Dover is closed to outbound traffic

Lucretzia

They've opened up now

Maybe the sharp fall in the French stock Exchange (CAC40) got them to see sense.

Callistemon

LauraNorder

So the extremists on here will use this as proof that the UK, especially England, is the worst place in the world. PaddyAnne will be at the border with her breeze blocks. Panic buyers will add to their loo roll stocks, just as well they can’t have overnights guests cos their spare room is full of pasta, flour and loo rolls.
The rest of us will keep calm and carry on doing our best. Merry Christmas ?

I'd be manning Offa's Dyke but the new variation is in Wales anyway.

According to a friend's DD, trolleys were being piled up with toilet paper after the announcement of the Welsh lockdown.

People will need it after eating all the stock piled sprouts.

Oh bless him. Please look after him and yourself too! X

They've opened up now

I was just posting that fishing quotas/territorial waters are the one of final hurdles of the Brexit negotiations.

I forgot that innuendo doesn’t work on text and sense of humour has had a COVID bypass.
However is it not interesting that the French are behaving in this way at this point in time.
I shall now retire behind the Wall.

I have never said that the French have closed their borders today due to fishing, they like other EU Countries and those further afield have closed their borders to UK traffic/citizens due to Covid and the new variant.

seamstress

To those who think the French are banning UK lorries because of fishing - why have the other 20 countries closed their borders to UK travellers?

Good question!

To those who think the French are banning UK lorries because of fishing - why have the other 20 countries closed their borders to UK travellers?

GrannyGravy13

Panic buying is the most selfish thing anyone can do in my opinion, it’s ok for those with money in the bank I’m all right Jack to stuff their cupboards and fridges.

Spare a thought for the young families and older folk with limited income who exist day to day, can you just imagine how they will feel when they get to the shops and find the shelves empty, particularly at this time of year.

Anyone panic buying/stock piling should have the items removed from them at the checkouts.

I couldn't agree more. Panic buying is not an option for those with very limited income and therefore not able to keep a stock of food which we luckier ones can. Maybe they don't have freezers either but surely that cannot be true of the selfish idiots who emerge from supermarkets with their trolleys full? I have a regular fortnightly delivery and always have at least two weeks food, etc in stock, Perhaps if people who could do likewise were better orgqnised they would not need to panic buy?

Whitewavemark2

Oh the irony!

Farage is trending because he’s complaining about France closing their borders??????

You couldn't make it up! ?

Greeneyedgirl

I can understand as an island nation we are very protective of our fishing rights, but it is only a teeny part of our GDP I understand. Surely we should be able to compromise on this.

I know Scottish & Irish fishing quotas and boats are mainly family owned, but over half of the English fishing quota is foreign owned, and catches are mostly sold abroad.

The French want 75% of the fishing rights.

The UK negotiators have offered them 40%

That’s a big gap to bridge.

Quilty

Is France flexing its muscle because of Brexit!!!!

No the list closing their country off to the U.K. is enormous. It includes Europe but also countries like Canada, Ecuador, Israel on and on.

So no it is nothing to do with Brexit.

But the huge queue is undoubtedly to do with both covid and Brexit.

The French are using their sovereignty over their borders, and the Brexiters complain?

I can understand as an island nation we are very protective of our fishing rights, but it is only a teeny part of our GDP I understand. Surely we should be able to compromise on this.

I know Scottish & Irish fishing quotas and boats are mainly family owned, but over half of the English fishing quota is foreign owned, and catches are mostly sold abroad.

Is France flexing its muscle because of Brexit!!!!

BusterTank

There has been tail back of lorry's for the last week . They are trying to say this is because of brexit and Christmas . This is only applying to lorry's leaving England not coming in . All these lorry's would have had tickets to board the ferries , so that isn't the problem . Do you think it is because the french are playing up because they can't get there own way over fisheries .

Hope you have your tin hat on as according to some the French are saints and can do no wrong, how dare we pesky Brits want control of our territorial waters, it’s as if we are the only other country in the world to have sea boundaries and want control on who enters them

I ordered vegetables for last week as that was the last delivery I could get before Christmas; however, I think they were trying to get rid of them before the Christmas supplies came in. They were ok but not as fresh as they could have been.
They're blanched and in the freezer now.

There has been tail back of lorry's for the last week . They are trying to say this is because of brexit and Christmas . This is only applying to lorry's leaving England not coming in . All these lorry's would have had tickets to board the ferries , so that isn't the problem . Do you think it is because the french are playing up because they can't get there own way over fisheries .

It will only get worse after 1st January with a combination of Covid and leaving the EU. Who can blame the French and other countries, they didn’t want us to leave the EU. It’s of our own making and the ineptitude of this government.

Panic buying is the most selfish thing anyone can do in my opinion, it’s ok for those with money in the bank I’m all right Jack to stuff their cupboards and fridges.

Spare a thought for the young families and older folk with limited income who exist day to day, can you just imagine how they will feel when they get to the shops and find the shelves empty, particularly at this time of year.

Anyone panic buying/stock piling should have the items removed from them at the checkouts.

Sainsbury has announced that there will be a shortage or no certain fresh veg as it is all imported from the EU.

So lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower and other veg will be very difficult.

Time to work out the alternatives.

LauraNorder

So the extremists on here will use this as proof that the UK, especially England, is the worst place in the world. PaddyAnne will be at the border with her breeze blocks. Panic buyers will add to their loo roll stocks, just as well they can’t have overnights guests cos their spare room is full of pasta, flour and loo rolls.
The rest of us will keep calm and carry on doing our best. Merry Christmas ?

I'd be manning Offa's Dyke but the new variation is in Wales anyway.

According to a friend's DD, trolleys were being piled up with toilet paper after the announcement of the Welsh lockdown.

It's not just Dover and the French, it's most of Europe. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9074677/British-travellers-held-German-airports-mutant-Covid-strain.html
Here's a question- Could they have done this if we were still in the EU?

I absolutely cannot bear ‘panic buying’ .... if you listen to the news the warehouses are all full.... lorries will get back on the move once they start testing the drivers..... there is NO need to ‘stock up’.........!!!!!!!!