All U.K. Covid Travel Restrictions to be Scrapped This Week

All Covid restrictions on foreign travel, including passenger locator forms and tests for the unvaccinated, are to be scrapped in time for families planning to go abroad for the Easter holidays. The Telegraph has more.

Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, will announce on Monday that passenger locator forms will be scrapped from 4am this Friday.

Testing for unvaccinated passengers that are required to enter the U.K. will also be dropped, ending the final restrictions on travel.

It means that holidaymakers will be able to enjoy frictionless travel entering the U.K. for the first time since the start of the pandemic in spring 2020.

At present, only fully vaccinated arrivals can enter the U.K. without the need for tests. However, they must fill in a passenger locator form within 72 hours of travel, sharing their address, phone number, passport and flight details.

The forms were launched two years ago – when arrivals had to quarantine at home – to help check if travellers were following the rules. Mr. Shapps has been pushing to scrap them in time for Easter.

Unvaccinated U.K. arrivals currently have to take a rapid pre-departure test within 48 hours of travel and a costly PCR swab by day two. 

Paul Charles, the Chief Executive of The PC Agency, a travel consultancy, said: “U.K. entry restrictions have been in place far longer than necessary. Now they are finally going, we’ll see confidence among consumers to book increase further. I now expect other countries to fall like dominoes in terms of their own border policies being removed.”

Let’s hope other countries follow suit quickly so travel can get back to normal without delay. Now if airlines can just be persuaded to drop their face mask requirements…

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court
4 years ago

Heard that BA will be dropping face coverings from Wednesday…

https://twitter.com/HeadForPoints/status/1503408731308146693

oblong
4 years ago
Reply to  court

Flying Manchester to Paris Thursday. Emailed easyJet to say I am exempt and that was accepted. Be great to see this mask business over with

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  oblong

Do you need to provide a negative result from a test before departure for France? LFT? PCR?
What e-mail address for Easyjet?

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Think France if vaxxed only unless your visit is “essential” so that would exclude tourism.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

The UK is still an ‘orange’ country according to the link/site below.

  • When unvaccinated travelers come from a country on the “orange” list, they must continue to present a compelling reason justifying the need for them to come to mainland France and may still be subject to a random test on arrival. Travelers who test positive will have to isolate themselves, in accordance with the recommendations of the Health Insurance.

https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/covid-19-international-travel

I don’t know if ‘Oblong’ is ‘fully vaccinated’. For such, there seems to be no restrictions.

“For unvaccinated travellers, the obligation to present a negative test to travel to France remains”

oblong
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Unjabbed. But I have dual nationality so will use French passport for travel

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  oblong

But you are still travelling from ‘an orange country’ to France – I don’t see what relevance having a French Passport makes.
What I read is that ‘unvaccinated’ need to provide proof of a negative result from a test.
Have you booked such a test, and if so, from which company and how much did it cost? And what happens if it’s ‘positive’? And then how can you send an e-mail to Easyjet when they provide no addresses?

(I have a British Passport but, as an unjabbed, that still means I have to take a test before departure AND pre-purchase a PCR to be taken by Day 2 upon arrival for the UK… at the moment still).
(They don’t say “Oh you have a British Passport, nothing else required!”)

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

I don’t know about French passports but my British friends who have residence in France certainly were not subject to same travel restrictions as your normal Brit. The same is the case for places like Aus and the US.

Jon Mors
Jon Mors
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Yes, I can travel to Sweden even though un-jabbed as I have citizenship (possibly as the constitution guarantees free movement. I had assumed that was only within the country but maybe it extends to crossing the border). Wife is a Brit though so she can’t at the moment.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

I believe there was a test case in Netherlands and they established that it was against European law to refuse citizens entry to their own country. One rare case where the courts worked to defend rights.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

It’s against international law – specifically the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – for a signatory state to deny a citizen entry to their own country (or exit from it). That didn’t stop Australia though.

