The Uk Government Finally Admits Brexit Is A Disaster

[Hymie]

In 2018 Reece-mogg said that there would be no need for checks at Dover; the delays would not be at Dover, they would be at Calais (due to Brexit).

However the UK’s Department for Transport has recently signed a £200,000 yearly contract with RE:ACT (the disaster response charity) to ensure the welfare of lorry drivers gridlocked in Kent, which in the past has seen lorry queues of over 20 miles waiting to reach the ferry port.

So now the UK government is admitting that Brexit is a disaster – enlisting a disaster response charity to help out with Brexit.

From Re:act’s website:-
RE:ACT is a humanitarian charity that rapidly responds to disasters and emergencies...., deploying our highly trained RE:ACT Response Teams as soon as disaster strikes.

[rowanwitch]

Perhaps it's just an emergency, ...

[johnny.5]

No it does not!

[bobbinwales]

Is this the delays because France is not resourcing it properly

[Hymie]

Why would we need to enlist the help of a disaster response charity, when all we have is the sunny-uplands of Brexit?

[Peter Pedant]

Hi! me
er I dont see the jump - whether or not I think Brexit is the disaster you say it is

remember oven ready chicken ( Boris the Liar again)

[Peter Pedant]

Is this the delays because France is not resourcing it properly

and so there are no queues in Dover and the problem doesnt exist. Normal day on AB then

[satprof]

PP - I believe it’s known as the Ostrich Effect.

[Untitled]

the current generation of tory leaders and the people who vote for them are never ever ever going to admit that Brexit has done any significant harm because they are responsible for it

good on you for pointing it out hymie...

[naomi24]

//The UK and France have "juxtaposed" controls, which means checks to enter France are done at Dover and other British ports by French officials, while checks to enter the UK are done in French ports by UK officials. ….. But now French officials have to stamp passports and carry out a number of checks //

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/62294901

If it was happening both sides of the Channel you might have a bit of a point, Hymie. As it is it's just more of your anti-Brexit nonsense. Absolute rubbish.

[Hymie]

^^^
The Brexiteers simply refusing to believe the truth.

[naomi24]

But this isn't the truth. The government hasn't 'admitted Brexit is a disaster'. You're telling porkies again, hymie.

[bobbinwales]

France needs to resource it properly as per the agreement. It suits EU to blame brexit.... thet got to put others off trying to leave

[Hymie]

Why is the UK Government enlisting a disaster response charity to deal with something that is not a disaster?

[satprof]

Naomi - To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies: “Well, they wouldn’t, would they”.

Nevertheless, most of the country can see very clearly that it’s a copper-bottomed foul-up.

[royfromaus]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/04/disaster-response-charity-enlisted-to-aid-drivers-stuck-in-uk-queues-for-channel


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''The Uk Government Finally Admits Brexit Is A Disaster''

[bobbinwales]

Yes it was a mistake but we can't go back . Rather than getting peoples backs up by by telling everyone they were dumb to vote leave and exaggerating the scale of brexit problems to ridiculous levels, how about accepting we'er out and tackling any issues as they arise ( or before they arise) in the best way. In this case tell France to pull there finger out or we'll respond in same way

[Deskdiary]

Untitled - I’m a Tory voter and voted remain.

Plenty of Labour voters voted for Brexit.

[bobbinwales]

So Hymie's logic means he/she could also of said 'goverment admits Dover is a warzone'

[Hymie]

I’m giving the government the benefit of the doubt (and things aren’t that bad with Brexit), it’s only a disaster (at present).

[satprof]

Bob - Would you mind telling why you think ‘We can’t go back’. There are quite a number of ways by which this disaster can be mitigated, such as by rejoining the Single Market (which we only left on the insistence of the nutters in the ERG). Just doing that would cut the massive paperwork issues that so many companies have found to be unsupportable.