Reports suggest that the Government is considering demoting both Spain and Greece to the “Amber Plus” List alongside France due to fears over Covid variants, a decision that could ruin the holiday plans of millions of Brits – and not for the first time. MailOnline has the story.
The list effectively strips back ‘Freedom Day’ rules, which allow [fully vaccinated] holidaymakers to return from “Amber List” countries without having to face a mandatory period of self-isolation.
But, just days before the new rules were to be announced, the Government threw tens of thousands of holidays into doubt by revealing that double-jabbed Britons returning from France would still have to quarantine.
Now Greece and Spain, both of which are currently on the Amber List, could follow France onto the so-called Amber Plus List.
But, according to figures released by Labour, that could leave an estimated 5,857,558 people facing the prospect of last-minute quarantine requirements – plunging the holidays into “chaos once more”.
The Government introduced an exemption for the requirement to isolate at home for 10 days for fully-vaccinated holidaymakers returning from countries on the amber list.
But ministers removed the exemption for France amid concerns over the Beta variant, creating what critics call an Amber Plus designation on the traffic light system for foreign travel.
There has been speculation that Greece and Spain could face the same measures as France, though the Government has not confirmed this. …
The opposition estimated the number of people to have booked holidays to those three nations by looking at official data for past travel and adjusting for lower willingness to travel during the pandemic by comparing with surveys.
A Department for Transport spokesman said: “The travel list allocations have not changed for Spain or Greece.
“We are closely monitoring the data and will take swift action on travel list allocations and international travel requirements should the data show that countries’ risk to England has changed.”
It comes as holidaymakers faced up to three-hour queues through passport control at Heathrow Airport yesterday after e-gates broke down and the ‘pingdemic’ left just one official at the desks, according to frustrated passengers.
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Then those who live in local tourist hotspots in the UK complaine that they are getting ruined nad over croweded. Why are they supprised when you cannot book a vacation outside teh Uk with certanty that you can go. Better stay “at home” and ensure you have some sort of down time
Yes – but don’t blame the other victim.
This government has screwed up everybody’s lives.
Nasty Tories backed up by your beloved commie cunts
I never blamed anyone.
The UK tourism is like that every year before covid.
The places people actually want to go to are booked out a year ahead, incredibly expensive and usually of very low quality.
I’d rather go abroad, have better quality, for less money and have far less chance of the entire trip being ruined by the weather.
Going abroad is no better quality than UK. Often it’s cheaper because the mainland continent doesn’t insist on minimum wage and safety standards. There is also the factor of sun, sandy beaches and the package that includes a hotel. If you take city holidays they are often equal in cost to coming to London. Specially Rome and Paris.
We do not go on package holidays that sit on a beach because that’s not our thing. We go further afield to the wider world and we see the poorer countries are indeed cheaper to be in than Europe. The flight is the most expensive outlay. However, NZ or Australia are very expensive. China is very expensive in the Cities but out in the hinterland where poverty is rife and people live very very frugal lives it is much cheaper.
The UK honours the minimum wage and safety standards which always makes UK one of the more expensive places to visit but no more expensive than America or Canada or any other country where the standards of living are high. Do not also forget that we are an island in the northern climate and to that end you must tailor your holiday accordingly. I think you do a serious disservice to your country.
When is the penny finally going to drop that this has absolutely sod all to do with a virus or any variant of said virus. This is 100% about preventing people from travelling – especially by air. This in turn is part of the so called climate change agenda which is nothing more than another invented scare story to justify complete removal of personal freedom for all but the Global elite. This is so glaringly obvious and has been since the start of this charade.
I have been saying the same for over 12 months and yet even on here we have people debating lockdowns – good / bad, the latest restrictions, scariants, and similar carp.
The reality is that this is the Reset, this is all about control.
Nothing, absolutely nothing currently enacted by government has anything to do with C1984. Every intervention, restriction, NPI has been introduced to kill and make poorly.
In The Mail today Sunak announces the coming digital currency.
We are Screwed.
Yes and Boris new points for healthy eating and walking to work. The social credit system to piggy back onto your health pass.
Everything we warned about is playing out in real-time.
David Icke hit the nail on the head thirty years ago. All the bought and paid for media did was focus on Lizard people as though they were little green men. They didn’t ask questions they just did as they were told and are still doing as they are told. Lizards meant slinking around in the undergrowth until they could bask in the sun. He couldn’t name names because he knew the danger.
Had he not been so silly as to mention shape shifting lizards he might have been more credible.
Other counties are considering digital currency. So he is either just being a sheep and following others. Or keeping the B0E and the city ahead of the game.
You choose.
