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1. What is the ETIAS? What is the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS)? In November 2016, the Commission proposed to establish a European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) to strengthen security checks on those persons who travel visa-free to the EU, currently nationals from over 60 countries (full list here). The ETIAS will be an automated IT system created to identify any security or irregular migratory risks posed by visa-exempt visitors travelling to the Schengen area, whilst at the same time facilitate crossing borders for the vast majority of travellers who do not pose such risks. All non-EU nationals who do not need a visa to travel to the Schengen area will have to apply for a travel authorisation through the ETIAS system prior to their trip. The information gathered via the ETIAS will allow, in full respect of fundamental rights and data protection principles, for advance verification of potential security or irregular migration risks.

I used to hate queuing at the supermarket checkout. Isn't great to be able to scan goods, pay for them with a tap of a phone and get out of Tescos in a minute or two? I also like driving in and out of the short stay at Heathrow, without a minutes delay. I remember when you used to have to line up to pick the ticket up, pay at the terminal with your credit card and then line up to feed the ticket into the machine, on the way out. Now, apparently they can read bar codes, bluetooth phones and number plates. Apparently not at Dover...

Where does the nearly 1 million cars and vans fit in those figures, not to mention 2 million cruise passengers?

I think you'll find the majority of goods passing through Southampton consist of gravel and cement....

My argument was with you, not Herbert Von W@nkstain, who make up his own arguments with his rapidly shrinking audience. Just to recap, as you obviously have the recall of a goldfish: My reply: Pigeon 1:Goldfish 0

Who are ya, who are ya...

[TABLE=width: 500] [TR] [TD]2017[/TD] [TD]Million Tonnes[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Grimsby & Immingham[/TD] [TD]54.0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]London[/TD] [TD]49.9[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Southampton[/TD] [TD]34.5[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Liverpool[/TD] [TD]32.5[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Milford Haven[/TD] [TD]32.0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Felixstowe[/TD] [TD]29.0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tees & Hartlepool[/TD] [TD]28.4[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Forth[/TD] [TD]27.5[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tinpot Dover[/TD] [TD]26.2[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Belfast[/TD] [TD]18.2[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]All other UK major ports[/TD] [TD]138.3[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] And finally, to recap: Game, set & match...

Southampton Port is set for a record export year with 950,000 vehicles to pass through its docks, a six per cent increase on 2016. Vehicles including Mini and Jaguar cars, along with JCBs and John Deere tractors, are among the shipments to pass through the port. Southampton is the UK's biggest export port, handling £40 billion worth of exports every year. Last year it also played host to two million cruise passengers and more than 20 million tonnes of oil products. Gareth Lewis, communications manager at Associated British Ports, said the port is due to benefit this year from a £50 million investment to improve its export capacity. He added: "Construction on the first two of four planned new vehicle handling facilities is completing. "The investment, announced in September last year, is evidence of ABP's confidence in the future of the UK automotive manufacturing industry and will create a further 15,000 spaces at the port, principally for export vehicles." "Apart from this, we ship shed loads of cement and gravel from tiny coastal ships that tourists may have seen loading from a tiny dock, opposite St. Marys Stadium" Gareth said. "Only a cluless w@nkstain of a football fan would think that represents the goods passing through Southampton"

Just to recap:

Not the argument I was having, just you and w@nkstain... To recap:

Cement and gravel? Your knowledge of Southampton docks is limited by your visits to St. Marys. Mine is by an intelligence sharpened by a high IQ and years of living in God's country, pal, not Google. Mind you, while we're on Google, here's an extract that may help you troll boy, then you're back on ignore for being a well known w@nkstain... Cement and gravel....

More trade passes through Southampton than Dover.

Yet again ....according to the Department for Transport, 94 percent of trade and traffic passing through UK ports moves through ports other than Dover. The perceived problems our ports are facing are often overstated, and in some cases unfounded.

Again...according to the Department for Transport, 94 percent of trade and traffic passing through UK ports moves through ports other than Dover. The perceived problems our ports are facing are often overstated, and in some cases unfounded.

According to the Department for Transport, 94 percent of trade and traffic passing through UK ports moves through ports other than Dover. The perceived problems our ports are facing are often overstated, and in some cases unfounded.

You know Dover isn't an important UK port for international trade, the DTI knows it isn't an important UK port for international trade. Roll on roll off shurlock lost the argument, so has started a completely different one to the one I humiliated him with

Dover ..????

Please don't quote the chump. Dover /Calais important to our international trade? As in 6 f***ing percent of it. Simple, but true...

And, just to back up my post:

I am struck, every time I drive to St. Mary's, the size of the container ships sailing in and out of Southampton. Dover? Give me a break. That tinpot port may be important to our trade with Northern France, but important to our international trade? Give me a break. If we shut Dover down tomorrow, it would only be a disaster to Calais, not the UK.

Jo Cox two years ago, outside a public library... Terrible, terrible event.

What did Trump ever do for (the) us? • Appointed Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh together with more than 75 other constitutionally sound federal judges, 30 of which are serving. • Reinstated an expanded Mexico City Policy blocking foreign aid from being used for abortions. • Cracked down on illegal immigration and “sanctuary cities.” As Attorney General Jeff Sessions put it: “The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our laws, and the catch and release policies of the past are over.” • Issued an order killing two federal regulations for every new one. In actuality, 16 were cut for every new one in his first year, saving billions. • Engineered a historic tax cut that will save money for more than 80 percent of American households. • Withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of U.S. governance by international bureaucrats. • Reversed onerous Obama environmental rules that gave the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ham-handed authority to destroy the coal industry and abrogate landowners’ rights. • Kick-started America’s energy sector by curtailing regulations, facilitating the Keystone XL Pipeline and opening up vast federal areas to oil and gas exploration. • Presided over an economic and stock market boom, lowered unemployment and brought manufacturing jobs back to America from overseas. • Rebuilt the nation’s military, destroyed ISIS and faced down North Korea’s “Rocket Man.” • Issued an order enforcing First Amendment protections for religious liberty. • Restored the freedom of military chaplains to espouse biblical morality, and essentially reversing Mr. Obama’s transgender military policy. • Revoked the Education Department’s order that public schools allow gender-confused males access to girls’ restrooms and locker rooms. • Cracked down on sex trafficking. President Trump signed a law allowing states to move against sex-ad Internet sites, and the Justice Department on April 6 seized and shut down Backpage.com, which carried ads for prostitution, including trafficked children. • Overhauled the mismanaged Veterans Administration and giving veterans more health care choices. • Replaced Obamacare incrementally, beginning with a repeal of the individual mandate. • Imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship and revising Mr. Obama’s deals with communist Cuba. • Recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and repairing damage that Mr. Obama did to the U.S.-Israel relationship. • Worked with Central American nations to crack down on MS-13 gangs

Donald Trump....

Thanks to Trump, the Irish are going to have to wave goodbye to the billions they have been stealing from the US government. While the international diplomats at the UN continued to abuse the hospitality and largess of the US and laughed at the countries President, a report by the by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was published. Ed Conway picked up on the story and it is reported in the Times this morning, here. In it he reports: I think the water is going to be a bit choppy for the Irish over the next few years. They'd better start being nice to the UK over Brexit, because they can't rely on their fair weather friends in the EU. Ask Greece. So much for leprechaun economics.

Mate, you don't even read your own posts. You claimed that the Leave campaign were planning to cut taxes on the rich and would have to make cuts to the welfare system. Like I said, you are a total nut job and for that reason you are back on ignore...