the British blame France – Muricas News

A excessive quantity of journey and extra border controls required as a consequence of Brexit have led to lengthy visitors jams in Nice Britain on the way in which throughout the English Channel to France. Commerce unions, port authorities and the French authorities agreed on Saturday that the principle motive for this was Britain’s exit from the EU. British International Secretary Liz Truss, however, blamed France.

Automobiles and vehicles waited in strains stretching for miles on the Port of Dover. On Saturday, the ferry firm P&O Ferries mentioned it will take three to 4 hours to get to the port and undergo safety checks. On Friday there have been six and extra.

The French border authorities are understaffed, mentioned Truss, who's working to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Paris should do one thing “to resolve the horrible scenario that vacationers, together with households, are going through.”

Leclerc: “Mission achieved”

The prefect of the Hauts-de-France area, Georges-François Leclerc, mentioned France had “carried out its job” by rising its border employees in Dover from 120 to 200 folks. However due to an accident on Friday, French border officers arrived late at their publish in Dover. This brought about delays.

French Transport Minister Clément Beaune mentioned French authorities had been “mobilized” to ease visitors. Nevertheless, France is “not chargeable for Brexit”.

Extra restrictions as a consequence of Brexit

With the UK leaving the European Union, border controls and extra formalities for freight visitors had been reintroduced. On the entrance to the port of Dover, there had due to this fact been repeated visitors jams, particularly for vehicles, up to now few months. As well as, there's now vacation visitors, which was not as pronounced final summer time as a consequence of quite a few corona restrictions.

French MP Pierre-Henri Dumont, whose constituency contains the French canal port of Calais, additionally known as the journey chaos “a consequence of Brexit”. “We've got to hold out extra checks than earlier than,” he advised the BBC. There'll at all times be visitors jams.

The port director of Dover, Doug Bannister, additionally initially spoke of a scarcity of French border guards. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that there are actually “elevated transaction instances” after Brexit. Lucy Moreton of the UK union ISU, which represents border, immigration and customs employees, mentioned the visitors jams had been a “fairly predictable” consequence of Britain’s exit from the EU.