Plans for 30-minute Covid testing in England halted amid accuracy fears

[GigiBronz]

They said at some point that french citizens and british citizens resident in France have priority.
Obviously 90% of those are East Europeans.
If you want to start a riot, it’s not very difficult if you start with that line...

[Gibbon]

Scuffles have broken out between lorry drivers and police, and there have been a few arrests.

Also apparently testing has been delayed because the test kits are in a lorry stuck in traffic.

Why aren't the test kits delivered by Chinook to the front of the queue or I know a flipping airfield!

[darmstadt]

Probably. Also, with the backlog as it is it'll take more than 72 hours from negative test to reaching front of the queue so they'll need to take another test.

If only they'd built another tunnel to a country more UK friendly than France. May have to be a bloody long tunnel.

Though if they'd built those dams to block off the north sea they could drive across those.

Giant dams enclosing North Sea could protect millions from rising waters | Environment | The Guardian

Well that would **** up the fishing then...

[DealorNoDeal]

Scuffles have broken out between lorry drivers and police, and there have been a few arrests.

Also apparently testing has been delayed because the test kits are in a lorry stuck in traffic.

[Hobosapien]

If the truckers now in UK reach the 1st there, will they be illigal immigrants here?

Probably. Also, with the backlog as it is it'll take more than 72 hours from negative test to reaching front of the queue so they'll need to take another test.

If only they'd built another tunnel to a country more UK friendly than France. May have to be a bloody long tunnel.

Though if they'd built those dams to block off the north sea they could drive across those.

Giant dams enclosing North Sea could protect millions from rising waters | Environment | The Guardian

[Uncle Albert]

Time for a Kentish remake of Smokey and the Bandit.

[GigiBronz]

If the truckers now in UK reach the 1st there, will they be illigal immigrants here?

[Hobosapien]

So al those truckers stuck at the border 'for a few more days' are going to have to take the slower proper test. If only they'd thought of providing those tests on Monday when it was clear this wasn't going to be resolved 'in a few hours'.

Covid-19: Stranded hauliers face '''a few days''' at the border - BBC News

Even with a negative test it'll take some doing to get them through the tunnel or on the ferries when there are thousands waiting.

If I was them I'd be doing this:

"You want your truck, you know where it is."

[clearedforlanding]

The French are going to love this.

Plans for 30-minute Covid testing in England halted amid accuracy fears | World news | The Guardian