Brexit is to blame for Dover hold up, not France | Simon Calder 

yea and its almost like nobody is actually complaining apart from the people that voted remain.

@@arthurgoonie4596 Which would be a very comfortable majority were the vote to happen again now. And you know it.

@@arthurgoonie4596 actually you'll find it's all the oldies that voted leave who are suddenly confused as to why they can no longer retire to the South of France who are complaining about it

@@Andy1119 savage I guess they'll have to retire someone that isn't France 😮‍💨

@@arthurgoonie4596 like the UK since they can't retire anywhere in Europe now. Well at least not freely

Absolutely right, they do. One should perhaps point out that nowhere are they as serious as the problems in Britain, though. Take economic growth, for example. Britain is the only country in Europe that is suffering negative growth. Italy and Greece, for example, are performing significantly better than Britain. And the cause of Britain's economic woes compared to every single member country of the European Union is clear and indisputable. Yes, let's hear it for Brexit...

@@eekamoose well, delivered as ordered I suppose.

Yes France has a massive problem and the country is up in arms with huge protests. Macron wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Meanwhile, in the UK the government wants to raise it from 67 to 68 and that barely raises a comment because our problems here are 100 times worse. Inequality is getting worse by the month. Since Brexit the number of children in poverty has doubled to 4 million. News out last week, 2.5 million (out of 19.3 million) households missed "must pay" bills. That is already 13% of households in severe financial distress. The poorest 20% in Slovenia are now better off than the poorest 20% in Britain. Never mind, Rishi will take care of things. He will make sure the UK is a safe place for hedge funds. Meanwhile, Michele Mone's luxury PPE yacht is safely moored just south of Barcelona. Enjoy, Michele.

Britain's problems are self inflicted!

@@lenrman969 well, it's not that Britain wasn't warned before Brexit, so delivered as ordered I suppose.

It's the French border officers who are working slow. 5.5 hours to check one coach. Only dover this is happening. Soon digital passports . Finger print checks. Meanwhile millions of migrants wandering around the Eu with no papers. I went through dover three weeks ago. Took one minute.

​​@@adrianrouse5148 Make your mind up. You say "millions" (it's always "millions") of migrants "wandering around without papers" . I assume you personally checked that these millions were a) migrants b) had no papers. Then you say you went through Dover "in minutes". I find that frightening. How do they know you're not a "migrant without papers", or a home grown terrorist or British criminal?

The French side doing great pity the do not stop the migrants

​@@adrianrouse5148 as you unhappy with what french doing you should complain to your MEP 😂😂 can't think how else to influence another sovereign nation?

@@adrianrouse5148 What the French - or any other EU country for that matter - do or not do is none of your business.

Oh dear a what a shame ! With a war going on and strife all over the place all you can do is moan with the biggest travel Remoaner about a delay caused by bad weather,and the French once again sticking a finger up at DEMOCRACY

How did the parents vote? Tldr The following logical fallacies are presented by brexit supporting conservatives below.. They confused holidays with freedom of movement. They believed the conservative lies about EU citizens claiming benefits Deflection about blaming middle class kids 😂

No, they were simply schooled in England. No need to refer to trump when there is a longstanding tradition of lying in ones own country.

@@ab-ym3bf conservative voters aren't very bright They voted for Brexit

Trump 2024.

So do I, so they can see first hand how incompetent the EU is.

​@@markperrin8098 😂😂😂 deluded fool.

@@markperrin8098 😂 I think you missed the point of this interview. The EU is implementing Exactly what the UK government mandated. There is no incompetence from the EU, just proper checks and visas, as required by the UK. All that takes time.... so..... when so many citizens try to go through on one or two days.... guess what..... BACKLOGS. 🤣 Way to shoot yourself in the foot. Here in Canada... we negotiated a free trade deal with the EU, and with that.... no visa requirement. Fly in, quick check, and you're done. If your government had any sense, they would negotiate to one of the tier levels like other countries have done, that also, Are Not In The EU. It would make life easier for all UK citizens... but, that is a sensible approach.... so it probably won't be done for decades. Cheers!😊

@@dougwilson4537 No your right, let's get micro managed by a foreign power so we dont have to queue..... If there is an extra buerocratic workload, the necessary staffing levels should be implemented.

