France Bans Non-Essential U.K. Visitors in Response to Omicron Spread

From Saturday, France will prohibit all U.K. visitors travelling for non-essential reasons (unless they are French or E.U. citizens) in an attempt to curb the spread of the Omicron variant, which is quickly becoming the dominant strain within the country. The ban will apply to both vaccinated and unvaccinated Brits. MailOnline has more.

The French Government said no non-essential travellers from the U.K. will be allowed in from the weekend.

It is a hammer blow to those desperately hoping to be able to get away or go skiing over the festive period. 

Ollie James said online: “Based on the latest Covid news, that’s my snow holiday cancelled because the French are banning people from the U.K.”

“Infuriating for me, but I feel for the hospitality industry in the mountains who will be losing a huge amount of money now. Our chalet was £12,000 for the week.”

A French Government spokesman confirmed there will be a “requirement to have an essential reason to travel to, or come from, the U.K., both for the unvaccinated and vaccinated”.

He added: “People cannot travel for touristic or professional reasons.”

They insisted French citizens and EU nationals could still return to France from the U.K.

Delta remains the dominant variant in France, but Omicron is spreading so fast in Britain that it’s raising concerns across the Channel.

French Government Spokesman Gabriel Attal said on BFM television that tourism or business trips from Britain to France “will be limited”, though French citizens will still be able to make the journey. 

All those arriving from Britain will need to have a negative virus test less than 24 hours old, and to test again upon arrival and isolate “in a place they choose” for at least 48 hours pending the result, Attal said.

Paul Charles, Chief Executive of Travel Consultancy the PC Agency, said: “Blanket country measures are a damaging backwards step and never work. Omicron is already in France and other EU countries.

“Why should the millions boosted be treated the same way as those unvaccinated, and prevented from entry?”

Health minister Gillian Keegan was asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme for her reaction to the French travel restrictions.

She said: “Well, actually, my first thought is ‘I’m glad that I cancelled my trip to France’, because that’s where I was supposed to go for Christmas.”

“But, of course, every Government is dealing with Omicron, every Government has to make their decisions and has their response to it, you know. It is obviously going to alter people’s plans, which is very unfortunate.”

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he has spoken to his equivalent in the French government, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, and agreed that hauliers will be exempt from the new restrictions.

A Spokesman for ferry operator Brittany Ferries said: ‘These new measures are a hammer blow to our Christmas season.”

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

Ban anyone from France and STOP THE DINGY DIVERS!

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

Dinghy. Why not gather all those who have arrived from France in the past few years, put them on a ferry and unload them in France? If the French get shirty, nuke Paris.

paul smith
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Oh, I dunno – they’re probably pretty dingy, as well, after all those hours of channel-crossing.
Hard to keep a crease on the open sea.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  paul smith

Yes my mistaken speelin was not deliberate but perhaps a Freudian improvement.

Jess
4 years ago

Ban de Pfeffel from France.

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Jess

Only from France? What about the rest of the planet?

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

Get Bezos to shoot him into space on a one way ticket!

ThisIsMyName
4 years ago

Alors putain quoi?

iane
iane
4 years ago

Just as long as they keep the Omacron variant en France!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

It’s the Brigitte variant we need to watch! He doses on it twice a day.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

No, no. We need it here, super spreading IMMUNITY.

stewart
4 years ago

I think the fact they are banning jabbed and unjabbed alike is great news. More evidence that the authorities accept the jabs don’t help much. And while it may seem like it doesn’t have much of an effect, I see it a lot like pressure on the cracked wall of a dam. It looks like nothing is happening until one day it dramatically collapses.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

It’s evidence they KNOW the jabs don’t help much but more importantly it will piss the jabbed off and hopefully make some of them question things. I expect there are lots of jabbed Brits with holiday homes in France who will be disappointed by this.

chunky lafunga
chunky lafunga
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Indeed, a quick google search reveals approx 200,000 Brits have holiday homes in France and I would presume the vast majority would’ve taken the jab to facilitate travel. That’s a non-negligible number of pissed of jabees. Good news for sure.

twinkytwonk
4 years ago
Reply to  chunky lafunga

It’s cheered me up 🤣

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  chunky lafunga

Well, they all know where the French Embassy is!

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  chunky lafunga

That could go either way.

Ideally, all those double jabbed people with homes in France might say to themselves – what is point in getting booster or further jabs if they won’t let us in?

