Reports suggest that more countries could be added to the Government’s “Green List” later this week, which would allow unvaccinated Brits to holiday abroad without needing to quarantine when back in the U.K. The MailOnline has the story.
Italy, Austria and Germany are among the potential destinations that appear to pose a low enough risk to be downgraded in a review due on Thursday.
The move could make life easier for Brits who are desperate to get away, but have yet to receive both doses.
People who are double-jabbed are due to be exempted from having to self-isolate on return to “Amber List” countries from “Freedom Day” next Monday.
But they will have to prove they are fully vaccinated, and there fears of huge delays as the rules are eased. …
Meanwhile, Britons will still need to consider the restrictions that are being imposed by other countries – with many trying to stop the Delta – or Indian – variant being imported from the U.K. …
Experts have predicted that a dozen more countries could be added to the Green List – where vaccine status is not an issue for the restrictions in England – in a review on Thursday.
Former BA strategist Robert Boyle told the Telegraph that Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Canada, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Taiwan now meet the criteria for the loosest controls.
That would bring the total on the Green List to 39, with any changes expected to take effect from next week. …
Under the new arrangements, travellers will still be required to fill out a passenger locator form with details of their home address.
They will also need to confirm they have booked a day two PCR coronavirus test. Border Force agents must insect [sic] the documents for passengers at passport control. However, airlines will be responsible for checking vaccination status.
Border officers have warned that the huge rise in bookings since the loosening was announced will mean long queues.
Before Covid, three-quarters of people who passed through the U.K.’s border did not require any documentation checks other than verifying that their identity matched their passport.
Lucy Moreton, Professional Officer for the ISU Immigration Union, representing frontline border staff, told the Times: “This decision will open up foreign travel to a large number of new travellers. But we are not set up to cope with that sort of demand.
“There is no way that the border can maintain that level of checks as the number of travellers increase.
“We’ve got away with it so far because the number of travellers are so low. But even at this point we’re seeing queues of one to two hours.
“From the number of bookings we’ve seen already, we’ll easily see three, four-hour queues when people start returning from their holidays.”
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LOL – don’t those countries require the
savvy un-brainwashedun-vaxxed to quarantine on arrival?amber countries are already green for the duped vaxxed
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Are we supposed to be grateful?
The very existence of a list at all is a totalitarian travesty – an admission that reason, experience and liberty went out of the window in March 2020.
Just in time for MPs to visit their Tuscan villas.
> Just a coincidence.
Surely there must have been easier ways to kill the travel industry
Yes – but not without admitting that that was one of the goals!
I’m just stunned they have gone along with it.
The creatures at the top will have been told that they’ll be taken care of.
And nobody else matters.
Yes, with a few honourable exceptions such as Offlands who posted here from early on, hard to have much sympathy with the owners and managers of an industry who have so pathetically connived at their own demise.
There is no way that the border can maintain that level of checks as the number of travellers increase.
hmmm…so how will they cope then when everybody has some kind of ‘health passport’?
I’m flying to the UK soon from an amber list country. Apparently the airline I’m using doesn’t require a PCR test, BUT to enter the UK you do need one. However, as a British citizen, I have a right to enter and the airline can not legally deny me boarding though I imagine they would still try? The PCR requirement is set by the British government, so it would only apply at the border and I can not be turned around as a resident. I’ll probably still end up getting the damn PCR because I don’t want the hassle at Heathrow, but that’s the only thing I’m doing – I won’t get any second, third or any more tests after that and I won’t be self-isolating.
Not that I go out much anyway, so it’s not a huge difference to someone like me that spends endless hours at a desk, but I still won’t be staying in for 10 days straight. I’m done with all this crap.
I have asked myself the same question. Assuming you can get yourself to the border, I really wonder what happens when you refuse to be tested. What happens next? It would be worth speaking with a lawyer and determining what you have to say and to whom to stand your ground.
I really hope you try it and keep us all posted.
Unfortunately they are supposed to check you have already arranged and paid for day 2 and 8 tests at airline check in and again at border control. Of course there is absolutely nothing to stop you not taking the tests after entry unless you believe there are enough resources to check you have, especially as you forgot to spell your address correctly. But its the extra expense of the tests that they are counting on detering a lot of people ( and false positives of course).
I may get the initial test for ease of entry, but I will be refusing any followup tests.
Unfortunately for you, the government fines airlines £2000 per undocumented arrival. So unless alles ist in Ordnung, they won’t board you at the APOE. Sorry. Yes, you have a right of entry to the country, but you have no entitlement to fly. Best way to exercise your right would be to get someone to bring you over on a rubber boat.
Well I’ve already gone through the motions last year (undocumented) and wasn’t stopped, though I did fill out the form I never submitted it in any digital format. No one asked for the physical papers. I also exited without my papers being checked properly (a brief glance sufficed, it would seem).