Article 13 of the UDHR:

“Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

We don’t pay any attention to the UDHR, despite the fact that an Australian, Doc Evatt, helped draft it and oversaw the vote as President of the UN General Assembly.

if you’re an Australian citizen stranded overseas because your government won’t let you re-enter – bad luck; if you’re imprisoned overseas in atrocious conditions, serves you right.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

It always makes me suspicious when questions go unanswered.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Do you always answer questions?

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

It depends upon what those questions are. If I were to claim I’d sent an email to Easyjet (when they provide none on their site) and someone asked me what that address was, I would see nothing wrong in answering that question.

Also when people claim they went abroad and then cannot provide any details of how they returned to the UK, such as from which companies they purchased their PCR tests, it does make you wonder if they went abroad at all or just made it all up “using their imagination”.

A ‘sceptic’ should be able to smell bullshit.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Just perhaps they didn’t have timer to go on reading these comments – just perhaps they had other things to do. Just perhaps they were called away.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Looks like the downtickers wish to avoid the truth and live in a world of fantasy and bullshit.
What is wrong with asking for facts and information?

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

What is wrong with asking for facts and information?

Nothing, of course – ever.

Do you think people should be suspicious when you don’t answer questions? I don’t – but you did say that you were “always” suspicious when questions went unanswered.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

I probably am ‘always’ suspicious when people are reluctant to answer simple questions such as what they have done about purchasing a test for Covid which is required for a country they say they are travelling to.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

What a silly conversation. As if people MUST dedicate their waking hours to following a thread on a comments section.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  oblong

I’d ask the French consulate.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

You can write to Easyjet using their ‘contact form’:

“Write to us

If you’d rather write to us, please use the form below and we’ll aim to get back to you within 28 days. If you need an urgent response please contact our customer services team.”

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Five downticks for asking relevant questions. Makes you wonder why!

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  oblong

The UK is STILL Orange for travel to and from France. So only fully jabbed can travel without a ‘compelling reason’
Fully jabbed means double jabbed up to 270 days after second jab. After 270 days you have to be triple jabbed and the third jab has to be an mRNA one.
‘Compelling reason’ does NOT include tourism, but if you have a residence permit in France that is compelling. To travel WITH a compelling reasoon and not fully jabbed you have to take an antigen test before travel.
Believe it or not EXACTLY the same restrictions apply to leave France ( which is why I call it the ‘prison state’). If you are not fully jabbed ( see above for definition) you have to have a compelling reason to travel ( not tourism) and have an antigen test. However there is one important exception, you are allowed to travel to ORANGE country ( ie UK) without compelling reason if you are a National of that country ( ie a brit can travel to UK ,not fully jabbed or unjabbed with just an antigen test)
This is of course completely INSANE!! But its France.

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

If you study the countries still ORANGE for France, you will see that its completely political. Nothing whatsoever to do with ‘covid’ at all anymore.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

I used to love visiting France. What are all these Macronian horrors doing to that beautiful country?

George L
4 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Macron was put there to do exactly what he’s doing, and whoever gains the presidency in April will do exactly the same..

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  George L

I watched the last presidential debates and thought he nailed victory when Le Pen over-reached and accused him of being personally corrupt. He suddenly stopped looking like a little boy, pulled himself upright, and started to appear – well, earnest.

It helped that what used to be the French left was in hopeless disarray.

George L
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

This is correct.. you need a compelling reason to enter France if you’re sans jib-jab.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

“To travel WITH a compelling reason and not fully jabbed you have to take an antigen test before travel.”

‘oblong’ remains reluctant to give details on where they have purchased such, from which company, or what they are going to do about this. All they have replied is that they intend travelling on their French Passport.
I just wonder why this kind of info is kept ‘secret’. I think many people on this site would be interested to know exactly how others’ travel experiences have gone.

