Calls to keep the UK’s aviation sector closed this summer should be dismissed, according to a group of Conservative MPs, because of the damage this would do to the British economy. In a letter published in today’s Times, the nine MPs argue that while some restrictions could stay in place, such as Covid testing, the freedom to travel and do business must now be granted.
Sir, The UK’s aviation sector is facing calls to stay closed this summer, to guard against coronavirus variants. Kneejerk demands to sacrifice an industry carry costs. Failing to reopen air travel would be devastating to exporters, as well as our tourism and hospitality sectors. One person’s abundance of caution is another’s redundancy notice. This must be front and centre in the Government’s thinking as the Global Travel Taskforce makes its recommendations. With the Government’s great vaccination programme meaning that all over-50s will be vaccinated by mid-April and multiple confirmations from ministers and scientists that the vaccine protects against severe illness, even with the new variants, people will ask why we went to such efforts if it does not grant us the freedom to travel, trade and do business. We might not be able to travel immediately to every country. Testing can continue. But there is a sensible middle ground that allows us to move forward without fear. We entered lockdown together, and we must leave it together – hopefully some via an airport.
Andrew Bridgen MP
Julian Sturdy MP
Richard Drax MP
Steve Baker MP
Sir Graham Brady MP
Paul Maynard MP
Simon Jupp MP
David Davis MP
Henry Smith MP
Stop Press: Steve Baker also appeared on Julia Hartley-Brewer’s talkRADIO show this morning, and said that Boris Johnson must end the “doom loop” of lockdown.
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Why ‘Testing can continue’? If these vaccines do what it says on the tin, then there is no need. But they don’t, or at least no-one knows if they do. Which is a bit of a problem when you have put your whole policy of saying restrictions will end when enough have been vaccinated. And of course the rest of the world has also to be vaccinated before restrictions are lifted, which means never.
When is it going to get into the thick heads of these MPs that they are talking to despots?
Yes. Although it was pleasing to see more MPs voting against the renewal of regulations, it was a piss in the ocean.
Few are prepared to come out and say that the whole of the government response is a nonsense and a disaster and that the public have been conned big-time.
So they nibble around the edges – and are easily bought off.
The MPs are fully complicit and onboard.
This is their alternative to aviation
Viruses mutate and variants are called after a country/place where different variant identified. They are more transmissible but less deadly. Flu has variants as does meningitis both which can kill but we do not lock down the country. Even if we are not allowed to travel particular variants will still appear. We must not be browbeaten by crazed politicians and scientists.
the lessening of the shackles is to enable the ‘elite’ to go off on holiday after which they’ll tighten again with a new and even more lethal mutant.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/bill-gates-is-a-wanker-coronavirus-song_GjgyOikrhopLV9Z.html
THE CONSULTATION FOR COVID PASSPORTS VIA MICHAEL GOVE IS A SHAM, THE DECISION WAS MADE IN FAVOUR OF THEM BY THIS GOVERNMENT MONTHS AGO. TESTING WAS UNDERWAY IN JANUARY. TESTING CANNOT HAPPEN WITHOUT SOMETHING IS ALREADY NEAR PROOF OF CONCEPT. THIS HAS BEEN UNDERWAY FOR A LONG TIME. THERE IS NO CHOICE THE DECISION WAS MADE FOR YOU A LONGTIME AGO. YOU ARE BEING TREATED TO WINDOW DRESSING
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/emea/uk-covid-19-immunity-passports-entering-live-testing-phase
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