VIDEO: My report on the Dover District Council Brexit impact report obtained by Sky News on the M20/ Dover, no Plan B, no space for any checks, and “temporary” 13 mile M20 lorry park necessary for “many years” until permanent solution: #BrexitForensics
LONG READ trying to make sense of what happens re post Brexit checks Dover/ Calais/ Channel Tunnel, M20 lorry park, juxtaposed checks or not, food checks, stockpiling, reopening Ramsgate..already hard shoulder strengthened to cope hundreds parked lorries: trib.al/qPXj8oJ
And then there’s this - which is rather telling...
When first announced, Government said Operation Brock, the M20 lorry park plan, wasnt about Brexit, it was about an interim solution to a long term successor to Project Stack. No mention of Brexit in ministerial statement.
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When first announced, Government said Operation Brock, the M20 lorry park plan, wasnt about Brexit, it was about an interim solution to a long term successor to Project Stack. No mention of Brexit in ministerial statement.
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Documents we obtained from Kent County Council show that “Brock” is in fact an acronym for “Brexit Operations Across Kent” /2 
At time though Govt keen that plan to turn M20 section into a lorry holding area by March 2019 was not intrinsically connected to Brexit, leaving the Customs Union/ Single Market, No Deal - Govt officials were laughed at, at a meeting in Kent where they suggested this notion /3
Indeed, Brock, I’m told will take up to two weeks to activate, so cant be deployed like Stack as a near instant response to Calais disruption. Only plausible use is to pre-empt predictable Brexit border chaos next March /4
