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Why should EU drivers deliver to UK?

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CvD66 Sat 16-Apr-22 10:23:24

Following the immense delays in the debacle on M20 in recent weeks due to collapse of post Brexit IT systems and aggravated by P&O disaster, there is a massive unwillingness of EU drivers to deliver to UK. International press ridiculed the UK for keeping drivers stuck in their lorries for 27 hours with police patrolling to prevent them getting out. Additional costs of up to £800 per lorry are being incurred by these delays. It is not as if this position was not predicted to yet ignored by the government. A bleak future for the UK businesses trying to export and food retailers seeking to import.

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eazybee Sat 16-Apr-22 10:31:48

Have you ever been caught up in a French blockade?

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Casdon Sat 16-Apr-22 10:51:27

This situation has been going on in the UK to a greater or lesser degree for over two years, and the current really difficult position has been there since the P&O wages issue (which wouldn’t have happened if we were still in the EU). I don’t blame the EU drivers at all for being fed up.

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Whitewavemark2 Sat 16-Apr-22 10:55:41

It is related to Brexit and the need for border checks etc.

Ask yourself why there are no queues in France.

Answer - no border checks (yet - U.K. government running scared)

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maddyone Sat 16-Apr-22 11:07:14

I don’t blame anyone for being fed up.

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GagaJo Sat 16-Apr-22 11:12:35

We are, as was predicted, going to find it very hard to import goods.

Bodge it Boris and his Brexit.

So much for ''this sceptered isle', more this isolated little island.

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