Blockade of Channel tunnel approach on the Autoroute A16

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?

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

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??!!

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

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_Gun

When staying here

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coucy-le-Ch%C3%A2teau-Auffrique

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!