Alternatively they might say to themselves – if we keep getting jabs then they can’t not let us in (and if brains are affected by the jabs they have already got they might not see the massive flaw in this argument)

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

They’ve probably already had three of the “poison death shots”, so your alternative scenario seems rather a non-starter.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

The jabs help then to launch their so carefully planned Globalist coup against the world’s peoples – so they do work exactly as intended!

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Brits have holiday properties all over Europe – it’s surprising so few have got angry about all these travel bans.
Are people waking up to the fact that these travel restrictions are not going to be removed?
The companies offering PCR tests are making money hand over fist.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Disappointed? Livid more likely.

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

This is most excellent. The ‘freedom’ to travel abroad is one reason why a substantial number went with the jab. Couldn’t have happened to NICEr dumber set of retards. The whole shebang is about political conrol and nothing to do with health.

Oscarone
Oscarone
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Italy has just introduced new rules whereby vaccinated people entering the country also have to get tested (not just the unvaccinated). The EU is furious, in my opinion because the objective of the bloc was to eventually have a 2 component Travel Pass – vaccination and recovery. Now testing is still part of the Pass and the Italian Prime Minister is not giving way.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Oscarone

|Prime Minister” ? The Davos Banker Stooge hoisted into power?

There is no legitimate Government in Italy.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Il Duce the Second.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Hasn’t been since the fall of the Western Roman empire. Any gibbon could tell you that.

Oscarone
Oscarone
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

I agree with you. I was just giving him his official title but his appointment was just the latest in a series of silent coup d’etats. .

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

There is no legitimate government in the UK.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Oscarone

The Italian ministers are all getting backhanders from the testing companies that are on their ‘approved’ list.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Ban all thinking Humans from the psycho Elite’s Globalist Party – who would want to share their Satanic space anyway?

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Any cracks in the Houses of Parliament?

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Crack or cracks?

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Plenty of crackpots. there.

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Plenty of crack too – allegedly.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I had horrific nightmare in middle of night last night. It hit me – what is this MASSIVE booster push with a defined end date about? What is so critical about boosting everyone before the end of the year? Is someone going to make some kind of new year’s day announcement along the lines of:

“with a heavy heart I have to announce that, due to an exponential surge in Omicron cases, I have no option but to order a lockdown – but only for those not jabbed or boosted”

Is that what is up next – only locking down the unjabbed???

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

In Finland the ‘unvaxxed’ are already being refused to swimming pools, mothers-&-babies clubs, and churches (Lutheran – the main religion in Finland).

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

So the choice is no swimming pools or being injected with the Covid “poison death shots”. I’d trade in my armbands, not really too much mull over there.

hadenoughcrap
hadenoughcrap
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Well here in Germany the unclean are banned from everything except supermarkets butchers bakeries chemists and depending on the area Garden Centres, hardware stores and DIY stores, the first two because they sell some local produce, and pet food. Presumably the DIY is to keep the unclean occupied otherwise they might go mad and go on protests. No problem going to the Doctors and Dentists and getting scans xrays consultations and operations in my area.
Our state has the lowest case rate.
There is a 2G+ rule jabbed recovered from and a negative test to go to non essential stores gyms, swimming pools, cinemas, brothels hairdressers restaurants and cafes. In the supermarkets there are open cafes/bakeries that everyone has to walk past to go into the main shopping area. They used to be very busy, now they are almost empty. On Saturday there was 1 person sitting down. The sales assistants said hardly anyone uses the cafe since the rules came in and they are loosing money.

silverbirch
silverbirch
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Just back from a coffee shop in town. The normally clued-up owner said total lockdown 28 Dec to end of Jan.

TreeHugger
4 years ago
Reply to  silverbirch

Well that’s just f*cking great they already stole my 50th birthday from me last January, if they take my one night away with my Mum which I’ve booked for this years celebration I will not be responsible for my actions. I’d suggest the same would be true for my son who was 21 last New Years day, he has plans to finally go out and celebrate this year.

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  silverbirch

Hmmm. Well, I don’t mind spending January in Yorkshire. Bring it on.

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Neither! 🫖

hadenoughcrap
hadenoughcrap
4 years ago
Reply to  silverbirch

Where is that

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

That will come, but not yet. Sleep. on.

