“If you cannot beat them join them.”

“I have just had a voyage with a p and o and all the staff are dressed up as pirates so it looks like the pirates have won the day with speed ferries what a shame, speed ferries took on a large company and lost ,”

“I can believe the uninformed comments I'm reading! SeaFrance subsidized? You must be joking! I know the company inside and out and neither the SNCF or the city of Calais put a centime in it!
Get your info right: SEAFRANCE IS NOT SUBSIDIZED!!
But Speedferries probably got a really good deal from the city of Boulogne (which is probably why they're so mad and seized the ship) and who knows what LD Lines will get?
Running a ferry operation is expensive and Speedferries thought they could easily get a part of the cake.
Check your old ferry tickets and you'll probably see that prices today haven't really changed much in 10 years, way before SPDF arrived!
Let's hope the whole crosschannel operations do not die with the current economical situation because then the prices will really go up!”

“Hi Pierre the Left Banker (did I spell "Banker" correctly?) Waterloo? Agincourt? How dare you talk of revenge the day after the 11 November. Time you grew up and kept your your "gueule" shut instead of putting your foot in it.”

“Ha, ha..revenge is ours.

Do you think we have forgotten Waterloo...Agincourt?”

“People do not understand that France is for France and damn anyone else. Everything is heavily subsidised with the ferries. The french will never turn the channel over to the english, so get used to it. These subsidises are from the big bottomless pit of money in the EU, to which the brits pay one hell of a lot.. The farmers in France are the same they recieve again via the EU vast amounts of money not to work their fields, nice little earner if you can get it. Though the people of France are wonderful people the goverment has a one track mind which is get what you can via the EU and sod the rest, and ignore any directives from the Eu unless it is of benifit to France. The brits have got to stop moaning and do something, learn about people power, the French have. Harrass your MP make them do something about it instead of making placating sounds. France and Germany are bankrupt in the EU by their own rules so why are they still in it.!! Speedferries is the tip of the iceburg, but nobody in Westminster will speak out. Is that because we have had a decade of Scots running the place and Scotland gets billions from parliament, so much that they can in fact do away with prescription charges. LD will take over next year. The best the brits can do is boycott the thing or how about blocking it in on its first trip to the UK. An Health and safety examination on its first trip would I am sure get the juices going in Paris. Of course if you cant take it dont dish it out. Our fishermen have had a pretty bad deal with quota,s they might like to catch a ferry and even a few scores. So Speedferries, not owned in England is subject to the" lets see how far we can push it brigade" run by president bling bling. The French take to the streets for the simplest of things that effect them, Try it in the UK and the dictatorship started by Blair will soon have you thrown in prison. But they are full, so you have little to worry about, after all hasnt the UK got the right to free speech. Just try it and see what happens. That is why France can do what it want and get away with it. Speedferries just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course the country is famous for under the table payments, I have to wonder what has happened in Boulogne !!!!”

“It is a shame about speed ferries i have had some good trips with them,but if they cannot pay there bills they cannot get supplies.Also i feel sorry for the staff as i am sure they are all very worried about there future,lets hope there is light at the end of the tunnel for them.”

“Having read some of the comment in the French press & elsewhere over the weekend, perhaps (contrary to my previous post) Speedferries are indeed being treated somewhat harshly.

Whilst I do still think it would have been a better strategy to keep Speed One running rather than inconveniencing customers, maybe they felt obligated to make a stand. If there is evidence of a conspiracy against the Company, then I do hope that this impasse doesn't damage their business too seriously.

Many livelihoods are in the balance while the craft remains seized in Boulogne and I hope that the situation will swiftly be resolved on Monday morning to the Company's (and of course it's customer's) benefit.”

“We are customers who have paid for 2 blocks of "flex-tickets" and had booked to sail to U.K on Thursday to see our family. I feel totally SHIP_WRECKED on a rather primitive desert island. This is 2008, and there is no-one available to answer important questions as to refunds and other arrangements for travel. Who can we trust these days? Christina Brangwyn.”

“We were one of the first customers affected by the arrest of Speedferries SpeedOne and our opinion is that it simply reinforces the lack of any kind of concern on the part of French authorities for their UK customers. They love to grab our dosh but continually reward us with a complete lack of interest in our welbeing.

We guess under the current economic circumstances that the ultimnate demise of Speedferries may be a likely outcome so Calias will be the ultimate winner in this and we would love others to join us in rewarding the Port of Boulogne authorities and the Chamber of Commerce with a well deserved two fingers for their shortsighted and quite clearly biased actions and we will be engaging in a complete boycott of their town.”