Reports suggest that Spain’s Balearic islands are likely to be pushed back down to the “Amber List” from next Monday, just three weeks after they were added to the “Green List“.
When quarantine-free travel was confirmed for the Balearic islands and a handful of countries, we warned that their position on the “Green Watchlist” meant they were “at risk” of being demoted at any time. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed that such changes were likely to occur “with quite a lot of regularity“. But many are likely to have missed this message.
While a demotion to the Amber List will not greatly affect fully vaccinated Britons, who will be allowed to avoid self-isolation upon returning from an Amber country from July 19th (so long as they, and their children, aged five and over, test negative for Covid two days after returning), those returning from the country before Monday and those who have not been vaccinated will have to quarantine. As such, the holiday plans of many Brits still face being ruined.
Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast that travel lists are reviewed every three weeks. He is quoted in the MailOnline:
I hope we have made very clear to everybody when booking trips at the moment there is always the chance that countries will move around.
Some countries may go to the “Red List”, some countries may go to the Green, but some may move the other way to the Amber List.
It is a fact of life that they will continue to move around as the virus continues to develop and change globally.
The Guardian has more.
Multiple sources told the Guardian that the switch, which will affect those heading home from Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca and Formentera, is expected to be discussed by ministers on Wednesday afternoon and come into force from early next week.
There has been no official confirmation from the Government and last-minute decisions are sometimes made not to move countries up and down the traffic light system. …
Several countries are expected to be added to the Red List, meaning most travel from them will be banned, with the exception of arrivals of British citizens and nationals who will have to stay in a hotel for 10 days to avoid the importation of Covid variants.
Meanwhile, the Transport Secretary… has voiced concern over a report in the Telegraph that Britons who have had two AstraZeneca vaccines including one manufactured in India were being turned away from a flight from Manchester to Malta.
He said the jabs, produced at the Serum Institute of India and given to up to five million Britons, were no different from those produced in the U.K.
The numbers of the batches, which are not yet authorised by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and so do not qualify for the European Union’s digital vaccine passport scheme, appear on people’s vaccine card and are: 4120Z001, 4120Z002 and 4120Z003. …
The news came despite Boris Johnson saying he was “very confident” that the non-European approved vaccines would not cause problems for travellers.
The Guardian report is worth reading in full.
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The gormless Mr Shapps really has worked hard at making himself part of the problem. He has encouraged the spending of our money on divisive “low traffic” nonsense. He has fucked up numerous holiday and business travel plans, and he has weighed in on the highly divisive mask wearing “expectation”.
He’s like Sadiq Khan with his brains bashed out.
Mind Game Playing Power Drunk Fascism
Good
The collaborators need to suffer by their own hand they enabled this
Back to ‘jab and fly’ at the airport. How considerate. Bet the ‘boosters’ will be available soon at the local airport.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thelocal.de/20210713/stuttgart-airport-passengers-offered-covid-vaccine-without-appointment/%3famp
Hold tight and sit it out. Bust the travel industry until they stand up to this tyrannical government.
Isn’t “The Science” so scientific!? Shapps, Khant, BoZo, SAGE, etc. need to go back to school ( or jail!).
But why are they having these lists at all ifthe “vaccines” work? Or do they intend to permanently reduce the number of those who can holiday abroad (with opposition support)?
The Mirror etc. should be campaigning on this – “politicians’ plan to prevent working class foreign holidays” etc. – shoukldn’t they? (And I remember that story about a local newspaper editor who said “we are as independent as our budget allows”…).
And yet the rich and famous are on beaches all over the world, is this their NWO, Top of their pyramid scheme are the Rich and Famous bottom are the plebs. Island nations which traditionally travel more and by air are targeted first by the Greenies
Went for a walk near Leeds Bradford airport on Sunday. In 1 hour I saw 6 private jets land. They were the only aircraft I saw.
Did Grant Shapps used to have a part as a puppet in Thunderbirds? I truly hope I never have to meet him.
Some say that the jab is part of a global depopulation programme through sterilisation.
I am glad to see an increasing number of government ministers are doing their part in this programme by being total wankers.
