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ChlorophileAddict: Jun 15, 2015

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...l-10339040.html

quote:

British holidaymakers and lorry-drivers trying to cross the channel are being confronted with chaos thanks to a strike that had closed the port of Calais and the Channel Tunnel.

Striking French ferry workers blockaded the French port with a wall of flaming tyres, before forcing the closure of the Channel Tunnel by getting on to the tracks.

All ferries between Dover and Calais have been suspended thanks to the wildcat action by MyFerryLink workers, which started at 3.50am on Tuesday.

British holidaymakers and lorry-drivers trying to cross the channel are being confronted with chaos thanks to a strike that had closed the port of Calais and the Channel Tunnel.

Striking French ferry workers blockaded the French port with a wall of flaming tyres, before forcing the closure of the Channel Tunnel by getting on to the tracks.

All ferries between Dover and Calais have been suspended thanks to the wildcat action by MyFerryLink workers, which started at 3.50am on Tuesday.

This afternoon, they forced the closure of the Channel Tunnel, invading the tracks. Eurostar services were subject to delays and cancellations because trains are stuck outside the tunnel, while Eurotunnel services are operating with disruptions of up to 2.5 hours following earlier closures, Sky News has reported.

Eurostar tweeted that services will resume tomorrow after engineers repair fire-damaged tracks overnight.

Traffic jams built up on both sides of the channel, with delays on other cross-channel ferry routes such as Dover to Dunkirk.

Around 600 MyFerryLink � formerly SeaFrance - workers are at risk of losing their jobs on July 2 following the decision by Eurotunnel to end its partnership with the company. Tunnel bosses decided to abort crossings in the afternoon "for safety reasons" after strikers got on to the tracks, a spokesman for Eurotunnel said.

A spokesman for Eurostar said: "[Protesters] have broken into the tunnel and the tunnel is shut.

"As far as we know we don't have any trains in the tunnel at the moment but some are having to wait on either side of the tunnel.

"There will be delays to our services. At the moment we are extremely constrained."

Some of the 3,000 migrants camped at Calais are reportedly trying to exploit the strike by jumping on to slow-going lorries.

Drivers have been told to avoid Calais altogether, as striking workers set the road on fire and a queue of 500-600 vehicles waiting to use the Eurotunnel to get to the British side of the channel.

MyFerryLink vessels are blocking the port and preventing other services, run by P&O and DFDS Seaways, from getting through. But DFDS services from Dover to Dunkirk are still running, a spokesman for the Port of Dover said.

# ? Jun 24, 2015 13:25

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a real rude dude: Jan 23, 2005

im glad of it

# ? Jun 24, 2015 13:26

I Pledge The Legence: Sep 18, 2009; Gleaming the Cube

the french are striking!? quelle surprise, sacre bleu, berets etc etc

# ? Jun 24, 2015 13:31

ChlorophileAddict: Jun 15, 2015

david... posted:

im glad of it

i'm not, i need to have an available escape route

# ? Jun 24, 2015 13:31

a real rude dude: Jan 23, 2005

ChlorophileAddict posted:

i'm not, i need to have an available escape route

kill yourself

# ? Jun 24, 2015 13:32

Booourns: Jan 20, 2004; Please send a report when you see me complain about other posters and threads outside of QCS

~thanks!

ChlorophileAddict posted:

"Striking French ferry workers blockaded the French port with a wall of flaming tyres, before forcing the closure of the Channel Tunnel by getting on to the tracks."

Now these guys know how to throw a party

# ? Jun 24, 2015 13:40

Roy: Sep 24, 2007

You can not fire me, I am French!! *takes puff from ~~cigarette~~ le baguette*

# ? Jun 24, 2015 13:59

Hammerite: Mar 9, 2007; And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.; Jade Ear Joe

Roy posted:

You can not fire me, I am French!! *takes puff from ~~cigarette~~ le baguette*

le baguette du smoke

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:38

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

ChlorophileAddict posted:

i'm not, i need to have an available escape route

Go by ferry or plane to somewhere that isn't Calais? Abundant choices, op.

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:40

a shiny rock: Nov 13, 2009

they should make a catapult to send ppl across the channel

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:40

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

quote:

Striking French ferry workers

read this as
stinking french ferry workers

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:42

Whiskey Sours: Jan 25, 2014; Weather proof.

ChlorophileAddict posted:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...l-10339040.html

quote:
lorry-drivers

Truck drivers. They're trucks. They are used to truck things. T-R-U-C-K, truck.

gary oldmans diary posted:

read this as
stinking french ferry workers`

That's redundant.

