Brexit and Dover

There have been many Twitter posts about the lines of truck leading into the town on the A20 and sometimes, on the A2.

I do not deny there are queues, but for the most part what we see on the roads, judging by traffic radar, melts away each evening, only to build up during the night and morning.

Local traffic can get through on the outside lane, and there are police at the bottom of Shakespeare Down directing truchs un onto Townwall Street.

Most times there are no queues on the A2 at all.

I have heard it reported that a lot of the delays are because to DFDS ferries are in dry dock, which might explain it.

What we can say is the queues are being seen despite much reduced volumes of traffic and trade, if trade were to increase with, say, the spring growing season in Dutch greenhouses, then delays would be worse.

It is currenty 11:10 on Friday morning, and there are no queues at all. We had worse queues for various reasons over the years, and these were not on the news, I don't think there anything untoward that being the case now.

But let us see how things progress. The nedless lines of trucks back to Birmingham haven't happened, but that is partly due to lower traffic volumes, while the long jams were predicted on traffic remaining the same.

Whether the current situation is wise for Britain to go down is another matter. Less trade coming in, less trade to the EU too.