Probably not satisfying even for them since most of them lack the cojones.
They do say that but the Chinese have just removed the 1/2 child law
More proof if any any were needed not to engage in anyway whatsoever with this regime until it has been removed
Absolutely.
Who is going to remove it and how?
If only they would review the emergency legal apparatus they are abusing to keep this farce going with such frequency.
I yearn for the day that these lot get carted off.
Ministers secretly take part in ‘get out of jail free’ Covid trial to avoid self-isolationStaff at three government departments sign up to pilot scheme, enabling them to return to work immediately after being notified by NHS app.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/13/ministers-secretly-take-part-get-jail-free-covid-trial-avoid/
We are becoming more and more soviet like by the day.
Come on people – WAKE UP!!!
ITS OVER!
One rule for them, another for us? Thousands of ministers and officials are escaping self-isolation rules thanks to ‘get out of jail free card’ pilot scheme that means they can take daily tests instead. Cabinet Office is among the bodies signed up to a pilot scheme replacing self-isolation with daily testing .
Thousands of ministers and government officials are escaping self-isolation thanks to a pilot scheme that amounts to a ‘get out of jail free card’, it was revealed today.
The Cabinet Office, Border Force and Transport for London are among the bodies signed up to a trial that replaces quarantine with daily testing – meaning they can continue working after being ‘pinged’ for close contact with a positive case. Michael Gove used the arrangements to avoid self-isolating when he returned from watching the Champions’ League final in Porto in May.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9787883/Ministers-officials-escaping-self-isolation-thanks-pilot-scheme.html
I reckon daily testing is more of a bind than quarantine – which you can ignore.
So some are now fighting to have the same ‘privilege’, Daily Testing, gimme gimme. The Behavioural Scientist wheels keep on turning
Does anyone have a template letter for mask exemption for travelling on a plane. The typical lanyard is not enough for easyjet, they want a doctor’s letter which most doctor’s are refusing to give as they say self-certify. Typical government loop of hell. Just want to get on a plane without suffocating and panicking…
I sympathize. But this is one thing GPs are getting right. No easy solution.
Fake one?
This is a load of bs and I’m not saying you should comply, but why don’t you just write the letter yourself from a fictional doctor? Even if they call them then they’re only going to get a receptionist who don’t even seem to be able to give out appointments let alone confirm that you’re a patient or any medical details.
If they phone my GP the won’t even get that. Just a long winded answerphone message wingding about Covid and tellIng them to log onto the practices website (or better still bugger off and not bother them at all – well they did not say that is those exact words but that is the general gist of the message).
“Julia Hartley-Brewer
To clarify, if Mallorca and other Balearic Islands go back on the amber list from Saturday:
Anyone flying home this Thurs or Fri, no quarantine
Anyone flying home on Sat or Sun, 10 days quarantine
Anyone flying home from Mon, no quarantine
That makes perfect sense, right? ”
🤪
Since when did ‘sense’ have anything to do with it?
“The Guardian report is worth reading in full.”
Now there’s a sentence you don’t see very often.
And it’s still a lie.
I don’t go abroad on holiday, but this fiasco over the restrictions on travelling have had a knock-on making a holiday in the UK unaffordable, as there’s far more demand. It was bad enough normally during the school holiday season, but now the prices are eye-watering.
That is true.
It has another knock-on effect. Here in the Western Isles, the quotient of car-bound arseholes on single-track roads has rocketed, impairing the quietude. Mad Wee Krankie, Straight-Jacket Sridhar and armchair petrolhead pollution, to boot :-). Is there no escape?
Do… uh… do Our Vaccines work less efficaciously depending on which label the Home Office has put on a piece of geography?
Truly, this sentient Virus from Nowhere, and Our Vaccines, are redefining Our Settled Science every day, in every way.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-07-vaccine-hesitancy-young-adults-hamper.html
Medical Junta PR tries to guilt trip people into joining risky experiment
And ramping up the Long Covid (formerly known as post-viral fatigue) bogeyman!
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-07-greta-thunberg-effect-belies-autistic.html
And this is just nonsense on stilts.
Some of this really makes you wonder.