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

It would be a logical (for them) next step and completely in line with actions taken by other regimes. However I have this sense that it wouldn’t be quite so palatable here. And don’t forget our own prime minister has gone on telly to say that the jabs don’t prevent infection or transmission. So it would need to be framed more as locking us down for our own good, or some such nonsense.. and we would defy such a lockdown anyway. And it would be literally impossible to enforce and I suspect the police would do no such thing. Bluff and bluster… let’s just hold the line.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

“with a heavy heart I have to announce that, due to an exponential surge in Omicron cases, I have no option but to order a lockdown – but only for those not jabbed or boosted”

No it’s a lot worse than that. Sometime in early 2022, their plan is to turn on 5G in the particular mode that will morbidly excite the graphene oxide/hydroxide that is now circulating in the bodies of the jabbed. The results will not be pretty. This explains the insane push to jab us all with their Covid “poison death shots”. There is no viable alternative to saying no, just fuck off.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

“It is with a heavy heart that I give you this final solution… that I never told you about”.

Talk about red pill…
Someone war game that scenario for us?

hadenoughcrap
hadenoughcrap
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Maybe they need to use up the crap because the expiry date is the end of the month

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

The batch of drugs bought at great taxpayer expense has an expiry date 1-1-2022.

Julian
4 years ago

hauliers will be exempt from the new restrictions”

Ah of course, we know that hauliers, like essential workers during “lockdowns” don’t spread the virus.

twinkytwonk
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Clever virus😃

I am Spartacas
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Viruses are very clever these day – its well known that they only infect those who don’t hold an HGV licence – thats a proven medical fact. /sarc 😉

CynicalRealist
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

The dictators want to send a message, but at the same time they want to avoid creating a situation which would badly rebound on them – and empty shelves in the supermarkets would definitely have that effect!

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

Only if by “dictators” you mean the stupid script-reading idiots front of stage who give press conferences, send ministerial tweets, and feel like Nero if they ever get into the Cobra room. The actual rulers in the real dictatorial group will click their fingers and then there WILL be empty shelves in supermarkets – and not only that, but empty food shelves everywhere else, no fuel at the pumps, and no money withdrawable from bank accounts that’s worth anything.

As for France, this is not the first time that Emmanuel Macron has played an anti-British card. He is not representative of the French people. Most French people like the British. (It’s the Germans they can’t stand.)

If this is all Macron has got, he’ll get his arse kicked sky-high in the election.

I hope as few British people as possible respond to this news in an anti-French way.

Macron à la poubelle! Vive la France!
Vive la résistance en France et tous les pays!

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Maybe the French will respond in a French way next year…

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Macron and Johnson play for the same team.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

Empty shelves will be coming, but only when they want them to come.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Never mind, Spring greens will soon be here…

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

And all viruses are clock watchers – they can even tell the time.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

It is amazing what you can engineer a virus to do these days.

Not infect someone when eating. Not infect HGV drivers. Not infect the double jabbed and boosted – oh, that’s right, it can but we don’t talk about it….

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Some of our elites do enjoy an aged Ripasso, Chablis, St Emillion etc so there supplies have to be protected.

stewart
4 years ago

The French authorities like those of our own country should be applauded for their swift response to the threat of the Omicron variant.

Their track record over the last 21 months keeping this incredibly deadly virus under control has been nothing short of stellar. Every action and measure has proven itself effective. Thanks to the lockdowns, the testing programmes, the vaccines and vaccine passports they have the situation completely under control and have succeeded in crushing this horrible new virus.

These new restrictions are a testament to their commitment to keep us all safe and save lives.

Well done to them.

I think I’ve just made myself throw up.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

…and the rest of us.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

This is not BBC HYS

CynicalRealist
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Err – I think he’s taking the piss…

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

So was I

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I read your comment and started involuntarily clanging pans together and drawing rainbows on my children’s faces. Your comment saved our NHS 🌈

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

Macron is killing France.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Well, the French know where he lives.

CGL
CGL
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

And some of them have tractors and manure

George L
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

That’s his job.. but I can tell you that a lot of French people know exactly what he’s up to and who he really works for..

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

So if someone is a ‘EU citizen’ they are allowed to travel from the UK to France to spread The Virus, but UK citizens are not.

“Our chalet was £12,000 for the week” – what does that mean? That you already paid, or that’s what it would have cost? Who has this sort of money to fritter away on a shed?

“hauliers will be exempt from the new restrictions.” – obviously The Virus doesn’t affect hauliers, they can’t catch Covid nor spread it.

