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Radio 4 was talking to a vet/expert in animal products import export requirements this morning, they were aware and prepared for checks and documentation required for exports but not for imports. No infrastructure, no staff, not enough capacity to train this non-existent staff for checking and documentation of animal product, these are all required to be trained vets as well. It's almost as if no-one has really thought about this!
Johnson put an EU customs border between constituent parts of the UK rather than go for no-deal, despite saying he'd rather be dead in a ditch than do that.
There are no serious preparations being made for leaving at the end of this year - and there's no time, now, to prepare.
It's all inference and extrapolation, but some things are compelling - the total lack of frantic construction at Dover being one of them.