Emergency Brexit powers for lorry queues to be made permanent

[AtW]

"Exclusive: ministers to make traffic provisions indefinite in expectation of further cross-Channel disruption

Emergency powers to handle post-Brexit queues of lorries heading for France are being made permanent, signalling the government expects further cross-Channel disruption.

Operation Brock, a traffic management system designed to cope with queues of up to 13,000 lorries heading for mainland Europe across Kent, was meant to end by October 2021, after being extended once when the Brexit transition period ended in December 2020.

But ministers are planning to make the provisions indefinite by removing “sunset clauses” from the legislation that set out when the powers would expire, the Guardian has learned.

It means the emergency protocol can be activated at any time to govern the flow of lorries around the Port of Dover and Channel Tunnel at Folkestone with contraflow systems."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...made-permanent

Thank God it's not going to be a problem now because there won't be enough lorry drivers to queue in the first place, Brexit is truly the gift that keeps giving: self-resolving problems that were expected to be caused by it.

[minestrone]

Seeing as though you can pack half an Eritrean village in the back of the these things over an above the paid cargo I suspect there are considerable efficiency improvements available to the industry.

[NotAllThere]

Seeing as though you can pack half an Eritrean village in the back of the these things over an above the paid cargo I suspect there are considerable efficiency improvements available to the industry.

Wow. Are things so bad in the UK that asylum seekers are smuggling themselves out? I've highlighted the relevant bit for you.

Emergency powers to handle post-Brexit queues of lorries heading for France are being made permanent, signalling the government expects further cross-Channel disruption.

Operation Brock, a traffic management system designed to cope with queues of up to 13,000 lorries heading for mainland Europe across Kent, was meant to end by October 2021, after being extended once when the Brexit transition period ended in December 2020.

To be fair, certain other European countries outside of the EU regularly have HGVs queued on the motorways leading to the border. Mind you, the trucks don't need extensive searching for contraband cheese or ham sandwiches.

[ladymuck]

So... am I supposed to be outraged by this story? What's the value of the lorry drivers' houses?

[vetran]

So... am I supposed to be outraged by this story? What's the value of the lorry drivers' houses?

Its the slaver, we only get what their opinion is on LGBTA-Z inclusivity.