There’s good news and bad news on the travel front today. The good news is that the ‘traffic light’ travel system could be (partially) scrapped next month under plans being drawn up by ministers. The bad news is that officials have been told not to allow a return to normal but to create a new system based on Covid vaccination instead. The Telegraph has the story.
Officials have been told to develop a new system based on the vaccination status of travellers rather than the Covid rating of the country they are visiting.
It is likely to mean ‘Amber’ and ‘Green’ will disappear as separate categories, although ‘Red’ will continue with travellers still required to quarantine in hotels on returning from high-risk destinations.
Double jabbed holidaymakers can already travel to Amber countries without having to quarantine on their return after the Government ditched the requirement to self-isolate.
It means that for fully vaccinated travellers, visiting Amber or Green countries is exactly the same, requiring only pre-departure tests and then a PCR test within two days of returning to the U.K.
The proposed new two-tier system is only likely to have an impact on those who are not vaccinated. It is unclear, however, whether they would be required to continue to quarantine or face a more intensive testing regime on returning to the U.K.
The rethink of the traffic light system has been triggered by the Government’s promise to review it by October 1st when it was originally unveiled earlier this year.
It also coincides with the completion of the vaccination roll-out with all adults aged 18 and over offered both their jabs by the end of September.
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It did work exactly as intended, it’s making cars/personal transportation out of the reach of ordinary ppl (what they call the plebs). Once achieved public transport can be heavily taxed, as they’ll be a virtual government monopoly on movement. Don’t expect Uber to ride to the rescue either.
“the results have been even worse than critics predicted, simply because the chaos lasted such a long time. There are seemingly endless iterations of this theme. Learning losses, infrastructure breakages, rampant criminality, vast debt, inflation, lost work ethic, a growing commercial real estate bust, real income losses, political extremism, labour shortages, substance addiction, and more much besides, all trace to the fateful decision.”
Sadly, where Jeffrey Tucker sees poor decision making and rank mismanagement I see the opposite. The outcomes listed in the above paragraph will I am sure be listed as successes by the Davos Deviants. They have possibly succeeded in the collapsing of Western society – just as intended. This is what they mean by “Build Back Better,” but in order to Build Back Better first they have to destroy, hence the Great Reset.
I always enjoy Jeffrey Tucker’s work but on the matter of Lockdowns, their management and out comes I believe he is off kilter. Sadly, the destruction of the West has much further to go.
The Davos Deviants may think they are in control but I am not convinced. This will end very badly for the whole planet. Them and us.
The way we’re being played by the ‘Davos Deviants,’ and our response to them generates memories of Peter Finch’s creation ‘Howard Beale’ in the film ‘Network’, particularly his oration to the studio audience about mind control. His performance was mesmeric, no more so than when delivering his famous line: “I’m mad a s hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.”
Thanks for the Peter Finch reminder.
Equally, Ned Beatty’s boardroom speech was spellbinding in its delivery and content.
How the world works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc
Fossil fuels being a finite resource have become a kind of currency. Like Gold. The worlds resources cannot just be squandered, by endless burning and economic activity. Or at least that is the view of the world government in waiting at the UN. So how do you stop people using them all up? You need a very plausible excuse, and that excuse is “climate change”. Notice it is the wealthiest countries that are to be first to slow down and eventually stop using fossil fuels NET ZERO) because we have apparently already used up more than our fair share of the fossil fuels in the ground. ——-Eco Socialism
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Exactly.
All for the “greater good”. ——–The Communist manifesto of the phony planet savers.
My son learned to drive in an electric car that I made for him in 1993. He now drives a 4.5 litre petrol guzzler.
You should be proud.
Thank you. He is the most unwoke son you could wish to have.
No doubt a sensible father helps.
Power Wheels
Converted junk invalid carriage.
Evs were never meant to work. They don’t want us to travel.
It isn’t just travel they want to stop. It is everything that needs fossil fuels. There is this fear that the developing world by bringing billions out of abject poverty and using vast amounts of coal oil and gas that these valuable resources will be depleted.
We’ve far more so called fossil fuels than we suppose.
Indeed, we have enough oil to deep-fry the Earth many times over.
Indeed we do. But fear of scarcity is one of the tools of the planet savers, along with fear of a climate apocalypse and population growth. ——It is a doomsday dossier of absurdity backed up by ZERO evidence.
Today’s corporate executives have not developed knowledge and skills in the unforgiving capitalist free market economy, instead their upbringing has been as clients of a Corporate Welfare State of subsidies, tax breaks, cheap money, ‘too big to fail’, protectionist regulation, job preserving, State directed economy. Hail the technocratic State.
They don’t understand how to manage in a free, consumer led environment, only know product led, Government command and control market.
It is the essence of Fascist economic policy – the ideology visible for those paying attention in all our ‘free democratic’ Governments of the West and that Leviathan the EU, its ancestor the EEC created by those running the Governments of Germany, Italy and France of the 1930s and 1940s.