LeMac
LeMac
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

By my reading it’s travelling FROM rather than being a citizen of an orange country. So if you flew or took a ferry from Ireland for example you should be ok to get into France as an unvaccinated person and return directly from France to the UK

Also I presume a Covid recovery Certificate doesn’t allow direct travel from UK to France, though I can’t easily find a definitive answer to that.

HaylingDave
4 years ago
Reply to  court

Funnily enough (in a non-humorous way), I put in a complaint to BA two weeks ago about their face covering policy and just got an email today, brushing me off:

We follow the guidelines outlined by the government and it is mandatory under our Conditions of Carriage for all passengers to adhere to the procedures we have in place. To ensure the wellbeing of fellow travellers and our staff members, passengers are required to wear a mask throughout their journey. “

Roll on Wednesday then?!

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

“To ensure the wellbeing of fellow travellers and our staff members, passengers are required to wear a mask throughout their journey.”

So on Wednesday they couldn’t give a flying monkey’s about the wellbeing of their passengers & staff ???!!!

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

The science has changed 🙂

My local county council have just appointed a “Director of sustainable development”. It’s a newly created role, no doubt very well paid. I wonder if there’s also a “Director of unsustainable development”. Perhaps “development” wasn’t important to them before, or they only did the “unsustainable” sort. Most folk seem to have mush for brains.

Whitespace
Whitespace
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Sustainability and Environmental Social and Government responsibility in corporations is very dangerous. They are engaging into a Public Private Partnership. They have already begun to have a relationship, not of a contractor and a client, but both jointly providing service, both jointly enforcing and writing the laws.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Whitespace

Government and Dangerous seem to go together quite often in the same sentence these days

Whitespace
Whitespace
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

I like how they manage to be rude, pompous authoritarians at even a *tiny* hint that you may not be an enthusiastic cult member.

And like the doctors themselves, the default reasoning is “everyone else is doing it.”

Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

Well if it’s about wellbeing, my wellbeing is maintained by NOT wearing a face covering.

pjar
4 years ago
Reply to  court

As a matter of interest; has anyone, ever, seen anything that attempts the justification of this ridiculous ‘rule’ that forces people in a ‘plane to wear masks, despite the fact that they have to be vaccinated and tested before they can board the flight? Apart from the weasel: following government guidelines, which is meaningless tosh…

The old bat
4 years ago
Reply to  pjar

Really? Do you have to be vaccinated to get on a plane?

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

Depends where you are going

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

You’ll need to show ‘Covid papers’ of some sort to be able to get from the airport check-in to the ‘airside’. That’s ‘fully vaxxed’, ‘proof of recovery from Covid’, or ‘proof of a negative result from a test’.
These are requirements for your destination country (ies). I don’t think the airline usually demands you have to be ‘vaccinated’ – although I understand Qantas made this mandatory.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

You’ll need to show ‘Covid papers’ of some sort to be able to get from the airport check-in to the ‘airside’. That’s ‘fully vaxxed’, ‘proof of recovery from Covid’, or ‘proof of a negative result from a test’.”

Unless your destination is one of a (daily) growing number that has no covid related entry requirements.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Is it really growing daily? The list at Kayak.co.uk isn’t growing fast. European countries on the list as accepting “unvaccinated” visitors from Britain without restriction or testing is still only eight strong:

Denmark, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, Slovenia

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Not quite daily – maybe one every 3 days. It may peter out.

Emmelda Johnson
4 years ago
Reply to  court

About time to. I was woken up 3 times to put my mask on flying back from South Africa.

Star
4 years ago

This may be a stupid question (it’s not meant as one), but did the flight attendants police the covering up of nostrils as well as mouths?

8bit
8bit
4 years ago

There’s a stone in the custard…

scamdemic
scamdemic
4 years ago

Watch the bed-wetters start to cry

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

Modlova to be a Ukraine variant?

Arms Spending to require a top-up booster shot?

