There are reports of chaos in Portugal as Brits make a dash to book PCR tests and flights home before the country they were hoping to spend more time in is demoted to the Government’s “Amber List” on Tuesday at 4am. The MailOnline has the story.
Cabinet ministers destroyed the holiday plans of millions of families after abruptly downgrading Portugal from green to amber status on its travel list, citing fears over the so-called Nepal variant – even though just one case of the strain was detected in Portugal when the decision was announced on Thursday.
The move instantly wiped £2 billion off the value of airlines, while furious travel chiefs warned that it risked creating a jobs bloodbath and further wrecking a sector already devastated by successive lockdowns.
Passengers have until 4am tomorrow to return to the U.K. or quarantine for 10 days, and must have proof of a negative PCR test taken no more than three days before their departure or face a £500. However, testing centres in Portugal were reportedly overwhelmed by the spike in demand.
There are an estimated 112,000 Britons currently in Portugal and airlines have been laying on extra flights or larger aircraft to get people home. Some 100 flights departed Faro on Saturday and there were lengthy queues snaking around the building of passengers trying to leave yesterday.
Speaking to the BBC this morning, vaccine centre volunteer Angela Mantana said she got news of the sudden decision just one day after getting to Portugal and now has to quarantine for 10 days at home because she was unable to get PCR tests or “suitable” flights back to the East Midlands. It means she cannot provide jabs at her local centre, or provide her aunt – who is shielding – her daily medication…
Another British traveller, Mike Indian described “chaotic” scenes at Faro Airport and having to push past other travellers after officials told him he would need to run to make his flight to London Luton. He told Radio 4’s Today programme he managed to board the plane with just five minutes to spare.
Some 20,000 passengers departing from Faro at the weekend had to pay exorbitant prices to buy PCR tests so they can fly back from Portugal ahead of the 10-day quarantine deadline…
And testing labs are facing an “overwhelming” surge in demand for PCR testing which is causing holidaymakers to miss flights as test results are delayed or lost. According to Ross Tomkins, Managing Director of PCR test provider Salutaris People, testing capacity is on the “verge of collapse”. …
Yet official data now shows that just 1.5% of British travellers tested positive for coronavirus over two weeks in a sample – just three positive cases spotted out of 200 people coming from Portugal in mid-May.
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I wonder if any other nation is arsing about in this ridiculous way. The comments by the Portuguese minister would suggest not. Dianified Britain, drunk on totalitarian kitsch.
Each country seems to be arsing about in their own ridiculous way, according to their own political needs and inclinations. It’s been crap in the UK, but I’d rather have been in the UK than in most of continental Europe, with the obvious exception of Sweden. Even Sweden is bought into the narrative. The only places in the rich world that look to have moved on are some of the US states with Republican governments.
Yeah thinking the same thing. But my concern is they’ll do their utter best to remove Desantis next year through fraudulent methods. Any thoughts?
I’m sure they will go after DeSantis and the others, yes. It’s possible they will get a boost from people who have moved to those states to avoid draconian lockdowns.
Property prices there are through the roof. I would seriously contemplate it. Imagine living in a an environment surrounded by people with the same mentality. Sounds too much to ask for!
Getting a Green Card is not easy. I’m no expert but from what I’ve read I think I would go to South Dakota rather than Florida. There’s a firmly ingrained libertarian streak there, possibly more than most places on earth.
Wisconsin, Montana, Texas are the true Republican areas, although many democrats are moving away from liberal thinking and ending up in Florida.
I don’t know if you remember the brain drain of the 1960s. So many Brits left under the Labour government and indeed under Ted Heath. The very best of the Brits are not socialists. It seems that the bright young things may move on again.
Yes, they are such hypocrites- voting for draconian lockdown zealots then going off to buy properties in non lockdown republican states and nipping over to holiday in the Caribbean —
I hope his personal security is top notch.
I would put nothing past the enemy.
Me too and me neither. Makes our useless politicians look like kindergarten kids!
They are kindergarten kids. They have been under Brussels control too long. We should have had a true Brexit government in 2016. Instead we had a musical chairs of the same old europhile cartel.