Every single thing is in lockstep with the World Bankers and Globalists
ironically, my social life has been better since 23/03/2020
So has ours because we didn’t follow lockdown and saw our friends and families regardless. Some friends we have lost but the new friends we have made are intelligent, lively and engaging. We have a wider mix of friends too. However we turned our tv off around ten years ago because we couldn’t stand the poor quality of programming. Our lives became our own at that point and our thoughts, opinions and ideas also started to shift away from the mainstream. We questioned more and we did our own research on everything from health, holidays, politics, and we found our Institutions were left wanting. We also found our travels were more exciting outside Europe giving us a wider experience and more knowledge of humanity.
1984, fiction? Fact!
I’m old enough to remember when foreign travel was a rare privilege. My parents, in the 1960s, saved for years to afford a ten-day holiday in Switzerland – travelling by rail and staying in the lowliest hotels. It was the thrill of a lifetime.
Cheap foreign travel is great (sometimes), but it isn’t a divine right, or a necessity of life. Other freedoms count for more. The freedom to be human, for example.
I agree. The advent of the cheerful package holiday has actually done more harm than good. Most of us enjoy travelling and seeing other cultures but nowadays many go on a holiday that provides basic food, sun and sea. Not a real adventure at all. Just a break from a stressful life caused more often than not by politicians and their policies.
Many of us knew this from the very beginning. We looked at America where the Globalists tend to reside and we noticed their hatred towards a truly conservative President. We also noticed that people like Fauci and Gates were talking of a pandemic in 2016 during President Trump’s campaign and then the psyop of the Russia hoax. We started to put two and two together. Theresa May’s Florence speech where she effectively told Brussels the UK would never leave their orbit. Then the snub of an American President which was unprecedented in the UK.
every single move by the Globalists since then showed that the West was in their control. Anyone who reads history saw the signs with Blair and Bush and Iraq, then Blair altering the treason act and protecting politicians but throwing the military to the wolves. Unfortunately most folk want a quiet life of bread and circuses. They don’t do research and they don’t ask questions. The mania for football, Love Island and sloppy broadcasting shows the depths reached.
we have ourselves to blame for trusting the devil and allowing his followers into government. Unless we make the decision to clean up the decadence and remove the canker we will be lost. We have a choice. I wonder how many people will turn away from choosing.
Meanwhile @ GB New- cost of covid – taxpayers face significant financial risks for decades… the scum criminals get away with it whilst our grandkids pay for the reset. Or, cancel all debt and bring in digital currency…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9821855/Rishi-Sunak-plans-replace-cash-official-digital-currency.html
The Britcoin revolution! Rishi Sunak plans to introduce official digital currency to rival cash in ‘biggest upheaval in the monetary system for centuries’
But it’s just a conspiracy theory, right?
If they control the supply (inflate by printing more) it is worthless. There is one already a decentralised sounding very similar to Britcoin…
Fixed supply and separates State from Money.
There are a couple other ones to look into. Bitcoin is traceable, so bannable.
They are controlling your labour and stealing your money to keep themselves in luxury. They are creating a communist state. I do not know whether Western governments will handle it well. They make so many mistakes. Worse than this I do not know whether Western citizens will be so easily subjugated when they know they work solely for the State. It’s different in Communist countries because the people have been used to poverty, no choices, humble living, not much food and basic medicines for generations. We haven’t so I think it will mean, yet again, that many will be murdered to suppress the free will of the rest.
The welfare state is concerned with the welfare of Globalists.
Digital currency which means they totally control our labour and the fruits of that labour. Anyone who has been fortunate enough to visit parts of China that are usually out of tourist boundaries, will know the terribly humble and poor lives the majority of Chinese people live. They have very little nourishment, tiny tiny houses with no running water or sanitary facilities. These people’s faces are kept from the world. Their disabled are shut up behind closed doors or even done away with.
For those ignorant enough to think digital currency is the way to go will find the consequences very difficult to live with. Most of us will own nothing. Will have very little buying power. Will not move from our tiny homes and our tiny communities.
We visited our Chinese side of the family in a remote area. They were very happy and excited to see us. We had to get very special dispensation to visit that area. When we arrived I was appalled at the poverty. The grubbiness of their lives. They were beautiful people who couldn’t stop touching us and hugging us. My daughter in law translated for us all and the stories were so interesting. They were happy that they were alive. They had great fear about moving outside their villages. They were indeed very content within their small world and their needs were simple, basic needs that gave great humility. My daughter in law said that her immediate family had moved to Hong Kong many years ago through fear. Her life had become so much more than just surviving and her heart wept for the family who stayed behind.
