Cars queue at the check-in at the port of Dover in the UK as many families embark on getaways following the start of summer holidays for many schools in England and Wales. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA.
About 10,000 cars are predicted to travel through the port on Saturday – 1,500 more than on Friday. About 3,000 lorries are also reportedly waiting to cross the Channel. “We are operating in a post-Brexit environment which does mean that passports need to be checked, they need to be stamped and indeed the capable people that do man the booths – Police aux Frontieres – they’re doing their job that they need to do now.”French politician Pierre-Henri Dumont, the republican MP for Calais, blamed the UK’s exit from the EU for the chaos, telling BBC News it was “an aftermath of Brexit” with more checks needed.
So absolutely no surprises there then - Cripes!
Brexit. Life outside the tent…pissing out.
French incompetence.