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Government Misses Deadline for Publishing List of “Green” Countries Under “Traffic Light” Travel System

by Michael Curzon
1 May 2021 7:58 AM

The Government is leaving its announcement of which countries will feature on its “green list” under the “traffic light” system for overseas travel to the very last minute, putting immense pressure on an already struggling travel industry. Sky News has the story.

An initial deadline for grading countries under a new traffic light system for international travel has been missed by the Government.

A report last week by the Commons’ Transport Select Committee said the lists of destinations should be published by May 1st “at the latest”, although this has not happened.

Instead, the Department for Transport said the lists will be made public in “early May”.

The travel industry has been putting pressure on the Government to give more clarity on the situation, and earlier Jet2 suspended flights and holidays until late June over the uncertainty.

Tory MP Huw Merriman, who chairs the Transport Select Committee, said the travel industry has been left “in the dark” and warned the uncertainty “could cost people their jobs”…

The Government is reportedly set to announce next week that traveling abroad will be permitted from May 17th, according to several U.K. newspapers.

But the Telegraph reports that only a “tiny handful” of countries are expected to be on the “green list” – which requires the lowest level of restrictions.

The majority of European countries are expected to be on the “amber list”, meaning people will have to quarantine as well as getting tested.

Travel to a “green list” country will also not be free from Government restrictions. Upon returning to the U.K., travellers will still have to fork out for a PCR test, the lowest cost of which is currently £60, adding almost £250 to the bill for a family of four. The Times also recently reported that the Foreign Office could refuse to sanction travel to countries on the Government’s “green” and “amber” lists since its travel advice is published independently of the “traffic light” system:

Most tour operators will refuse to run holidays in countries to which the Foreign Office does not advise travel. Disregarding Foreign Office advice also invalidates most travel insurance policies.

The Sky News report is worth reading in full.

Tags: Overseas Travel

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago

Uncle Matthew summed it up for them in The Pursuit of Love:

“Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.”

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

The Spaniards are currently debating the appropriate length of time between each dose of monkey gunk; they don’t seem too concerned that their tourism industry is about to collapse

This time next year they will be starving, but hey ho

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Yes – but not the super-wealthy, who are all that matters nowadays!

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

If it’s a Sky report then it’s not worth reading at all let alone in full

Anyone who gets involved in this years bout of summer travel madness only has themselves and the dictatorship to blame

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Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Unless it’s Sky News Australia. That seems to be one of the few places to go for a bit of honest, passionate reporting.

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chaos
chaos
4 years ago
Reply to  Banjones

The Australian Spectrator is also more ballsy than our Spectator.

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ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago

Is the delay to help get vaccine passports get into play? Is it to keep pressure up for young people to get the vaxx? Is it simply to keep control, after all we are imprisoned on our own Island already?
Whatever the reasons I don’t think it has anything to do with WuFlu, and everything to do with the Tyrants in charge. While I have no interest in going abroad it’s also yet another example of an industry that doesn’t seem to me to be fighting very hard in its own interests.

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Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Of course it is. That’s why Fuellmich’s court case has been delayed till November. It’s to give them time to complete their dirty work. And I mean ”DIRTY”.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
4 years ago

Can someone please enlighten me? The government can issue a ‘green/amber’ list of countries to be able to travel to but the foreign office can over-ride this and advise against travel.

Talk about left hand and right hand.

Also why only one test on return to the UK when at present being in a ‘green’ country I have to book two?

Doesn’t make sense to me. Having said that, nothing since last March has made any sense.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago

Wouldn’t it be funny if a lot of vaccinated people returned from holiday and tested positive LOL. Can you imagine their consternation !!!!

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Presumably that would lead to hotel quarantine – adding an enormous risk to the potential cost of the holiday!

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Nothing is more probable.

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TheBluePill
TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

At that point it’ll be time for more double-think concerning people coming from abroad: PCR positives from the “vaccinated” will be false-positives and subsequent deaths will be from “other causes”, meanwhile PCR positives for the un-vaccinated will be 1000% reliable and convenient deaths within 28 days chalked up on the sadlidied counter.

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

As if it’s a scandal that the UK regime are not meeting their deadlines for implementing the ‘new normal’…

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

This government seems to have an habit of not meeting deadlines – anyone would think they have something to hide.

Here is David Davis complaining to the Speaker that the government for the last year have not only resisted all his freedom of information requests but have also failed to respond to five ‘named day questions’ that he put to the government – these are questions that must be reponded to by a specific date (apparently this is an important tool for holding governments to account). The Speaker is not very impressed with the governments record on FOI requests and answering questions over the past year either … and thats putting it mildly.

Worth a watch.

https://twitter.com/DavidDavisMP/status/1387743261884915716

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

We’ve all been following Awkward Git’s heroic, but almost always frustrated, endeavours to extract information from any of these criminals. They, like Pooh-Bah, just weren’t there when the crime was committed.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
4 years ago

They can publish a list of countries any colour they like, but it means nothing unless there are aircraft, pilots, air traffic control, engineers etc to fly, manage and maintain said aircraft otherwise it’s just more hot air. After a year of sitting around for over a year the aircraft will require servicing, testing, inspecting and certificating. The personnel will also need re training (I understand pilots have to be evaluated every year). All this will take time and money and airlines are cash strapped or going broke, so won’t be in any rush to get fully operational.

To be honest, I think the days of mass travel are over for the plebs.

I remember later last year when people were actually saying “isn’t it exciting about the vaccine”. A good friend said to me (knowing I’m a sceptic) are you going to have the vaccine to go abroad?

I believe nothing a politician says (haven’t done since the Iraq war) and only fools would trust or believe them. But then I’m an idiot, so I’ve been told.

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Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago

”Traffic light system”. Surely I’m not the only one who is UTTERLY SICK of this patronising language.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
4 years ago

I guess Warren Buffett at his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders POW wow, this year held in Lis Angeles, continues to be bearish on airlines.

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