Yet another reason to stay at home and get more for your pound ........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-37...fears.html Wales
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(And we have the water to wash it off, and more on the way..! )
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On Sky news they had a reporter sticking a mike in car windows asking people what they thought about being stuck in this holiday hell one woman was French ....... Yes her take on it was don't blame the French it's the English who caused it because they weren't prepared.......

As long as we play the game and do the same thing on the French side and inspect very vehicle and check who's coming in then that's how it's done properly.
I have always found it very slack at the ports.
Close the Tunnel
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Freelander 2 GS manual 2013 only time will tell !

Great. Thinking . Keep out the brits. With their. Nasty. Hpliday money.


Or very clever. Filtering out the gypsies. Vanners and other plebs. Keep france respectable At work
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"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

Problem is that because of Schengen ours is the ONLY border where they are allowed to check everyone (possibly also Switzerland by now). So if they have to pretend to do something about border security it's the only one they can mess about with. And being French they do it in a French way (you have to wait sir? That is a problem for you). The fact that all their terrorists so far have come from Belgium or from France itself is conveniently ignored. A couple of friends have pointed out that all the checks magically disappear when it's time for coffee/lunch breaks. Could be worse - the last time I crossed from Austria to Hungary (both in the EU) the Hungarian border guards simply closed the border for half an hour while they had their breakfast. Ex AA Series III LWB Safari - Gone
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Disco 2 TD5 - sold and exported to France
FR2 TD4 GS - Gone
FR2 SD4 HSE - Now changed for a DS
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And as England is the last real frontier, all the other Border Guards got made redundant so there is just the one froggy left to do them! Everyone can spread it - Anyone can catch it. Stay home - the life you save can be your own!

In these days of Political Correctness it may be considered some what inappropriate to refer to our French cousins as froggy,I believe the correct term is garlic eating surrender monkeys.

oldgeezer wrote:

As long as we play the game and do the same thing on the French side and inspect very vehicle and check who's coming in then that's how it's done properly.

SYFL2 wrote:

I believe the correct term is garlic eating surrender monkeys.

Nowt wrong with garlic, as to 'surrender monkeys' as you obviously didn't pay attention at school, I suggest you Google Verdun.

Ive been to Verdun, very sobering At work
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"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

The French government has to at least appear to be doing something about security, their jobs are on the line. Scared people will vote them out for others who are willing to take a tougher stance on things like border control. We've seen it out here, it's a political football preying on fear and we haven't even had the terrorist attacks that France has had to endure. For the average Frenchman, rational thinking goes out the window, it matters little that the terrorists are virtually home grown. You have to admit they've been hit pretty hard.
The Brexit vote will mean you'll have to start getting used to long queues again. We were a bit miffed the first time we visited the UK, having to stand in a long queue at Heathrow while EU passport holders went straight through. The Queen is our boss too.