Saturday, 30 July 2022

Still unsure about travel but a new appeal -- to the shootin' set

The Observer recycles the earlier Graun story with the same indecisive results:

Travel chaos is ‘the new normal’ after Brexit, British tourists are warned
...a fierce diplomatic row erupted with France over the lengthy tailbacks affecting Dover....Former chancellor Rishi Sunak said the French “need to stop blaming Brexit and start getting the staff required to match demand”. Foreign secretary Liz Truss said she was in touch with her French counterparts, blaming a “lack of resources at the border”.

However, diplomats, French officials and border staff warned that the delays were a result of post-Brexit border arrangements struggling to cope in their first major test since Britain left the EU.

And then the story repeats what we were told earlier in the Graun (post below) about the possibility of passport checks being automated but biometric checks requiring people to step out of their vehicles etc

Elsewhere in the Observer, they seem to be really scraping the barrel and appealing to a constituency they have never engaged before, surely:

Game over for UK shooting season as bird flu and Brexit take a heavy toll

At least 93 gamekeepers have been made redundant so far this year and some shoots are likely to go bankrupt, according to Dominic Boulton, former chair of the Game Farmers’ Association and now its policy adviser....The initial signs of disruption came at the end of February when the first case of bird flu was discovered in the Loire valley.

After avian flu is detected on a farm, the birds are culled and 30 days later the farmer can start trading birds domestically – which for French farmers means within the EU. But international exports must wait for 90 days, under World Organisation for Animal Health guidelines adopted into UK and EU law.

The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation (NGO) campaigned for the government to create special licences allowing imports before the 90 days were up. After weeks of negotiations, ministers reached an agreement with the EU for a “bespoke arrangement”, but not France.

But then the Observer dries its tears for gamekeepers and owners of shoots (sorry --game farmers) and notes, in another curiously Freudian admission of doubt (I can't believe it is 'balance'):

“Even if we were still in the EU and operating under the 30-day rule, we would still have been in trouble,” Boulton said


 

 

 

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