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Bob, may I add something? Yes! Thank you… The farther you seem to go the better I love you. Could sound like good news if, and only if, you ignore that what the case with my ex-wife!! But you never meet her I presume! Or……… was it you?!!!
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If ever one of your flat bottom vessels had to land on one of our shores, have a look to the posters the migrants will find:https://fr.yahoo.com/news/monde-prés...225858450.html Its not a warning, its a typical welcome… |
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Thank goodness it’s not just me that’s puzzled, Tim!
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Renting for a month? Why don't they just get Elon to Bore another tunnel. According to his numbers it should cost about the same. It would also give him a delivery route for model 3s wherever they are to be made in Europe. (NL I assume?) |
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It looks like the price for only one ferry if you buy a second hand one. BF chief executive's name sounds French, are you sure the contract has been signed by you DfT or your DCW, Department of Cilly Walks?
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Apparently the company Seabourne is only about a month old is worth £70, and has no boats of any description. This from the BBC, so must be true.
I foresee another scandalous waste of public money being hushed up. Capt Birdseye. |
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Hey, Captain, send them a compass while you are here… Last time you targeted Britany you landed in Normandy. Please stay focused on the sailing rules…
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Bob, you've got a message here:
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Gerard- They (Our Department of Transport) are not buying the ships, just awarding contracts to DFDS, Britney and Seabourne for them to source and run them. Sounds like easy money, as we’ll be paying commercial rates to travel on them..... The last mentioned is supposedly going to run ships out of Ramsgate, which hasn’t operated ferries for years! First thing needed will be to dredge the harbour, apparently. Brittany are supposed to be adding extra crossings to from Portsmouth and Plymouth, so presume DFDS will be doing the same from the east coast..... |
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I wonder how many gubbernment officials are on the board of Seabourne, or am I being a tad cynical?
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Surely running more ferries to the same ports is unlikely (to say the least) to fix the sort of problems that people have been talking about.
Customs documentation and checks for example. Or will they just load up the ferries, shove them out of the harbour to make room for the next one in, and have a battalion of customs officers on board to do the check and the admin? Or maybe it's a secret plan to use the additional ferries for asylum seekers to cut down the number of nasty polluting plastic vessels threatening the shipping lanes - just dressed up as something to do with Brexit. The same sort of smoke screen as JLR moving its manufacturing to Austria and Slovakia. |
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You don't think that maybe someone became a little confused when researching the company do you?
https://www.seaboardcorp.com/ They have a division called Seaboard Marine. ![]() |
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Thanks, Mike, getting clearer now… if possible. Not only because we're talking about boats, this kind of arrangement make me sick. Why are there so many French involved in your juicy businesses? Now I understand why many of you hate our guts probably we're seen as invaders. In this case, who started, the egg or the hen?
Do you know what will happen with the VAT? Stay like is? Different rate or several rates as we had in the seventies - up to 33,3%-. Have to pay one GB tax plus VAT? Or if goods are shipped abroad dont pay the GB tax and pay VAT? Its only for me but my feeling of how things are going in France (only in France) could be summarized by a single image. Imagine a bus stop. Many people waiting for the "right" bus. Among those people a large portion had already a bad experience with a "wrong" bus. New bus arrival, sympathetic smiling driver shouting "c'on everybody, get on, there's room for everyone, chose your destination we'll reach it promptly! Music!" There you go, everybody's happy, singing in the bus. After few miles, no one can say where the heck this f-bus is going wondering if the driver has got a licence! And, may be, if he isn't half crazy… Next time, I'll wait longer and will enjoy Mojacar bus, the driver looks cool to say the least! ![]() |
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Mon Ami Robert, you know me quite well, me and my English version… May be in some suburb near you, instead of "happy new year" you could hear "hang them all"! The more we go, the better I understand why you want to leave. Better than green washing - another thing I can't understand - go for politicians washing. I'll send you some Seifenpulver…
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What seems incredible to me is that the 3 companies that have been awarded contracts (not put out to tender, apparently) will get paid even if the new services are not needed at the end of March.... |
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Not forgetting the polite words you got from Christophe Mathieu, Brittany Ferries chief executive saying : “Our priority is to prepare for a no-deal Brexit and to create additional capacity………also we will work hard to minimise impact on existing BF freight customers and passengers, although there may be some changes to some sailing times, for which we apologise in advance.” Apologies in advance, what more could you expect?
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Its often the case I fear, any country.
How do you call "la cour des comptes" in England? An institution making a year report about how public money was spent/spoiled. Supposed to be independent, it works fine here but there is few if no action on any revealed scandal or stupidity. I guess we should have another institution watching over this court's shoulder and so on… I hope very much that from April your "out" will act as an awareness for some others, like an electroshock. You must be happy with your GBP, we lost many things with the euro money. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() I’m also confused as to who pockets the money I pay to book one of the ‘extra’ ferries, seeing as the taxpayer is paying £40 million plus to DFDS and Britney, and £13 million plus to the new lot. There was mention on one news website that in the event of the extra capacity not being needed, the government ‘would seek to sell the extra capacity back to the market’. How does that work, then.... ![]() Also interesting to note that the directors (‘seasoned shipping veterans’) and shareholders of the new lot have apparently been working towards starting up a service between Ramsgate and Ostend for 2 years. Now appears their working capital is being bankrolled by us.... |
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