Wednesday 23 September 2020

Why stop at two

It seems that having one internal border in the UK isn't enough for the Vote Leave Brexity Government, as there is going to be a second, and that or might not surprise you.

It is Kent.

Yes, the very county, the Garden of England, that undefeated county nearest to La Belle France.

As previously reported in these posts, trucks and lorries will ned Kent Entry Permeits (KEPs) to enter the county and so approach Dover or the Tunnel.

The trucks and lorries will only get a KEP if their papers are in order and enabling them to cross the Channel.

Police will patrol te minor roads into the county.

Although it had been announced, it wasn't widely know. But Gove said this in the Commons today.

You would have thought that those lifelong Brexiteers and headbangers would have identified all these issues and come up with workrounds, mitigations or something, rather than blunder on blaming their failings on others.

But its got them where they are today, I suppose, so why change?

The M20 has been reduced to two lanes in each direction, in a contraflow, while the coastbound carriageway is turned into a luxurious lorry park for January, and the freight handling lorry park us under construction in Ashford, with work to begin on four more Kentish sites in the forthcoming months.

Meanwhile, the company the last Transport Minister, Chris "Failing" Greling contracted to operate ferries out of Ramsgate fot £15 million, has gone bust with debts of two million. They never owned or rented a ferry, let alone one that could use the narrow berths at Ramsgate.

Still, all under control.....

I realised the point of the tintle is that there are ports in Sussex, Hampshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Humberside, Tyneside, Anglesey, Merseyside and Scotland: will they need border controls and borders for freight entering the county?

What about freight heading into Kent for local deliveries, how will that work>

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