Environment Secretary George Eustice said today that Brits can travel to countries on the Government’s “amber list” (which includes most European countries) in order to visit friends and family, so long as they quarantine on their return to the U.K.. This forced the Prime Minister to clarify that people should only travel to these countries if they “absolutely have to”. The Times has the story.
Travel agents have received almost triple the number of inquiries for holidays to nations on the amber list this week after the Government lifted its ban on international travel.
However, the Prime Minister said it was “very important for people to grasp” that the medium-risk category in the traffic-light system did not indicate a holiday destination…
The Government’s official travel advice states: “You should not travel to amber-list countries or territories.”
George Eustice… said this morning that the medium category existed because there would be “reasons” people needed to travel abroad, such as visiting family and friends…
Asked why, despite the travel advice, more than 150 aircraft had departed the U.K. yesterday for amber-list countries, Eustice told Today on BBC Radio 4: “We don’t want to stop travel altogether and the reason… that we have the amber list is there will be reasons why people feel they need to travel either to visit family or indeed to visit friends.”…
Hours later Johnson overruled Eustice, telling reporters: “I think it’s very important for people to grasp what an amber-list country is: it is not somewhere where you should be going on holiday, let me be very clear about that.
“And if people do go to an amber-list country – they absolutely have to for some pressing family or urgent business reason – if they have to go to an amber-list country, then please bear in mind that you will have to self-isolate, you’ll have to take tests and do your passenger locator form and all the rest of it, but you also have to self-isolate for 10 days when you get back.
“And that period of self-isolation, that period of quarantine, will be enforced with fines of up to £10,000, so I think it’s important for you to understand what an amber-list country is. People need to understand that an amber-list country is definitely not a green-list country.”
The amber list covers 171 countries and territories, with only a dozen destinations on the quarantine-free green list. Travellers arriving from 43 “red” nations have to pay £1,750 each to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days when they return.
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Dear Johnson.
Fuc£ you.
Best wishes.
Whats with the best wishes? I hope Johnson has a long and painful death.
Fair point. Too polite for him.
My best wishes for Bozo cannot be listed on a family-friendly website!
So you can go.
Except that you can’t.
Not really.
And it would be a very good idea not to come back.
Really.
Cast iron proof that you can do what you like, just that the whim of Government ministers would prefer you not to. And a whim is meaningless, so they have made it as difficult as possible to stop people. Which by default means they don’t think it’s so serious as to have stop people.
MUST READ. Change by CDC to record Vaccinated and Non-Vaccinated differently.
Clear attempt at differentiation by PCR test.
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/18/how-the-cdc-is-manipulating-data-to-prop-up-vaccine-effectiveness/
Found another image from that photoshoot..
Utter shambles. When oh when will collars be felt.
Hempen collars should be felt by Bozo and all his vile henchmen.
How can a man who got a scholarship to Eton and an Oxbridge degree be so incredibly stupid ?
There are a lot of people around who are very good academically and working through the university system but are imbeciles when it comes to real life.
If they were one and the same man, Friedrich, you was right the first time.
Sorry, were right the first time. I went to Cambridge too.
Innit!
Why are you interpreting his words & actions are stupid?
The whole family does this bumbling act. Boris is involved, I feel.
Free expression as revolution.
I prefer the original even if it’s wrong.
Anyone heard from their MP in the last few months. Mine is on twitter today, talking rubbish, its as if nothing is happening in the UK
Mine posts endlessly on fb, usually standing next to a pothole, with a mask on. Outside, yards from anyone, always the mask.
Hiding their faces in shame ? Nah they have no shame.
Probably no faces either.
It’s O.K. to travel to an amber list country to visit friends, so if you and a group of mates arrange to meet up in Asterdam then that’s fine but if you meet up London to board the Eurostar then you’re going on holiday so it isn’t O.K. As ever the government tries to clarify the advice/rules and end up making them as clear as mud.
See you in Amsterdam?
Johnson stiill hasn’t twigged that threatenimg fines is pointless when the CPS has told us all they are unlawful and are declining to prosecute.
There isn’t the slightest justification for coloured countries, or near closures of borders to people who wish to leave. The only countries who do thus routinely are N Korea, former East Germany, occasional South American dictatorships.
None of the official narrative is correct. In fact, they’re all LIES.
Just like this piece.
sheer genius.
It is not illegal to travel to an “amber” country. It is not FCO advice not to travel.
If you booked to travel to one such destination corona 2020 and then moved it to 2021, the travel companies are not giving refunds for the reasons cited above.
Well, there is always 2022 ……. 2023 …… 2024 ……………
Anyone who believes that the confusion is not deliberate needs their heads read. Whatever level of incompetence one might want to attribute to the govt, especially in the area of concrete execution of policy, the one area where they and SAGE and the other evil loons have been spectacularly successful is in manipulating the narrative. The “mixed message” approach has been so consistently adopted from the start that it’s obvious they know exactly what they are doing.
Confusion is king
Discussions about colour coded countries, its a Sage Behavioural Scientists wet dream. Johnson, in a deep voice on the radio ‘ we can’t get too carried away because covid will know and that’s when it’ll strike’, his spouting sounds absurd
If you are in Europe and want to see relatives in the UK is it ok to go via India?
Can’t wait for the obedient collaborators to get trapped abroad and incur thousands in excess charges
You did this – not us
If the w*nker s who make up these b.s. rules don’t understand them, how the hell are the bulk of the Great Unwashed going to cope?
Is that a D cup I see poking out under the jacket?