This happens every easter

"A rose is a rose is a rose".

A costly tautology indeed.

spot on

If only

Your ignorance of both 'Brexit' and the EU is manifest. Do not post your inane comments here - or anywhere.

Borders have two sides.

It only included you Brits, the EU citizens are still free to roam around 31 countries.

Calder is wtong,lets face it he's a lefty

@@dawnslingsby2324 Care to expand on that wildly sweeping statement?!

​@@vladimirputin4822 well I'm Bdit and I've visited 6 European countries in two months. So thanks for your ill wishes "Vlad"

Such acdrama queen. Sure....we're all stuck here 🙄

Why not? We're exempt from other things despite being in the EU. Classic remainer masochism. Punish us EU daddyyyyyy......

Alexis is Greek!

The answer is quite simple. If France doesn't want our kids to go there, stop sending them. We all know the only reason French is on the UK schools' curriculum is so that middle class teachers can have a nice holiday. Change it to Spanish. It's far cheaper to fly to Spain than go to France by coach and it knocks at least 15 hours of the journey.

And that's not me being a Francophobe, the British Council have been saying Spanish is more a useful language to know for a decade now.

@@oldbloke135 you are aware passports have to be stamped on exit and entry into the EU? And for Dover, this is done in Dover? And France asked the UK to build the facilities in Dover when the UK decided to leave the UK to allow for the additional task of stamping passports?

Go back to Wales then!!...

Goodbye then Rob, don't hurry back.

Rob Davies, location Australia? Ex-pat or just Aussie gobshyte? Either way we ain't missing you!

£7.50 to get out of bonkers Brexitannia to see how the Continentals are managing without us - worth every penny!! That's the price of a few copies of the Daily Mail, but rather more enjoyable.

@@oldbloke135 Currently living in the sinking ship that is jolly old England

People travelling within the Shengen region should take note of this too, as you can freely cross the borders once in it. Be sure to get it stamped on first entry and last exit when coming back to the UK!

Breshit Rocks😂😍🥰😍

A fine 😂😂😂😂😂 I would like them I’d like to see them try and find me I’ll ask them approximately how much would a find me and then proceed to give them that much amount of punches and kicks

@@sabinehahn9774Please don’t judge of all by ‘englishjona’. Plenty of decent respectful Brits, unfortunately ‘englishjona’ isn’t one of them.

@@chrisd5964 completely agree with you, as a matter of fact, he probably is part of the minority. However, if you look at Amsterdam, Spain, the Balearic Islands - the vocal minority of Brits there quite often give the whole of Britain a bad name. And I don't deny that a minority of Germans do the same for Germany

Or the last Labour government.

@@johnhollyoak9295 Or the future Labour government.

​@John Hollyoak not blaming the Tories who actually caused all this, is such Quitling logic. Your denial shows that you know it's the Tories, and that you voted for this, so you're blaming anyone else.

​@@b62boom1 I voted for brexit and what? I'll even go into detail for my reasoning. You clearly want to be in a dictatorship of the EU with having unelected beaurocrats decide the fate of you're own nation state

​@@longdongsilver1255and that's why everybody is very ok with the UK leaving

My father is Irish, so I also have an Irish passport. It makes traveling as easy as it was before 2021. Even at a quiet airport it takes like 4 times longer per person having their UK passport checked than someone with an EU one.

I'm in the DUP and the UVF. I have an Irish passport. Essential for importing/exporting drugs.

@@bastogne315 Enjoy your business, it is a sustainable money maker.

@@TalesOfWar Likewise, my mother was Irish and I claimed my passport, and boy am I glad I did. Even in Perpignan airport the delays for those on UK passports was difficult to observe. The man in front of me was renovating a house and hence crossing o and fro incessantly. so much so that it took nearly an hour to work out if he had overstayed or not.

What about their dinosaurs? 😅

Well they did have civil wars. So probably not the worst but certainly high up there.

its not, if you look at the original Brexit when Britannia left the Roman Empire the subsequent drop in living standards and e.g. cross border migration issues were much deeper and quite a few orders of magnitude worse. So this Brexit 2.0 is far from even the top 10 worst disasters in British political or any other kind of history. History didn't start in 60s or with WW2 as many would like to believe nowadays.

