Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[weltweit]

Scratch that

 

[spitfire]

The trailer is dropped at the port by a driver and then driven onboard by one of the funny little tractor units that kick around ports.

Then unloaded at the other end by a similar method.
I do not know what proportion of freight this covers but hopefully it can ramp up quickly.

cant find a picture of one of these for the life of me.

 

[cupid_stunt]

 

[Artaxerxes]

Ah of course, thanks all I still like the idea of sheep being told to find their own way through the tunnel though.

You can't even trust sheep to stand up by themselves

 

[planetgeli]

Freight is crane lifted isn't it? How do they stack them otherwise?

 

[bimble]

The timing is just , scriptwriters for 2020 need to take a holiday.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

cant find a picture of one of these for the life of me.

 

[spitfire]

thank you.

 

[spitfire]

Freight is crane lifted isn't it? How do they stack them otherwise?

I’m only talking about Ro Ro freight.

Container freight will most likely be unaffected although it’s already fucked.

 

[editor]

I never book but during lockdown prebooking should be piss easy as very few people will be travelling.

It wasn't easy booking tickets for my (now cancelled) Cardiff trip. I ended up in a loop of booking a train to be told that I could only travel with a seat reservation and then finding out there were none.

 

[spitfire]

I’m only talking about Ro Ro freight.

Container freight will most likely be unaffected although it’s already fucked.

its the humans they don’t want.

 

[Gerry1time]

You can't even trust sheep to stand up by themselves

The once great engineering marvel of the channel tunnel being blocked by hundreds of confused sheep would be a perfect bookend to 2020 for this nation.

 

[bimble]

Good summary of what’s going on today with the EU, as they work towards a more unified response.

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[Badgers]

But, the governments of the UK, and the WHO, were only given the new data/information on Friday.

Was that a Friday in September?

 

[Badgers]

TBH I think it's possible to hate the government and think they've massively fucked this year up, without thinking that everything they do is always totally the wrong decision.

I think everything they do is a self serving decision. Is that the same?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Was that a Friday in September?

Mate, read the fucking thread! The new data was only presented to ALL FOUR nations of the UK on Friday 18th, hence the panic response from the UK, Scottish & Welsh governments.

 

[weepiper]

 

[Badgers]

Mate, read the fucking thread! The new data was only presented to ALL FOUR nations of the UK on Friday 18th, hence the panic response from the UK, Scottish & Welsh governments.

Don't get shitty with me.

The thread is not the best source of news. Don't switch between having a sense of humour and not.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

The once great engineering marvel of the channel tunnel being blocked by hundreds of confused sheep would be a perfect bookend to 2020 for this nation.

are you working in a secret EU lab creating a sheep variant of COVID for brexit?

 

[Supine]

to be told that I could only travel with a seat reservation and then finding out there were none.

Was never the case though. Nobody checked tickets during lockdown. Let alone checking to see if you had a seat reservation.

 

[Gerry1time]

are you working in a secret EU lab creating a sheep variant of COVID for brexit?

Nope, too busy invoking article 25 of Magna Carta as a freeman on the land.

 

[Badgers]

The increased infectivity of the variant is illustrated by the fact that, after appearing in Kent on September 20, it was responsible for 28 per cent of infections in London by early November and accounted for 62 per cent in the week ending December 9.

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[FridgeMagnet]

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[Buddy Bradley]

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Putting the "real" back into real estate.

 

[Sprocket.]

Referred to or commonly called ‘shunts’.

 

[sleaterkinney]

I thought countries didn’t have control of their borders.

 

[miss direct]

Turkey has now banned flights from the uk too.

 

[miss direct]

Glad I never bothered booking flights. Have at least one friend "stuck" here who's meant to be back at work next week. Online so doesn't really matter..

 

[TopCat]

one of the silver linings of this sorry year has been seeing a number of estate agents going out of business

And lots of bookies.

 

[weltweit]

And lots of bookies.

I don't have a problem at all with bookies going out of business.