>[EXPRESS: Brexit nightmare: Lorries stuck at UK border as IT failure sparks chaos](https://archive.is/OZwGP/image)
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>LORRIES are getting stuck at the UK border due to IT failures that are sparking chaos.
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> By Michael Curzon – 09:26, Thu, Jan 6, 2022 | UPDATED: 09:26, Thu, Jan 6, 2022
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>(https://archive.is/OZwGP)
FFS people, compact and repair your MS Access databases!
”A spokesperson for HMRC, which handles post-Brexit administration at the border, said it was “aware of a small amount of **user error issues** with some of the new customs processes as traders and hauliers adjust to the new controls, which we expected and are addressing”.
Swallow, who runs global logistics firm Jordon Freight, said it was not simply a case of …traders not using the new system correctly — because **government officials themselves had been unable to explain what’s gone wrong**.”
Lmao, the failure here was not getting one in place 🤫 If we blame it on something else it doesn’t exist!
This does match the typical Vote Leave government approach. They figure if something is going to be 50% worse, people will be far happier if it got there from 70% worse than from 30%. People like to focus on the direction of travel more any comparison to the past.
So if they make a pig’s ear of the border to begin with, then improve it, people will be happier even if the end result is that the border is measurably worse than it was before things changed.
This is ridiculous, they’ve had over two years to plan this (we were obviously going to need it after Johnson won the election in ’19).
Strange, it’s like not heavily investing in a new border system leaves us with a shit border system.
Good. Let it get worse and worse. People need to really suffer to understand what a shitshow Brexit is and always was going to be. Johnson can own it.
I can’t wait until we rejoin the EU and can scrap all these expensive systems and all the red tape that’s choking the economy. Stupid stupid Brexit.
When “testing” is “we changed the live server-side version of the API yesterday, tell us if anything doesn’t work”
Well, nothing worked…
Saw it with the NHS and Crown Commercial Service (which advertises public-sector tenders).
That’s on a good day – most of the time, the change only comes to light when the entire country loses access to something important overnight…
There are too many people trying to do down this country. I think it’s a remarkable achievement that our Government has been able to introduce this level of chaos in only a few days. Think where we’ll be by the end of the year!
Almost as if the frictionless trade we had within the EU was convenient for everyone.
little britain becomes real life. ” i want to import a truck load of vital foodstuffs today… furious keyboard tapping, computer sez no”
Linda, who faithfully types the information on every fax received into the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet system, is currently off work with Covid and nobody else is available who knows how to turn the computer on.
We anticipate a return to normal operation when Linda completes her isolation period.
Brexit and a government IT program? They never stood a chance.
Hey, hi, a genuinely confused Finn here.
How in the fuck is your government still in place?
Let’s shelve the remain or leave side for now, this stuff is staggering.
They knew it was happening, yeah blame covid or whatever that’s not really an excuse but why is this stuff so unprepared
It’s not an IT system failure. It’s a Brexit failure.
Thankfully, IT systems in UK are absolute shit and I have a job lmfao
Have they ran out of space in the Excel spreadsheet again?
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>(mirror link: https://archive.is/WA9aq)
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>[EXPRESS: Brexit nightmare: Lorries stuck at UK border as IT failure sparks chaos](https://archive.is/OZwGP/image)
>
>LORRIES are getting stuck at the UK border due to IT failures that are sparking chaos.
>
> By Michael Curzon – 09:26, Thu, Jan 6, 2022 | UPDATED: 09:26, Thu, Jan 6, 2022
>
>(https://archive.is/OZwGP)
FFS people, compact and repair your MS Access databases!
”A spokesperson for HMRC, which handles post-Brexit administration at the border, said it was “aware of a small amount of **user error issues** with some of the new customs processes as traders and hauliers adjust to the new controls, which we expected and are addressing”.
Swallow, who runs global logistics firm Jordon Freight, said it was not simply a case of …traders not using the new system correctly — because **government officials themselves had been unable to explain what’s gone wrong**.”
I think I see the problem
[Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is ‘online and working as planned’](https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/hauliers_gvms_problems/)
Lmao, the failure here was not getting one in place 🤫 If we blame it on something else it doesn’t exist!
This does match the typical Vote Leave government approach. They figure if something is going to be 50% worse, people will be far happier if it got there from 70% worse than from 30%. People like to focus on the direction of travel more any comparison to the past.
So if they make a pig’s ear of the border to begin with, then improve it, people will be happier even if the end result is that the border is measurably worse than it was before things changed.
This is ridiculous, they’ve had over two years to plan this (we were obviously going to need it after Johnson won the election in ’19).
It’s what Brexit supporters wanted.
It’s undeniably what they voted to happen, because they voted for it [despite warnings by people that knew what they were talking about in 2016](https://money.cnn.com/2016/08/24/news/economy/uk-global-trade-european-union-brexit/index.html) and now it’s happening.
Strange, it’s like not heavily investing in a new border system leaves us with a shit border system.
Good. Let it get worse and worse. People need to really suffer to understand what a shitshow Brexit is and always was going to be. Johnson can own it.
I can’t wait until we rejoin the EU and can scrap all these expensive systems and all the red tape that’s choking the economy. Stupid stupid Brexit.
When “testing” is “we changed the live server-side version of the API yesterday, tell us if anything doesn’t work”
Well, nothing worked…
Saw it with the NHS and Crown Commercial Service (which advertises public-sector tenders).
That’s on a good day – most of the time, the change only comes to light when the entire country loses access to something important overnight…
There are too many people trying to do down this country. I think it’s a remarkable achievement that our Government has been able to introduce this level of chaos in only a few days. Think where we’ll be by the end of the year!
Almost as if the frictionless trade we had within the EU was convenient for everyone.
little britain becomes real life. ” i want to import a truck load of vital foodstuffs today… furious keyboard tapping, computer sez no”
Linda, who faithfully types the information on every fax received into the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet system, is currently off work with Covid and nobody else is available who knows how to turn the computer on.
We anticipate a return to normal operation when Linda completes her isolation period.
Brexit and a government IT program? They never stood a chance.
Hey, hi, a genuinely confused Finn here.
How in the fuck is your government still in place?
Let’s shelve the remain or leave side for now, this stuff is staggering.
They knew it was happening, yeah blame covid or whatever that’s not really an excuse but why is this stuff so unprepared
It’s not an IT system failure. It’s a Brexit failure.
Thankfully, IT systems in UK are absolute shit and I have a job lmfao
Have they ran out of space in the Excel spreadsheet again?