@@rehurekj Ok, we'll accept that Brexit is not worse than the affects of the Roman's leaving 1600 years ago. I'm pretty sure that life then generally was much, much worse than 21st century life and if you were a peasant as most of the population were, even staying at home would be much worse than spending 24 hours on a modern coach. However, in comparison to what we had pre- Brexit when travel to continental Europe was pretty much friction free, this is a pile of dog poo and the people that pushed this for ideological and personal financial reasons should be held to account and the the morons that voted for this should be informed of the consequences of their decision.

@@rehurekj history didn't but I was referring to the houses of parliament when I said British politics

@@rehurekj I thought it was the Romans that left us as Empires come and go as surely will happen with the European Empire. This idea that the British not being able to pile up to have a weekend break in anywhere but Britain is a crisis to equal the historic hardships faced by the people is amusing theatre from the sidelines. Equal to the misery of living to the end of your days in the workhouse at least. How many people have died then? Surely there can be no greater noise in the universe than the whine from a mass of UK tourists inconvenienced in any way. Like a luxury cruise when the unexpected outrageous inconvenience of an ocean storm arises. Brexit has never been and never will be accepted and the punishment for the citizens for their sheer impudence will continue from both within and outside of these islands. The French will put up barriers and the parliamentary and civil service establishment say 'I told you so' and 'It is all your fault' and do absolutely nothing.

Those who blame France know the truth, but don't want to admit that Brexit was an utter disaster.

Since they got away with lying for years, why stop now?

Because it happened multiple times even before brexit

@@ccclcsr Not like this, and this will happen every time there's a surge of travellers around the holidays.

@@ccclcsr did you even watch the video? It really clearly explains the current problems.

Nonsense Brits decided to travel CPTPP, but they forgot ...

@@ccclcsr There have often been reasons for delays in the past and that won't change going forward. but here we are discussing one particular set of delays and their cause. Entirely predictable.

They are LITERALLY On Strike and On Fire!

@@greatestytcommentator Please stop reading the express

@@Cheeseatingjunglista are they not?

If only the border were closed - no holdups for the little boats . . .

It's not goods, it's people. Harms their economy not the British.

Don’t worry, all those billions of pounds saved as promised by leaving the EU will be flooding in soon… any time now……

They forgor one or two 0 🤭

@@Lostouille 3 0s

@@lenrman969 😉👌Proving, if there was ever any doubt, that CONservatives are terrible at Maths & Finance!

@@Lostouille 0, 0, 0! They suffer from dyscalculia!😵‍💫🤔🤯

Border.

SPOT ON

Because we have given the French tax payers money to stop the illegals that are currently under no threat from leaving the French shores. But we all know that the French have been guiding most of them half way across the channel

The people voted to leave the EU and be in charge of their own affairs, in reality the tories made the UK a vassal state of the EU so the EU controls the UKs border policies, the UK has to defend the EU hence Poland and Ukraine, the UK has to still make payments to the EU, the EU can fish in UK waters, the crown just gave the EU NI with the windsor framework.

What's this we? If you were English, you'd be able to spell. You'd also have a basic understanding of English grammar.

It's not perfect though, is it? Only the brain-dead believe them and that's not enough people to win a majority. If you're still looking for a Brexit benefit that's it.

There were never delays when half the country tried to go to France at the same time, before Brexit. Right?

​@@fredmercury1314 Of course there were delays from time to time. They were almost never on the scale that is now routine.

@@fredmercury1314 : "half the country"? The number of vehicles travelling into Dover only corresponds to the number of advance ferry bookings - no more than a few thousand a day. The ferry operators and port authorities know how many are coming weeks ahead.

@@fredmercury1314 It's quite simple really. When you have to manually check every passport for each person going through the border, going through every page, checking it's stamped, then adding up the days to make sure it doesn't go beyond 90 within the last 180... it takes longer than showing them the page where you have your photo and date of expiration. Most of the time they didn't even check that, they just checked you actually had an actual passport to speed things up. They can't do that any more. When I've travelled to the continent since Brexit, even at quiet airports like Gothenburg, it still takes like 4 times longer to check someone with a UK passport than an EU one. They check your photo, dates (it has to have at least 3 months left on it, ie, those 90 days), check to see how many days you've been within the EU in the last 180 and they ask you a few questions like do you have a return ticket and somewhere to stay, how long you're intending to stay etc. It doesn't take that long, but when you multiply it by hundreds of people getting off flights compared to just checking if you have an in date passport and your photo matches you can easily see how such delays happen. Everyone who voted for Brexit asked for this. Our government specifically asked for it by becoming a third country with a hard border. This is how it is for everyone not in the EU, they don't give us any different or special treatment. Membership advantages only apply to members.

yes, i mean ... of course, before we joined the eu huge queues where a fact of life right?