They are already trying to take him down. Along with the bright new Republicans Matt Gaetz and MTG. If the UK government had any backbone at all they would have stood strong with these States and President Trump.
There are so few globalists but if Boris had delivered on his promises the UK and USA could have been the beacon to the world. Instead he chose to be bashed around by a far left greenie and Clinton shill.
I am in a Caribbean and the American visitors have been coming in and out for months -enjoying life without masks, vaccines or neurosis -Of course many from Florida and Texas but now even New Yorkers and Californians have had enough and plane loads are coming in daily. It is both sad and embarrassing to see the headlines in British Newspapers and also listen to the BBC – Matt Hancock has become a figure of fun a laughing stock.
Well the majority of Brits have done this to themselves. They should ignore lockdowns. The small businesses should have had the backbone to come together and stay open. Anyone who is offered furlough (free money) is not going to turn it away. The linger they remain brainwashed, the worse its going to be for all of us.
The very states and governors that are truly conservative. We in the UK do not seem to be able to shake off the europhile establishment, hell bent on sucking up to a democrat party destroying the West.
I live in Finland. The borders to Sweden and Norway have been closed since March 2020, apart from a couple of months July-Aug last year when the Norwegian border was opened but only to those resident in Finland/Norway.
Finland seems to be copying what the UK is doing – masks, vaccines, and constant ‘reporting’ of ‘cases’ on the Government’s TV channels. The streets in our village are littered with discarded face masks, especially around the school, because kids are expected to wear masks in school buses and obviously just throw them to the ground when they get off. Now, if these masks are containing ‘the virus’ (otherwise, why use them?), you’d think it a crime to just throw them around willy-nilly. There are no teachers/school staff picking up these discarded, filthy muzzles.
Travel to the UK is a Covid test before you get on the plane, you have to order the plastic shitty ‘test-kits’ (Made in China tat) for £200 before you arrive in the UK, and a Covid test for return flight – all expensive and very difficult to arrange. And 10 days ‘quarantine’ when you arrive in the UK (you are allowed to travel to a place of your choice).
Lots of vehicles on the roads – if the virus is so dangerous, why are people allowed to travel round the country, and to go to work?
Finnair flies Helsinki to London at 8am and 4pm – there used to be around five flights/day on that route. British Airways stopped flying to Finland in March 2020.
I don’t think people are taking this situation seriously enough, or perhaps I have grown paranoid, but all I see now is that the ‘Dystopian Future’ has already arrived, and the screws will only be tightened. I had hoped I was wrong, but I can’t see things going back to pre-March 2020. I have never been a ‘conspiracy theorist’ but have been labelled as such on a UK discussion forum for canal/inland waterways boaters because I have an alternative view and question the narrative. As has been pointed out, many of these so-called ‘conspiracy theories’ have turned out to be true – just look around you!
I haven’t applied for the ‘vaccine’ yet, but as it may be a requirement for travel – and everything else! – how long can I hold out for? For how long will the ‘authorities’ allow the ‘vaccine hesitant’ to resist?
I’m glad you at least are alert to the fact that this is never going to return to normal.
Good phrasing. 👍
No they are not. America is definitely wide awake to Fauci, Obama and the Clintons. They are also running after the Biden family and the CCP. It seems if you watch the mainstream the globalists will destroy the UK by using the idiots who are prepared to kow to health scares.
It seems foolish to me that so many people are rushing to get away.. The govt obviously did this on purpose to further discourage travel abroad. They only have 9 more years until 2030 after all. You are obviously taking a risk trying to push on with a holiday abroad under these circunstances. The rules of the game are constantly changing.
Going away right now doesn’t appeal to me much, but I have a nice garden and a nice house and live in a nice town. Not everyone is as lucky as I am. Who are we to say that people should not try to travel if that’s their passion?
To be honest why WOULD you try and rush back to Boristan and his COVID mutaween?
Well, if you’ve got stuff to do in the UK sooner or later, I guess you would have to.
“work online”….
