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Post by Albion on Sept 5, 2016 14:49:07 GMT
Read today that French truck drivers and farmers are to blockade the A16 approach road for 24 hours today. It is in protest at the attacks and violence against truckers and the destruction of crops and littering of farmers' fields by some people from the Calais jungle camp. Le Tunnel have alternative routes listed on their web site so that drivers can by-pass the blockage and still get to the tunnel for their crossing. The French protesters are threatening to repeat the blockade until they get some government action it seems. Roger
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 5, 2016 15:02:00 GMT
Good. Let's hope that annoys all the Eastern European truck drivers who are headed for Britain where they intend to wear out the roads without paying a single penny in Road Tax.
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Post by Graham on Sept 5, 2016 15:18:14 GMT
I wonder whether it will have any effect on the situation. Although in the past French blockades have resulted in the French government doing things that were demanded.
I wonder if we should try it. Remember the Poll Tax demonstration?
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 5, 2016 16:25:37 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 6, 2016 7:07:13 GMT
Browsing the Daily Mail at breakfast... hold on a minute, aren't these tractors, filled with tax-free diesel, supposed to be ploughing the fields / used in agriculture? Shouldn't the farmers be fined for their stealing of tax-free diesel for their own purposes? And... wouldn't you know it... sausages and barbeques. If you're going to have a demonstration, how about doing it properly? You idiot French should be targeting your Government ministers who are encouraging this farce to continue. Farce is what it is. " ‘We’re not extremists and this protest is not against the migrants themselves,’ says Philippe Mignonet, deputy mayor of Calais." - rubbish. How could there be this 'Jungle' without the migrants (oops - I meant to say 'Syrian war refugees'!). "Many are in hi-viz work clothing, including several P&O ferry staff in company anoraks." - has P&O given their approval of official work clothing to be worn in this manner? " Antoine Ravisse, shipping agent and president of a coalition of local businesses, said: ‘We apologise to our British friends — our economy depends very much on the business we do with England.’ " - Remainers (Brexit vote) take note! Their economy depends on England!! "While today’s demonstration is symbolic — there is no attempt to obstruct back roads to the tunnel, nor to seal off the port of Calais — the threat is explicit: this is just for show. Wait until we mean business." - yes, we're just quaking in our wellies. What a bunch of sausage-munching pussies! When will you 'be meaning business'? I'll jot it in my diary. "It is now a squalid and increasingly lawless home to thousands of asylum seekers, economic migrants and people smugglers who have crossed continents in order to find a covert way in to Great Britain." - because the French Government has allowed this. The situation is hitting everyone, me and my children,’ says Nicole Loeur, a recently retired insurance worker. 'But if it was down to me, I would put the others on a ferry and send them to England, which is where they want to go.’ - and we should put you on a ferry and send you to Somalia, Nicole! You just want them to hit everyone and their children in England, don't you? " ‘The French government should close the camp but if Britain wants Brexit, it must face up to its responsibility too,’ says Alex Debuire, 40, local businessman and president of the duck-hunting association." - err... what responibility for the cock-ups of France? Britain has left the EU, Britain has no part in your self-induced quagmire. "He says several of his 1,100 members have had their cars vandalised and migrants have eaten many of their ducks." - oh, so that's why you're there. So you want them to come to England to eat our swans instead? " Cornish lorry driver Paddy Collins says he can understand why the locals are cross. ‘The Jungle is a huge problem. I once had someone hiding above my back axle and I had to call the police.' " - so what happened, Paddy? Did they come and fine you 2000 Pounds? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3775153/Fed-nightly-anarchy-migrant-Jungle-camp-people-Calais-fighting-French-revolution.html
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 19:36:07 GMT
Well from your correspondent in Calais it has to be said by French protest standards this was a piss poor effort.
Mild disruption yesterday, nowt today and no planned for tomorrow when we cross.
