Dozens of Covid Test Providers to Be Removed From Gov.uk Website
Following numerous reports of Government-approved travel testing companies failing to hand over thousands of results a week, despite holidaymakers parting with hefty sums for their services, more than 50 companies are due to be removed from the approved providers list on the Gov.uk site. Sky News has the story.
The move comes following a review of pricing and service standards from those offering day two and day eight tests for people arriving in the U.K. from overseas.
The review was announced earlier this month due to concerns that many of the companies – which are on a Government list of Covid testing services – lacked full accreditation and were charging too much.
Some 57 companies will be removed from the list as they no longer exist or they do not provide the relevant testing services.
82 companies – around 18% of those listed as offering day two and day eight tests – were found to be displaying lower prices on Gov.uk than they do on their own websites.
Those companies will be given a final warning this week and face removal from the list if they advertise misleading prices again.
There will also be regular spot checks to make sure prices are accurate, providers are legitimate, and that the company name has not simply been changed to get back on the list. …
In future, companies will be removed from the Government’s list if they do not correct problems within three days of their first warning. …
Analysis of the list by the Liberal Democrats at that time showed just 11% of the providers offered tests for under £50 but 24% of the providers were charging more than £200.
One GP clinic was listed as offering the tests for £575 on Gov.uk, although its own website said prices started at £399.
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Won`t be going abroad again unless they drop all testing and vaccine passport mandates.
It seems you could save 10 times more people by weighing people and taking their height (and thus screening for heart disease risk).
And denying the fatties permission to travel, because not only are they covvisuperspreaders, they also overflow into your seat and squash you flat.
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I jolly well hope Australia does revolt!
Reminds me of that quip “the peasants are revolting”…
Is that what they call “anti-social distancing”? 🙂
Squashing fat haters sounds like a good idea, also easy
A friend got ripped on Twitter for “fat shaming” when he posted a picture of dietitians at a conference.
I pointed out that actually he was DIET shaming. These people don’t notice that obesity, diabetes and other metabolic problems only became “epidemics” after high carb low fat diets were invented and even when they themselves become afflicted they don’t see the connection because diet like covidianism is a religion.
I renewed my passport in 2020 for one reason. A one way ticket out of this nightmare if the opportunity ever arises.
It amazes me how 2 weeks in the sun is all it needs to get the masses to comply with this nonsense!
I renewed my passport in 2020 for one reason. A one way ticket out of this nightmare if the opportunity ever arises.
lol Me too.
A one way ticket to where though?
With tyrannies past, there was always somewhere to flee. But now?
If I had unlimited resources I would get the right to reside in the USA and go to live in a red state, probably South Dakota which was the only one that didn’t have a lockdown of any kind AFAIK. I would also look at somewhere Mexico, and Sweden. I’ve no idea what’s required for Mexico. The US is hard unless you’re rich. Sweden at present are I think quite severely restricting UK citizens, not sure how that applies if your aim is to settle there and not sure how easy it is to settle there, you probably need a job or to be independently wealthy. All those places have drawbacks – the US federal govt is run by the evil, mad Democrats, Mexico is probably a bit more unstable, lawless and corrupt than one would like, Sweden are pretty pro-vaxx and maybe subject to bullying by the EU. Because there are no guarantees, more than one option is ideal. The other approach would be go to a very poor country that cannot afford lockdowns or corona technocracy, but obviously there are other drawbacks, or somewhere like Belarus or Russia but they are pretty authoritarian in other ways.
Russia would likely prove a much better bet than the UK, which is in the fast lane on the road to full blown totalitarianism. We have a government that is headed by certifiable psychopaths.
Having been to Russia a few times, I’m not sure I agree.
Unfortunately this is still probably the only place I want to live and raise a family
You’ve nailed it. The best exit currently is probably death. But most of our ilk are just hanging on for longer in case the global insanity suddenly all ends. It gets harder to imagine such a miracle as time goes on though. Love Eeyore
To somewhere else, that might just be better. There are no guarantees, of course.
Please read posts more carefully….
“if the opportunity ever arises”
Robert Heinlein wrote:
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
No place is so crowded as the inside of a spaceship.
Change your physical appearance and the colour of your skin. Forget your language; learn to speak in Swahili or some other unknown dialect. Buy simple clothes without a logo. Learn to have only one good meal a day. Be human.
Come on dude, there’s a lot of broken families with people on deaths door. I know at least a few people who have had to watch parents funerals on Zoom, my brother included
Me neither.
Anyone able to post a picture of the wrapper/packaging of the PCR swabs?