You might want to compare what the volume of traffic was then as compared to now.

He's gonna get the boot from the bbc soon...

Everyone will get a praise by blaming everything on brexit this day

@@ccclcsr in the same manner the EU was blamed for absolutely everything wrong in the UK (according to right wing media) prior to Brexit.

This happens every Easter holiday

@@firstname4865 There always was a little chaos at holiday time but the delays since brexit are on a different scale but by all means continue to live in denial.

@@fitzstv8506 sure they are, nothing to do with 13 million more people in the country ?

The channel tunnel was an amazing achievement. Now sadly I can see it being mothballed.

@@firstname4865 13 million!! that is a gross exaggeration.

Unfortunately the 52% missed that incredibly obvious fact of life!

@TuxedoBoy You really believe that the United Kingdom wasn't allowed to trade with the rest of the world before? You truly believe that the French were somehow taking your "fishing grounds," England decided, instead of being part of the biggest coalition of countries trading club to now go around the globe on the hopes to get the same goods and services you had before from your neighbors. You guys understand that driving on the truck to Europe from England is better than flying or navigating around the globe to some far away land that you believe the UK was "not allowed " to trade.

@TuxedoBoy You’ve nothing to trade boy !!!

​@TuxedoBoy to late ! You sell you a lot of your rights, and not to France. And now you want your rights back ! Good luck !

​@TuxedoBoy FFS the fishermen sold their quotas because the fish they were catching is eaten in the EU and they can't export any more because of brexshit

They knew what they were voting for - increased food costs, a hit to their GDP, businesses closing down, businesses leaving the UK, less influence on the world stage, reduced investment, and longer delays entering the EU. As you say, they should be over the moon, they got it all!

you did?

I'm not

It's Easter. Everyone goes on holiday at Easter. 🙄

@@chrislansbury3618 yes, but 450 million people in 31 countries the EU single market have free movement, and this is why they have no delays at their borders, only the Brits voted to end their free movement, and now they are complaining about delays at the border🤡 it is what you voted for

@@RainerMichelle After decades of no borders at all it seems a lot of Brexity types didn't really know how they work. All the while insisting they were critical.

The Brits did it to themselves. Fly to the continent.

@@chrislansbury3618 Maniacs go on holiday at Easter!

It angers me that Brexit has been a reality my whole adult life and yet I had absolutely zero say in it.

@@epender yes, you are not a French!

We are, thanks.

@@epender yup, unfortunately that boomer, racist generation that couldn’t die sooner has absolutely wrecked the future of jobs, living and retirement because of their low IQ actions.

Not all of us did. I was only 24 when the vote happened, I could see it would be a disaster. Wisdom of old age, yeah right. Children have more intellect than these brexit gammons.

And all we had to do is have unaccountable judges telling us what laws we could or could not pass

Yes, for millions of Africans and Middle Easteners.

@@thomasprice7893 instead of unaccountable tories using covid as an excuse to channell all our money into their friends' offshore bank accounts. Yeh, take back control!

@@thomasprice7893which laws are they?

@@QwadLuzr Brexit doesn't seem to have improved things for the UK on that front.

And would the BBC let them get away with it?

​@Andrew Mitchell yes they did and the mugs that you British people are believed them when told leaving will not effect you you have your Sovereignty back and control of your laws money and borders that is what you voted for now get on with making Brexit work

Farage definitely.

They wouldn't dare 😅

(say the people who took several safe and effective boosters)

It’s in the title of the video but generally yes the UK politcians don’t talk about the effects of it, even those that opposed it. They should push back and point out negative effects

@@adrianbrown1492 Hey, it's what you voted for, leave means leave etc.

@@JHatLpool Anything to stay out of the EU.

@@markperrin8098 Well .... yes !

