>[Financial Times: Dover traffic chaos damaging UK’s reputation, hauliers warn](https://www.ft.com/content/e3e54f35-915b-4d4f-81f5-d72617d7886b)
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>Hauliers specialising in moving meat and other perishable goods said it was becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to get EU drivers in the UK, following headlines caused by the imposition of the Operation Brock contraflow system to hold trucks queueing at Dover
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>([*mirror*](https://archive.ph/e9pCN))
eta:
>Simon Jones ([@SimonJonesNews](https://nitter.net/SimonJonesNews))
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Logistics UK is calling for an urgent review into the effectiveness of Operation Brock as a traffic-management scheme, as well as the humanitarian issues it raises as HGV drivers are left unable to access basic hygiene facilities, food and drink.
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>[Apr 12, 2022 · 12:42 PM](https://nitter.net/SimonJonesNews/status/1513845101663076360)
and:
>[EuroWeeklyNews: Inhumane conditions slammed as Murcian truckers stuck outside Dover](https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/04/12/inhumane-conditions-slammed-as-murcian-truckers-stuck-outside-dover/)
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>12 April 2022 • 13:28
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>Organisations and Companies of Murcia, FROET, has slammed the inhumane treatment and conditions in which more than 1,000 Murcian truckers stuck outside of Dover find themselves in.
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>The trucks are being corralled by Operation Brock, a scheme put in place by UK authorities to handle the backlog of commercial vehicles after the suspension of P & O Ferry services. Added checks now that the UK is no longer part of the EU have also added to the delays, with port officials experiencing ongoing computer problems as they try and log the movement of goods.
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>Latest estimates put the backlog at around 4,500 vehicles with around one third less ferries making the crossing, resulting in driver’s waiting days for their turn. Although authorities believe the operation to have been a success those stuck in the queues think differently with no services made available to drivers. …
Lol what? *”… backlog of around 4,500 vehicles..”*
Project fear is just coming true more and more but you’d hardly notice when you look at the media and public discourse, how sad.
Bit late for reputational damage. That hit in 2016.
The damage is just getting worse, it has been building since 2016. Years of disastrous negotiations with successive Brexit ministers that had done no preparation and who blamed the EU for daring to stick to the law did more than enough damage. The fact that we had to go begging for a meagre deal at the eleventh hour and then claimed we snatched victory from the jaws of the evil EU just dealt another kick in the teeth.
This all could have been avoided. Simple measures, such as a comprehensive white paper or a public referendum on the deal, could have stopped all this. This would take time and money, as well as risk going back on the initial vote, however that would equally be as much the will of the people as the initial vote too.
Brexit was not a well planned out idea for the people, it was a clusterfuck designed to help make a few people rich.
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>[Financial Times: Dover traffic chaos damaging UK’s reputation, hauliers warn](https://www.ft.com/content/e3e54f35-915b-4d4f-81f5-d72617d7886b)
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>Hauliers specialising in moving meat and other perishable goods said it was becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to get EU drivers in the UK, following headlines caused by the imposition of the Operation Brock contraflow system to hold trucks queueing at Dover
>
>([*mirror*](https://archive.ph/e9pCN))
eta:
>Simon Jones ([@SimonJonesNews](https://nitter.net/SimonJonesNews))
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Logistics UK is calling for an urgent review into the effectiveness of Operation Brock as a traffic-management scheme, as well as the humanitarian issues it raises as HGV drivers are left unable to access basic hygiene facilities, food and drink.
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>[Apr 12, 2022 · 12:42 PM](https://nitter.net/SimonJonesNews/status/1513845101663076360)
and:
>[EuroWeeklyNews: Inhumane conditions slammed as Murcian truckers stuck outside Dover](https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/04/12/inhumane-conditions-slammed-as-murcian-truckers-stuck-outside-dover/)
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>12 April 2022 • 13:28
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>Organisations and Companies of Murcia, FROET, has slammed the inhumane treatment and conditions in which more than 1,000 Murcian truckers stuck outside of Dover find themselves in.
>
>The trucks are being corralled by Operation Brock, a scheme put in place by UK authorities to handle the backlog of commercial vehicles after the suspension of P & O Ferry services. Added checks now that the UK is no longer part of the EU have also added to the delays, with port officials experiencing ongoing computer problems as they try and log the movement of goods.
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>Latest estimates put the backlog at around 4,500 vehicles with around one third less ferries making the crossing, resulting in driver’s waiting days for their turn. Although authorities believe the operation to have been a success those stuck in the queues think differently with no services made available to drivers. …
69% of HGV drivers supported Leave with only 15% supporting Remain ([source](https://www.politicshome.com/members/article/britains-road-haulage-smes-drive-towards-brexit)). Just like farmers; the truckers won, they need to get over it.
If they didn’t get the unicorn-that-shits-sparkingling-rainbows Brexit that they imagined was coming, then they only have themselves to blame.
Interestingly the wider industry seems to have been more Remain ([source](https://www.politicshome.com/members/article/britains-road-haulage-smes-drive-towards-brexit)). At least some of them were paying attention.
Lol what? *”… backlog of around 4,500 vehicles..”*
Project fear is just coming true more and more but you’d hardly notice when you look at the media and public discourse, how sad.
Bit late for reputational damage. That hit in 2016.
The damage is just getting worse, it has been building since 2016. Years of disastrous negotiations with successive Brexit ministers that had done no preparation and who blamed the EU for daring to stick to the law did more than enough damage. The fact that we had to go begging for a meagre deal at the eleventh hour and then claimed we snatched victory from the jaws of the evil EU just dealt another kick in the teeth.
This all could have been avoided. Simple measures, such as a comprehensive white paper or a public referendum on the deal, could have stopped all this. This would take time and money, as well as risk going back on the initial vote, however that would equally be as much the will of the people as the initial vote too.
Brexit was not a well planned out idea for the people, it was a clusterfuck designed to help make a few people rich.