ImpObs
4 years ago

in time for families planning to go abroad for the Easter holidays

Except those of us who had their business ruined by lockdowns, who are still stuggling to restart and pay off the huge debts incurred as a result. If things go well, we’re looking at 2025 for our next holliday, but given the ridiculous level of inflation, and supply chain crisis, manufactured as a direct result of the incompetent, global governance response, even 2025 looks iffy.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

People generally just don’t understand how big the collateral damage from the unintended consequences of government and the state bureaucracy action is.

The government rarely solves a problem without creating a bigger one for someone else.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Yes – governments, in particular, do not understand this.

And bureaucracies everywhere tend to have very little interest in exploring even the possibility of unintended consequences. They spoil briefing papers and promotional prospects, so they are usually ignored.

Those who mention them in meetings are met with frowns: there goes so-and-so, just being difficult.

So problems are continually being created. A good many of these, though not intended, were entirely predictable.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

I’m really sorry to hear that – can only imagine how difficult things must be – sadly I think your assessment going forward is probably correct .

cornubian
4 years ago

Can I just remind the Daily Sceptic that the fakery was only classified ‘a pandemic’ after the Gates-funded WHO changed the definition of what constitutes a pandemic.

So does that make it a real pandemic?

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

In a real pandemic garden centres do not remain open in case you fancy buying a gnome.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Exactly and when the WHO declared a “pandemic” there were at the time something like only 450 deaths worldwide ‘with covid.’

The greatest con ever pulled in the history of humanity.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

and despite WHO declaring it a pandemic UK govt on their own website downgraded the virus but still went into full panic mode all the same. Odd that. Very odd.

civilliberties
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

I remembered a BBC “fact check” from 2020 when they attempted to debunk so called “conspiracy theorists” stating that events are changeable and that’s why it was downgraded, I thought at the time, ok, well why did they not upgrade the virus to an infectious disease then? after-all, all it needed was a few types on a webpage. Could it be for legal reasons they had to put somewhere out they way and hoped the majority did not notice, like they have done with jab reactions on a webpage out the way.

George L
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Very odd indeed.. it was one of the first things I picked up on, and immediately smelt a rat..

Butties
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

With a pandemic IVM, HCQ could be used. With no pandemics they could be blocked for use. Does this explain the downgrade?

watersider
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

No it’s a Planned Demic

Smelly Melly
4 years ago

Its all very well the UK lifting restrictions but what about other countries restrictions. I’d still be restricted as I’m a pure blood I’ll be penalised, so no point in booking a holiday abroad.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Go to a country that is fully open, if any take your fancy. There are a few – reward them with your business.

Draper233
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

One other consideration should be how draconian the measures were before they opened up as well.

For example, Sweden should get your money before Slovenia.

Let’s call it the Freedom Pound.

Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Still cannot enter covidstan that is Germany. The last bastion of the official bedwetters. It’s good that Klabauterbach likes it, for when they finally put him into a straitjacket into his rubber cell.

HaylingDave
4 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

Sorry, I’m gonna (politely 🙂 ) disagree: The “last bastion of the official bedwetters” is surely Canada?

My mum lives in Calgary (myself in England) and being pure blood (along with my children), I/we cannot visit without a 10 day isolation period (considering I usually only visit for 2 weeks at a time, it seems … well … somewhat pointless).

And the isolation period and Canadian policies are widely supported by my friends and family in Calgary … sigh. Anecdotal evidence, granted, but I submit Canada for the bedwetting nation of the year award.

Jon Mors
Jon Mors
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

Disappointed this spread to Alberta, supposedly the ‘Texas’ of Canada.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

I’m going to impolitely agree. The Germans have released the inner-Nazi so many of them have been secretly suppressing all this time.

The are order fanatics and as history has shown and the present is demonstrating once again, they will do some pretty ghastly things to establish a sense of order and control.

The way the unjabbed have been discriminated has been horrific.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I sometimes wonder if Russia swept up all the way into Austria and Germany they could sort this nasty Nazi business out once and for all.

