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| Grenadier Member Since: 23 Jul 2014 Location: The foot of Mont Blanc... Posts: 5845   
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No doubt you holiday making types will have noticed that there have been 7-hr delays at Dover due to increased French border checks due to the heightened security state. Don't believe the hype. Since the Nice attacks I have crossed the French border four times into Switzerland, (over three different crossings) and twice into Italy and will be doing so again tomorrow and Monday. No change whatsoever. Standard delays into Geneva because of volumes of traffic, but otherwise straight through. No delays at all into Italy.
In my opinion I think the Dover delays are entirely a Brexit issue. Let's be honest, if the French security services are doing their job properly (and despite the attacks I am sure they are) there will be no threat from the UK. Any cross border threat will come from Belgium, Germany etc, or from movement corridors originating in Greece and Turkey. Indeed if they wanted to do any security checks in Calais they'd be best off doing so in the refugee camps where their might be attempts at radicalisation. But someone coming from the UK into France? Really? Sadly I think this will be the first of many mini 'wars', (state policies), foisted upon us by our European cousins of which the French government will be at the forefront.  Monsieur Le Grenadier
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23rd Jul 2016 9:13am |
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| languedoc Member Since: 13 May 2016 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 283  
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To add, I have crossed the Spanish and Andorra border without any noticeable change in numbers of police or delays.
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23rd Jul 2016 9:23am |
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| Riverboy Member Since: 16 May 2016 Location: French sector, Earth Posts: 1288 
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 Strip search each one 
Of course is all about Brexit and it'll get a whole lot worse  |
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23rd Jul 2016 9:58am |
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| languedoc Member Since: 13 May 2016 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 283
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I just realised i added to a caravaning section. Shoot me now
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23rd Jul 2016 10:36am |
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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5111  
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My thoughts as well, we will in retaliation just have to stop buying their cheese, that will show em! For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at..
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23rd Jul 2016 11:40am |
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| Riverboy Member Since: 16 May 2016 Location: French sector, Earth Posts: 1288
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Send in Billy Boris Bunter to tell the jolly foreigners that this just isn't cricket.
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23rd Jul 2016 12:11pm |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6769  
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The English will just get fed up and go elsewhere for their holidays and the short sighted French will miss out on a large chunk of income
 Ray
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23rd Jul 2016 4:36pm |
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| ericvv Member Since: 02 Jun 2011 Location: Near the Jet d'Eau Posts: 5816  
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It is of course extremely suspicious all those cars with the steering wheel at the wrong side trying to enter continental Europe. Must be a complot of sorts in the making. We need to sharply increase security checks of those wrong side steered vehicles and their occupants speaking that strange sounding language. 
Monsieur Le Grenadier, speaking of a coloured post trying to put fuel on a barely existing fire. You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation.
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23rd Jul 2016 4:48pm |
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| Riverboy Member Since: 16 May 2016 Location: French sector, Earth Posts: 1288
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Possibly but it can work both ways and may stop people visiting Britain. Short sightedness on all sides of this fiasco sadly. |
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23rd Jul 2016 5:16pm |
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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328 
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Samosa over Croc monsieur every day
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23rd Jul 2016 5:26pm |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6769
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If it's what the majority of England wanted it's not really a fiasco on our side Ray
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23rd Jul 2016 5:58pm |
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| Grenadier Member Since: 23 Jul 2014 Location: The foot of Mont Blanc... Posts: 5845
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I think that now the UK is planning to leave the EU and will no longer be bound by their laws and diplomatic ties, the French think we're going to invade them again....
Monsieur Le Grenadier
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24th Jul 2016 8:16am |
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| Leviathan Member Since: 24 Oct 2015 Location: Staffs Posts: 248
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Historically speaking, if I was French I'd be more worried about my eastern neighbours invading than blighty.
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24th Jul 2016 9:52am |
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| ericvv Member Since: 02 Jun 2011 Location: Near the Jet d'Eau Posts: 5816
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Why would we (the real eastern neighbours) want to do that?  The french don't like us, but we do not love them enough either to want to invade them.
Seems this weekend indeed a massive (br?)exit from the UK into France. And the French authorities are blaming the UK police for those massive traffic jams on the Dover side, because of lack of UK cooperation with the checking of all UK origin cars and their occupants before entering continental Europe. Reported even on our local news here with pictures like the one below....  Click image to enlarge You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation. http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I https://vimeo.com/201482507 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw |
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24th Jul 2016 1:24pm |
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