I’ve seen videos regards them using ethelyne oxide which is a known carcinogen. Usually it will be listed as ‘eo’ somewhere on the packaging.
This is an emergency (apparently) and these people have been found guilty of profiteering. The response should be an immediate permanent ban on them pour encourager les autres, not being told ‘to stop doing it’ (which will have the opposite effect).
No; jail-time surely?!
I’m wondering how long it will be before similar stories are running over here. Given that all of our governments has matched yours for ineptitude that creates opportunities for shady business.
Oz/ Nz/France/etc?
Oz. AKA Lockdownunder.
The answer is no tests, not tests from “approved” providers.
Exactly. I know DS likes to keep us informed, which is useful, but this story seems a bit like the one about the quarantine hotels having crappy good or whatever – I don’t much care about any of that, because their mere existence is an offence and argument starts and ends with that.
So this story is mainly about companies being removed because they no longer exist
On two other topics:
Covid in Florida, has anyone a link or a sane summary of what is happening there? Casedemic with some deaths explained by high elderly pop, or more than that? Seems to have peaked, but what’s the story?
Secondly, Berenson pointing out a story on breakthroughs and deaths days after 3rd Pfizer in Israel. Too early to be sure, but is this the usual post jab death surge – or did someone let the “within 14 days” figures out by accident? Or ADE beginning? Or is the third jab just producing worse side effects in a cumulative manner, some of which kill the weak and old?
Back in the office now. I am the only one who has not had the Covid ‘jab’. You would not believe the amount of pressure I am under from colleagues to have it. The woman I sit near is acting like I am going to cause her to drop down dead at any moment. I have pointed out that the vaccine does not stop you catching or spreading the virus and also asked if the vaccine is so fantastic and works then what have they got to worry about if they come into contact with somebody with Covid. Also pointed out that even unvaxed if they do catch Covid they have a more than 99% chance of surviving but they are all having none of it. It is simply impossible to reason with them.
I know of one other person in my office of 70+ that is unjabbed, there may be others but judging by what I have heard most of them are jabbed. No-one has ever asked me – I only know about the jabbed because they like to talk about it, but then our office is without restrictions so those who do go in are probably not the worried ones, who will most likely be at home for a long time to come or forever.
My sympathies – you can’t reason with members of a cult.
You are doing the right thing, as even the cult members will come to realise when they encounter a wild virus in the winter.
Stay strong and just ignore them. I am expecting to go through this myself in the near future.
As Julian said, I know who’s been jabbed at work because they love to talk about it.
It reminds me of the situation late last year. I had a government job for six months and the talk after the US election was very anti-Trump. As evidence of the steal began to emerge they just stopped talking about Trump altogether. On the current trajectory I figure the ‘ahead-of-the-curve’ vaxxed up staff will be much quieter by Christmas.
Yes. I used to work in a Hospital as a volunteer. Caught “covid” whatever it may be, whilst there. Now, because I refuse the poison jab, I am prevented from returning – because I am now a ” bio hazard, to vulnerable people. LOL.
IF you think you caught COVID, just state you’re naturally immunised and it’s 8 times better than the jab PLUS it’s sterilising immunity unlike the jab.
and was free! apart from a couple of lemsips
They don’t believe that natural immunity is better than the jabs, because they’ve been putting out propaganda aka utter lies on this since summer last year, and perfectly intelligent people as well as the mob have believed them.
The jab is wrong in so many ways
it causes clotting
it activates wrong part of immune system
the mRNA jab can become part of DNA.
The side effects are worse than the disease for most.
To then believe that a single viral protein in the wrong place is BETTER protection is such magical thinking that you must regard the whole of modern-science as frankly nonsense.
Add in, it’s generally thought that damage to the body and long Covid are probably linked to the spike protein, and the jabs cause your own body to make….the spike protein! What could go wrong?
To those who do believe no explanation is necessary.
To those who do not believe no explanation is possible.
When people are in panic they swallow anything. Any Government has a heavy duty: punish or destroy all that, on those epochs, commit robbery.
The Fascist government started the racket. Now they’re surprised there’s a racket.
Are we surprised that the Fascists are that stupid?
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“Tested” for what……the thing that despite FOI requests all around the world has never been proven to exist.
So the Government’s been scamming the population with this pointless tests. Who’d a thunk it?
The test is utter bollocks regardless of how much it costs or who is carrying it out!!
PCR tests DO NOT WORK. The inventor said a PCR test can find ‘anything’ if spun for long enough. Anyone who has made money from PCR tests is a criminal.
Can we have our money back now too please. Either from the companies or the Government ministers who lead us to believe they were reliable and honest while washing their hand of any responsibility in the HMG ‘small print’.