It’s puzzling when people say they are going to boycott Tesco for daring to have their Santa show his Vaxx Pass, yet they are happy to shop in Lidl and Aldi and support The Fourth Reich!

watersider
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Emerald,
Late to the show, but is the Soviet Gulag of Scotland still part of the UK as far as restrictions are concerned and I humbly nominate our very own little dictator for any Bed Wetting Oscars.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  watersider

Scotland’s foreign travel rules are ending at 4am on Friday 18 March. This means that if you’re arriving in Scotland from abroad after 4am on Friday 18 March, you’ll no longer need to:

  • complete a Passenger Locator Form
  • have proof of any vaccinations you’ve had
  • take a COVID-19 test before travel to Scotland or book a day 2 PCR test when you arrive – currently you have to take these tests if you’re not fully vaccinated.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-international-travel-quarantine/

RW
RW
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

They by-and-large imitating what the US democrats do or doing what they want to do which is what they always do. Eg, while the German mask mandate is much more onerous than then English ever was, it is, also insofar enforcement is concerned, way less intrusive than the mask rules in California or New York used to be. So, what about the Californian inner nazi?

Hint: Nazi does not mean obnoxious stickler for arcane rules who isn’t willing to tolerate other people’s opinion on anything. It means member of the NSDAP or active supporter of its policies. I happen to know a few. And they are – sorry to burst your bubble – very much in the opposition camp wrt anything-COVID.

TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

You can enter Germany. Fly to Budapest and get the direct train to Dresden or Berlin. Why anyone would want to enter the fascist hell hole though is another question.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Yes – can’t see France, where I really want to go, changing the rules to let the unjabbed in any time soon. Not without the application of some kind of external pressure at any rate.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Quite a large percentage of voters will vote for anti-restriction candidates in the first round of the French presidential election on 10 April, even if the specific issue of restrictions on unspiked visitors from abroad isn’t front and centre.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Perhaps Putin should sweep into France too, and take that lot out at the same time! They have been nothing but trouble throughout History.

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

You can if you use the CTA and go via Ireland. Ireland is EU and therefore GREEN as far as far as France is concerned. Unjabbed can enter France fronm a GREEN country as long as they have an antigen test. So it means breaking your journey in say Dublin overnight ( not a through ticket) and have a test in Ireland before taking the flight to France.

George L
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

And this summer the EU is bringing in its digital ID for citizens, which I believe the UK has signed up to.. on the quiet!

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

I had just been wondering why this site has never had articles exposing the scamming companies flogging their ‘tests’, such as this one:

https://fi.trustpilot.com/review/dam-health.com?languages=all&stars=1

“The person doing the test barely touched the inside of my nose.” – and why should they? They know it’s all a con.

“however when I pursued this further they stopped any correspondence.” – yeah, they have your money and just want you to give up and go away.

“The test itself was an absolute joke. The young lady was pleasant but barely tickled the inside of our cheek with the swab.” – they aren’t real ‘nurses’, just pretend ones, probably girlfriends of the owners of the company.



Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Well I don’t know the answer to that but I am sure it comes as no surprise to anyone here to read that kind of thing. I kind of assume we all assume every part of the covid industry is a scam or a sham or both.

TheGreenAcres
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

I’m guessing that individual has done a few too many home tests and probably has a few swabs lodged in the brain.

court
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

My friend who emigrated to the US a few years ago came back with his wife at Xmas. I can only echo your comments, the whole thing is a joke. His wife felt a touch under the weather a couple of days before flying home while staying with us and tested positive. We picked up some cheap £20 tests which were apparently not meant for the US as they need an in person test. My friend just filled in the forms as if his wife was negative. 2 pdfs later and off they went, she was still positive on the day, no one looked at their paperwork, even in the US. It’s such a sham.

He travels a bit for his work and now he just opens that pdf in acrobat and edits it at will with different dates. No one gives a f.

