Shard

Let's make a list of the fun we're going to have once we escape the big bad anti-bendy EU:

1. Permanent 30 mile tailbacks at Calais

<Please add to the list!>

EMR

I suspect from the Brexiter s point of view, just about everything.
All those concerns which led many of them to vote to leave will still be with us for years after we have left.

Lion in Winter

2. Queues at French immigration checkpoints before boarding the Eurostar at St. Pancras.

DaveLovesDee

Nigel Farage in the UK more often.....

Assanah

Massive corruption. Maybe better not to have an open border with this kind of country 😂

https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-demands-uk-pay-e2-7-billion-in-lost-customs-duties/

GeniB

5hr + queues at all airports within the EU for British passport holders. ( we just survived a 5 and a half hour queue just to get into B****y Canada.) .

GeniB

Oooh errr It was the massive Chinese presence that stopped us getting into Canada

EMR

EU is demanding the UK pay customs duties it has avoided on imports from guess where " China ". BBC news.

Cape Blue

I used to fly to Schiphol every other week from the UK - the queues at immigration for EU were just as long as for non-EU and could be up to an hour with people backed up the stairs.

I used to like landing in SFO with a green card back in the day though, the non-citizen/prs queue was horrendous.

Red Eric

War - starting with Spain over Gibraltar.

EMR

Schipol is a major international airport.
Not relevant to the millions of Brits who go on holiday to much smaller airports around the world.
You have also forgotten something called technology .
But you have a point, At Bristol at peak times in the summer those arriving 90% Brits are held in corridors due to the queues at passport control.
SFA to do with the EU .

GeniB

NEVER In the 30 yrs I lived in NL Have I ever had to queue in something like you describe.. Are you sure it was Schiphol ?

BritInParis

The end of Western political civilisation. The President of the European Council said it so it must be true.

Red Eric

Good thread while it lasted - thanks, Shard - but I think that might be game over, mightn't it? Can't think of anything much worse than that.

Anybody?

Cape Blue

I'm pretty sure I was landing in Schiphol every other week yes. This was on the early commuter run and I was surprised the first time it happened, but I would say it typically varied from 10 mins of queuing to an hour.