Did they not have to show their passports before then….i mean, ive been going abroad for the past 30yrs and have always had to show my passport and my boarding passes before being allowed aboard.
whats the difference now, they just got to add a stamp??? I mean it hardly takes a second or two if the stamp is already in your hand.
Reference to boarding passes and passports suggests you've travelled by air.
I've been using Dover to Dunkerque or Calais at least annually for around 25 years (except last year - Covid).
Before juxtaposed border controls we'd arrive in France on Sunday afternoon and just drive off onto the AutoRoute.
Even after the French PAF were stationed here, until terrorism kicked off in France, it was commonplace to just wave a UK passport.
Now we're out of the EU we've the same status as Albania; a third party non EU country. We're carefully checked and passports stamped in and out as we can only spend so long in the Schengen area.
It's all about Brexit.