Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has doubled down on his claim that Brits must get vaccinated against Covid “if they want to travel internationally again”. On Thursday, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that needing proof of vaccination to travel abroad “is a reality… in this new world”.
He said that “double vaccination” will be “a feature for evermore”, but seemed to correct himself by following the words “double vaccination” with “full vaccination”. Is this a hint that the ability to travel abroad will, further down the line, be contingent on booster shots too? The Guardian has more.
Grant Shapps predicted people would be required to prove they had been fully vaccinated for some time to come, telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It is a reality that in this new world, we’re living with coronavirus… I think double vaccination or full vaccination is going to be a feature for evermore, and probably all countries will require full vaccination for you to enter.”
He said in an ideal world ministers would not have to impose quarantine restrictions or demand people pay money for multiple, expensive tests, but said the current system was likely to remain in place after summer.
That was because the threat of vaccine escape – meaning a variant emerging that current vaccines are less effective against – was the big worry on ministers’ minds, Shapps said.
“It would be irresponsible for us not, therefore, to be testing people when they do travel before they leave and when they get back – that’s how you can guard against the next big variant that none of us know about yet,” he said.
“So I think we’ll have to settle down into knowing that this will happen, but as the world opens up and international rules are adopted for travel, which will certainly include full vaccination, I think things will will start to become more routine for people who travel.”
Shapps said quarantine restrictions did not block the importation of variants completely, but said slowing down their arrival was helpful. …
Shapps defended having singled out France as the only Amber List country where travellers still had to quarantine for up to 10 days regardless of whether they had been fully vaccinated, after the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, had suggested it was partly due to the number of cases of the Beta variant in Réunion, a French overseas territory, thousands of miles away from mainland France.
He said there were “very close links” between Réunion and France, meaning high levels of the Beta variant on the island in the Indian Ocean had spilled over into the mainland’s north, but that these had since “descended”.
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“It is a reality that in this new world,..”
It is as if Mr Shapps has just arrived on earth and he is human #1 and all of human history never happened. Why is this a new world and on what basis? The total number of UK deaths last year was the worst in 10 years. 10 years! Not 100 years, or 200 years or 2,000 years, but 10! The world was made new with the industrial revolution which was a bottom up revolution, and now we are being pushed back into an authoritarian top down ‘new world’ which is actually the old world, only with electricity. I can see he had a fairly traditional education but obviously it was an incomplete education or maybe too much?
we need a new Secretary of State for Transport amongst other new ministers (including a new PM). How come Alok Sharma gets to visit 30 countries in 7 months with no quarantine, while the proles can’t even get to France without hassle and expense. Who paid for all his PCR and lateral flow tests air fares etc? Who told him not to quarantine? We really do need a campaign of mass civil disobedience, even a revolution to regain the freedoms that have been removed from us without our consent. Why should there e any restrictions at all either leaving or returning if we have been vaccinated? And if the vaccines are not effective, why have we not been told? It’s about time the proles told the dictatorship that is Sage and government just where to get off.
So you have to be double / fully vaccinated to travel abroad, because they’re worried about a variant escaping the vaccine?
Anyone else believing this contradictory crap?
Poor old Grant. Another politician with no science background? 50% of American are declining the experimental biologicals. Breakthrough cases are skyrocketing around the world. Injected individuals now in hospital and dying post jabs. What exactly is the point of a passport. It simply makes no sense. People please wake up.
Oh just fuck off Grant.
Not being prone to violence (there may mitigating circumstances when after five decades in medicine, a man who despite a privileged grammar school education obtained only 5 O Levels including a B in Woodwork, ow feels he is in a position to pontificate on scientific data. Whatever politic spectrum we feel represents us, whatever we voted on Brexit the current assembly of government politicians have more in common with a B grade comedy cast than trustworthy sensible individuals.
How long can we withstand the stupidity of these fools?
It makes my think that Guy Fawkes may have not been such a miscreant!
Shame this New World Order/Marxist power grab kicked off just after the weak kneeded Johnson got in on the back of Freedom votes, as it’s still nearly 3 years to the next election. God knows what will be left to vote on by then, if we’re even allowed to vote.
There needs to be one Leave equivalent party formed that will put electoral pressure on the very un-Conserevative party that is presently trampling on our liberties. With somebody of Farage’s stature leading it. Laurence Fox is going to struggle against the misinformation and censoring of Big Media and Big Tech.
What is “…this new world” or the oft cited ‘New Normal’ politicians are so keen to have us believe in?
They regurgitate it almost as a positive when, in reality, we can look forward to spiralling debt, inflation, fuel poverty, taxation and tyrannical green Net Zero policies requiring us all to spend at least £100,000 each on our homes to comply; under threat that a non compliant house we have paid for with hard earned cash is illegal to sell.
We’ll be required to carry identity papers masquerading as ‘vaccine’ passports. Services and day to day activities will be denied us unless we are up to date with the latest Gates funded non-vaccination for some mysterious condition no one ever heard of before.
The Untouchables i.e. those who refuse to comply with mandatory (but of course they are not mandatory) vaccinations will be forced to walk or cycle (assuming they can buy a bicycle) because they will be far too dangerous to allow on public transport and the mandated electric vehicles will be no more than a pipe dream for them.