Pandemic? Or the control of people? Pretty obvious what this is all about now.

Catee
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Our chalet was £12,000 for the week” – what does that mean? That you already paid, or that’s what it would have cost? Who has this sort of money to fritter away on a shed?

Oooh, I like the colour green, now I understand your moniker better.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

It was an off-the-cuff remark… even if I was a billionaire I would still balk at forking out £12,000 for a week in a ‘chalet’. Money helps, yes, but I find it vulgar to splash it about with the aim of impressing others. I have Scots genes so am naturally miserly 🙂

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Chalets can be for quite a large group perhaps 12 adults and often come with ski-passes and food, so that big number looks a lot smaller.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

£1,000 per person to live in part of a shed? With other people that stink of sweat, and snore.

TreeHugger
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Ah, but these are often very nice ‘sheds’. We had thought we might risk trying a ski holiday this year since we’ve been nowhere for 2 years now and we can easily drive to the Alps. We used to go when the kids were at home and it cost about £4000 for the 4 of us in an average chalet catered, with lift passes included. Last time our ‘shed’ had an outdoor jacuzzi and a sauna.

That said, I’m bloody glad we didn’t bother and booked a couple of nights in Norfolk instead.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Oui, just ban ze dirty Brits and tout est bon.

sophie123
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

This has been the case for a while: if I held an EU or EEA passport I could go to Europe without being vaccinated (or even tested, as a documented COVID recovered person). But not british. It’s nuts.

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  sophie123

How does one get documented recovered status?

I came down with the bloody thing in early Jan-Feb 2020 (just before TSHTF). I had it 3 times in a little over 6 weeks, with the first 2 bed ridden. At first I thought it was flu, but the persistent dry cough and absolute fatigue made it clear it wasn’t.

Still, I would rather go through that again than a repeat of the bacterial pneumonia resistant to multiple antibiotics that I had a few years earlier. ‘Cough a lung up’ doesn’t get anywhere near it.

Catee
4 years ago

“Why should the millions boosted be treated the same way as those unvaccinated, and prevented from entry?”

LMAO – Now does he get it?

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

So the ubermensch suddenly finds him/herself to be an untermensch and is confused? It will happen here too, unless the deemed jab update requirements are complied with. Clearly, they didn’t read the small print about having subscribed to a lifelong subscription plan.

First they came for the unmasked, but I wasn’t unmasked.
Then they came for the unvaxxed, but I wasn’t unvaxxed.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to stand for me

Paraphrase of Pastor Niemoller

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

Would an ‘Invasion Force’ be deemed essential?

B.F.Finlayson
4 years ago

I do hope that ghastly pro-vaxx-shill Hitchens has a holiday home in France.
This item has cheered me up enormously seeing the privileged entitled jabbed and jab-promoting middle classes (which includes our dear apartheid supporting MPs and hundreds of media propagandist) who were prepared to (1) vote through an apartheid passport, (2) demand that unvaxxed children are excluded from education, (3) demand that unvaxxed adults are denied from healthcare, and of course (4) demand no-jab-no-job, have voluntarily become walking talking virtue signalling spike protein factories but still can’t go on holiday. Absolutely priceless.
Still, they can’t complain, it saves them having an unscheduled off-piste Pfizer induced heart attack.

John001
John001
4 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

I doubt that Hitchens or Sumption know what T cells or seasonality mean, let alone what’s in a Moderna mRNA injection. Are they aware that the producers arre immune from liability for illness or death? Sumption is a lawyer and might be rather surprised at this.

Unfortunately, I’m unlikely to have the opportunity to put these points to them.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  John001

I am sure Hitchens is aware of all that stuff. He’s an arch cynic. He gave in to pressure in a moment of weakness.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

He gave in and took the vax at the first opportunity and all because he wanted to travel. Pathetic creep he is.

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Is this the Hitchens who whitewashed waterboarding as actual torture and bailed out in seconds when it was tried on him (by sympathetic administrators)? Some poor bastard in Gitmo or some other CIA gulag survived >150 waterboard sessions.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  John001

Write to them.

John001
John001
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I don’t even know an e-mail address for Hitchens. I wouldn’t want to ask him scientific questions on a public forum and embarrass him. (He’s a journalist, not a virologist, and he’s good at being a journalist.)

I may write to Sumption at the Lords in the New Year.

