Jam for Easter

While it could be said that the jams seen oon the M20 in the last week were due to Brexit-relater paperwork demanded by the EU, as the UK wanted to be treated as a thrid country, what we see now is capacity.

The three P&O ferries are still tied up in the Eastern Docks, with the Spirit of Britain impounded as a result of multiple safety failures early in the week.

This morning, we saw the line of trucks leading up the A20 from Aycliffe back past Capel and out of sight, all have finsihed their paperwork and pre-boarding checks, they just need a space on a ferry.

Some have been waiting for 36 hours at various points between London and Dover, there is no food or sanitary provision by the UK Government, Highways Agency of Kent County Council. Indeed it is reported that drivers are not being allowed out of their cabs, so have to go to the toilet IN their cabs.

Many are saying, again, they will not come back to the UK.

Who can blame them?

Jubilee Way is closed, and other routes into the town policed to ensure truck drivers don't try to jump the queue, any that tray have to go back to junction 8, Maidstone, and start the journey again.

Yesterday, the Duke of York's roundabout and the one at the top of Whitfield Hill were both jammed by sheer numbers of vehicles, mostly cars and coaches heading to the port for Easter. No warnings of the closure of Jubilee Way, so two lanes into one on the roubablout and a jam from there to the bottom of Castle Hill. I only just managed to get out of the Deal Road to go to collect Jools from work, and coming back we took to the back lanes.

Is this what our summer is going to be like?

And on top of that, no fuel anywhere again.

Like a country slowly falling to pieces, getting a little bit more shit each day.