MrBigglesworth
MrBigglesworth
4 years ago
Reply to  court

I know of someone who shall remain nameless whose number of individual trips let alone flights this past 2 years are double figures. One PCR test and an amendments of the dates every time has sufficed, regardless of the UK, Europe, Caribbean, North America, Middle East, it’s been accepted everywhere because nobody cares. He’s an Oxford PHD so there’s some hope for scientific academicals yet.

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  MrBigglesworth

Yes I can verify no one gives a f anywhere in the Americas as long as you don’t use NY/Boston/LA/SF in the States. When we went to Florida no one even bothered asking. BUT it does depend on the airline how the check-in desk performs in Europe. We have found that the further south west on the continent you go the less bothered they are.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago

I am not going anywhere by plane that requires masks or to any country that still retains a single Covid restriction.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Jet2 fly to Iceland?

Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Ditto. I go on holiday for more freedom, not less.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Mr Taxpayer

Finland still 99-100% face masks if you fancy some nostalgia for ‘the good old times of the pandemic’.

Whitespace
Whitespace
4 years ago

“Back to Normal.”
Methods of control have been honed, the globalists have flexed their borderless reach. In Canada we permanently supplanted the rule of law with the rule of discretion.

We are not back to normal. People are no longer oblivious. Now They energetically resist any doubts about who their masters are..
*edit*

civilliberties
4 years ago

It means that holidaymakers will be able to enjoy frictionless travel entering the U.K

I don’t like how thats worded, they make it sound like they are giving you something when you had it up to 2020.

The Rule of Pricks
The Rule of Pricks
4 years ago

Ha! Look at the entry into France map…a sea of green but UK is orange…

No entry without a ‘compelling reason’ into France

Utter scum.

iane
iane
4 years ago

Well, to get me to go to France would require a VERY compelling reason!

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

The general level of disobedience of the authorities is higher in France than in Britain or Germany.

Jon Mors
Jon Mors
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

It’s an interesting point. Maybe their restrictions are more draconian because they know that the rules will only be followed half-heartedly. ‘If people only obey 50% and I want them to do 10, then I’ll ask them to do 20.’ Or, there could be an emotional dimension to it. The in-group can have their orgy of virtue signalling in the knowledge that their won’t be a full scale revolt.

caravaggio57
4 years ago

Always remember, it is not possible to underestimate the intelligence of government bureaucrats. Those who work for large private companies are similarly gifted.

caravaggio57
4 years ago

Waiting for Italy to drop their ‘Super Green Pass’.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  caravaggio57

And the Green pass

The old bat
4 years ago

I wish vets would get the message. They alone seem to think they are ‘special’ and are keeping masks for customers as if nothing has changed. A quick straw poll finds the majority of local vets are not allowing the unmasked in, or just not letting people in at all. Apparently animals are still being put to sleep on the back seats of cars (if you want to stay with your animal) or else they take it into the building and do the deed without you being allowed to be there. If there are any vets or vets nurses on here I would be very interested in your contribution. What is the difference to a vet being in close proximity to a customer from a hairdresser, shopkeeper, dentist or optician (for example)? My vets are positively offensive about non mask wearers and don’t care that they are breaching disability laws. I am looking for an alternative but they all seem to be singing from the same sheet. It absolutely infuriates me.

ImpObs
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

My vet has been brilliant (EasyPets), 4 visits in the last ~6 months, never wore a mask, never even got challenged (staff & everyone else was masked).

When I called to book in the final trip over rainbow bridge for my big girl, and explained she couldn’t walk, they had someone outside waiting as I pulled up to help me carry her in (drizzling rain too) had an empty side room waiting, I had as much time with her as I wanted, left alone with her after the jab, vet said stay as long as you like, absouloutely brilliant.

John001
John001
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

Sue them !

