_turpin @Waxingtonknee Except of the places where French passport control operates in the UK, eg: St Pancras.
The entry / exit stamping takes significantly more time. That is a direct result of Brexit.
There are solutions, but exiting the UK and entering the EU is now slower or more expensive, than it was a few years ago.
Maybe if we'd had a better negotiator, it could have been better. But what is true is this is as a result of Brexit.
Checks may well take another couple of minutes, but the cause of the chaos is the volume of people who are going away for the bank holiday week. If that was not the case and it was all Brexits fault, then we would be seeing 'Dover' on our TV every single day, but we don't; we only see it in turmoil on "The Great Getaway" occasions.
Folk in the comments of the video I posted seem to understand better "They knew the amount of bookings, why was there not more staff?"
@dick_turpin @Waxingtonknee I never said it was *all* Brexits fault. But Brexit is a significant reason it has got worse. To say that Brexit is not part of the problem is fallacious.
@intrbiz Sadly, because Google these days is so shite, any request for information regarding critical incidents at the port of Dover in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 brings up an avalanche of news reports from a few days ago only. I'm pretty confident we had these large delays even when we were in the EU.
Notice how the backlog has cleared now that the Dingles are somewhere in Provance with a caravan in tow.
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