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Government to Exempt 2,500 Football Officials from Travel Quarantine Rules so Euro Finals Can Take Place at Wembley

by Michael Curzon
18 June 2021 10:13 AM

Thousands of Brits had their holiday plans ruined when Portugal was demoted to the travel “Amber List” earlier this month. But now the Government is considering making 2,500 football officials exempt from quarantine rules so that the Euro 2020 semi-finals and final can take place in England. The Guardian has the story.

The proposal would exempt about 2,500 UEFA and FIFA officials, politicians, sponsors and broadcasters from the quarantine restrictions faced by ordinary travellers, according to the Times.

On Monday, the Government announced a four-week delay to the final easing of lockdown restrictions in England in order to allow more people to be vaccinated to combat the Delta coronavirus variant.

The only teams playing in the tournament on England’s “Green List” of countries that do not require isolation on arrival are Wales and Scotland.

All others are on the “Amber List” bar Turkey, which is on the “Red List”. Travellers arriving from Red List countries must stay in a quarantine hotel for 10 days while those from amber list countries must self-isolate at home for 10 days, although they can get released from quarantine early if they pay for a private test, at least five days after arrival, and it comes back negative.

Asked how it would be fair for VIPs to have a different set of rules from the general public, the Policing and Crime Minister, Kit Malthouse, said: “I haven’t seen the detail of that particular proposal. One of the things we are trying to do though is obviously accommodate the Euros as much as we possibly can.

“And while much of the concern around coronavirus regulations has been about whether one situation is fair compared with another situation what we’re generally trying to do is make difficult decisions about the path of a virus, at the same time as trying to enable the ordinary operation of very special events like the Euros and, no doubt, health professionals and the immigration professionals at the Home Office and then the senior ministers who make a decision will take all of that into account as we proceed.

“And look, it’s a great competition, we’re very lucky to have it, we’re trying to make it happen with as much kind of satisfaction all round as we possibly can and that will be taken into account in the decision over the next few days.”

So what about everyone else, Boris?

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Euro 2020SportTravelTravel quarantine

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Ardandearg
Ardandearg
5 months ago

I think that Clean Renewables Action Plan might produce a more useful acronym.

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Monro
Monro
5 months ago
Reply to  Ardandearg

Or ‘Surface Heat Inhibition Treatise’

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
5 months ago
Reply to  Ardandearg

Miliband’s
Energy
Reforms
Destroy
England

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mrbu
mrbu
5 months ago
Reply to  Ardandearg

Problem solved. Well done!

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mrbu
mrbu
5 months ago
Reply to  Ardandearg

Mad
Idiotic
Laughable
Lunatic
Illiterate
Bonkers
Anti-British
Nutty
Destroyer

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Hardliner
Hardliner
5 months ago
Reply to  mrbu

Check the spelling of his surname, perhaps 😂

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mrbu
mrbu
5 months ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Oh bother. I can’t help thinking “milli” when I think about his intelligence. I’ll have to cut out “laughable” or “lunatic”. Can’t decide which to ditch…

Last edited 5 months ago by mrbu
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mrbu
mrbu
5 months ago
Reply to  mrbu

Mad
Idiotic
Lunatic
Illiterate
Bonkers
Anti-British
Nutty
Destroyer

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Monro
Monro
5 months ago

It’s all a bit of a chimpanzee’s tea party, really, isn’t it….

‘Ocean-emitted dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is a major source of climate-cooling aerosols. However, most of the marine biogenic sulfur cycling is not routed to DMS but to methanethiol (MeSH), another volatile whose reactivity has hitherto hampered measurements. Therefore, the global emissions and climate impact of MeSH remain unexplored.

MeSH emissions increase the sulfate aerosol burden by 30 to 70% over the Southern Ocean

Accounting for MeSH emissions reduces the radiative bias of current climate models in this climatically relevant region.’

So the climate models also known as Surface Heat Inhibition Treatises (S.H.I.T.) are precisely that…..

And the self appointed ‘experts’ are only too well aware:

Andy Pitman, director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes

‘We don’t actually know to what degree our terrestrial and marine systems will continue to support net-zero ambitions: they might turn out to be sources of CO2 and methane and undermine our net zero ambitions.’

