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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling
Posted by: Huw Burford-Taylor
Date/Time: 07/01/19 09:18:00

So, there's an exercise going on to see how lorries would cope in the event of "no deal". A reporter has been live tweeting it:

"Right. First day back after Christmas in this perfectly normal country and I'm off to Ramsgate to sketch a Potemkin traffic jam up the A299 at dawn.

Currently in a traffic jam waiting to get in to the fake traffic jam.

This really is where a hundred lorries are gathering voluntarily to stage a fake traffic jam all the way to Dover to show the EU we are ready for no deal.

In ten years at the Indy, I've been taught literally how to ride a bike by an Olympic cycling coach. I've entered my dog in Crufts. I've trained as a Wimbledon ball boy. I've never been on an assignment anywhere near as stupid as this.

Dawn breaks on the Kent horizon and there, in a disused airfield, is a totally artificial snarl up, ready to crawl all the way to Dover for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Needless to say, this is all the "brainchild", ie orphan, of Chris Grayling.

As the fake traffic jam in the disused airfield swells, why not take a moment to consider Boris Johnson, writing in the telegraph this morning, who said "this is closest to what people actually voted for."

What these trucks represent are whole decades of patiently honed genius, the sheer wonder of Europe wide just-in-time manufacturing supply chains, unquestionably one of mankind's greatest logistical achievements, being smashed to pieces for absolutely nothing.

The clock strikes 8. The moment this demented pantomime was meant to set off for Dover, to stress test British greatness. It is still stationary.

Analysis shows that just a ten minute delay for lorries at the port of Dover will decimate British manufacturing in every corner of the country. These lorries, which are here for no reason, and are not being checked for anything, are now ten minutes late in setting off.

And if you're wondering how the great British public, and their "blitz spirit" will cope with all this, a woman in a Fiat 500 has just slowed down on her way past the lay by where I and other members of the media have gathered, to honk loudly and mouth at us to 'f*cking f*ck off'."


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Stockpiling03/01/19 22:44:00 Stewart Jones
   Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 07:43:00 Paul Fisher
      Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 07:45:00 Stewart Jones
         Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 08:41:00 Paul Fisher
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 09:28:00 Mark Evans
      Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 09:09:00 John Whitworth
         Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 09:27:00 Alan Clark
      Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 09:27:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
         Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 09:36:00 Paul Fisher
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 09:52:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 10:17:00 Ken Munn
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 10:20:00 Paul Fisher
                     Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 10:32:00 John Whitworth
                        Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 10:50:00 Janice Evans
                           Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 10:58:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:01:00 Janice Evans
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:04:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:08:00 Janice Evans
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:10:00 Janice Evans
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:24:00 Janice Evans
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:28:00 Richard Greenhough
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:34:00 Janice Evans
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 13:10:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 13:34:00 Janice Evans
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                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling05/01/19 12:14:00 Paul Fisher
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                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 14:01:00 Loraine Pemberton
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 14:20:00 Richard Greenhough
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 15:03:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 14:56:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
                                                         Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 15:58:00 John Whitworth
                                                            Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 16:04:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
                                                               A retraction. 05/01/19 13:32:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
                                                                  Re:A retraction. 05/01/19 14:00:00 Loraine Pemberton
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling05/01/19 13:16:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
                                                   Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 15:40:00 Philippa Bond
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:29:00 Alan Clark
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:31:00 Janice Evans
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:39:00 Janice Evans
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:57:00 Janice Evans
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 12:44:00 Loraine Pemberton
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 11:57:00 Paul Fisher
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 12:29:00 Philippa Bond
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 12:43:00 Janice Evans
                        Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 13:08:00 Loraine Pemberton
                           Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 13:13:00 Janice Evans
                           Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 13:44:00 Philippa Bond
                              Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 14:44:00 Loraine Pemberton
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 15:10:00 Claire Moran
                        Re:Stockpiling05/01/19 13:01:00 Philippa Bond
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                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 13:13:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
   Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 12:49:00 Bernard Allen
      Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 12:53:00 Janice Evans
         Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 12:57:00 Janice Evans
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 13:16:00 Bernard Allen
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                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 13:34:00 Andy Pease
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                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling04/01/19 20:09:00 Julian Pavey
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling05/01/19 11:14:00 Richard Greenhough
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stockpiling05/01/19 13:38:00 Janice Evans
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                                       Re:Stockpiling06/01/19 17:58:00 Loraine Pemberton
                                          Re:Stockpiling06/01/19 19:04:00 John Whitworth
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                                          Re:Re:Stockpiling06/01/19 21:38:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
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