That is exactly what the WEF means when it talks about ‘stakeholder capitalism.’
Indeed, yet another Orwellian phrase.
Call me stupid…this is sort of off-topic but Electricity related. Octopussy have just taken over from Shell…Octopussy claim that 100% of the electricity they supply is from renewable sources…then I check out a few more of these “suppliers”…Sainsburys, Ecotricity, Scottish Power, Eon…I could go on…How come they ALL advertise that they supply 100% from renewables, when our National Grid supplies roughly 35% from renewables.
Perhaps someone can illuminate me (excuse pun) or am I just mathematically challenged/haven’t drunk the Kool-Aid? Please help me find me a safe space from this lunacy…and don’t wind me up about electric cars.
The conclusion from your inquiries being that 100% of the population can access electricity from renewables but there is not 100% availability via the National Grid.
I think some people might be telling porkies.
They are telling porkies.
What’s more that 35% is an average over the year. There are times when “renewables” account for a LOT less than that – any day with little wind and not much sun, not to mention the sun doesn’t shine at night. Maybe they should look at lunar power? So at any given time all these people who think they are using “green” energy are just deluding themselves.
Aaaah the good old 100% renewable “truth”- ROCs and back up capacity fuelled by …. FFs – Octopus and every other energy supplier especially the scam Local Authority so called clean energy auction ( run by by two Dutch people from Holland ) – dont like to deal with queries about these two inconvenient other truths …..the latter reluctantly admitting that their “100%” clean energy supplies are not as advertised ….wield surprise……. not
“quel”….
I had a discussion once with a person who was not happy about me questioning the need for electric cars. I think mainly because he owned one.—-He asked “Have you ever driven an electric car”? —–I replied “No I haven’t”. ——So he said “Well there you go then”. —-I said to him “I am not criticising electric cars I am criticising government policy that seeks to coerce me into one” ——-A subtle but important difference. —–An electric car is just a piece of technology and if they are any good people will buy them since we all mostly know how best to spend our own money. The problem with everything GREEN is that the government thinks they know best how to spend it, and infact they have decided they will spend it for us regardless of what we think.
Now they just gaslight….Jeremy Vine. ‘Is Brexit to blame for the recession’. Another one is the mini budget from Liz Truss.
Brexit just to Regrexit, is like detox just to retox.
Unfortunately, the action that will be deemed ‘necessary’ – in view of the failure of EVs – will be to stop us driving altogether. It’ll come, you can be sure. The expression “to cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face” was made for these people. It’s a death cult. All or nothing. At least they have principles!
Love this piece of writing!
The flabby acceptance by the car industry across the western world of the EV directive has been very disappointing. A total acceptance of Climate Change propaganda, and outrageous government intervention into fundamental principles of their business without any sort of opposition was shocking.
But then it applies to many other industries that have been feeble in their opposition to self destruction. Oil and gas, and steel for example. Ample lubrication with taxpayer money has helped of course.
The naive, unquestioning acceptance of all these insane policies by the gullible public is the most depressing aspect.
The resistance by the farmers is at least a step in the right direction.
People are missing the biggest point. The stupid CCP in China will destroy their economy with a product the world doesn’t want. Tee hee
My 36 year old son is still keen despite everything I’ve advised him on EV’s. You cannot put an old head on young shoulders. Fortunately, he hasn’t had the necessaries to waste. His lesson in life is less painful than most. Such a failure will delve a few parallels deep within the brow. So wisdom is on the up.
The great reset, driven at it’s root by the derangement invoked in the liberal left/globalists by Trump’s win in the 2016 election. It is manifested by the military/industrial complex described in some detail here: https://rumble.com/v4e0xw0-tucker-carlson-interviews-mike-benz-the-u.s.-governments-orwellian-mass-cen.html
The price of second hand EVs is falling because the price of new EVs is falling. This is typical with new technology. Tesla is profitable and the Model Y was the best selling car of any kind in the world in 2023. Tesla is reducing prices because there is a wave of cheap EVs coming this year from China and it wants to retain market share.
The great reset aims not to switch everyone from ICE to EV, the objective is to switch the majority of private motoring to walking, cycling, and public transport.
The price of used EVs is falling because nobody wants them. They are wary of the cost of used batteries if they fail. The depreciation of high end new EVs is staggering, losing 50% of their value in a couple of years. The problem with BEVs are the batteries which are not up to what is being asked of them. The market solution for car manufacturers is, as the CEO of Toyota says, hybrids. There is a huge demand that many car manufacturers are scrambling to meet.
Toyota plans to sell 3-4 million EVs by 2030 and is promising magic new battery technology for 2027 Toyota EVs
Yes I have read about solid state batteries which are not chemical batteries. This would be a huge achievement and just not for EVs. But this is all speculation at the moment. If they can produce a solid state energy storage device that can store the same amount of energy as an equivalent weight of gasoline, that would be life transforming. I am naturally skeptical as this discussion site requires.