One day

Give up writing about Brexit, I said.

Give up writing about COVID, I said.

One day it's lasted.

One day.

Guston is a fine Kentish village, it has a fine pub a wonderful ancient church, and a few houses spead along the two streets that make it.

Running between it and Dover is the A2, the road out of Guston spans the main road to the port via a bridge, and to the east the main line from Dover to Deal emerges from its tunnel under the Duke of York's military school.

We dirve though there most months, as an alternative way back from Jen's to home, when the main roads are busy, or I get bored.

Last July when the lorry park at Asford was given the go-ahead, via circumventing local planning regulations, several other locations were also listed to be future homes for lorry parks.

In Kent, one was at the Ebbsfleet International station and the other at the White CLiffs Business Park in Dover. At the time I looked at the park and thought only a small area behind the transport museum could be used, thinking that the area with Tesco and B & Q was the Whitfield Business Park, but no, it is all White Cliffs.

Meaning that the lorry park was going to be somewhere else.

Somewhere else is behind and beside the DIY store, and over the old Roman Road, called Roman Road, that lead out of Dover. Along the road now are a few cottages and large houses, which lie at the endof a mile long dead end. They can just hear the hum of traffic on the A2, but its not too bad. On the other side of the A2 is Guston, which will soon be lit 24/7 by floodlights to cater for lorries getting paperwork chescks, COVID tests to enable them to continue to the port half a mile away. On the other side of the Sandwich Road is Richmond Park, a new and extensive housing estate of executive housing, that has had some troubles in the last 18 months. But instead of open fields, the bespoke mock Tudor houses will look at the orange glow of a Brexot Lorry Park.

I'm sure that wasn't in the brochures, or on the side of a bus.

Kent and Dover voted heavily for Brexit, so it is hard not to laugh and say, well you voted for it! But they were lied to, by liars.

This morning, residents received similar letter that the residents of Ashfrod and Sevington received in July, very sorry and all that, but building work starts next week.

The reason is that the lorry park in Ashford is for traffic for the Tunnel, this will be for port traffic, taking over from Manston.

We will be able to see the glow of the lights from our house, it will ruin what's left of the dark skies we have here.

There will no downsides they said. Just considerable upsides they said. People believed them.

There would be no change they said.

There will be frictionless trade they said. Though that isn't mentioned any more.

We will have a better deal that we had as members they said.

It was all lies.

Good news is that there were no queues leading to the port today. But today is a bank holiday, next two days are the weekend. Monday is the acid test. And then every day beyond that.

In other news, Gibraltar joined the free movement area yesterday, allowing free movement between the Rock and Spain and the rest of the EU. Gibraltar is a UK territory​ and voted in the referendum, voted nearly 100% to remain, as they remember the day-long queues to cross the border between there and Spain.territory Another edge rubbed off hard Brexit, and a signal that sooner or later, Scottish independence will be unstoppable, as will Irish unification.territory Another two of those Brexit bonuses I suppose.