But when I talk to friends and family on various aspects of the jab, to try & explain my position, I tend to get a ‘shoot the messenger’ response, i.e. they probably wish they’d never taken it but just don’t want to discuss it further. A few are still ‘believers’ in the booster.

hadenoughcrap
hadenoughcrap
4 years ago
Reply to  John001

What I would really like is a few hours in a packed parliment to rip them all to shreds with evidence and get some brilliant hackers to get it on all the TV channels and the Internet MSM channels and no way to shut it down. Also beam it live on screens placed in areas where there are lots of people.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

I agree except for description of Hitchens. I thought his decision to get vaxxed was mistaken, as was his decision to announce it, and he did it for the wrong reasons (assuming you believe him when he said he did it to be able to travel, which I do). I think there was an element of despair and it was a gesture – he had been strongly anti-lockdown in the MSM from the start, no doubt making him even less popular than he already was, and he has been battling against various dark forces for years without getting much support, so he’s entitled to feel like giving up. I think it would be good if he recanted (perhaps he has already?) but if you want to call him ghastly it’s up to you but the list of “acceptable” allies dwindles.

B.F.Finlayson
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

I thought his decision to get vaxxed was mistaken, Each person has an absolute right to make their own informed decision as to their own health needs. So, accordingly, we have no right to criticise his personal decision – and so I don’t. as was his decision to announce it, This is where the problem starts. Hitchens the influencer (that’s his job) wrote a dedicated column about it and got paid for it by the Daily Mail. Therefore he becomes fair game for public criticism levied at ‘Hitchens the pro-vaxx propagandist’, not ‘Hitchens the private man making a tricky decision.’ and he did it for the wrong reasons (assuming you believe him when he said he did it to be able to travel, which I do). At that time hundreds of thousands of people were being bombarded with calls, texts and emails to get vaxxed. In my own case the local surgery neglected to provide a single sound medical reason for getting jabbed and simply tried to threaten me with “you might not be able to travel if you fail to get the vaccine”. I wasn’t alone, as that was the preferred coercive trick at that time. I along with… Read more »

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

Indeed his right to choose. I would agree he has lost some credibility, not all. Shill implies he’s being dishonest, which I don’t think he is – except perhaps with himself.

B.F.Finlayson
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Shill implies he’s being dishonest,

No, it simply states that seasoned hack Hitchens was knowingly working to assist the government narrative in that pro-vaxx article. He is one of the most astute and well connected political journalists in Fleet Street, with decades of experience. To even suggest that he didn’t know (or even realise) what he was doing in writing that article (or indeed what the consequences would be) lacks both substance and credibility.
It also, wittingly or otherwise, directly insults the professional integrity of the man. Hitchens made his calculated decision to take the money, perhaps thinking he would end up as a heralded (but much put upon) vaxx trailblazer, alas he got it badly wrong – and on such a pivotal issue too.
You win some, you lose some.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

Hitchens the coward:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAvfjPvI3NA

Police protection, and trying not to run and look ‘cool’, but really scared they’d find out who he was and lynch him.

steve_z
4 years ago

I wonder if Whitty will become the first ever man to drown in is own bed

George L
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

He will if we can get some Remdesivir down his neck..

twinkytwonk
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

we can but hope

hadenoughcrap
hadenoughcrap
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

Didn’t he get £30 million from the B&M Foundation for research into a malaria.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Some sort of disaster out in the Channel, look what the French have done!

stanley_plank
stanley_plank
4 years ago

The fact that they are releasing news that it more than likely came from a lab, admitting that the vaccine doesn’t work and panicking about new variants suggests to me……they think ultimately this virus could mutate like a bio weapon would.

Pete Sutton
Pete Sutton
4 years ago

Mach Macron Makes Move on O-Microbe

JayBee
4 years ago

Paul Charles, Chief Executive of Travel Consultancy the PC Agency, said: “Blanket country measures are a damaging backwards step and never work. Omicron is already in France and other EU countries.

“Why should the millions boosted be treated the same way as those unvaccinated, and prevented from entry?”

Because it’s the only thing that actually makes sense and is not discriminatory, you effin selfish moron.

jeepybee
4 years ago

What makes this hilarious is that Moronic isn’t “spreading so fast” as to be a concern…

It’s appearing to spread fast because PanicTesting™ is forcing every fucker and his mum to use a test. We’ve been one of the highest testing nations per head of cattle in Europe before, what’re the odds they’re doing it again?

