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Shall we argue on whether the passenger volumes are pre or during the pandemic? :)
Ha, no! Pandemic levels.
I dunno - passing a law or something - not beyond the will of a sovereign state!
I meant more the logistics. I think it's a huge ask. It works in NZ because it's always been done like that. To shift now, and at levels which I assume are much higher than what is shipped in NZ, would be pretty tough I suspect.
Agree we can't close it like NZ/Aus have, but we could have worked hard to try minimise roll on roll off freight, and move to a system where lorry loads are unaccompanied on ferrys. Would have been difficult no doubt, but if we weren't wasting our time doing Brexit, I'm sure something could have been achieved.
Shall we argue on whether the passenger volumes are pre or during the pandemic? :)
I dunno - passing a law or something - not beyond the will of a sovereign state! What I mean is that the only people that would be allowed to enter the UK would be those driving lorries for freight distribution. You'd then the hotel quarantine fun for everyone else.
I should note that the Australia approach to hotel quarantine was pretty harsh if you were trying to get back to Aus. They had really strict limits on daily passengers meaning many Aussies could not get home for months. This would have been very controversial to introduce here. Not saying that means we shouldn't have - just that such an approach, while allowing lorry drivers in, would have been very difficult politically.