He also admits that he and fellow climate alarmists have no idea

♦ when and where so-called “tipping points” might arise (wow, so honest!)
♦ whether climate change will increase or decrease the Murray Darling water flows
♦ whether an increase in CO2 will cause more or less rain for a given location
♦ how climate change will impact cities and urban landscapes (Andy, stop upsetting the Melbourne and Sydney city councils’ climate crusaders)
♦ how wind droughts and heavy clouding might undermine renewables and net-zero targeting (via week-long blackouts).

In a repudiation of the “settled science” notion the climate crowd has pushed for 25 years, Pitman now acknowledges that despite decades of study, the catastrophists still have no idea if Australia will see more El Nino, rather than La Nina, climate events, or even whether more vegetation will reduce or increase greenhouse emissions (so much for tree plantings offsetting emissions).

Other profound unknowns include, according to Pitman, include sea-ice extent, cloud processes, ice-sheet dynamics and urban and agricultural landscape impacts (p22).

He lets another cat out of the bag with news that between March 16 and 18 of this year, a giant 70-billion tonne snowfall hit East Antarctica, contributing to a net ice gain in Antarctica reversing the 20-year trend of ice loss.

Climate models remain too crude to handle the key processes of atmospheric rivers around the Antarctic which created that startling reversal

Pitman even concedes that current climate models can’t predict whether natural disasters will become more or less common in the warming era. 

‘Climate predictions are built on very old science.’

https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/science-advice-and-policy/decadal-plans-for-science/a-decadal-plan-for-australian-earth-system-science-2024-2033

Oh for heaven’s sake! Very expensive tea being drunk, all the while scrambling the knitting………

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Gezza England
Gezza England
5 months ago
Reply to  Monro

The Climate Nintendos are also wrong on rates of CO2 absorption by around 40% for plants and seas. And now it seems that broadleaved trees give off isoprene that at night seeds clouds. So much for the ‘settled’ science used in the gaming world.

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No-one important
No-one important
5 months ago

It seems to me to be an absolute waste of time trying to engage with Miliband using science and reasoned argument to point out that the climate alarmism has no basis in fact. This isn’t because he is thick, cretinous or mad as some have observed – it is because he is carrying out his orders received from people with billions to spend in order to extract even more billions from British taxpayers; doubtless his reward will far exceed the traditional thirty pieces of silver. His blithe indifference to the suffering and anxiety his policies are causing points to his being a sociopath, certainly, and the sooner he is removed from post – along with anyone similarly afflicted – the better.

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RTSC
RTSC
5 months ago
Reply to  No-one important

Correct. He expects to become very wealthy on the back of his destruction of the UK.

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Twm Morgan
Twm Morgan
5 months ago
Reply to  RTSC

His brother is doing VERY nicely, by all accounts!

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
5 months ago

I am sure the Chinese are pumping a lot of investment into British energy infrastructure. All those green jobs are likely to be yellow jobs.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
5 months ago

Our ‘thriving democracy’.
20% or less of the UK adult vote.
They don’t have a mandate for anything.
Yet here they are pursuing non-Green fascism, destroying the environment, our industry, our jobs and our national infrastructure.

By what authority?

Reminds me of the Convid Enabling act for the non-existent virus which destroyed my freedoms in 5 minutes.
Mass civil violence is going to be the only solution.

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RTSC
RTSC
5 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Mass civil disobedience. Not violence. Violence will play into their hands.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
5 months ago
Reply to  RTSC

When people can’t stay warm, travel to work and feed themselves is when violence could start

Handy that there are lots of men of fighting age with no connection to Britain and its values who can be used to police any protests.

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Purpleone
Purpleone
5 months ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

I don’t think they’ll follow orders if they are cold and hungry as well…

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Gezza England
Gezza England
5 months ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

They will only do it if they get their Caliphate and rights to slaughter non-believers.

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RTSC
RTSC
5 months ago

I’m afraid it is incumbent on the Great British Public to personally do everything they can to block the nonsense from proceeding. If that means contributing to the conditions which cause blackouts, so be it.

Don’t buy an EV. Crash the car market.
Don’t buy a heat pump. Use gas. If they won’t produce our own, make them import it.
Refuse a Smart meter; retain control of your own energy supply. You can keep your bills down if you want to without a gadget, using electricity, to show you.
Don’t change your diet.
Tell friends and acquaintances that the Net Zero project is unaffordable and based on climate lies. I talk to people in the supermarket queue when I get an opportunity – keep it lighthearted but get the message across.
Use cash. If they don’t know what you’re buying they can’t stop you from buying it.
Object to planning applications for windmills and solar farms. It probably won’t stop them, but we have to demonstrate that opposition is big, and growing.
Prepare: candles, matches, alternative sources of heating.
Join the Together Organisation.