What makes it even more hilarious, is imagining Susan and Keith, all masked up and triple-tapped ready to go to their Chateau de famille Smith, only to find that they no longer can.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  jeepybee

There was a big jump in “cases” yesterday but sadly no figures on numbers of tests so cannot determine the % positive, but in general yes it’s probably more an artefact of number of tests – it has been the case from the start that using any raw numbers for “cases” is nonsense.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Recall, from Sceptics passim:

  • Lateral flow is a literal coin flip.
  • PCR is explicitly unfit for yes/no testing.
  • 45 cycles is ludicrously high, and we’ve never dropped our amplification, despite even the WHO calling foul on anything over 30.
  • It’s a non-specific test for a bioweapon from 2019, not it’s great-great-great-great-to-the-nth variant. It’s entirely possible that it’s amplifying whatever’s in omigod to the moon and pronouncing certain death based on the tiniest fragments.
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Yes, like almost all covid related data – so duff as to be useless

jeepybee
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Exactly. I recall looking up how the NHS defined “cases”, and it was along the lines of “a case is a report of symptoms. Does not require clinical observation. Does not require a positive test result”, or words to that effect. From that, I took it to mean that a “case” is someone who decided to ring up 111 and report a headache.

Even if they defined a case as needing a positive test result I’d have a bit more respect for their purpose. And that’s knowing how shite the PCR tests are!

Seems to me like the entire charade is propped up entirely by duff data, intentionally conflated to look spooky. Worked, too…

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

but our lives and everyone else’s are being completely trashed by that unreliable useless data

George L
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Our lives are being trashed ‘deliberately’ by lies..it matters not if its data, or fabricated events.. the results are the same..

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Geez – are they really still using 45 cycles on asymptomatic healthy people? I can sort of understand that as a final test in a suit of clinical tests for symptomatic hospitalised people to try to be certain that thing is gone (ignoring the viable versus unviable issue). But on healthy asymptomatic people? Blatant in your face fakery.

Dave Bollocks
4 years ago

Weird how all of a sudden they can control their borders.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Dave Bollocks

Just one of them, one way.

Star
4 years ago

How many British citizens from Northern Ireland haven’t applied for their Irish (and therefore EU) passports yet? Regardless of their preferred status for the territory, I’d advise them to apply ASAP.

Star
4 years ago

Alex “Boris” Johnson won’t need to be exiled anywhere. He is a 17 stone drug addict and drunkard and if he got a bad dose of the flu it would probably kill him.

His hero is the Roman emperor Augustus…..who was fatally fed poisoned figs by his third wife. What a carrie-on! Fig pudding for Christmas, Alex, darling?

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

That was Claudius, not Augustus.

Anti_socialist
4 years ago

LBC caller claiming to be stepson of the UK’s ‘first Omicron victim’ says he was an unvaccinated conspiracy theorist, in his 70s, who was fit and healthy and never left the house but died on Monday at a hospital in Northampton weeks after falling ill

  • Expert said the lack of details about the first Omicron death may have been causing ‘unnecessary alarm’ 
  • LBC caller, John from Smithfield, reveals that his stepfather died in hospital in Northampton on Monday
  • Unnamed victim was unvaccinated having become convinced that the vaccine was a Government conspiracy
  • John said: ‘He was an intelligent man. Had he been vaccinated, he would probably still be here’

Oh fuck off! Is it no wonder nobody trusts the MSM.

‘He was a recluse to be honest. He never left the house, had all his food delivered and only left the house to go to the bins and the postbox. He was one of the cleanest guys I’d ever known’, John said.

At least it proves lockdowns don’t work.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

He never left the house and he was healthy? What did he do, get fresh air pumped in and run around his living room for exercise?

How did LBC check the caller was telling the truth? Did they meet him an underground car park?

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Who knows, but it destroys any case for vax passes.

steve_z
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

He was an intelligent man” , fit and healthy.

But he never left the house? Why not? mentally ill?

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Why is it, after nearly 2 years of plastering names with faces all over every media site you can think of, suddenly everyone’s shy about a single covid victims identity?

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

The Daily Mail are appealing for emails:

“Do you know the man who died with Omicron in Northampton?
Email martin.robinson@mailonline.co.uk or tips@dailymail.com

Age 70-74. Died in hospital, Monday 13 December, Northampton.

There will be more to this story. There’s no good reason to keep his name secret.

