UK to introduce quarantine for international arrivals from June 8

[natway09 3,920]

Boris finally got it !!!!! About 8 weeks too late. Total incompetence

[Tongjaw 722]

Seems a tad too late. Self quarantine will never work in the UK or anywhere else for that matter. They should have adopted what Australia is doing,  mandatory quarantine. Had friends coming in from overseas to work in the oil and gas industry and they also where quarantined for 14 days prior to being allowed offshore. Confined to the room for the full 14 days and not allowed outside, food delivers and left outside the room door. Two security people posted on each floor to watch elevators and emergency exits. Not ideal but it did result in Australia having lower cases of Corona victims than most other countries. They are now starting to lift restrictions, slowly but they are being lifted. 

Information for returning travellers

Effective from midnight AEDST 28 March 2020, if you’re arriving back in Australia you’ll be subject to the Australian Government’s mandatory quarantine period of 14 days at your first Australian destination.

You’ll be provided with suitable accommodation to stay in during this period. You’ll not be permitted to travel domestically (including to your home) or continue on any domestic connections, until the 14 day mandatory quarantine period has been completed.

[Letseng 602]

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Scandalous that France appear to now be facilitating illegal criminal immigration to the UK. Showing once again how untrustworthy they are and that their word means nothing.

 

All these illegals should be deported at the earliest opportunity. By sea if necessary.

And why doesn't Priti Patel do it? British gov. incompetence comes to mind.

[stevenl 23,239]

22 minutes ago, natway09 said:

Boris finally got it !!!!! About 8 weeks too late. Total incompetence

This will only be implemented in 2 weeks time, so make that 10 weeks late.

[digger70 1,457]

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

UK to introduce quarantine for international arrivals from June 8

Won't be many travelers to the UK. who want's to go there and get locked away for 14 days. 

maybe good to keep the Virus at bay But Bad for anything else.

[Bluespunk 49,154]

2 hours ago, natway09 said:

Boris finally got it !!!!! About 8 weeks too late. Total incompetence

That has been the skill set he has displayed since the outset, everything done too late and a campaign of misinformation about what was being done or unrealistic promises about what would be done or deflection from deliberately misleading information about what was said had been done.

[SunsetT 1,525]

I am back in the UK now and wish the UK had copied Thailand and lessons learned the hard way by other countries! The UK are so behind most countries who have gone before with preventative measures that it is truly shocking! Instead of looking to learn from what other countries have successfully done they say they are following 'expert' scientific advice which belies an inward looking we know-it-all British Brexit attitude. With the embarassing and deadly incompetance our govt has shown in handling this crisis, God help us after they negotiate Brexit!

Edited May 23 by SunsetT

[Pattaya46 3,428]

5 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

Scandalous that France appear to now be facilitating illegal criminal immigration to the UK. Showing once again how untrustworthy they are and that their word means nothing.

What are you talking about ?? 

Such accusation needs proof, or at least a source.

[brewsterbudgen 9,018]

Unless it's State quarantine it's pretty pointless.  People arriving at their point of arrival in the UK will still need to travel to their home/hotel on a crowded train/bus/Underground.

 

 

[dunroaming 7,453]

Another prime example of a government that hasn't a clue.  Way too late and will have little effect anyway.  Once the people have arrived and been instructed told to go and self isolate, they will pile onto the trains, coaches and the underground and mix with hundreds of people on the way to their destination.  Beggars belief to do this while every day lifting more lockdown restrictions.

[stevenl 23,239]

Apparently self isolation is difficult, Cummins caught out, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-52780561

Edited May 23 by stevenl

[7by7 10,338]

6 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

Scandalous that France appear to now be facilitating illegal criminal immigration to the UK. Showing once again how untrustworthy they are and that their word means nothing.

 Your evidence of this being? I can't find any.

 

Who rescues migrants in the Channel?

Those picked up in the UK zone will be taken to an English port and those in the French zone to a port in France

 

6 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

All these illegals should be deported at the earliest opportunity. By sea if necessary.

24 January 2019 UK starts returning migrants to France to 'deter' Channel boat crossings

 

Still happening.

 

21 May 2020 Home Office deporting migrants who cross Channel in small boats

 

Under the EU's Dublin Regulation, we currently have the right to transfer asylum seekers to their country of first entry to the EU if we can show that they made a claim in that country or any other EU member if they spent an amount of time there rather than merely passing through. 

 

Of course, from 1st January 2021 we will no longer be bound by any EU regulations and neither will any EU country in regards to us; so we will lose this right.

 

Yet another Brexit disadvantage labelled 'project fear' by Cummings and his crew when it was brought up in 2016!

 

[7by7 10,338]

2 hours ago, digger70 said:

Won't be many travelers to the UK. who want's to go there and get locked away for 14 days. 

maybe good to keep the Virus at bay But Bad for anything else.

Most people currently entering the UK are British citizens or residents returning home.

 

If wondering why there are still so many, the government's advice is still to return by commercial flights where available. Obviously, these were few and far between; only one airline, Eva, flying directly from BKK to LHR and that only one flight every other day and to ensure social distancing the plane half full.

 

I know, because the wife and I were on 28th April's flight.

 

"Where commercial flights are not available, you may be eligible for a special charter flight. You should check the ‘Return to the UK’ section of your country’s travel advice page to see if a flight is available. See also our general guide to the booking process for special charter flights."

 

[dunroaming 7,453]

6 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Scandalous that France appear to now be facilitating illegal criminal immigration to the UK. Showing once again how untrustworthy they are and that their word means nothing.

 

All these illegals should be deported at the earliest opportunity. By sea if necessary.

Or we could put them to work fruit picking as the farmers have a real problem at the moment with that.  The shortfall in foreign fruit pickers that we always rely on is having a devastating effect and as always the Brits are not stepping up for that particular job! 

 

As most of the arrests of those individuals bringing in the illegal immigrants seem to be villains from Essex or Kent or Eastern Europeans then pointing the finger at the French seems a bit off beam.  Especially as this has been going on for years and years.  Of course they are coming over from France as it is the shortest route.

[7by7 10,338]

14 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Apparently self isolation is difficult, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-52780561

 Will those who were vociferous in their condemnation of Sturgeon's support for Dr Catherine Calderwood be equally vociferous here?

 

As most of them are prominent government and Brexit supporters, somehow I doubt it!