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:49

FullLeatherJacket: Dec 30, 2004; Chiunque pu� essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

i think you mean the continent is now isolated from britain

glory to the empire

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:49

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

can we blockade the rest of Britain and stop them getting into Scotland too

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:50

communism bitch: Apr 24, 2009

we revel in our splendid isolation

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:50

LordArgh: Mar 17, 2009; Nap Ghost

oh well, back to inbreeding i guess

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:58

Whorelord: May 1, 2013; Jump into the well...

[quote="Whiskey Sours" post="446960861"

Truck drivers. They're trucks. They are used to truck things. T-R-U-C-K, truck.

That's redundant.
[/quote]

Truck isn't a verb you dumb oval office

Whorelord fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Jun 24, 2015

# ? Jun 24, 2015 14:59

a shiny rock: Nov 13, 2009

Whiskey Sours posted:

Truck drivers. They're trucks. They are used to truck things. T-R-U-C-K, truck.

sometimes other countries use different words for things

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:00

ChlorophileAddict: Jun 15, 2015

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

can we blockade the rest of Britain and stop them getting into Scotland too

no argument here

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:00

Dr Cheeto: Mar 2, 2013; Wretched Harp

Parallax Scroll posted:

sometimes other countries use different words for things

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:01

InsanityLater: Jan 14, 2008

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

can we blockade the rest of Britain and stop them getting into Scotland too

They had their chance to get out.

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:04

ChlorophileAddict: Jun 15, 2015

jBrereton posted:

Go by ferry or plane to somewhere that isn't Calais? Abundant choices, op.

yes because I want to spend 2-3 hours in an airport surrounded by bright red annoying british tourists going to inflict their awfulness on some poor innocent country.

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:05

Whiskey Sours: Jan 25, 2014; Weather proof.

Whorelord posted:

Truck isn't a noun you dumb oval office

Truck
noun

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:07

Acid Haze: Feb 16, 2009

Leave from Portsmouth and land on the Normandy coast. They'll never see it coming.

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:07

penus penus penus: Nov 9, 2014; by piss__donald

Whorelord posted:

Truck isn't a noun you dumb oval office

the verb definition is even labeled "north american" so youre double wrong

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:09

ChlorophileAddict: Jun 15, 2015

Acid Haze posted:

Leave from Portsmouth and land on the Normandy coast. They'll never see it coming.

mate, only one of my people managed to walk on water and we killed him for that

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:10

roymorrison: Jul 26, 2005

Haha have u guys even been to france? gently caress the eiffel tower and gently caress paris. Biggest hypocritical pussies on earth. Oh fucken boohoo american despots fucken TYRANTS. Hey fellow parisians lets deface all the statues of liberty in paris cuz were so enlightened and poo poo but all these monuments built by napolean while he ran around buttfucking europe oh those are TOTALLY OK and WORTHY OF PRESERVATION

*bans burka*

France is fucken retarded.

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:11

Whorelord: May 1, 2013; Jump into the well...

I meant verb

I'm drunk and in a car shut the gently caress up

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:14

ChlorophileAddict: Jun 15, 2015

roymorrison posted:

Haha have u guys even been to france? gently caress the eiffel tower and gently caress paris. Biggest hypocritical pussies on earth. Oh fucken boohoo american despots fucken TYRANTS. Hey fellow parisians lets deface all the statues of liberty in paris cuz were so enlightened and poo poo but all these monuments built by napolean while he ran around buttfucking europe oh those are TOTALLY OK and WORTHY OF PRESERVATION

*bans burka*

France is fucken retarded.

does it hurt being you or is it an acquired taste

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:15

roymorrison: Jul 26, 2005

Unghhh were french fucken LABOR RIGHTS FREEDOm

*champs elysees literally a monument 2 child labor*

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:17

roymorrison: Jul 26, 2005

WAR IS BAD FRANCE IS SO GOOD NO WAR

*french foreign legion indiscriminately kills everything in fucken sight but its cool theyre just criminals given a new life identity so they can shoot minorities*

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:19

Prawned: Oct 25, 2010

roymorrison posted:

WAR IS BAD FRANCE IS SO GOOD NO WAR

*french foreign legion indiscriminately kills everything in fucken sight but its cool theyre just criminals given a new life identity so they can shoot minorities*

What's it like living with one continuous brain aneurysm?

# ? Jun 24, 2015 15:31