Up the french

[chesters1]

At the port of Calais, one British traveller said the fishermen appeared occasionally to be letting a ship in and out of the port, but in a "very sporadic" fashion.

 

That was one ferry and it was empty, had to return to Dover for a crew shift change.

 

I work in the freight transport industry and based in Dover docks i can sit and watch events out the window.

I feel for the family's and those in coach's sitting on a very large concrete car park, so far for 12 hours.

Who knows how long they might be there. There is a small food hall, but they charge about £6 for a burger

and 20 ciggies cost nearly £ 7, most smokers would have run low expecting to get their duty free's onboard, total rip off.

 

Back to the freight, we have run out of trucks, already, to make collections off of the continent.

 

To make matters worth i have 48 tons of Carlsberg sitting on a motorway out side Calais Damn you French.

 

is the M20 totally closed ? the thought of using the A20 frightens me it was a bad road when it was used

hopefully its over by the 22nd

[barry luxton]

is the M20 totally closed ? the thought of using the A20 frightens me it was a bad road when it was used

hopefully its over by the 22nd

 

Well according to the latest info:

 

16/04/09

 

5.30am - Operation Stack's been lifted for now because French fisherman have cleared their blockades at Calais. This means that traffic's been cleared from Kent overnight, however Kent Police say the strikes are likely to resume again this morning, meaning more problems for Kent's roads

 

This could mean that the french night shift strikers failed to turn up but the day shift ones are on there way.

[Cranfield]

I watched the news about this on TV earlier and two things crossed my mind:

 

1. The French are lucky to have a fleet that can block ports. I doubt there's enough of ours left to block a duck pond!

 

2. How hard would it be for a ferry to push a few fishing boats out of the way?

 

The newspapers showed pictures of a couple of 20ft boats pulling a cable across the entrances, its more a "token" blockage, rather than loads of boats physically moored across the entrances.

Most of the French fishermen will be in the bars, or combing their nose hair.

[chesters1]

or licking their lovers armpit hair

isnt it refreshing we can say what we like about the frogs yet substitute any non european country (or even some new states) and your vilified as some sort of xenophobic racist ,foreigners (all of them! no prejudice here) are there to be insulted thats why they're foreign

we in turn are hated the world over as foreigners can hate who they please as well (its only fair)

 

got to grudgingly admit they do show the government who elected them ,its just a pity it usually involves us

 

the english are now so under the thumb (or terrorists under our laws if you even think about rebelling) we now know its pointless to protest a sad fact that were now a subordinate to every country on earth bar tasmania when only a short time historically we told the world what to do and they jumped to do it no mention of racism or xenophobia then it was how things were!

the PC ers have almost got their way the english are nearly a thing of the past and just faceless good europeans with no minds of their own looks like france has taken the english old fashioned not taking any shite stance ,well when it suits them.

 

surprised the lorry drivers arnt having a go about the diesel prices (not a murmur when they spiralled upwards) is it our terrorist law implementers had a word in the ears of the organisers and were told bad things will happen to their families if they play up again? ,600 people a day 210,000 people a year disappear in the UK not all are heard of again

if 85% are located that still means 30,000 could be being disposed of /hidden /secretly imprisoned etc by the government as "terrorists" or terrorist sympathisers or just families of fuel protesters

Edited April 16, 2009 by chesters1

[n4lly]

Got this email off of P&O this afternoon........."Financial Settlement" ???

 

We are pleased to inform you that business is back to normal, after the disruption caused by the fishermen's blockades in the French ports

 

We have been advised that the protests are over for the time being and that no further action will be taken during the next fortnight while the fishermen consider the details of the financial settlement offered to them by their government.

 

 

 

We naturally hope this turns out to be correct and that we can go about our business unhindered by further protests.

 

 

 

Best regards

 

P&O Ferries Holdings Ltd

 

Freight Sales Department

 

 

 

Just heard on the news its 4,000,000 euro's

Edited April 16, 2009 by n4lly

[barry luxton]

Sounds like thier fishermen really need to hide away and go quiet for a while. Im surprised the uk fishermen haven't ganged up and gone over there to ask what the ....... they are playing at. Appears that they want thier cake and the uk's and to spit the pips out at the rest of the eu. Something just ain't right according to the quote below.

 

 

According to UK fishermen on the South Coast and reported by Channel Four's FourMore News last night, trawler crews from Boulogne and other ports are receiving huge EU subsidies worth up to £7.5 million for landing illegal or ' black' fish.

 

The European Commission admitted there were problems and says it is trying to solve them,but the disclosure has angered British fishermen who say they are playing by the rules and suffering financially as because of it. Anger against EU fishing policy is growing on both sides.

 

Does anyone know about these 'black fish landings' ?