Anyone else wondered if the redacted Yellowhammer report was telling the whole truth? Well, you were right, it wasn't. The Financial Times have released details of the true chaos a no deal exit would bring at ports.
"Ministers have “fiddled the figures” to disguise the true level of chaos at British ports from a no-deal Brexit, it has been alleged.
The government’s Operation Yellowhammer dossier – only released after a parliamentary battle – predicted a “low risk of significant sustained queues” at ports other than in Kent.
But new documents have revealed this would only be the case because tens of thousands of vehicles would be turned away before they reached the coast, for not having the correct paperwork
No-deal Brexit: Tens of thousands of lorries with ‘wrong paperwork’ to be turned away at ports, secret government documents reveal
"Much of the analysis only seems to consider those vehicles which have the correct paperwork and totally overlooks the impact of those HGVs which won’t,”
“One hundred per cent of non-compliant vehicles will be turned away, which means the resulting flow rate is 29 per cent at Holyhead, Heysham and Liverpool, and 32 per cent at Portsmouth,” one states.
Meanwhile, at Dover, the busiest port for traffic to and from the EU, the queues could reach a peak of
8,500 vehicles, according to one of the documents seen by the FT.
It calculated that, given the typical
16.5m length of an articulated lorry, the tailbacks outside Dover could stretch to about
150km.
That's one hundred and fifty kilometers, folks.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 08471.html