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varmint
varmint
5 months ago

This moron gave us the Climate Change Act in 2008 promising to save the planet and lower bills. Now here he is 16 years later still pretending to save the planet and still promising lower bills. But we currently have the highest electricity prices in the world and he is about to do more and more of the very same stuff. At the moment our electricity prices are 3 times higher than the USA, and Miliband will raise that to 5 or 6 times higher. When are the people actually going to wake up to the fact that you cannot run Industrial Society on wind and sun and if you attempt to do so you will do nothing but impoverish people and destroy the Industrial Base. —-All of the countries like Denmark, Germany and the UK who have the most wind turbines all have the highest prices, but Miliband is still pushing this idea that reality can be turned on its head. —-IT CAN’T.

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mrbu
mrbu
5 months ago
Reply to  varmint

Perhaps he’s trying to redefine “reality”?

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Gezza England
Gezza England
5 months ago

Sadly Ratcliffe on Soar has closed but I presume yet to be blown up? Perhaps some AI lot could buy it to power a data centre and preserve it for the nation. Is that permitted I wonder? Anyway, as long as no more reliable generation is closed down we can probably get through to the end of the Student Union government in 2029 although we will be at risk of blackouts due to too much unreliables on the grid and some clouds arrive. Not much of Militwat’s plans will be delivered as there are not enough resources or the technology just doesn’t exist.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
5 months ago

W_NKER !!!!…

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Keencook
Keencook
5 months ago

Just asking – these fancy blades heading for the north sea – it’s pretty physically hostile out there – how long will they last and how much is built into replacement planning? Anybody out there willing to guess? Oh wait – Minibrain won’t be around to take the hit. Funny that.

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VAX FREE IanC
VAX FREE IanC
5 months ago

“We’ve produced this at lightning pace – it’s packed with new steps towards clean power.”
Sound familiar? Remember Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s little gem? COVID-19 vaccine development is “moving at the speed of science”?Oh how they mock us.
Bastards all!

Ed-Solar-panels
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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
5 months ago

President Trump landslide election mandate makes Edstone Moribund irrelevant.

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Old Brit
Old Brit
5 months ago

I suppose we all have to wait for the next, inevitable change in the weather back to cold, like it was in the ’60s and ’70s. Then the lunatics were predicting an ice-age.
The problem then will be that rectifying all the harm will cost a fortune, and de-industrialised Britain will be broke.

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RW
RW
5 months ago
Reply to  Old Brit

We’ve already been moving towards that for quite some time already. One of the reasons why climate politicals is getting ever more hysterical and destructive is that the people behind it know more about changing weather patterns than what their models generate: They know that they’re running out of time. So far, they’ve swapped the late 1980s/ 1990s invention called global warming for climate change to make the messaging a little more robust (German climate agitators have already claimed that very moderate amounts of snow in winter would be extreme weather caused by climate change) but they’re still relying on observable warming. But there ain’t any and simply inventing the numbers won’t work forever.

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Old Brit
Old Brit
5 months ago

Maybe Milliband knows exactly what he is doing…

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Twm Morgan
Twm Morgan
5 months ago

À superb article. It’s just a great pity that neither Milibrain, nor his henchpersons will ever read this for fear of becoming very, very frightened!

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
5 months ago
Reply to  Twm Morgan

Yes, agreed, Ben Pile is superb, and fast becoming one of my favourite columnists.

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
5 months ago

‘The perfect storm is in fact the entirely predictable outcome of allowing ideological zombies bearing only false promises to set energy policy.’

I don’t know how they get away with it. A Milliband spokesman said today on Talk that we should not undermine and upset the excellent clever people working to solve the intermittency problem by complaining that it remains unsolved and that the current plan to rely on wind and sun for power is like a plan to commute in a car you know will not start on 2 random days a week, requiring you to have a taxi, meter running, on permanent standby.

Don’t harp on about it, it’s upsetting for the people working on the problem,

Can you believe it?

The taxi is gas-fired power, of course, on hot standby, which we will need for the foreseeable future If the lights are to stay on. So are we developing our gas reserves, which we possess in abundance? Oh, no. That would contravene our Paris commitments.

This isn’t mere stupidity. It is offensive stupidity.

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Purpleone
Purpleone
5 months ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

Offensive, Marxist stupidity… question is, what can be done to stop it, if anything, or do we just have to wait until it all collapses horrifically?

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