Also I have no right to remain at my point of boarding (visa expiry), so I highly expect local laws will trump any concern about ‘entitlement to fly’ nonsense. I’ve done this before in the past under different circumstances (travelling from a visa-free zone to another visa-free zone without an onward ticket), all they make you do is sign a legal waiver holding you liable for costs incurred should you be denied entry.
Last year was easier, much easier. Good luck!
Yeah I flew a total of five times last year, it was pretty chill – for the most part. Entering the UK after the first lockdown was quite bizarre, like stepping into a foreign land from the soviet era. It was not the country I left behind.
Actually my most recent departure from the UK was this year, and despite the airport feeling like a prison camp, it was relatively easy and ‘papers’ weren’t examined in detail. Maybe I just got lucky.
Why doesn’t it fine the UK and French Border Farce 2000 per gimmigrant transported across the channel?
You need to put the booking reference of the tests on your passenger locator form. Be careful playing with these rules, you dont want be getting big fines for the sake of taking a test.
Getting a booking reference is easy if you have the know-how.
Not scared of ‘big fines’, or the UK government. I’m not their pawn anymore and I’m done with this charade.
“OK I’ll accede to just one more ritual humiliation, but this one is absolutely, definitely the last one.” [Repeat ad infinitum]
Easy to say from the comfort of home with no obligations or threats to your person. Not so easy in parts of the world where there are no legal exemptions at all.
Please don’t get the damn PCR, what are they going to make you do, live in the airport like Tom Hanks in Terminal? Asymptomatic medical screening is not a requisite of a British citizen being allowed to re-enter the UK. We need more people to stand up to this nonsense.
I’ve considered producing a fake (for UK arrival) that’d probably pass, but I doubt I can make one that will pass the check-in staff. So it depends if they make some kind of note to the cabin crew which could be passed onto UK border staff. That’s the situation I’d like to avoid if possible.
Funnily enough I have previously worked as both cabin crew and for Border Force and I can ensure you that absolutely nothing if the sort happens. They’d probably tie themselves in knots over data protection if nothing else.
What’s the name of the airline?
Meh
R-value just dropped below 1 for the first time since 21st May (Zoe App)
job done
lol
the hyper-infectious delta variant where you can’t even infect the people you live with
when i was in my late teens I made spread sheets to model how much money my various genius business ideas would make me over time
to become a multi-millionaire more quickly i just had to alter the variables – it was as simple as that – brilliant really
I’m pretty sure the country lists are mostly a trade negotiation tool and only superficially have anything to do with “health”.
Definitely. Let’s see if Italy now lifts its quarantine rules for UK travellers.
‘…could be added to green list this week’.
There again they could not be added and no one would be surprised.
All part of the information behavioural psychology to keep the citizens in a constant state of confusion, hopes raised then let down so one doesnt know what to believe anymore, a classic regime tactic.
If they are added, you can guarantee they’ll be reassessed and placed back on the amber list at the earliest whim of the gaslighting knobs in government. All aided and abetted by the gaslighting knobs in the ‘opposition’.
Currently we are looking at a trip via UK and Mexico to get into Florida in October. France is stopping all nonvaxed getting on planes to anywhere other than green listed. US is green listed but is refusing all tourists from schengen ( and uk/ireland plus 6 others).
But France cannot and has acknowledge such, that it cannot stop nationals going back to country of origin ( UK in our case). Then 3 hours after landing at Heathrow we board flight to Mexico ( UK not stopping transits), just has to be different ticket, not a through ticket or France would stop boarding. After 14 days in Mexico we fly to Tampa. Direct flight back to France because US is French green list.
Extra costs, French PCR test is free, but will have to prebook at least one in UK ( not used) , Mexico doesn’t need one, US happy with cheap quickie antigen from Mexico. Antigen back for France. Airline tickets cost a bit more than direct, but that much, the big extra cost is the 14 day stay in Mexico to meet US requirements for length of time required outside schengen.
But we WILL do it , partly because we just want to ‘live free’ for a bit, partly to meet our son in Denver, and partly to ‘stick it up’ their rectums.
We know we are very lucky to be in a position to contemplate this and afford it. But you can’t take it with you….
you managed to get holiday insurance for that lot?
This doesn’t sound to me like a plan that is to be executed by someone I’d call “lucky”. Part genuis, part farce, but since it involves tests and masks I’d still say you’re playing into it.
I wonder how many people who are holidaying abroad at the moment are teachers? I ask because my nephew has just been told he won’t be returning to school for the remainder of this term.
Apparently there’s no teachers to teach him, and that’s that. I would be lifting the roof off and threatening legal action.
Incredible …
exactly – now go get your toxic but free experimental jab – and it will be much cheaper
please note – this is definitely not coercion
‘Fully vaccinated’ as in if you die of Covid this winter 50% of you will have been fully vaccinated.
This is some new definition of ‘vaccine’ unlike the one used by the US Patent Office to refuse an application by Fauci for the mRNA treatments on the grounds that it didn’t prevent infection taking hold.
Would you have vaccinated your children against MMR if you were told that it only worked in 50% of children? Or would you have demanded a proper vaccine that protected 100%?
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