They will, of course, be forced to live on a Universal Basic Income, and nothing else, as employment without… Read more »
It is my understanding that if you’re vaccinated you can get on a plane without needing a test, and yet the vaccinated could still be infected! On the other hand, the unvaccinated have to have a test to prove that they’re not infected? So potentially the unvaccinated and uninfected people get on the plane with infected people. Who is at risk? Great plan!!
Why would anyone want to travel in a closed environment with a group of doubly jabbed souls busily filling the air with their infected EVs while sanctimoniously believing they are uninfectious?
It is far safer to travel with un-jabbed people who have no symptoms, and take 12mg ivermectin daily for 4 days either side of your journey (at a cost of a couple of pounds) to prevent serious consequences of any infection.
The first airline to provide for the unvaccinated on this basis will make a fortune.
yes let us know what airlines and see you there ,no masks no injected mask wearing zombies , count me in .maybe special travel tours for just us
https://hugotalks.com/2021/08/05/this-is-worth-a-revisit-grant-shapps-alternative-personalities-dodgy/
this is interesting about Mr Shapps!
Is there anyone in this Government competent to sit the right way on a toilet?
Schapps, like his boss Johnson, is delusional and incapable of dealing with the real world.
Unfortunately the World is ill served by a great number of incumbent incompetent leaders, otherwise no pandemic would have been declared, the people conducting the biological warfare experiments would have been tried and jailed.
Unfortunately the sheeple keep voting incompetent bullies into office.
Vaccination for a virus that has never been isolated and a test to tell you that you have it that wasn’t designed for the purpose. It’s that simple.
Stop complying. Stop moaning. Start fighting. Don’t ever wear masks. “Exempt”. I always insist (politely) on others removing their masks for me (Hard of hearing) – they have to by law. See what’s happening in Australia. It’s coming here soon if we don’t stop it now. Don’t ever stop using problematic stores, services or businesses. Use them more often! Any problems – Complain directly to the manager in person (maskless of course) – then send letters to head office – don’t give in to negativity. FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. All the resources you need: https://www.LCAHub.org/
yea but no but yea he`s a twat.
Dear Mr Shapps, how many ‘variants’ of flu have their been, necessitating a new flu jab every year, yet still seeing flu deaths in the tens of thousands, and yet we don’t lock down or restrict movement for flu. Also, neither of the PCR or LFT tests can test for transmissibility. Do you see the utter idiocy of your position?
But yet again, if you have a worldwide virus there is NO JUSTIFICATION OR LOGIC for imposing vaccination, ESPECIALLY ONE WHICH DOESNT WORK on people for travel. There is equally no logical argument for quarantine or isolation. If someone is not sick they are not sick. It is not that you are preventing something coming onto your shores as it is already bloody there!
Presumably the nasty little shit is referring to Huxley’s dystopian “Brave New World”.
Judging by his ‘close links between Reunion and France, Schats has taken over the ignorant, pompous prick role in the Cabinet previously held by Wancock
A bit of intel on the charlatan that is Grant Shapps, and from around 2013…
https://hugotalks.com/2021/08/05/this-is-worth-a-revisit-grant-shapps-alternative-personalities-dodgy/
Update: Apologies to HelenaHancart, never saw the post below.
No probs. It’s good to spread info like this far and wide!
In other words we want to go on making money out the plebs until they finally give up travelling and then we move the money making scheme to localised travel. All the time quietly getting rid of the ‘useless eaters’.
Perhaps the best thing Mr Shapps can do is; Go away and stay away!!
Grant Shapps, AKA Dick Turpin, stopped short of saying “this brave new world”
Can’t remember Johnson being even a little bit Green before he met Mrs Johnson
Shapps- the smiling face of the boot on your throat
Scumbag.
We will see them off.
https://ocla.ca/a-letter-to-the-unvaccinated/
Denis Rancourt and other PhDs defending the unvaccinated and their rights.
Vaccines do not work …. a person a who is vaccinated is just as likely to test positive for the virus as someone who has not been vaccinated – so whats the point in making vaccines a pre-condition for travel?
This from Israel one of the most vaccinated places on earth.
“95% of the severe patients are vaccinated”. “85-90% of the hospitalizations are in Fully vaccinated people.” “We are opening more and more COVID wards.” “The effectiveness of the vaccine is waning/fading out”
Was it to get the Segregation passport?
This is a VERY interesting piece about Schapps, originally authored and uploaded by Swilliamism back in 2013, and revisited by HugoTalks. A worthy 15 mins of your time….
https://hugotalks.com/2021/08/05/this-is-worth-a-revisit-grant-shapps-alternative-personalities-dodgy/#comments
Most enlightening. It appears his wikipedia entry has been updated and again includes details of his extremely dodgy dealings – which I would tend to think continue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Shapps#Business_ventures
Further proof of just what a despicable bunch of shits the Tory party are. If only the public would do some checking and understand how dangerous these people are.
“… guard against the next big variant that none of us know about yet.”
The only part of that statement which is correct is that they don’t know what name they are going to give “the next big variant.”
This piece of shite is utterly dense not to mention a fuhrer tody. A horrible insidious little creep.
Grant Shapps. What a total moron.
You can say that again.
A moron protected by bodyguards.