@@JHatLpool don't live in brexit land but we do worry

You sir/madam are engaging in Schadenfreude! God I wish I had the luck of the Irish! 🍀

Oh, I misread that, I thought you wrote ISIS. Who also swan freely around Europe.

@@QwadLuzr They also swan freely around the UK. So, jog on, son.

Salut, it is even better being Irish and a permanent resident en France!

You guys deserve it❤

This happens every easter

​@@firstname4865 does it. Citation required from before brexit? Do our food shortages happen every year? What about our cost of living crisis?

Cast your mind back to the 1970's and you'll see the stupidity of your comment

@@NeilCWCampbell What about the EU's cost of living crisis? Try watching the German news.

@@philipareed really citation and comparison between how UK handing cost of living crisis and how EU handling it...as I not seeing our UK issues when I in Germany Remember comparison must be comparable..you don't study much do you? . And never forget. I'm not trying to convince you

Queue-Anon

@BradleyUK58 Don't fall for the oligarchs telling you that educating your children is somehow a 'socialist' nightmare... Ignorance and alienation work very well for them.

We know that, but the 52% just don't get it!! Ils sont les idiots!! (j'espere que ca est le mot juste!)

We? Are you talking of the UK or France?

Given the damage Brexit is doing to the UK and its people, I call it the gift that keeps on taking.....

On what way are we insular?

go and live in frogland then Simon and Christopher

100% agree, it’s pathetic what we’re becoming

@@JohnSmith-ii9ci Never heard of frog land?

Behind Gove, Johnson, Daives, Frost, Baker, Rees-Mogg, Farrage et al, were the goons at Tufton st. They wrote Truss' insane budget for her and they drive this suicidal entry into the CPTPP. Like most empires in human history the British empire was not defeated militarily - it rotted from the inside. Along with layer of external plunder to come via CPTPP there is one last layer of plunder form the inside to come. That is the freeports. That will make the PPE plunder look like a picnic and will finish off this country for good.

Sounds all so dystopian. EU can take back all their undesirables they sent over on dinghies to the UK, through their open borders. Stop driving through Britain to Ireland via Europe and vis a vis. And leave our seas and fishing, which is what would have happened if we had a hard Brexit, but instead we got given a rotten deal in punishment for leaving with total compliance from our anti-Brexit woke WEF controlled government.

Lol. Come on the eu itself is a third world country🤣🤣look at how backward most of the countries are. Would you also consider USA a third world country? Surely they get the same treatment as the UK when it comes to border control

Yet France keeps sending invaders in little boats . . .

People will have to decide, sit in a queue at Dover, or go elsewhere for your holiday.

It's basically like leaving a gym and moaning that we are not treated like a member anymore.

Once a country leaves the EU it is a third country.

France can be blamed because THEY ARE NOT OPERATING EU LAWS. Go and look at t the way the Belgians and Dutch do this.

@@uingaeoc3905 Stop lying. The crossing at Dover is simply much more difficult because of the higher volumes. In other words, there are more people waiting to be processed at Dover-Calais than at IJmuiden-Newcastle. Also, the French have asked for more space to do this(iow more douane personnel) & both the port of Dover & the UK government have turned this down. The boss of the Port of Dover is a tory stooge that sows misinformation on the tory party's behalf.

@@lauriewood3916 Watch out, the British don't like to be told they are not special.

@@uingaeoc3905 How can you compare with Belgium as that country has only one passenger ferry to the UK left, the Zeebrugge - Hull line ? With only one overnight crossing each day. If that line even still exists, it was suspended during Covid.

@@LeafHuntress Not the point - as a French national here just commented to me that they have increased the area in Calais to handle this. So my comments stand uncontradicted by you - an EU stooge. just think about your statement for thirty seconds will you - why should the UK disrupt its own traffic leaving the country?

The 2 stupidest move is to sign up for corporate plunder in the CPTPP racket. There is no going back now. (Notice the US is staying well out of it). Farming bankruptcies will begin before Christmas. We can blame Putin maybe? By the way, Friday, March 31 was the day that European Social Fund support for UK community groups and charities ended. The Johnson government promised that money would be replaced by money from the "Shared Prosperity Fund." This once again will hit the poorest in the country. Many charities like women's refuges are going to close. It is about to get much uglier.

