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[Lagondanet]

We are going to Switzerland for a week at end August via Tunnel. As a precaution we have also booked parallel crossing by ferry back via DFDS Dunkirk. Otherwise Rotterdam or ........ Given current problems any advice?

[Lazydocker]

We are going to Switzerland for a week at end August via Tunnel. As a precaution we have also booked parallel crossing by ferry back via DFDS Dunkirk. Otherwise Rotterdam or ........ Given current problems any advice?

Ferries in and out of Dunkirk appear unaffected and that would be my choice of crossing every time

To add... If there are still disruptions for ferries to/from Calais, take tha M2/A2 all the way to Dover... It avoids Operation Stuck Stack

[Lagondanet]

Thanks.
My wife might fly back from Berne early to meet work commitments.

[Lazydocker]

Dunkirk is a better port for Switzerland really... Then go through Belgium for toll free travel

[Lagondanet]

We are taking our time out: Folkestone Metz Safenwil Gstaad
back: Gstaad Alterswil Pontarlon Besancon Dijon St Omer.

Return crossing is our only real anxiety.

[Sir Tigger KC]

If what we are seeing in the media about the situation in in Calais is true, then I'd avoid the place like it had been hit with ebola, bubonic plague and syphilis............... all at once! 

[Lazydocker]

If what we are seeing in the media about the situation in in Calais is true, then I'd avoid the place like it had been hit with ebola, bubonic plague and syphilis............... all at once! 

Yep... Dunkirk gets left alone because it is so little used in the grand scheme of things

[biggriffin]

If what we are seeing in the media about the situation in in Calais is true, then I'd avoid the place like it had been hit with ebola, bubonic plague and syphilis............... all at once! 

Yep... Dunkirk gets left alone because it is so little used in the grand scheme of things

Immigrants are starting to infest there to, not as bad(yet) as Calais, other ports getting problems now. When Calais gets mobbed 1st escape route is Dunkirk (same thing happened 70year ago), that was immigrants too 

[05omegav6]

Watch out, the Belgians are coming

[Nick W]

Watch out, the Belgians are coming

What, all of them???


Anyway, it's not a problem; we funnel them into Sheerness docks, and have a welcoming committee of the 'natives.'


That will be enough to make them change their minds about the whole business, and opps off back home again.

[Varche]

Like I said before, why the hell hasn't,t Ccameron insisted on troops (ours or Frenchies) protecting the route? It is unacceptable regardless of your view on immigrants. The cost to the people of Britain is immense.

[biggriffin]

Like I said before, why the hell hasn't,t Ccameron insisted on troops (ours or Frenchies) protecting the route? It is unacceptable regardless of your view on immigrants. The cost to the people of Britain is immense.

Doesn't need troops, needs the French to control there own borders first, they need to put check points back up, mainly at Italian border, then eyeties need to do the same as do the spainards,, instead of just giving them a €20 note and a wash and lunch and saying on your way out of our country, then off to Calais they go,
 The law states they have to claim asylum in the first friendly country they reach, since when is England the first friendly country when you leave Africa,enforcement of the letter of the law.. Send them back on there own national carrier, simples
Caught at Dover, give em a shower, confiscate there phones, then on a bus to airport next flight back, stop giving them food and shelter in Calais.

[TheBoy]

Remember, for mainland Euroland, there are no borders. So no borders to control.

No point trying to blame this on French policies, the UK needs to look at its own policies, make the place far less attractive.

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Remember, for mainland Euroland, there are no borders. So no borders to control.

No point trying to blame this on French policies, the UK needs to look at its own policies, make the place far less attractive.

I know there are no borders to allow freedom of movement, but times have changed, and border controls need to be brought back, not like they were, just cursory check of passports and loads, as happens now,the advantages to cross border crime will also drop.

[Nick W]

Like I said before, why the hell hasn't,t Ccameron insisted on troops (ours or Frenchies) protecting the route? It is unacceptable regardless of your view on immigrants. The cost to the people of Britain is immense.

When did using troops as police ever work well?

As for British troops in France, the only way we'd manage that would be if Germany got there first.

A fundamental point of the EU is that internal borders are effectively open, so this sort of immigration/asylum should be sorted at the external border. Which is the Mediterranean, or Eastern Europe. France, for example, has enough problems dealing with immigrants etc who want to stop there, to not just help anyone on their way whose destination is somewhere else.