Not everyone can work online though.
agreed, hence the inverted commas….but it’s a thought…
I could go anywhere and work but the issue is how easy it would be to get back to see close friends and family. I don’t have many left, but those that are left are dear to me and awful as things are here, I don’t want to be cut off from them. There are few countries that you can rely on, anyway. Portugal might have better weather but I think they have outdoor face nappy rules so not sure if it’s that much more appealing than here.
There are few offices left open or in existence where you can deal with matters such as Social Security / Unemployment Benefit. Even banks have disappeared, with so much having been shifted ‘on-line’.
How many older people can use a computer? I’m 60 now, and was lucky that when I was 46-47 I attended a college where another man on my course was ‘computer-fluent’ and helped me to get some idea what it is all about.
How many people really understand their computer and all the programmes within it, how they all work? Computer maintenance? And where to take it for repair?
And how many people can afford a new computer when their current machine stops working – which could be any moment!
Computers and the Internet have changed the world, and much good came of this (e-mails, just one example) – but computers are now being used to control you down to every minute detail, and I think the fun is, in many arenas, turning into a nightmare.
Yeah, I would stay in Portugal and try to claim refugee status. On that matter the lord alone knows why so many people are still trying to get into hmp Britain On dingys. Anybody insane enough to actually be trying to get into this madhouse of a country should be sectioned in my view.
If I was going to claim asylum, it would be in Florida. The heat and humidity would be horrible, but at least there’s no face masks, vaccine coercion, etc, etc.
Quite so. I am going to the Lakes later this year (assuming that remains possible), but there is, for many – including me, something of a tonic associated with going to other cultures – with better weather too (roll on the promised global warming that keeps failing to arrive!).
You need to live your life. No one has the right to stop you moving around your own country. If more of us just quietly ignored this bloody government they couldn’t keep gaslighting us. They really are laughing all the way to the globalist bank at what they have brought us to.
How can you ignore the Police who come over and grab you and fine you for ‘breaking Covid rules’?
How can you ignore the neighbours that snitch on you to the Police or local council?
How can you ignore ‘the authorities’ from reading what you post on the Internet and deciding what the best ‘fate’ or punishment for you should be?
It’s a good job you like your house, garden and town because when the powers that be have finished they see the only places you will be able to go.
In Soviet Russia they first started taking middle class business, then their wealth, then their homes. Looks like the Conservatives under Johnson have achieved the first step, soon it will be the second. So enjoy your home whilst you can, no doubt those who own our homes are about to be punished for it.
And interest rates are going up, so if you have a debt (known as a mortgage) and haven’t paid for your home in full, you’re going to have to find some more money for that.
And what happens if your house/home is next to houses/homes of ‘unvaccinated’ people – will the value drop?
Assuming they haven’t stolen it from you.
People should be rushing away and not coming back to this country. Trouble is but where to go – Russia looks attractive and positively liberal compared to U.K. I wonder if I can claim refugee status there?
People in the UK have family abroad, people living abroad have family in the UK. Travel abroad is not just about having a holiday in the sun.
This restriction on travel, with the private ‘testing station’ companies raking it in with their extortionate fees (and I bet they don’t even test, perhaps they just pull slips of paper with negative/positive written on them out of a hat??!!), has really just put everyone in a prison of their own country.
Yes, you may travel around in your own country, giving the illusion of ‘freedom’ (until there’s another lockdown, of course) – but try leaving your country.
It reminds me of the Germans during WW2 who, despite hearing the screams coming from the nearby ‘camp’, and seeing the smoke belching out of the chimney and the ashes raining down, pretended to believe they knew nothing about it.
Pitting the ‘vaccinated’ against ‘the unvaccinated’ is another Holocaust – and it is here, right now, and thoroughly evil.
I travelled 2 hrs 30 mins to see ‘friend’ and after eating we settled down with a drink. The discussion turned to the dreaded Convid and then the vax, she asked if I had received it. I said that I hadn’t as I had concerns, she said that I was putting her and her family at risk and wanted me to go!. This is what is happening with the idiotic brain washing and jab worship. I damn well hate this country now and most people in it, present company excepted.