You were told a whole bunch of cliches? Here's some more for you. One good turn deserves another. Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer. A stitch, in time, saves nine. You can't make an omelette without breaking an egg. What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over Never send a boy to do a man's job Butter wouldn't melt in his/her mouth Yabba dabba doo.

@@p.g.u.d I dumb down to suit the audience level!😁

@@noelryan6341 It comes very naturally to you.

@@p.g.u.d The really great British Education System of 1960's - 1970's has clearly by-passed you and your fellow-BREXITEER discontents!

@@noelryan6341 It's more of a ceiling than a floor. Dingbat.

The border isn't the issue, this is just the french being ignorant, why should britain put up with a bullying neighbour? This is why we left the EU the europeans hate us & have always been our historical enemies for a thousand years.

you are 100% correct. However, a lot of Brexiteer politicians lied about the consequences (or even believed themselves that they could cherry pick what they wanted from the EU) and a lot of voters didn't bother to verify the lies (or called those that did 'project fear' and 'remoaners').

Britain didn't leave Europe, it left the political organisation called the EU

I just got in and I travelled from Somalia. The easiest part was getting across the channel. Getting into Greece was the worst.

The dingy divers get in no problem,while legitimate people cant.Punish the Tories come voting time....

@@DJPaulgee1 um, you might need to pay taxes to get free health care:) and benefits? You kind of need a lot of papers and proof that you will work legally. You need to undergo a lot of things to get these two, my friend, as an asylum seeker :) the benefits are taken by brits. :)

​@@DJPaulgee1 Successful refugees get that in the EU. In fact the benefits are better in France, Germany and the Nordic countries. Yes, there's no true equivalent to the NHS but most have some form of state funded healthcare, even if it's insurance based.

The whole of Europe is easy to get in if its governments want you to get it. Invaders don't get through the UK's leaky asylum border without getting through Southern Europe's first

Right?😂😂😂

There's no need for it to happen, given sufficient (extra) staffing at times of peak demand, e.g. the week before Easter. Next year will be better, assuming goodwill on both sides.

​@@darrenowen3338 it's not just the French border, it's the EU border too. "Good will" isn't something the Tories are familiar with. As for this time next year, biometric checks are coming in, which will make these queues insignificant by comparison.

Boris et al live in the EU and have moved their businesses there, which I strongly recommend to GB businesses

It would be feeling great, if we actually had control over our borders and didn't still have to answer to the EU.

Quite right. Brexit made this mess and a mess it will stay.

Afaik the French are ready to put more agents at the border but the facilities at Dover are just too small

I agree, it’s not their issue its ours.

Won't the salt water fade that lovely sovereign blueness?

A coachload would take a couple of hours or so. Everyone off, walk to the office, 2½ minutes per person, walk back and get on the coach again, and a toilet visit too... Remove passengers who fail the checks and are denied entry, remove their luggage... Police called too... Arrange travel home for people denied entry, at their own additional expense...

What does "waived through" mean and how is it different from "waved through"?

All the years I traveled, normally we would show our passports exactly as Simon Calder described on the video, normally they would quickly look at the photos but sometimes didn’t bother and on a one of occasion the French post was unmanned. It is mandatory to submit your passport details at the time of booking your crossing, and presumably these details passed on and you are under surveillance through the port, to confirm the occupants match the vehicle. When you check in, all occupants are checked your passports are processed which ferry companies were obliged to pass on, so you were more than registered as entering the Schengen zone. This was Clearly enough when we were a EU state, but now obviously all has to be done at the French immigration post which is time consuming.

@@glumonion1454 I have read comments from people who thought you didn't need to send your details before you traveled you just turned up at Dover and they would let you through which is because the UK and France was in the EU so they obliviously dont know what the Schengen Zone is and how it works . I live in a mainland EU country and travel back to the UK once a month so on my return trip I have seen non permit holders UK citizens being served by the passport control and it takes no more than a few minutes to ask them a question stamp their passport and them let them through and I have read comments from people who have also said the same thing flying into other EU countries so this idea that because we are now no longer in the EU is causing delays for UK citizens is not actually true because how could it be when the only difference to travel now is to just ask a person what is the purpose of their journey

