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Farage mocked for vowing Manston Airport won’t ‘become lorry park’

"We in UKIP do not want to see the Ramsgate area become a lorry park," Farage tweeted in 2015.

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin
December 23, 2020
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Nigel Farage is being mocked for an old 2015 tweet, in which he claims that UKIP will prevent the Ramsgate area of Kent – including Manston Airport – from becoming a lorry park.

As of Tuesday evening, more than 2,800 lorries were being held up in Kent while the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel remained closed to traffic leaving the UK.

Hauliers unable to make the crossing to France have been told to go to Manston Airport, , which is – contrary to Farage’s wishes – being used as a lorry park.

How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/XXAA5omVfq

— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) December 22, 2020

Truck driver Laszlo Baliga, 51, from London, spent Tuesday delivering food and water to those lined up in the disused airfield.

He began taking supplies after Hungarian drivers stranded in the lorry park posted on Facebook asking for help, with one telling him the only toilet on the site had been blocked. He said he and friends had so far spent more than £500 on food and water for drivers at the site.

‘This is a difficult time’

But the Government defended the provision of facilities for drivers caught in the chaos, saying there were “more than adequate health and welfare provisions available”.

Delivering bottles of water, Mr Baliga said: “This is our third time, we have got ready-to-eat sausages, bread, tomatoes, lettuce, coffee. Basic foods for now for the drivers.

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“When we see Hungarian drivers coming in we say stop, and the drivers take things in to the other side to give to everybody. We like to help because this is a difficult time.”

Mr Baliga said he intends to return on Wednesday to continue taking food and drink to those in need.

One driver, who was turned back from Dover on Sunday night, called for immediate help from the Government over the lack of toilet and washing facilities for drivers.

Ronald Schroeder, 52, from Hamburg in Germany, said: “I am now staying in a hotel, but in front of the hotel there are thousands of people without any rooms waiting to come over the Channel crossing. I feel a little bit like Robinson Crusoe on an island.”

He called for public toilets to be opened for drivers and tea and coffee for those stranded. He added: “Myself, I am in a warm hotel, I have enough food for the next two weeks, but I see a lot of people who have big problems staying more than one night.

“People are already staying a second night in their car, it’s just not a life. I ask the British Government to please help, and help immediately.

“I do not see there is much help from the Government, the British Government or the Belgium government, which just says wait, and how long it should be is the question.”

A joint Government and Kent Resilience Forum statement said: “Food, toilets and water are available for hauliers along the M20 and at Manston, with more food trucks expected to arrive at Manston shortly.

“There are more than adequate health and welfare provisions available, with nearly 150 toilets and urinals at Manston and portable toilets every 1km on the M20 between junctions 10a and 11. Seventy additional toilets will arrive at Manston tomorrow morning.”

Related: Sikh community rallies to the aid of stranded Kent lorry drivers

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