Why not go after the criminals? No-one seems interested in this approach!
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This is just to dissuade anyone from booking a holiday to anywhere abroad. It’s a psychological operation.
Meanwhile:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr9bmZ-yMjA
Blue pill or Red pill?
That Australian chick: “We want to make absolutely sure…”
Same patronizing, nauseating script as BJ et al.
Double vaxxed. Free as air.
Ha ha.
I know. This vax thing is working out well, isn’t it?
Not that I have any personal desire to put myself through any of these pointless obedience training measures in order to spend 10 days on a beach but if I did, I wouldn’t bother quarantining on the return.
I found some 12 person sailboats online that you can get for 60 to 300k. Split that with a couple other families, get a loan, and moor it in sone cheap bay and go where you want anytime you want to. Maybe sail off and never come back.
Holidays already ruined for me, and anyone who doesn’t want to get tested and wonder if you’re going to get the whole thing cancelled because of some arbitrary edict from one government or the other.
I know people like to get away, and some have property or relatives to see, but holidays are meant to be relaxing. I just don’t see the appeal right now. That said, I guess those that are going are showing there’s still an appetite for it.
So, Labour demonstrate their amazing grasp on numbers by estimating 5,857,558 people might end up facing unexpected quarantine. Sorry, Kier, it is actually 5,857,559!
I’ve just come back from one of those. No real issue.
On arrival a nice lady shoved a stick up one nostril and took 60 seconds of my time and that was it.
Before coming home the local government arranged for a different lady to shove a stick up my nose.
All in all the inconvenience amounted to 10 mins out of my 2 weeks so not an issue at all.
You are not a sceptic then. You’d be happy to have any pointless intrusive or humiliating test cos its only 10mins out of my 2 weeks.
Its better than living a life of utter misery trapped in the UK.
Ive had far more humiliating procedures when entering or exiting a country.
its not utter misery living here, get a grip!
What humiliating procedures?
Yes it is.
One of the most depressing climates on the planet, some of the most oppressive governments in terms of policy, its expensive, its filthy, the people are generally unpleasant.
A few mins of slight inconvenience is worth it to escape.
No it isn’t. There are plenty of worse governments (even though that means worse than very, very bad), we are having a summery summer, the country is not filthy, and a lot of the people I’m meeting through my job are decent, even if it’s from under the muzzle – which increasingly is being discarded, even here in Gulag Wales.
If you want to make yourself miserable, feel free, however. Imagine yourself in Australia and make yourself even miserabler.
“the country is not filthy”
You’ve missed all the rubbish thrown in the hedgerows and beside the roads then. Never mind all the discarded face masks. Ever been to a Traveller’s site just after they’ve cleared off?
This is not about covid – they want to stop people travelling to meet their climate change targets – we voted Conservative and we got Extinction Rebellion instead – for some of us travel is not just for holidays but also to visit family – parts of my family I usually see twice a year I haven’t seen for over two years now.
This is an evil and wicked govenment.
You can say that again.
Just got back from Anglesey which wasn’t too bad. Not many people buying into the crap though a lot of places struggling for staff due to pinging.
The funniest moment was a trip to Portmerion where they filmed the Prisoner in the 60s. They sell T shirts with the following printed on….
“ I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered.
My life is my own. “
Wonderfully prescient for a batshit crazy TV programme from 50 years ago!
They were flying off the shelves….
“due to fears”
quite fearful aren’t they – them “vaccines” not work then?
Anyone stupid enough to have booked a foreign holiday whilst this government is in control needs their heads examined. This is probably the third time they have gaslighted the British people and still millions don’t see what’s happening to them.
The first time is an acceptable mistake, the second time you believe the treachery then you need to question why you do but beyond that you have to accept you are playing into their hands by your own stupidity. Until we, the people, stop doing what they dictate and start living our lives instead fearing death, we will be zombies in their scheme of control.
Booking a holiday abroad?
Roll up, roll up and get a free spin on the Holiday Wheel of Fortune game, folks.
Bet to see when your green holiday will be changed to amber or amber plus, courtesy of the quiz masters gov.uk.
Lots of booby prizes guaranteed.
Roll up, roll up. Get spinning.
I’m on a Greek island right now, where we have precisely ZERO Covid cases. You can’t lump the islands in with Athens or Thessaloniki, it makes no sense at all. Though when did this Johnson government do anything remotely sensible? I loathe them more every passing day. Destroyers of lives, businesses and our whole way of life. I have my own little home out here and I have no intentions of flying back to the UK and playing their ridiculous quarantine games. I’ll sit it out here in the sunshine where Covid is a mere background nuisance, not the be all and end all.