Redwood is clearly past his sell-by date. He's like the embarrassing uncle you have to invite for Christmas or he'll be on his own and hope that he doesn't speak!
However, European holidays will likely be getting harder for us this November as this Times article reports.
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Port officials fear that queues will get even worse this year when the EU launches the long-delayed Entry/Exit System (EES). It was due to come into force next month but has been delayed until November.
Under the scheme, all arrivals from outside the European Union will have four fingerprints scanned and a photograph taken. The data will be captured on the first entry to the bloc and verified on subsequent visits.
Holidaymakers had been told to expect long delays, especially at British ports — where border controls are juxtaposed with French immigration formalities carried out on UK land — because of the difficulties of capturing passengers’s data from inside their cars. There are also concerns of long queues at the Eurotunnel terminal in Folkestone.
Bannister [Doug Bannister, Dover's chief executive] has warned that it could take up to ten minutes to process a single car when the measures come in.
Currently, post-Brexit checks take about 90 seconds for a car. This is already at least double the amount of time compared with when the UK was in the EU.
It is feared the port could be forced to start capping capacity at peak times, in a similar way to Eurostar. In January Eurostar, which connects London to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam by rail, said it had been forced to leave empty seats on the “vast majority” of services due to post-Brexit border problems.
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And for those who may wish to hope the currentl delays are not Brexit-related, please look away now:
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Doug Bannister, the port’s chief executive, has previously said it is “absolutely true” queues at the port, first seen last summer, were the result of the UK’s exit from the bloc. Since Brexit every passport must now be scanned and stamped.
“In a post-Brexit environment, the transaction times through the borders are going to take longer,” he said.
A source close to the home secretary later suggested that the issues were the result of how French officials had decided to do post-Brexit checks. However, the checks carried out by French border officers are the same for all arrivals from so-called third countries that are outside the bloc.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d...test-l0mtqjfkw