It’s difficult to not be able to be yourself, but with ‘friends’ and acquaintances I say, yes I’m fully immunised, and then say I don’t want to talk about WuFlu. It’s not a lie, I believe I am fully immunised by my own system. It’s none of their business and at least you don’t have to fall out with everybody. They’ll never know and friendships can remain intact until they can’t!
Goodness, time the British start ignoring the idiots in government.
Problem is, from my limited survey, the “checkers” are really quite assiduous and the fine for non compliance is hefty.
The fine for what?
I though all fines under the covid rules are illegal. Isn’t that why there aren’t any successful court prosecutions?
If only we could. There is an old but true saying: You may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you. To whit, they are out to get you no matter how much you try to ignore them and peacefully get on with your life.
Problem is, Liewe, that for every idiot in government, there’s 50,000(at least) idiots amongst the Great British public.
I’ve got plenty in my own family; met my BIL for the first time yesterday after over 5 months and one of the first things he said was:”Well, we will have to see on the 14th of June, what the government will allow us to do on the 21st”; this is from a man who will be 70 in July, has had Covid and has had his 2 jabs!!!
PS: Yes, he’s always been a total pratt, unlike (thankfully) his sister.
People like him would stop breathing if the government told them to.
I wish
He sounds like a bundle of fun.. a real rebel.. ha ha..
One of the most boring men I have ever met and I’ve met a few in my 72 years.
No accounting for love!
Oh dear
Sheeple gonna be sheeple, zero sympathy for the cowards scurrying home here.
Yes, but some of them might be normal decent humans who had just hoped for a bit of freedom. Admittedly it will mostly be sheeple, though!
The Normie’s will still be sat on the beach soaking up the sun !
yes, if you are there, just extend the holiday and drink some nice Portugese wine….and when you finally come home, make sure you have a nice tan and brought some wine home to remind you of a place that was better than Boristan.
Is it better though, other than the weather? Police in most of continental Europe are keener than ours in enforcing whatever stupid rules exist at any given time.
It’s possible if not likely that if you stay, you may find you can never come home.
The direction of travel is to eliminate travel for the plebs.
What is there to actually enforce the 10 day quarrantine?
I think the idea is that they phone you and ask where you are. I’ve no idea what % if any of people get called. No-one I know has been called, but it’s a small sample size.
Thanks, the other question is about getting food, either:
A) in quarrantine, you’re not allowed to go out to get food which must be illegal because it’s against your basic human rights.
B) in quarrantine, you are allowed to go out to get food, which means you’re not really in quarrantine!
Basic human rights are suspended. You are not meant to shop. You are meant to get it delivered or have friends or neighbours or local support network bring you stuff. Some people I know have stuck to this, others have shopped and walked around but otherwise minimised contact, and others have ignored it completely.
Basic human rights are suspended? Hahaha! I’d like to see that backed up in law!
And if it is legal, then it means those human rights never actually meant anything at all.
Well my belief is that the Statutory Instruments attached to the Public Health Act 1984 being used for this purpose are unconstitutional but the courts disagreed. Ultimately the last line of defence is an uprising of the people but that hasn’t happened. I think if you could show that you were not able to get help with shopping then you’d probably get let off.
They phoned me, asked my DOB, couldn’t prove who they were so the inquisition went no further. Missed calls most days as phone only rings 2-3 times and I’m busy tidying my sock drawer…..
My wife and I are quarantining at the moment (we don’t agree with it but we live in France and this is the first opportunity we have had to visit family in the U.K. in over a year).
We have had phone calls (to my mobile) most days – the first of which I answered but the caller was unable to prove who they were. After going round in circles for several minutes – with me very politely declining to answer their DOB question until they proved who they were – they disconnected.
After that first call, my phone rings most days but stops after 2-3 rings so I have been unable to get there in time to answer it.
We had one visit (on day 3) from a nice chap who claimed to be from the Covid checkers.
He said: “I’m looking for Mr X”
I replied: “that’s me”.
“Ok, bye” he said and left…. no ID check, nothing. Next time the dog is going to answer the door.
