Jacob Rees-Mogg has admitted he was wrong to say there would be no delays at the port of Dover caused by the UK leaving the EU.
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But the Brexit opportunities minister maintained the government line that the French, not Brexit, had caused the recent delays, in a radio interview on Tuesday.
LBC radio replayed a claim from 2018 when he insisted “there will be no need for checks at Dover” and he was clear that “the delays will not be at Dover, they will be at Calais”.
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Rees-Mogg blamed Paris for the “French-created delays” witnessed recently before he was asked if he would apologise for getting it wrong.
“Yes, of course I got it wrong, but I got it wrong for the right reason, if I may put it that way,” he said.
“The point I was making was that the only delays would be caused by the French if they decided not to allow British people to pass through freely. They have decided to do that.”
Rees-Mogg went on to suggest that Britons might believe “going to Portugal is more fun because the Portuguese want us to go and the French are being difficult”.
“Why should we go and spend our hard-earned money in France if the French don’t want us?” he asked, before insisting he was not calling for a boycott.
Authorities in Dover declared a critical incident as gridlock meant delays of up to five to six hours and volunteer staff handing out water in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Both Port of Dover and Eurotunnel, which operates rail and car rail transportation across the Channel, have said the delays were caused by the extra checks needed on British passports.
Under the Le Touquet agreement between France and the UK, French border control staff are stationed on the British side of the Channel.
Before Brexit, when freedom of movement existed for EU nationals, officials were required to only check passports for identity purposes, matching the faces of the people in cars with their passports and ensuring the document was in date.
Since Brexit, different travel rules apply for all third-country nationals.
British nationals can still travel visa-free to the EU but only for a 90-day period in any 180-day period.
That means officials at French border controls must stamp each passport to record entry and exit and also check the passport for previous stamps to ensure the 90-day limit has not been breached.
Port of Dover said two weekends ago it resulted in checks taking an average of 90 seconds compared with 48 seconds before Brexit.
The authorities admitted that there was also a problem with a shortage of staff for hours on the Friday, 22 July, but this lasted only about two hours.
Port of Dover had increased its number of passport-checking booths from six to nine in June to prepare for the weekend of 22 July. It was the weekend after schools in England broke up for the summer holidays, traditionally the busiest days for tourist travel.
Last weekend, Dover carried 142,000 passengers – a fivefold increase on this time last year. Eurotunnel carried about 100,000 passengers.
The extra passport checks combined with the huge spike in traffic resulted in queues of up to six hours before travel times returned to normal on Monday 25 July.
The travel industry is warning that delays could be even worse for travellers after the EU introduces biometric controls including face recognition and fingerprinting next summer under the so-called Entry Exit System (EES).
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Pity that was the only thing they got wrong. The trouble is the rich are immune from cost of living pressures. The ordinary people suffer.
I thought the brexiteers cheered the loss of freedom of movement. He should be thanking the French for securing the boarder.
If the Portuguese aren’t as difficult as the French, does this mean each eu-member has their own sovereignty?
If French don’t let British people cross over freely, does this mean they have control over their border?
These brexiteers keep contradicting themselves, and I find it very remarkable that an interviewer never points this out.
So he got it wrong can we vote again please? Since taking back control we have handed control of the road’s around Kent to the French😂😂😂
Real-Smug getting things spectacularly wrong isn't because it's in his breeding, it's because of his inbreeding.
" Quousque tandem abutere Iacobe patientia nostra?" The Latin says it all.
I am wrong for the right reasons ALL THE TIME!!!!! Believe me!!!! loloolol Clown!!!
Pooooor kent
`I got it wrong, but i got it wrong it wrong for the right reason`. This Brexiteer chancer should be in front of a judge, then whipped in Trafalgar Square of a jolly hot Tuesday afternoon, with a queue of his fellow traitors and we all know who they are. To the Tower with all of these Brexiteer self serving Tory scounderels and thieves.
How or why should the French "allow British people to pass through freely", as Rees-Smug suggests? Brexit was intended to stop freedom of movement. And it has.
i was wrong, butttttt its not our fault, what a tosspot
Noticed he didn't actually apologise.
Jacob rees mogg is an anagram for 'mangy fool spouts trash' or if not it should be
I heard this interview this morning, and I bet there are people who still believe him.
Just wait when we all get thrown under the truss.
"Frenchmen are forcing our children to sh*t by the side of the road and we are completely powerless to stop them!" sounds pretty emasculated, if I'm being honest.
Two wrongs apparently makes a right!
Even if it were true, how come we have been unable to take back control?
Jacob ress mogg is a despicable man. All Tories are despicable
What Moggy really wants is Shengen – frictionless borders!! He hates the French for guillotining his French pen pal back in the 18th century!
This is nothing to do with Brexit. It is to do with the French.
Have a look (google earth perhaps) at the port at Calais. Unfortunately the aerial view is not quite 'real time' but the amount of extra space that has been made for traffic is huge. The road layout is complicated and there are many new parking spaces but without actually being there it is difficult to tell. I think if you could compare it with how the area was 6 years ago it would really show what 'preparation for Brexit' really means.
And then Mogg the slimy toad criticises the French.
oversize gammon interviews pencilneck brexiteer no searching questions then or anything that might trip up the pencilneck no interview with J O'B I wonder why
That's like blaming ScotRail for network rail strikes, like Lidl are to blame for food shortages, like saying the cost of living crisis is all down to the Ukraine war. The criminal cabal better known as the Tory government blame everyone else apart from the real reason them and "BREXSHIT". FULL STOP……….
The French simply honored the British choice of removing their own freedom of movement. Is JRM suggesting they should have ignored the hard-won right to be denied entry on a technicality?
He also said "we check people in Dover" … so it is not the french then?
So is Rees-Mogg saying that six people not in their works can bring Kent to a halt
How dare the French enforce the rules. Don't they realise we're British?
pissed off with the waterboard i phoned them ill connect you to another number music start then another number music starts then some real thicko answered it oh sorry cant hear you i dont understand you oh its a bad connection
the french can refuse brits entry who wants to go to racist britain