Brits complaining Irish get preferential treatment in Spain

[Eirikur]

Brexit going as expected for gammon Spain visitors

Some British passengers claimed Irish citizens are getting “preferential treatment”, Birmingham Live reports.

Others reported "two hour queues for non-EU passengers".

"Sitting in Malaga Airport to return. What a joke! A huge queue for UK passengers stretching all the way back to duty free exit…whilst the lane for EU empty.

“Preferential treatment for the one flight to Ireland. Travellers beware,” one person said on Twitter.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/iris...rport-26804539

[NotAllThere]

I like the comment

Ok, here is the ladybird version for all you unhappy Brits. All airports in the world have two passport channels. One for citizens and one for non-citizens. You left the EU so you are non-citizens. The arrogance that you should be treated the same now that you have left is astonishing. Grow up and stop blaming the EU for all your troubles

[vetran]

Hey we can wait try this

Harvey, an elderly American absentmindedly arrived at French immigration at Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris and fumbled for his passport.

'You have been to France before Monsieur?' the official asked in
an aggressive tone.

Harvey, smiled and admitted that he had been to France before.

'In that case you should know enough to have your passport ready for inspection,' barked the bad-tempered officer.

Harvey gently informed the man that the last time he came to France he did not have to show his passport or any other documents.

'Pas possible, old man. You Americans always have to show your passports on
arrival in 'la belle France.'

Harvey gave the Frenchman a long hard look. 'I assure you, young man, that when I came ashore on Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day

in 1944, there was no damned Frenchman on
the beach asking for passports.'

[Paddy]

Hey we can wait try this

An urban doing the rounds on the Internet for a few years.

[hairymouse]

An urban doing the rounds on the Internet for a few years.

Love those stories that sort of sound like a joke so you accept the premise, then don't have a punch line and suddenly pretend to be true.

"Pas possible, old man. You Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in 'la belle France.'" Sure, that totally sounds like how French border guards talk.

[vetran]

An urban doing the rounds on the Internet for a few years.

its not true (though possibly more than one veteran may have made this point when greeted by a typical jobsworth) its just a joke.

[Lance]

its not true (though possibly more than one veteran may have made this point when greeted by a typical jobsworth) its just a joke.

it's like a not very funny version of the joke where the BA pilot lands at Frankfurt airport and has to ask where the gate is.

Controller : Have you not been to Frankfurt airport before?
Pilot : Yes. Twice. In 1944. It was dark and I didn't stop.

[darmstadt]

However they could get Big Tone to help them:

[vetran]

However they could get Big Tone to help them:

actually he looks a lot like an eastern European chap.

[Paddy]

actually he looks a lot like an eastern European chap.

He is, the Brits found it too hard work to pose and the weather was too hot and the health and safety issues. There was one Tory MP willing to pose but he wanted to be paid into his offshore account