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

World Economic Forum wants everyone who resists Great Reset to be forced into China-style “reeducation camps”
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-03-11-wef-nwo-resisters-forced-china-reeducation-camps.html
By Ethan Huff

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John001
John001
4 years ago

Sent to me by a friend …

Talk by Tom Luongo: ‘Can Russia Block the Great Reset?’

https://dinartimes.com/tom-luongo-can-russia-kill-the-great-reset-2/

One hopes so, along with resistance in other countries.

But who knows Putin’s real views in relation to the WEF …

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  John001

Thanks, John001 – well worth watching.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago

Regarding local travel – I couldn’t help notice on my evening walk in my local area today that all the “bossy messaging” telling you what you are and are not allowed to do in order to access public transport have been taken down from all the bus shelters on my route.

Mogwai
4 years ago

Hoorah!! That’s made me happy as I can come home for a visit in the summer hols. Incidentally, does anyone happen to know if ferries have the same rules as for flying? I assume they do, even though it’s an entirely different set up, but just curious if anyone knows off the top of their heads. I’m wondering if they have the ridiculous “must wear a muzzle when walking around outside your cabin” type bollocks rule…TIA.

Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I just looked it up, doing an EF. Stena Line says masks are required where social distancing is difficult. Funny, they are using face covering, face mask and mouth cap.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

We travelled four times on ferries since the start of all this BS. Never wore the masks once, never challenged. Dover Calais.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

What Covid paperwork did you need to enter France? And for your return to the UK?
Why did you go to Calais? As foot passengers? With a car?

Sceptics ask these kind of questions!

LeMac
LeMac
4 years ago

Hopefully the whole edifice will collapse across other countries. Currently struggling to find definitive answer to see if I can’t enter France using covid recovery certificate (as I’m jab-free). Paid for a skiing holiday 2 years ago…

Sarigan
4 years ago
Reply to  LeMac

Not solely on recovery certificate I don’t think. The CRC was applicable to the Pass Vaccinal (gone as of today).

The Rule of Pricks
The Rule of Pricks
4 years ago
Reply to  LeMac

I don’t think you can go

Im in exactly the same position so I suppose I’ll be cancelling and rebooking for 2023 same as you

France is such a nakedly political stunt as well just to highlight the UK isn’t part of Europe any more!

Macron is a tool little better than Trudeau

captainbeefheart
captainbeefheart
4 years ago

Against my better judgement, we’re off to Portugal at the end of April. Personally, I am dreading it because it will be the first time abroad with 2 kids – I’m mainly doing it to keep my other half sane. In some ways, I’m hoping that the Russian military blows the plane out of the sky just so I don’t have to watch my children grow up in this complete nightmare. Judging by the future ahead of them, I feel ashamed that I brought them in to the world. It’s a pity that there’s no way to get “unborn”. They’ll hate our generation when they are older and they realise what a total mess we made of everything by blindly following authority – hopefully – that’s if they’re not brainwashed into being total sheep by the end of their “education” like most other people. Hopefully, we’re blown out of the sky on the way home – that way, at least I would have been to Portugal once in my life. I genuinely think that this will be the last ever time I get to go abroad – after the pending total economic collapse that is on the cards, the breakdown… Read more »

Star
4 years ago

I feel deeply for those with young children now or who are expecting one.

Try and enjoy yourselves when you’re over there, @Captain.

This is assuming the economic collapse hasn’t happened before the end of April, which it may have done. The west clamping Russian money will probably lead the Russian state and Russian companies to try to repay their debts in roubles, which in many cases will be tantamount to default. And when banks write down sovereign and other large clients’ debts, some will become insolvent.

Boris Johnson is probably not going to Saudi this week merely to grease a purchase of Chelsea Football Club and to ask the sheikhs to increase oil production. More likely he’s taking a begging bowl so they can pour some money into a life-support machine for the City of London, and by extension for the British economy which, as we all know, rests on the City of London.