It’s quite obvious if you think about it that the travel restrictions make absolutely no difference because they aren’t close enough to 100% to stop any of the variants from coming in. After all, ten people can spread a virus just as easily as one hundred or one thousand. We can’t even have restrictions that are strong enough to stop infected people from coming in because we’re importing food via the Chunnel and the lorry drivers have a fast pass in via testing. Of course, the testing has a significant false negative rate and there are huge numbers of drivers going back and forth.
And, in fact, we have received each and every variant.
Shapps, Johnson, Hancock, etc, all know this because they’re not so unintelligent to fail to see that all of these measures aren’t going to make any difference at all.
So, this means that they are preventing families from seeing each other and people from taking holidays for what they know is no reason at all.
One wonders why the press doesn’t mention this…
They want to stop us travelling altogether. It is part of the Green Agenda and zero carbon policy.
They (the wealthy elite) will be still be zooming about in their private jets and making little forays to the edge of space because they will be off setting their carbon footprint elsewhere, of course.
Spot on Monica. That’s the only possible explanation for this madness. It certainly hasn’t got anything to do with Covid.
Agree, decimating the commercial airline industry was always part of the plan. Another instance of where Covid has been ‘weaponised’ to effect social change.
Theh are unintelligent, the aim is not to stop a spread of some virus. They are simply trying to make travel as difficult as possible. As Monica days below there is a different agenda here.
The Gaurdian is never worth reading in full.
or in part.
Nor is it of any use in the jakes or lighting a stove. Too wet in both instances.
It does however provide a rich supply of pictures of arseholes on whose faces my hens can crap, whilst bedded down for the night in their coop.
Your poor hens.
NarrativePaper is solely for composting.
F ING farce.
This after the vote by Parliament yesterday to make vaccines mandatory for care home workers …
The Pig Dictator and his lackays in ‘Parliament’ are intent upon officially signing away even the tiny rest of their sovereignty to the WHO in November.
From then on, the UK will officially be ruled from Geneva.
Ah, the new EU! Their revenge will be of the Carthaginian variety then?
Ah, a peasant’s revolt! Bring it on! Just don’t demand a flagon of ale or refuse to remove your hat when you meet the king like Watt Tyler did…
So the same mayhem as last summer, before there were jabs.
Governments the world desperately try to keep up the illusion that they are dealing with this made up problem while heaping more and more abuse on their populations.
Boy are the masses dumb as f**k.
It’s far, far worse and restrictive everywhere than last year.
That alone should make even sheep think and complain.
This is now planned and deliberate – this endless uncertainty is designed to break peoples will and stop them from travelling.
I find it incredible that people put up with this crap from this evil government.
It’s a total shambles. Outbound balls-ups, inbound cockups and queues, and every one a nice little earner for some crooks from the Government downwards. We did quite well in 1940, but is it really necessary to have the neglects and disasters of that year, just to be able to engender some sort of “Dunkirk Spirit”?
A sense of menace and near at hand danger that isn’t imminent threat of death is surprisingly popular amongst people inclined to obey officialdom without thinking.
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Oh come on. Don’t be unfair. They’re outdoors and sitting down, and everyone knows that forces ALL infectious diseases (not only SARS-CoVID-2) to leave you well alone.
And, of course, there’s no “r” in the month.
Also private jets cleanse the body and VIP lanyards eliminate viral particles.
Is that being thrown out of the one or hanged with the other, with the eternal panacea being Death?
I suspect the change came about because the unvaccinated uber rich (hey, they don’t want some dodgy untested gene therapy that might kill them clogging up their veins do they, mammon forbid) will be casting off on their super yachts to all those newly amber-ed destinations where they’ll party with their fellow plutocrats like its 1939! and without the great unwashed spoiling their view except to pour them another glass of bubbles or to boil them a lobster. Couldn’t be fucking clearer.
I wonder when they’re going to make enough people angry that you start hearing more about it. A lot of people will take not going on holiday in stride, but tempting them and snatching it away must make even the most ardent lockdown proponent angry.
True, but to the Lockdown Zealots it will just be a chance to moan about the nasty tories, rather than focus on the elephant in the room.