We got our first personal taste of an impact of Brexit upon arriving in London. Everyone on the ship, even those not going ashore, had to go through immigration because they are no longer part of the EU. We were taking the train into London to meet a good friend for the day after the ship docked at 8 am. There was a delay in clearing the ship, then of course the immigration. Apparently the port authorities did not have the immigration officials in place when needed. A huge line formed, as you can see from the pictures. The ship did not do a good job of managing the queue, so people who felt they were entitled to not be in the big line found other ways to cut in — and not a single ship person was around to manage it. It took an hour from the time we joined this line — and as you can imagine many people were not happy.

The real point is that anyone entering or leaving the UK now has to go through this. And at least there was no luggage involved.