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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Maybe we can be more helpful with our clarifications. Let me try an analogy.
If your train journey takes two minutes but is occasionally delayed by bad weather or a train strike, you will still use it.
If it is regularly delayed by 2-3 hours and you have a 50% chance of it being delayed by 8 hours, you will make other arrangements like the plane or car. These will be more costly in time or money.
Over time, you might find it better to buy somewhere closer to work or choose a new job. But you can't do this instantly.
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Train journey less costly in time or money than plane or car?
Since when?
Are hauliers moving trucks around just for the sake of it?
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
The best coups happen without tanks and the army.
It's as undemocratic to force through no-deal against the will of a democratically-elected Parliament as it is to ignore the referendum vote. But many people have become too blinkered to see this, they just want to see their side win at all cost.
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Sounds like the penny is dropping. What do fewer journeys mean? Fewer jobs? Fewer goods? Fewer exports?
Sounds like the Turkish border issues are unrelated to its relationship with the EU, more its efficiency. Turkey is a far poorer, emerging economy. Both the UK and France are richer and a lot more developed.
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The EU has agreed open-access road transport deals only with a handful of neighbouring countries. This includes members of the European Economic Area, which Britain has said it will not join, and Switzerland, which has a special bilateral agreement.
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The problem is not one of infrastructure. Turkey has invested hundreds of millions of dollars trying to speed up things on its end. It built a massive truck terminus an hour from the Bulgarian border, where customs agents carry out inspections and stamp forms that are then fed into a computerised system shared with the EU. The border gates themselves were revamped to create more lanes and parking lots with modern waiting areas.
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On the other end, Bulgarian border officers examine each truck, going over the paperwork and doing random drug and migrant checks. Refrigerated trucks are x-rayed as are 5 per cent of other trucks, at random, according to Mr Ereke. “For the UK, I wish them good luck,” he said, pointing to the lines behind him. “It is not going to be easy.”
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The Turks have done everything they can, It is the EU imposing the costs and restrictions.
The problem is that we're too polite to return the nastiness coming from the EU.