We are in a rural area – your experience may vary…..
Mitie – another private company given a lucrative contract. Mitie and its band of ‘Covid Marshalls’. If you must sneak out to the shops, leave your tracker (mobile phone) at home, and if they ask why you didn’t answer your phone or open the door, tell them you were sleeping.
East Germany all over again. Oh, don’t forget your lovely neighbours snitching on you!
If I wanted to read the Daily Mail you know what I’d do?
At least BTL on this site when a news story is linked it comes with some opinion or comment. ATLs standard seems to be “look, something happened”
The Daily Mail may have for its comments section this: ‘The comments below have not been moderated.’
This does not mean many haven’t been outright deleted! And it’s obvious many have been censored, as there are replies to remarks that don’t exist.
The comments section of the Dimwit Mail can provide a few laughs, that’s about all the rag is good for.
Now that’s a nudge and a half for young people to try and be bamboozled into risky jabbing groupthink.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-vax-appeal-dating-apps-uk.html
I wonder who’s paying these apps to do this?
Friend’s daughter declined a date with a young mask wearing zealot. Well done!
My younger daughter is delighted. She said she won’t have to filter out so many idiots.
God. The utter, utter bastards.
…and they sit in their ivory towers earring a full salary (and more) and create misery for people especially extra costs for all these silly tests and changing flights etc
salaries which we pay for
Test kits at £200/pop – plastic tat Made in China that don’t even work – all going into landfill. Where are the environmentalists’ protests about this? Where is their hero, the Little Goblin of Doom?
Part of the on-going Government psy-op. Helps the push to coerce the unawakened into the jab, jab-passports, the chip, digital ID and the NWO.
Maybe not. The unvaccinated will be looking at this debacle and thinking it’s not worth it, with international travel of the menu, masks and anti-social distancing still required. What’s the point?
The rest of us are sitting here thinking: we could have told you…
Madness – complete and utter insanity beyond all belief and to think these very same people now scrambling to get back to the UK have probably had all their jabs because the jokers running this country said they should and that everything would back to normal if they did.
You know, I’m no fan of the Labour Party (the last time I voted for them was in 1997) but if Labour had even a half-decent leader (ie someone who actually opposes) then the Tories would be in very big trouble right now.
Well, the Tories are in trouble with the bedwetters for not locking down enough, and in trouble with the sceptics for locking down too much. The best we could have hoped for was an opposition that fought to preserve freedom, but that obviously didn’t happen. I don’t see too many clouds on the horizon for the Tories. Perhaps if the economy tanks. But if they do lose the next election whatever comes would probably be worse.
It was never a possibility. The perpetrators of the global covid crime either recruited Starmer & others years ago or buttered him up once it looked like he’d replace Jezza.
Starmer is I believe the only parliamentarian who is on the Trilateral Commission.
I suppose this was inevitable. The Sixth of June was the start of D-Day, but I suspect that “Churchill” Johnson has his wires crossed over Dunkirk, and the locale being Portugal rather than France. Totally arse about face, but nothing new from General Chaos.
Courts-martial all round, with firing squads in readiness.
I’m currently in Portugal, going back to UK on Friday so I’ll post my experience. I arrived Saturday and the airport arrivals was quiet, I expect the departures had been busy earlier in the day. I am travelling in the country, not heard any English. The people themselves are very compliant wearing the masks, God knows why but it probably reflects their society. They had military rule up until the 70’s. No alcohol after 9pm. Otherwise life seems normal. I’m retired so isolation is my preferred status as I find interacting with steeple very annoying.
Hahahahahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣the stupid sheeple. How many times will they have to be gaslighted before they wake up to the truth. There is no covid. Just a scam to steal wealth and depopulate.
As an unvaccinated person, I am now beginning to fear those who will blindly do as they are told, who may take our country over the cliff to hell.
Anyone fancy an axe-throwing holiday in St. Ives this week?
What evil, manipulative knobs we have running this country. God help us as I see little hope of change.
Good
Th obedient pets of the Branch Covidians need to suffer