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Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

I’m disappointed with DM’s investigative journalism, why don’t they just contact 77th brigade direct for more details.

twinkytwonk
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

terrifying!!

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

“There is no good and evil. There is only power, and those too weak to seek it.”

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George L
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

WTF..!!!!!

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

‘Fit and healthy.’ That sort of observation is usually suspect – the number of times over the past 20 months it’s been used about a person who died ‘of’ Covid, but further details then reveal the person had had a heart attack 2 years earlier and was significantly overweight, etc!

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

unjabbed but paranoid about the risk of going outside.

PULLTHEOTHERONE.

silverbirch
silverbirch
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

But Dear Leader told us it was one death with Omicron. Now the relative is rolled out to say because of it. Average UK natural death rate 11k per week.

APC
APC
4 years ago

I’ve just lost thousands of £ – accommodation, flights, transport, testing, New Year’s Eve dinner. Was due to fly to France on 27/12. I knew I was taking some risk when I booked several months ago but didn’t really think that after 2 years of this bullshit, we’d still be shitting ourselves and hiding under the bed. Zoe apps Tim Spector says today that both delta and omicron present largely as colds. A fucking cold!!! I saw a former of thatchers cabinet being interviewed yesterday and he hit the nail on the head. The current crop of politicians dealing with this “crisis” are simply out of their depth. No ability to deal with complex issues and do the first thing that comes into their heads. Scared witless by one track technocrats with no mandate, accountability or wisdom.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  APC

Scared witless, Or bought

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

You’re being a little unfair, he’s got priorities & other people to think about, not just peoples Christmas holidays.

Pfizer shareholders, Moderna shareholder, Astrazenica, & Gavi, shareholders and many billionaires depend on him to double their wealth, so stop being so selfish.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

forgive me

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

If we could wave him goodbye, his final point would certainly be true!

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Is that when the experiment ends ie when they stop selling at cost

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Sounds like they’ve got more waves planned than Mexico.

George L
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Its scheduled to end on 31st March 2025. That’s what the World Banks documents said anyway.. see below..

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hadenoughcrap
hadenoughcrap
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Funny that, the current jabs are still in stage 3 safety trials which finish April 2023. Approval means they loose their legal indemnity. I wonder if they will disappear. To be replaced by another load of legal immunity experimental jabs

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  APC

You’ll get your money back surely?

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  APC

The Ambassador at the French Embassy says sorry, and if you’d be kind to call round in person, he’ll refund your losses.

silverbirch
silverbirch
4 years ago
Reply to  APC

I saw a good friend on Sunday. Her daughter’s whole family have the virus. The 4 year old thought she felt cold for a day, the eight year old was feeling ‘funny’ for two days and the mother had no symptoms. That was because she had her booster the week before. Thank God said my friend. My best friend texted me yesterday after Dear Leader spoke to say she was terrified I was going to die because I am not vax’d.
That is what we are up against, as you say, over a cold

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  APC

If that is the case I have had Omicron on an on and off basis for about the last 6 weeks or so

I am Spartacas
4 years ago

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I am Spartacas
4 years ago

Leading by example ….

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Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Just like the Met Police officers all sitting in their vans without face masks, caught on film. Ready to dish out fines to anyone sitting on a park bench without a face mask. Anyone remember Cressida Dick on Westminster Bridge with no face mask on?

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Nice of the blokleiters to bunch together like that.

NEar railings as well

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

The rules don’t apply to them as they are anti-social.

Annie
4 years ago

Only a British zombie would want to go to the French hell as a tourist, anyway. I’m sorry for people aith fam i,y there though. Of course it’s pure spite and ratty anglophobia.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I’ll bet the residents of this part of “france” aren’t happy with Macron Le Grinch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute-Savoie

Note how close the flag is to Switzerland. No coincidence either.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

So the fully jabbed British are an infection risk. How does that fit with the French ‘vaccine passport’ policy?

‘Vaccinated’ French person not a risk

‘Vaccinated’ boeuf muncher is a risk

Bit racist old chap

Star
4 years ago

Rishi Sunak has been to California to discuss with “business leaders” about “omicron and the economy”.

Did Denis Healey even go to the IMF HQ in Washington DC in 1976?

This smells like biiig trouble. Tomorrow I will add to my “prepper” food store.

BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

I give this whole criminal charade another month or so, and then POP!

PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago

Omicron, le virus Anglais? Non. Le virus mondial.