English Rules on International Travel Have Changed 50 Times Since the First Lockdown, Analysis Shows

Feel confused about the rules on international travel? No wonder: analysis by PA news agency shows that, in England alone, they have been changed 50 times since the first lockdown. And next week, the Government will change them again! Sky News has the story.

The Green, Amber, and Red travel lists have been updated every three weeks since they were introduced in May with the list of quarantine-free travel corridors changing nearly every week during its existence between July 2020 and January 2021.

Many holidaymakers have been forced to cut trips short and rush home before tougher rules for arrivals from their destination were introduced, including Transport Secretary Grant Shapps who was caught out when Spain was removed from the travel corridors list after being on it for just 16 days.

The travel industry has expressed dismay at the “constant rollercoaster” of alteration and has called for regulations to be made simpler.

Chief Executive of travel trade association ABTA, Mark Tanzer, said fears about the status of a destination being changed are “reducing the public’s confidence about taking an overseas break” and urged the Government to be “much clearer about the data and rationale” behind its decisions. …

Johan Lundgren, the Chief Executive of easyJet, said: “It’s no wonder that consumers in the U.K. are confused.”

“Now is the time for the Government to simplify the rules around travel, make Green truly Green and restriction-free, remove expensive and unnecessary testing requirements for the fully vaccinated travelling from Amber countries, and put an end to this constant rollercoaster of changes,” he added. …

The next update to the traffic light lists is due next week.

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Hopeless
4 years ago

Given the latest news about the inefficacy of the “vaccines” in transmission terms, plus all the “variants” no doubt lurking, whether someone is single-, double- or multiply-“vaccinated” seems to be almost irrelevant. In fact, it’s all about as gormless as vaccine passports and the other rubbish from the medico-political police states.

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

The British Cabinet should be sent on holiday to Afghanistan with no return flight

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me too
me too
4 years ago

All western politicians must be sent on holiday to Afghanistan with no return flight.

scamdemic
scamdemic
4 years ago

It’s about time travel companies start working together to put their foot down with these rules and continuing to fly people because their livelihoods are being destroyed and they are not resisting!

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  scamdemic

Ah, after reading the first five words, I thought you were going to talk about escape via a TARDIS. Your point is however certainly valid – but don’t hold your breath!

AN other lockdown sceptic
AN other lockdown sceptic
4 years ago
Garfy1967
Garfy1967
4 years ago

HMP Australia.

Norman
4 years ago

Why don’t they just ban all travel, that is what they really want. However they are sh*t scared of the backlash.

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

Anyway, think how the rich and powerful would kick up over that! No, no, it is just the great unwashed who must be kept down!

Bella Donna
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

We’re still at the pretend stage of the Agenda. Pretending this isnt anything to do with the Green Agenda. You will notice none of the political class or their friends in the media are in anyway affected by these rules.

Mark
4 years ago

And remember, none of these rules on international travel ever made any sense whatsoever – in public health terms – in the first place. The disease was already here.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago

It’s a feature, not a bug

I am Spartacas
4 years ago

Incredible ….

Snopes is a self-proclaimed fact checking business and has been a consistent source of misinformation itself, but nothing like its co-founder, David Mikklelson, who has just been exposed as a serial plagiarist and fabricator of news over many years.

Corruption runs deep in the so-called “fact-checking” world, and Snopes is just the tip of the iceberg.

https://www.technocracy.news/snopes-co-founder-mikkleson-busted-as-habitual-plagiarist/

me too
me too
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Behind a public virtuous person there will be, always,
a villain, remarkable, scoundrel. My English is poor.
Sorry.

RW
RW
4 years ago

No, dear Mr Lundgren, the solution to the problem of government erecting random barriers to overseas travel is not erect the kind of random barriers you’d prefer instead. It’s no random barriers. All testing requirements are uneccessary, both for people who do and people who don’t travel. As are vaccination requirments, enforced mask wearing in airplanes and whatever other union-pacifying coronagymnastics you’d like to force on your customers.

They should be aware that they’re being mistreated because the company doesn’t value them.

crisisgarden
4 years ago

How the threat would have been handled in the min-eighties: https://youtu.be/2oPEnISgg3c

Pavlov Bellwether
4 years ago

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