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?
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Didn’t Australia make all the tennis entourage isolate for two weeks before tournament?
Yesterday I received this email :-
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Posting:
“Apparently (according to the BBC news this week),the symptoms of the Delta variant are headache, sore throat, runny nose and sneezing. In other words…..a cold. If testing was stopped there would be no positive cases. Can’t understand why politicians can’t see this”.
Obviously they only want comments that fit the narrative.
In Apr 20 Dr Katherine Calderwood, Scotland’s Chief Medical Offr, resigned having broken the very Covid regulations that she had been advocating. Following that, various highly placed and, therefore, knowledgable people (Jenrick, Cummings etc etc) flagrantly defied their own rules. These acts made it clear to me that the whole issue was nonsense.
Now we have the G7, Euros and Ascot similarly free of strictures for VIP’s and those useful to the govt.
In future, I shall be following the Carbis Bay Protocol… and doing what I bloody well want.
7 dead yesterday WITH Corona, the highest number in weeks for deaths was this week with the massive number of 10. I wonder when I look at the yellow card system which generally represents 1percent of incidences and look at the thousands that are killed by the vaccine and the 800,000 plus that have had side effects from the “vaccine”, if perhaps the Government isn’t focusing on the wrong sort of deaths
“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”.
Oh, so the ordinary operation of people’s businesses and lives are not special enough to be exempt?
So Bozo Johnson is a lying hypocrite. No shit Sherlock.
We’re staying home, we’re staying home
We’re staying, football fans are staying home forever
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I met Lee at a stand in the park recently and he was as furious then as now.
Do not enter Cornwall, covid infection rates are out of control there since the G7 Jamboree.
https://inews.co.uk/news/covid-travel-staycations-cornwall-ten-fold-increase-covid-infections-variant-cases-1055999
As predicted there is now the Cornish Variant or Alpha A2 B.1607 13.0621.
Holy Bullshit Batman. This is classic PsyOps. Break all the rules at the G7. Take the flak which will mainly be posturing and pouting. Then engineer a rise in ‘cases’ (easily done with your hand on the Ct knob). Don sackcloth and ashes, crocodile tears, rend clothes.
‘This shows the continuing virulence of the virus and means the decision to extend Lockdowns was fully justified’
Then quash any chance of no quarantine for Euro Officials. (Which was never going to happen anyway)
Isn’t that a Star Date?
Coming soon, the Phuket variant…
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
Reminds me of a old USSR joke. A British official visits the USSR and stays with a USSR official. AT 06:00 there is lots of noise with buses travelling up and down, trams, crowds of people hurrying to work. The British official says to the USSR official what’s going on and he says “those are the masters of the USSR going to work”. At 10:00 there is more noise with chauffeur driven limousines going up and down. The official asks the USSR official what’s going on and he says “those are the servants to the masters of the USSR”.
Personally I think it’s a good thing that Uefa has made this demand as it highlights that Britain is the outsider by continuing with lockdown and quarantine, when everywhere else in Europe clearly thinks it’s ok to relax things. And if they are given a hypocritical exemption to the rules it may start people questioning why the rules are needed for everyone else. Feels like a win whichever way the govt goes.
There’s plenty of lockdown, quarantine and general coronabollocks still going on in Europe.
You’d think people would wonder how it’s OK for this to happen during a deadly pandemic, but not for them to travel, but then you’d think people would have come to that realisation half way through last year. Some will, many won’t.
A friend in Italy tells me things are getting worse again there. Bring back Mussolini!
How’s Cyprus & Greece?
A friend recently sold his two flats on Cyprus & is very glad he did. They started using a VaxPass system some weeks ago. Not that our lying media is ever going to tell us that.
Such things are typical of a totalitarian elite, whether the G7 gig or the status of international football.
Keep the proles under the thumb while they enjoy the good life.
Rue the day that they don’t even have to trump up excuses and dissenters disappear.
Good to see people fighting back against the hypocrisy …
Excellent. We need more of this.
Brilliant!
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Bang on. But the well of propaganda is so deep & dark that I for one see no way to awaken enough people.
What’s missing in our secular society, according to American Christians acquaintances, is that we’ve no radar for evil.
We’re unable to distinguish bad behaviour from truly evil acts.
Vaxx, but what vaxx?
OK, I have to reluctantly admit to seeing a possible benefit in certain C19 vaccines of the AZ variety. It appears they are 100% effective against listening to ‘The Boss’ live….
Bruce Springsteen fans with AstraZeneca vaccine to be turned away from New York theatre shows
One more time….
“Vaaaxxxed in the USA, I was Vaaaxxsed in the USA “
Yup. We’ll all be down to pigeons shortly.
