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Ok I'll have it then, Brexit is causing delays.

But lets, for argument’s sake, say that we were still in the EU and folk who normally go on to the continent for holidays, have not been able to cross the channel for the last two years, in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid restrictions, so the last time, summer time holidaying folk were able to travel freely across the channel, was in summer 2019, so they have not been on holiday on to the continent for three years, so there is your sky high demand for folk wanting to get away on to the continent here in 2022.

So the clever chap said that processing cars through Dover was taking three times as long as before Brexit, so if you were waiting an hour to get through Border Control before Brexit, then that should have gone up to three hours now, but folk have been waiting up to 21 hours to get through Border Control, so what is that all that about then ?

In the year 2000 ferries stopped crossing to France from Folkstone.

In 2013 ferries stopped crossing to France from Ramsgate.

So that leaves only Dover, and as the clever chap on the telly said, and Owd Codger, it is not just the Port of Dover which is causing the delays, it is the lack of decent roads into Dover, which is also causing the problems, because the traffic cannot get through to the port, if Folkstone and Ramsgate had still been operating ferries, and then by laying on extra ferries from those two ports, then that would have eased the pressure on Dover.

But, at the end of the day, and it is as clear as the nose on your face, unless yoo are Fossil & Grimshaw, who lets face it, Mr Magoo, can see things more clearly than those two myopic numptys

The reason for the delays, is because thousands of extra people and vehicles descended on Dover, wanting to cross the channel, and if we were still in the EU there would still have been problems at Dover.

It is looking very much like the Port of Ramsgate is going to reopen as a ferry terminal, to ease the pressure on Dover.