So as for them saying the blockade would be maintained until a date for the demolition of the jungle was given it shows some of the French politicians and unionists are as full of bull shit as lots of ours.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 19:42:31 GMT
Well from your correspondent in Calais it has to be said by French protest standards this was a piss poor effort. Mild disruption yesterday, nowt today and no planned for tomorrow when we cross. So as for them saying the blockade would be maintained until a date for the demolition of the jungle was given it shows some of the French politicians and unionists are as full of bull shit as lots of ours. Hang on! 3 days in Calais to get back home? I've done the crossing in 45 minutes from passport check to hitting the m20 with a club class ticket. WTF is going on??!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 20:12:28 GMT
Well from your correspondent in Calais it has to be said by French protest standards this was a piss poor effort. Mild disruption yesterday, nowt today and no planned for tomorrow when we cross. So as for them saying the blockade would be maintained until a date for the demolition of the jungle was given it shows some of the French politicians and unionists are as full of bull shit as lots of ours. Hang on! 3 days in Calais to get back home? I've done the crossing in 45 minutes from passport check to hitting the m20 with a club class ticket. WTF is going on??!! It's called 'no rush'.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 20:21:45 GMT
Hang on! 3 days in Calais to get back home? I've done the crossing in 45 minutes from passport check to hitting the m20 with a club class ticket. WTF is going on??!! It's called 'no rush'. But Calais? It was an utter shit hole years ago, the migrants can't have improved it! The Normandy coast has a lot more going for it than that! I thought you were stuck waiting to get home safely without having Syrians try and hide in your gas locker
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 20:29:58 GMT
But Calais? It was an utter shit hole years ago, the migrants can't have improved it! The Normandy coast has a lot more going for it than that! I thought you were stuck waiting to get home safely without having Syrians try and hide in your gas locker I can't be arsed to type out my itinerary on my phone. But if you are really interested we are currently on a very nice site near Guines about six miles away from Calais. As for illegal immigrants in our gas locker. You raise an interesting point because I expected a lot of attention crossing from Italy into Switzerland into France but got zero.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 20:40:27 GMT
But Calais? It was an utter shit hole years ago, the migrants can't have improved it! The Normandy coast has a lot more going for it than that! I thought you were stuck waiting to get home safely without having Syrians try and hide in your gas locker I can't be arsed to type out my itinerary on my phone. But if you are really interested we are currently on a very nice site near Guines about six miles away from Calais. As for illegal immigrants in our gas locker. You raise an interesting point because I expected a lot of attention crossing from Italy into Switzerland into France but got zero. Ah right, I had visions of you being in the Auchan car park or a high fenced compound. I'd love to do a bit of looking around the Normandy coast, pay my respects to those that lost their lives there, that sort of thing. when I used to go to Europe for work we were always short of time, the only time we looked at the remains of anything war related was this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_GunWhen staying here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coucy-le-Ch%C3%A2teau-Auffrique
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 21:03:17 GMT
I can't be arsed to type out my itinerary on my phone. But if you are really interested we are currently on a very nice site near Guines about six miles away from Calais. As for illegal immigrants in our gas locker. You raise an interesting point because I expected a lot of attention crossing from Italy into Switzerland into France but got zero. Ah right, I had visions of you being in the Auchan car park or a high fenced compound. I'd love to do a bit of looking around the Normandy coast, pay my respects to those that lost their lives there, that sort of thing. when I used to go to Europe for work we were always short of time, the only time we looked at the remains of anything war related was this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_GunWhen staying here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coucy-le-Ch%C3%A2teau-AuffriqueIf you are genuinely interested Normandy is a really great place to visit from the Cemetriies of both sides to historical sites like Pegasus bridge and the landing beaches. Most impressive of course (being american) is the cemetery at Coville sur mer. A walk through the white crosses there is a very sobering experience.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 21:09:01 GMT
Ah right, I had visions of you being in the Auchan car park or a high fenced compound. I'd love to do a bit of looking around the Normandy coast, pay my respects to those that lost their lives there, that sort of thing. when I used to go to Europe for work we were always short of time, the only time we looked at the remains of anything war related was this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_GunWhen staying here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coucy-le-Ch%C3%A2teau-AuffriqueIf you are genuinely interested Normandy is a really great place to visit from the Cemetriies of both sides to historical sites like Pegasus bridge and the landing beaches. Most impressive of course (being american) is the cemetery at Coville sur mer. A walk through the white crosses there is a very sobering experience. Yes, I should imagine it is. As I say, I'd love to look around but that will have to wait awhile, not the ideal holiday with a 2 year old!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 21:38:59 GMT
If you are genuinely interested Normandy is a really great place to visit from the Cemetriies of both sides to historical sites like Pegasus bridge and the landing beaches. Most impressive of course (being american) is the cemetery at Coville sur mer. A walk through the white crosses there is a very sobering experience. Yes, I should imagine it is. As I say, I'd love to look around but that will have to wait awhile, not the ideal holiday with a 2 year old! Last two year old I took to a landing beach is now 31. They have sand, she loved it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 15:43:20 GMT
Passed through the Tunnel this morning - no problems what so ever...
Briefly though the blockade had been re-instated but it transpired it was an accident involving a truck and a car.
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