Bloody sickening! And as a result of all of this truly disgraceful clan-behaviour, we get ‘Show us the evidence …’. Which is just a teensy bit awkward/annoying as they keep censoring/suppressing just about anything not 100% in accordance with their beliefs.
Ditto: ‘Dodgy US election you say? Hmm, where’s your evidence son?’
Really infuriating!
How on earth is any progress possible at all – if they control the information? As it stands, we are effectively stuffed, aren’t we?
Unless this a very clever virus that can now differentiate between football officials and the rest of us then this is not the deadly pandemic that we are being led to believe then is it ? This only confirms what many have susected – that this government is knowingly lying to us – and if they are lying about this covid/variant bullsh it then what else are they or have they been lying about?.
This and the recent G7 conference that saw leaders and their entourage of officials fly into the UK without any restrictiosn being imposed now only go to prove beyond doubt that this is all nothing more than a load of old bullsh it and we are being led up the covid garden path..
The question is why? Incompetence? Great Reset? Green Tyranny?
Whatever it is – the public need to start waking up to these double-standards that we are witnessing – while everybody else’s life is put on hold it seems that a small privileged section of society can carry on as normal and are given exemptions to restrictions the rest of us are bound by.
Enough is enough.
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I’d encourage you to share this interview as widely as you can.
The answer to your question about what else they’ve lied to us about this sanitary crisis is EVERYTHING,
Literally nothing has been true & this continues to this day.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8KLmLNzkVD2k/
Meanwhile the Notting Hill Carnival (28-30 August) has just been cancelled for the second year running, so lockdown is clearly set to be in place throughout the summer. And of course once they justify August lockdown it’s relatively easy to keep the scam going due the usual school’s back sniffles in early September that will be recorded (just like 2020) as a new wave of C19 (as well as a reason for jabbing the under 12s), followed by the annual Autumnal respiratory ailment surge (similarly re-branded as yet another spike/variant).
At that point the annual lockdown roundabout will be just about self-perpetuating, having managed to cow the people into submission over another ailment free summer. Big Pharma’s Ponzi vaxx scheme will be hailed as an economic miracle for all investors.
Next up, pre-winter C19 booster shots for everyone – with the resultant shareholder dividends to be announced in 2022.
Horribly accurate.
I wish it was about money, but it’s not.
The extreme levels of censorship tell us it is not about money….that’s a lucrative sideline.
Primarily it’s all about the concentration of power, which is inextricably linked to money (in its multifarious forms) and control of international markets and national economies.
Lets see if the women beating TSG try it on with the jocks this evening
In this picture they are the Brahmins and we are the Untouchables.
If you want a vision of the future imagine a football boot stamping on the human face forever.
Leave the Argentinians out of this
Is Kit Malthouse a real thing?
Sounds like a made up name
If he had that name in our school he would have had the shit kicked out of him
Anyone ever seen him in real life?
“If he had that name in our school he would have had the shit kicked out of him”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Almost anagrams as Malky Shithouse…..good name for a glesgae hard man :0
They couldn’t afford a ready built one.
They will wait to see how far Ingerland get before they make a decision
If Ingerland get knocked out they will tell Johnny Foreigner to fuck off to Budapest
Brilliant, hope it’s soon the kneeing bastards.
The biggest shock to me about this article is that somebody asked a minister a relatively tricky question.
Surely it couldn’t have been a MSM “journalist”? I thought the Government had made this illegal?
You can hope
to Bribe and Twist
Thank Moloch
The MSM journolist
But seeing what Xe
will do unbribed
theres no occasion to!
Can someone stop Humbert Wolfe spinning please?
Great. When the latest variant arrives with these people, will it be called the “UEFA variant”? Not easy to render into a concatenated Greek version, though, with U and F in it.
Kit Malthouse, clearly the Minister for Chatting Shit based on the statement above, is wrong.
There are no “difficult decisions” to be made.
If we were in the midst of a deadly pandemic this would not be allowed, end of.
But we’re not, so it’s pretty easy actually.
Same as the decision in men’s semi final match in French Open to not enforce the curfew and eject fans from the stadium and grounds – the way they had done for every previous match during the event – simply because the match had reached a critical point. If situation was deadly curfew would have had to be enforced critical point in match or not.
They are members of the elite
This the Great Reset
Why wouldn’t they be allowed to travel?
It really does look like this is about stopping the working class having holidays abroad.
It’s more than that, I expect breathing to be abolished along with all the other tiresome ways in which we useless eaters consume non renewables & make demands upon the elites.
Will the Pig Dictator be taking his fat boy inflatable to Amersham today?
Thought not
Is the inflatable a full of hot air Hancock?
“The Deadly Virus That Will Kill Us All” is a bit more succinct than “The Deadly Virus That Will Kill Us All, Unless You Are At The G7 Summit Or Are A Football Official”, isn’t it?
Apologies Sam Vimes – you beat me to it