The Government has hired a private firm to carry out 10,000 home visits every day to check if overseas arrivals are complying with mandatory quarantine rules. Those arriving in the UK must self-isolate for 10 days. Arrivals from countries on the Government’s “red list” must isolate at a Government-approved hotel – and pay £1,750 for the privilege. Mitie has been awarded a contract by the Home Office allowing it to spend up to £90 million on home visits. The Mail has the story.
Priti Patel has stepped up the Government’s crackdown on mandatory quarantine for overseas arrivals by hiring a firm to do up to 10,000 house checks per day.
Mitie has been tasked by the Home Office to catch flouters failing to undergo their required period of isolation.
Their extra manpower will dramatically increase the capacity for daily home visits, which at present number about 1,000 and are carried out by police. …
Under tight border rules to insulate from worrying variants and infection spikes in Europe, all overseas arrivals must go into self-isolation for 10 days, which can be shortened by testing negative.
For people arriving from countries on the Department for Transport’s red list, this self-isolation must be done in Government-approved hotels. Fines start at £1,000 and jump to £10,000 for repeated rule-breaking.
Mitie enforcers will conduct checks on travellers who are required to self-isolate at home, but will not do hotel visits.
A Government source said: “The number of operatives will vary depending on the number of visits needed, and the locations of the visits.
“If appropriate, Mitie staff may visit certain travellers more than once, if they are suspected of breaching their requirement to self-isolate.”
Mitie has been handed a number of other Covid-related contracts over the past year and currently supplies testing sites with testing staff, security and cleaners.
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Imagine someone lives on Scottish Island and was recently abroad. Are they really going to send an “agent” from the next town on a few hours journey to pay a 10minute visit? People will be travelling for long hours to get to their target. For rural areas this does not make sense at all!
“a 10minute visit?”
Does it really take that long to say ‘fuck off!’ ?
… and just imagine the mayhem in the court system if any prosecutions are attempted based on this moronic basis – even if the shit-for-brains Chief Constables and minions are recruited as backup to this Mickey Mouse enterprise!
NHS Trap-n-trace doing exactly what it was meant to, for those dumb enough to keep it active on a smartphone.
Meanwhile, James & Jay knock it out of the park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q_BBDQwcyo
[Please show the Delingpole Channel some love]
And lest we forget, all MSM presstitute roles pay jack-shit now… so no one working for them does any ‘real journalism’ at all, their only role at best is to churn out the ‘approved’ propaganda narrative.
We all know who finances that… and if you don’t do the homework.
Alt channels are the only hope now for waking the sleeping masses.
The oligarchs and their social engineers currently charge of this social RESET despise us, and they do want rid of us.
Listen and learn.
Oh goodie. I am returning to uk and have to quarantine at home. My two dogs Fang and Ripper will be so happy to see me. They’re so protective. Lovely dears really.
UK Column pointed out in yesterday’s programme that these Mitie Monkeys have no legal powers anyway.
If nobody answers the door so what?
Anybody still think this is not a police state?
Fuckin unbelievable.
Do Mitie employees wear brown shirts?
That was exactly what I was going to post!
So it’s a bit vague. Do they mean the thousand of tourists pouring into the country or is this for us returning from an Amber destination? Why is this needed? Why do we need traffic lights to go on holiday? The virus is with us. It makes no difference if I catch it here, in Spain or the USA. Oh but of course if I go to the Florida I am free to mingle, not wear a mask and can go where I please. Catching the disease does not make me a bad person or someone who should be marked out as unclean. Its all fucking wrong!
Which Tories (Lords, humble backbenchers and upwards) are friends with/related to/married to/have shares in/are directors/are lobbyists for Mitie? As they say, “Follow The Money”.
More perverse incentives by. gov.
Now let’s see what other nonsense I can cook up using the printing press.
are there really 10,000 people arriving in the UK everyday ?
There are quite a few rocking up on the Kent coast every day. Not sure if they’re included.
No we spend £7.50 on binoculars to spot them so the lifeguard can rescue them. If you spent £90m on that there would not be an issue.
Imagine the good that £90m they have been happy to spray around on private contracts for covid enforcement could have done if it had been applied to some of those in greatest need in this country.
Even if I was at home isolating, I wouldn’t answer the door just to annoy them. Might let the dog into the front garden though.
I would probably put down the address of my smallholding anyway, as I would isolate there so that I could get on with looking after the animals and land. That has huge double gates at the entrance which I can keep bolted and padlocked from the inside when I am there – I’d like to see them get through those. And I never answer unknown telephone numbers.
Watched a video last night on the Highwire of two police officers in Liverpool, literally breaking the door down to arrest a young man they accuse of breaking quarantine rules. Very disturbing. Don’t you wish the police used the same force on “real” criminals.
Seems to me that if officers go from house to house of all people returning to England, that this is a super spreading event waiting to happen. The officers, falsely trusting to their masks for protection, will pick up a virus and them spread it to all the rest. Brilliant idea! Maybe it will help us reach natural herd immunity all the faster.