Dover port closed for at least 48 hours

[Fambo Number Mive]

No lorries allowed from UK into France. Lorries allowed from France into UK but then they wouldn't be able to leave again.

Kent must be lorry gridlock the way things are going. I suppose this means no food from the EU will get into the UK for the next 48 hours as no lorry driver will want to be stuck in the UK.

Eurostar trains to Belgium cancelled for 24 hours.

Both closures could be extended.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55389505

[hamfist]

Netherlands shut too. I sailed into Europoort from Hull yesterday, guess it was the next to last crossing.

[MojoJojo]

Brexit shenanigans? Or is there more to the new strain than I've heard?

[bgmnts]

Brexit shenanigans? Or is there more to the new strain than I've heard?

The Dutch shut down travel to and from UK around the same time as the news of new strain hit I think.

It's good future practice anyway for post Brexit logistics.

[Butchers Blind]

Any news on toilet roll?  Should I bulk buy now?

[idunnosomename]

cool

[imitationleather]

I didn't like fresh food anyway.

[Quote]

Becoming a literal rather than merely metaphorical plague island was always our fate.

[Alberon]

It's probably a popular political move on the continent, but they're too late. The new strain is over there already.

[chveik]

don't bring that fucking strain on the mainland you cunts

It's probably a popular political move on the continent, but they're too late. The new strain is over there already.

edit: fuck. I'm going to bet it's the fault of a second home gammon

[Wonderful Butternut]

Ireland closing borders to SuperCOVID infected Tanland too.

Should've done that in 1922...

[idunnosomename]

keep calm and drink tea

[Wonderful Butternut]

Hmm... on the verge of a No Deal Brexit and all of a sudden the rest of Europe starts literally closing the border with the UK cos of SuperCOVID.

Coincidence? Or a fabrication to shock the British electorate into accepting a deal by showing them what could happen without one?[nb]Obviously this needed to happen a week ago for this to have any remote plausibility as an idea[/nb]

Conspiracy nuts will wank themselves over this until their phalluses are nothing more than bloody stumps.

[MojoJojo]

I think the fact it's just the docks shut (too late for me to bother checking), not air travel, indicates this is probably political.

That doesn't mean that the government isn't using the new strain to cover up their late Christmas shutdown. It also doesn't mean the new strain is important - I don't think it's possible to tell at this point.

[Zetetic]

Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium are all halting flights.

[jobotic]

We deserve this because 100% EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US FUCK US voted for this in KENT and we love two litre bottles of piss and hate refugees. I can move to China fuck you shitholes.

[MojoJojo]

Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium are all halting flights.

Opps.

[Captain Z]

The UK must pay for bringing this new strain on the world.

[bgmnts]

The China UK Virus.

[Jasha]

Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium are all halting flights.

Canada and Turkey too now

[greenman]

It's probably a popular political move on the continent, but they're too late. The new strain is over there already.

It appearing on the SE UK coast does seem a little coincidental to me as to potentially originating somewhere else and maybe spreading faster here due to weaker lockdown measures and overcrowding.

Whichever way though I'd guess it is probably too late but still hopefully one positive might be that the Tories are really pressured to act towards much stronger measures, schools and higher education not reopening after the holidays most obviously.

[Chedney Honks]

Cumdumpster must be at home right now laughing his bollocks off and gargling so much cum!

[idunnosomename]

[buttgammon]

You know you're in trouble when Major Tom being beheaded isn't even the main headline.

[Satchmo Distel]

It's not a beheading. It's foreplay.

[dissolute ocelot]

Any news on toilet roll?  Should I bulk buy now?

According to Wikipedia "All Andrex mainstream is made in Northfleet. Factories in Flint and Barrow in Furness supplement production on the mainline product, along with the Puppies on a Roll, Aloe Vera and Quilts variations."

Northfleet is in Kent, next to Gravesend, so Kent will be well supplied with toilet roll but the rest of Britain? Gridlocked Kent means it's posh TP or nothing.

[jobotic]

You all take the piss but we're shitting pretty.

Kent!

[GMTV]

Andrex Shadow Edition

[shiftwork2]

The Kent variant and this Dover caper are just a news blackout cover for everyone down there trying to fuck lorries and containers as well as cranes.  Trousers round ankles fucking the Eurostar.  It's what they're bred to do and I'm sick of it.

[drummersaredeaf]

Anyone more capable with Photoshop than I - can you do Farage sat at Dover shouting a food order to a dinghy please. Cheers.