@@davidsummer8631 When the UK was in the EU, there was freedom of movement. In other words, any UK citizen had the RIGHT to go to any EU country, and work and live there permanently. Because the UK was not in Schengen, you still needed a passport check but that was a formality. EU countries couldn't refuses access unless you were wanted by the police. They didn't have to check anything else. Schengen is exactly the same, except that checks are completely removed so the borders are completely gone. If you drive from the Netherlands to Portugal, there are ZERO checks in Belgium, France, Spain and then Portugal. After brexit, the situation is completely different. UK citizens have lost the right to freedom of movement, so they are treated as any other citizen in the world, which includes full border checks. This takes a bit longer than just checking who you are and if you are wanted or not. Sure, if there are enough booths and officers to do the checks, there wouldn't be a problem, but you cannot deny that because of brexit, passport checks take a bit longer, and so because of brexit, the current capacity to do the passport checks is not sufficient. Is brexit the cause of this? Yes, absolutely. Is it something that can be fixed? Yes, absolutely. Is this one of many examples of how the Tories didn't prepare the country for the consequences of brexit? YES!

@@janickpauwels3792 , yes, as a German, I Love the way I can drive all over the Schengen area, with absolutely no borders whatsoever. We went on holiday to northern Belguim two years ago. We started driving in Germany, then went to Netherlands, then to Belguim, then after a few days, we drove a few kilometres down the coast and ended up in France. Absolutely seamless movement. The only way you even know you’ve entered another country is when you see the road signs in a different language. I’d never want to give this freedom up.

Do you actually understand what exactly ChatGPT is? It isn't A.I able to answer questions like that...

and your fingerprints taken.

Most of the people on earth cant roam around freely in their own continent

​@@ccclcsr So why choose to lose something many people could only dream of having?

You can always go and live on Your continent.

@@jjwatcher I already do as do you if you are in the UK. Unless you think the UK is part of the americas?

"your continent' - arrogant pr!ck. It isn't your continent and this isn't the EU's island.

Everything under the Sun is to blame, but never the obvious, Brexit.

You missed the ferry companies.

@god bless farage Hardly at all, as the UK thrived in the EU.

This happens every easter

Actually that's not too far from the truth, most flat tyres come from badly cleaned or maintained roads, the government that took you out of the EU, that most voted for to get Brexit done, also have a policy of low taxes for the rich and austerity for the rest of us resulting in local authorities with no funds to repair roads. They do say what goes round comes round!

@@teddyboysdontknit810 Lol, what a bunch of twaddle.

I was frequently just waved through by French Border officials in Dover. The only people who gave me a hard time were British officials….where are you going, why do you want to go there , how long are you going for ??? I was NEVER checked on entry in Calais EVER and I went back and forth for 15 years. Now it costs me an additional £250 for an animal health certificate which is valid for 10 days, and invalid immediately on return to the U.K.

SAME!

Different level of checks now though

U maybe , but we don't even need to show it on. Border control before and now loom

As an Australian working in the UK, it was typical for my work mates from the UK to flash the photo in their passport and wait on the other side while I lined up for a minimum of 15 minutes to get stamped in. Often much longer. On the bright side, this is no longer necessary as all the clients we would visit on the continent have gradually gone elsewhere over the last two years - so we don’t need to worry about passport control anymore. Every single client. German, Dutch, Polish, French, Danish and Portuguese. So the company has been laying people off due to the lack of contracts and I’m going back to where I came from - Shocked and saddened at the unbelievable stupidity of the world’s biggest self-own. I thought I knew the Brits pretty well but this insanity proves I have no idea. I’m outa here, you lot are as mental as the Russians, luckily just not as violent.

But did they, I have many Brexit friends that were shocked to learn that they had only 90 days in every 180 in their European holiday homes. If you believe that democracy was served with 49% of the electorate dissatisfied than I disagree.

Cool story

I am happy for you , enjoy your carte de sejour you applied for, you deserve THE PRIVILEDGE TO TRAVEL FREELY IN THE EU

Wow I bet that never actually happened did it?

Let's abolish freedom of movement. That seems to have worked.

Free to misrule ourselves?

Bro the queues are effectively the same Dover's been like this for over a decade

@@randomlygeneratedname No there not I'm a frequent traveler Dover was built and expanded for Roll On Roll Off there isn't the room to expand to a full check system

@@SlowhandGreg the queues were bad even then

The port of Dover's pleas for help were ignored.