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Admin		#1 Posted : 01 April 2009 13:06:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By AHS Do you think their are any extra health and safety concerns associated with passports being required to travel to the above eg delays causing the ships transit doors to be open longer.
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Admin		#2 Posted : 01 April 2009 14:10:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By LMR would you like to check the date of travel? it may be relevant!
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Admin		#3 Posted : 01 April 2009 14:13:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By paulw71 its after 12 isnt it ?
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Admin		#4 Posted : 01 April 2009 15:15:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By AHS These are anti terrorist precautions to be introduced later this year. http://www.dailymail.co....rds-trip-Isle-Wight.html
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Admin		#5 Posted : 01 April 2009 15:23:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By paulw71 Well I never, apologies, I thought it was a joke. Yet even more of our civil liberties removed without justification.
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Admin		#6 Posted : 02 April 2009 11:41:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Andrew Lochlyn Ure AHS Which 'ships transit doors'? Have you been on an Isle of Wight ferry?
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Admin		#7 Posted : 02 April 2009 12:52:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Chris Packham How will this new ruling affect the hundreds of sailing boats in the Solent each weekend? I find it difficult to imagine that there will be a team of people at each and every harbour and anchorage on the Island monitoring every small craft that moors or anchors. Given that I might not arrive during daylight hours, there would need to be someone on duty 24/7! Who will pay for this? And what happens when we return to the mainland? How will they know whether we have just sailed from Beaulieu to the Hamble or come from Cowes? Yet another piece of Government legislation that has not taken reality into account! Chris
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Admin		#8 Posted : 02 April 2009 14:11:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Colin Reeves Still uncertain if this is not per the date .... Leaflet at http://www.homeoffice.go...test-leaflet?view=Binary and document at http://www.official-docu...ument/cm68/6888/6888.pdf Neither talk of this - and they are a vcouple of years ago. can find nothing newer! Anyway, as another poster mentioned, "doors" on IoW ferries?? Colin
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Admin		#9 Posted : 02 April 2009 14:25:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By AHS The pertinent document is called The United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering International Terrorism March 2009
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Admin		#10 Posted : 02 April 2009 16:34:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Exdeeps Afternoon, It's funny, for years I have had a little chuckle telling colleagues to take thier passport and travellers cheques when visiting the Isle of White, now someone's actually decided it's a good idea! Thinking this one through, the fast cat service from Southampton to Cowes is essentially a high speed bus that happens to run on water, so if travelling by bus from Southampton to Cowes requires a passport what about National Express from London to Southampton before catching the (water) bus to Cowes? Or just taking the number 49 into town? Hmm, Jim
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Admin		#11 Posted : 02 April 2009 16:45:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Chris Packham Considering that at the moment there is no legal requirement for a citizen of the U.K. to have photo-ID, what would be the situation if someone turned up to travel to the Isle of Wight without such documentation? Would denying someone the right to travel within the U.K. represent an infringement of his or her human rights? The potential for some interesting legal cases seems considerable. Chris
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Admin		#12 Posted : 02 April 2009 17:07:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Colin Reeves Chris Note what you say, but it already exists. There are two ways to and from Shetland (within the UK). One is by Northlink Ferries, the other by FlyBe. Both REQUIRE photo ID before travel. Colin
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Admin		#13 Posted : 02 April 2009 17:20:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Chris Packham Yes, but is this a government requirement or one imposed by the travel company itself. For example, flying Flybe from Birmingham to Edinburgh recently I had to show photo ID but this was a Flybe requirement (at least I think it was).
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Admin		#14 Posted : 03 April 2009 08:54:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By AHS It would be tricky hijacking the Isle of Wight ferry and racing it up the Thames to ram the Houses of Parliament.
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Admin		#15 Posted : 03 April 2009 09:06:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Chris Packham You might use it during Cowes week to ram the Royal Yacht. (Oops - forgot, we don't have one any more!) Well, it is Friday! Chris P.S. Having watched the stream of yachts returning to the Hamble on a Sunday evening I wonder who is going to be out there trying to check every yacht to see where it came from and then check every crew member. And what about the dinghy that lands on the beach. Barbed wire barriers as in WWII?
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Admin		#16 Posted : 03 April 2009 12:01:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Colin Reeves Chris If you are affluent enough to afford a yacht then you are not part of the hoi-polloi that Big Brother needs to watch ..... It is Friday! Colin
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Admin		#17 Posted : 03 April 2009 12:05:00(UTC)
Rank: Guest		Posted By Chris Packham Colin Did I say I owned a yacht? It is actually a 12ft sailing dinghy parked at the bottom of the garden. But I have been known to sail on other peoples' yachts! Chris
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