Jon Mors
Jon Mors
4 years ago

I’m in a similar position with two kids. Thinking about booking Mexico for later in the year. Slightly concerned the next scariant will have arrived before then with what that is likely to mean for travel (obvs the vaccines won’t work either but it’s not like logic worked before).

Anyway, take heart. History goes up and down. There’s no guarantee things won’t get better.

captainbeefheart
captainbeefheart
4 years ago

NEWSFLASH: It has been discovered that if you read something you don’t like, you can make it all go away by downticking it 🙂 I don’t really care about downtickers, I just wonder what they must be thinking. Maybe they see no evidence of imminent economic collapse? Maybe they think that I’m insane – obviously, now covid is over and when we’ve won “the war”, their lives will totally go back to “normal” Maybe they just didn’t like the tone of the post (e.g. not saying anything positive)? Maybe they have children and don’t want to read about anything that might be predicting a shit future for them? Maybe they think that people will suddenly come to their senses and we will all unite as one big happy family and rid the world of the evil that has bestowed us? Maybe my post made them really, really angry? (to me, this is the most amusing outcome – it is funny when people get really angry because they read some words posted by a complete stranger on the internet) As we can never tell, I’ll just assume that they think that “voting against a post” will make it all go away… Read more »

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

The Downticking Brigade do it in the hope to discredit posters who get too uncomfortably close to the truth by asking relevant questions.
The bullshitters are terrified of being exposed as having made it all up.
“I didn’t wear a mask and no-one challenged me” – well, that’s because everyone saw you are ‘the man’, innit?

Star
4 years ago

The British government’s website, updated today, says that if you’re “unvaccinated” and you arrive in England from abroad after 4am on Friday 18 March, you do not “need” to take any tests (or to have taken any) or to complete a passenger locator form.

What is the position in Scotland? The Scottish “government’s” website still says that if you’re “unvaccinated” and you fly to Scotland from abroad you are required to show a negative test result.

“Unvaccinated” people in Britain seem to be allowed to travel now without restrictions to Denmark, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, and Slovenia – and to remain banned from entering France, Germany, or Spain.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Maldives, Curacao

Encierro
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Sorry but the Spianish still want controls look at this website I will break it up or this could be held in moderation for an age

www.spth.gob.es
Old Maid
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

No, not Denmark. They are still saying you need to need to take a test at a designated centre if you’re not jabbed. Heaven knows what happens if you test positive. I daren’t look.
https://en.coronasmitte.dk/travel-rules/covidtravelrules

cloud6
4 years ago

And can we have a Government health warning… printed in BOLD on the packaging

Date:
May 4, 2021
Source:
Swansea University
Summary:
Scientists have uncovered potentially dangerous chemical pollutants that are released from disposable face masks when submerged in water. The research reveals high levels of pollutants, including lead, antimony, and copper, within the silicon-based and plastic fibres of common disposable face masks.

facemask.jpg
Encierro
4 years ago

All Covid restrictions on foreign travel……. are to be scrapped in time for families planning to go abroad for the Easter holidays.

Except some counties will still have restrictions in place. Forinstance at the moment there are no plans to remove the Greek or Spanish nonsense at the moment.
Check before you book!

karenovirus
4 years ago

Front page Daily Telegraph pic remind you of anything ?

(Sorry if this has already been posted, not been around much today)

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Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago

And back next week

Draper233
4 years ago

Good news but….

Never forgive, never forget.

Draper233
4 years ago

And try not to use Ryanair….Mr O’Leary has to pay for those comments about the non-vaxxed

karenovirus
4 years ago

Channel5 9pm Lies Programme leads with lady announcing

“Russian forces invade new areas of Ukraine . . . ”
as though expanding or extending the conflict.
The operative word being ‘new’ but it’s a war darling, armies advance, its what they do.

Francis64
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Its almost as if they desperately want to trigger World War Three simply to get attention.

Narcissism usually leads to self-destructive behaviour.