John Delius: We must avoid computer chaos disrupting post-Brexit trade
It wouldn’t take much to bring our ports to a grinding halt. Here’s how we can plan ahead to secure smooth-running free trade as we leave the EU.
It wouldn’t take much to bring our ports to a grinding halt. Here’s how we can plan ahead to secure smooth-running free trade as we leave the EU.
The right answer is to discourage people from coming to Calais in the first place, and to help people directly in the Middle East.
And here is my five point plan for making it happen.
Recall the navy. Send for marines. Learn from France’s willingness to deploy armed guards. Bring in a New Dover Patrol.
If this happened once at Heathrow there would be uproar. But repeated problems at the Channel Ports are simply met with dithering.
Two are ties, and Labour are ahead in three, though well within the margin of error.