A reader has drawn attention to the likelihood of some people posing as lorry drivers to avoid paying hefty PCR test fees.
According to the Government’s website, lorry drivers and hauliers can now get tested while on the road.
This means that they can travel from services to services between drops and get tested according to the following rules.
When to get tested
You will need to take at least three tests, if you will be staying in England for 10 days or longer.
You must take the first test within two days of your arrival. The day of your arrival is counted as day zero.
You must take the second test three days after your first test and the third test three days after your second test.
So if your first test is on day one, your second test will be on day four and your third test on day seven.
If your first test is on day two, your second test will be day five and your third test on day eight.
Apparently, these tests are free.
I wonder what will happen if they put France on the “red list”, as Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden seems to be considering… I suspect if you are a haulier you will still be able to come in from France – otherwise, where will all the food come from?
As has been seen from a previous LS post where the author set up a “removals” company and went skiing, one thinks this could be open to abuse.
I live five minutes away from the 24 hours South Mimms testing centre – I do wonder what is to stop me from getting free tests. Also, I wonder if van rentals will start popping up as members of the public suddenly become hauliers to find a reasonable excuse to go abroad!
Stop Press: In England, Lloyds Pharmacy is cutting costs for PCR tests to the bone by undercutting Boots by (wait for it!) £1! Its now only £119 per test with them, which means the cost of the PCR tests you’ll need to go on a trip to France has been slashed from £360 to £357. Bon voyage!
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Who are these people, sheesh get a grip!
The BBC is little more than a propaganda mouthpiece. I have other insults for them but you risk getting five years in chokey in the current climate.
Actually I can well imagine some kids getting upset about all the graphic and deeply unpleasant ( although totally natural, of course ) footage of animals killing and eating other animals. That’s why I always favoured David’s programmes because they didn’t get you all emotionally attached to a family of snow leopards or lemurs, give them all names, then have them attacked by a predator or injured and left to die slow and painful deaths ( I’ve never understood this ‘golden rule’ about how the camera crew can’t get involved and save an animal in distress if they were able. I’d be straight in there! ) as that can hardly be described as “family friendly entertainment”. Even I found some footage harrowing at times!
But crying over a planet that isn’t actually dying? Yes, quite, get a grip indeed! lol
I’m reminded about a famous Bob Newhart skit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BjKS1-vjPs
It’s the consequence of the “cute” Disney-fication of wild animals where they have names and personalities.
David Attenborough and his programmes are a British institution and he’s been one of my heroes my entire life. What a total disappointment to see this amazing and hugely experienced and knowledgeable legend of a man climb aboard the climate change bandwagon in his twilight years, because, obvious talent and household name status aside, this is what he’s going to be remembered for if he’s not careful. What I don’t understand is why on earth he’s doing it because he surely, not with the vast amount of knowledge he’s gathered over the decades, must know that what he’s saying is not just inaccurate but blatant misinformation. I don’t get what’s in it for him to be part of the propaganda machine that is the BBC and the climate agenda.
Another person I had massive respect and admiration for has ended up being a whopping let down. I’m bummed, David, totally bummed out. You should have known this was BS from the get-go.
Attenborough was always a low life who created stories to brain wash rather than inform, he’s no scientist at all. It’s become more obvious lately that’s all.
David Bellamy took the honourable route ….. and the BBC dropped him like a hot coal.
Attenborough? Follow the money.
More or less everything the BBC does is propaganda masquerading as something else – news, entertainment, sports reporting. It’s a political/”social justice” campaigning organisation pretending to be a broadcaster/news provider.
For me, there are two indicators of truth:
1: What I witness directly with my eyes / read from reliable unbiased sources, and
2: The things that happen on my side of a screen.
Anything outside of those categories might as well be science fiction / fantasy.
Attenborough and (no doubt) Brownlow are dedicated eugenicists and hate anyone not in their “elite”.
They also cannot stuff enough cash into their boots.
All this fits neatly with the BBC’s priorities.
The GangGreen Agit-prop (at your expense) will continue.
Neighbour told me she was about to clean the patio windows. Child just back from school said don’t bother Mummy, the world is going to end soon.
True story.
Does our new King make a completely impartial, non-political, contribution to the propaganda?
Just asking ….. since I won’t be watching.
Oh please; be kind to the sainted Attenbollox; hobknobber with and climate conscience for the hoi polloi – he only lies when the day has a y in it.
Perhaps the main motive driving the relentless pursuance of the net zero agenda is that, if it is dropped now and the climate is then seen to “recover” (as in lower global average temperatures, less adverse weather events, etc) then that “recovery” cannot be attributed to renewable energy (as it is not widespread enough as it is to have any claimed significant effect), or to any kind of “command and control” structures that would otherwise have been put in place to “tackle climate change”. The climate will self-regulate, and so those stalwarts of the “net-zero solves the crisis” philosophy are racing to put in place as many measures as they can BEFORE the climate does this naturally, so they can claim it was the artificial “climate change” mitigation measures wot done it!
Maybe it is precisely because the global warming narrative is running out of steam, with global average temperatures plateauing, that the climate change warriors are panicking as their narrative collapses around them. It’s a bit like prescribing a medication to a patient who doesn’t really need it – they’ll never know that they would have recovered anyway without the pills, but the doctor prescribes them anyway before they get better because he wants to prove he’s right.
Presentation, and claiming a link between A & B, rather than just observing meteorological reality, is the political game. Otherwise known as the work of the spin doctors.