Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday the UK should be "under no illusion" that it will feel the effects of a rising number of cases on the continent.
One of his ministers, Lord Bethell, said the UK might put "all our European neighbours" on the "red list" of countries. People from those countries are currently not allowed to travel to the UK, with the exception of British nationals and people who are normally resident in the UK - but those two groups must pay to quarantine in a hotel if they do choose to come at the moment.
The "red list" was introduced as part of travel regulations aimed at stopping Covid variants entering the country and is regularly reviewed, meaning countries are added or removed depending on their Covid situation.due to be introduced on Monday, suggest anyone who leaves England for a destination outside the UK without a reasonable excuse could face a £5,000 fine.
Anyone travelling abroad has to fill in a "Declaration to Travel" form, stating a valid reason for leaving the country, such as education, work or childcare. England's travel ban does not apply to those going to or from the common travel area of the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland unless that is not the final destination.The earliest date people from Scotland and Wales will be able to go on holiday abroad is, like England, 17 May, while Northern Ireland has not yet announced its own plans.
Still cheaper than a week at centre Parks!!
Are they serious ?
Should have been done a year ago
This has so many get out clauses no one is going to get done £5000
Devastating for travel industry but boris just tell us 100% that we cant go on hol overseas until 2022. We can cancel our hols, not pay balances and book in uk at extortionate rates instead. Dithering isnt helping anyone, id love to go to lanz still but we dont need new variants
Wake up idiots, they only lied about easing lock down to get you all to take the experimental injection, in the vain hope of getting normality back. Now if you are really STUPID enough to believe anything any of them say going forward you deserve everything you have coming.
I told all you silly c*nts this was going to happen. I got called a conspiracy nutcase. Yet certain people still sore about protests. Bet you get out and protest now
Even if they are vaccinated? How about the Airline Industry? Plan B Look for 2 week part time, volunteering work in the Country you wish to travel. T&C - 10am to 12pm daily!! Reason for travel: Volunteering. Sorted. 👍
Now people living in North Korea have more freedom than us.
Should be a good comments read
But I can travel to cut the grass on my holiday let?
The will be a big spike in deaths soon.. When the government keeps their word and allows us to do what we would like. Nearly 99.9% of then population will have heart attacks the other.0.1% will already be on holiday.
Roll on elections BorisJohnsonMustGo . I will be voting for kermit the frog and miss piggy.
What a fuking joke. The government don't care they will do what they want. Where's the support for the airport workers? Where's the support for the areas around the airports where 90% have lost jobs and can't get another one. I bet the rich will get warning & normals the fine.
I’ve had my vaccine why not ....
Damn lots of euros
I imagine the refugees that flee and are housed here are acceptable to fines also?
Sure some countries will be relieved another quiet year of no stag do and hen parties..
That’s fine but won’t this simply allow the Uber rich to jet off? A bit like Rita Ora and her 30th birthday party.
Good! About time! As for the people who have commented thinking that they have wasted their time getting vaccinated..here's an idea... have a day off from stupid!
So only the wealthy can holiday... End the lockdown now. This is fkn ridiculous, if the vaccinations work then we can go back to normal.
Without a vaccine for stupidity, then fines it is...
Fines are only punishment for the poor.
Yet more confusion by this Government. May 17th is the end of the travel ban based on science at the time, however R rate and hospital admissions are dropping constantly. So why fines till June 🤷♂️
Hahahaha, this is effectively unenforceable as there's no mechanism to check the veracity of a passenger's declaration whatsoever.
freedom
Unless your name is Stanley Johnson I'm guessing
It’s gonna be it’s gonna be... a lovely holiday- without the without the...BRITS!!!
I am under impression Johnson competes with Putin who turns the country into a concentration camp first!
But Ryanair said 'Jab & Go', and encouraged people to book holidays because 'Vaccines are coming'! Are they going to pay the £5,000 fine, on behalf of all those people duped into booking holidays?
Listening to all the complaints. Last year everyone went on holiday, and in October/November we went into various restrictions, mainly due to the Spanish variant. Why not rinse and repeat this year. Turn a blind eye to the facts of what is happening in Europe.
Your rights are being removed daily.
Why are airports letting people even get there?
Can I go if I take a scotch egg.
Hope this applied to then anyone leaving the country ie footballers who are going to leave the country to play a stupid international match in Albania, very much doubt it though
So if you're rich, you can go on holiday. Toryism in a nutshell. Twats.
We can't leave but anyone who wants to come into the UK on holiday or for a visit can 🤷♀️
We used to blame the government when things went bad or wrong. Now the government blames us...!
Wasn’t it already illegal?! 🤨 BorisJohnson as usual! Taking any action too late! How about just stand up, talk to public how it really is and let us vote to decide what we want! Because i tell you, some of those you shield, want to be with loved ones! Not alone at home.
We’re all confused
Great way to reboot the economy by keeping the population of the country at home so they spend all their cash on uk businesses
Why now? Not April 2020 or November/December 2020? Goalposts move time and time again.
So if you’re rich you can go on holiday. Nice.
Unless your an social media influencer😩😩
Boris - Such a slow response it’s crazy. Why have been been able to travel freely all this time anyway!?
Confused why you’d want to go to somewhere on holiday with scarily high rates and stricter lockdown measures than even we face 🤯
It will only get worse and will soon become the accepted norm amongst sheeple. Johnson and his cronies need to go..
Meh everyone making a big deal about this when in reality there’s nowhere open to actually go on holiday. The risk to even dare go abroad right now is crazy due to the possibility of where ever you head to then becoming on the red list.
As someone who works in the travel industry if we can't get moving again by June you can kiss alot of airlines and travel companies good bye. You will be stuck here gooing to caravans for the rest of your life
Another typically weak half measure from the government, sidestepping taking actual responsibility. If they were serious about containing the virus they'd lock the borders and ban travel to and from the UK for everyone.
navsuven ffs!!
Fab way to make some money back into uk
ABOUT BLOODY TIME
Get the jab you will be able to go on holiday! 😂😂😂
Bargain.
Just make sure quarantine and testing on return is properly enforced. Then people can still go but have repeated tests on their return and not allowed out until two clear tests a few days apart.
So why are none of Europe on the red list then?!
No going on holiday ... United Kingdom the Alcatraz of Europe. IN PRISON FOR DOING NOTHING WRONG ..... Modern British justice......
Anyone else starting to wonder what the point of vaccination is when you still can’t have your life back
So many stupid people, how do they not understand the purpose of vaccines?! It's not just so you can go on holiday to the bloody Costa del Sol!
Listen to the comments from the head wobblers.... my human rights....naziism.... same old tripe
Anyone thinking of going abroad this year is, quite frankly, a bit thick.
Unless you own a 2nd home, Tories look after their own
Rita Ora right now
Why would any moron want to travel to a country that’s in lockdown. If they book somewhere and can’t go they should lose every penny
This is actually a JOKE now 🥲 1 year on and the restrictions just keep coming from a survival rate of over 98%
At last
People in the comments are legit crying. Stop being a baby. Well done Johnson for bring tough rules to stop COVID
Holiday at home. Support the British economy. Support those who have and are still struggling. Show some pride in your nation by spending your cash here.
If you are a MP, Celebrity or a Person of high status, this probably doesn't apply to you.
And yet International football continues this week. Players ,managers, coaches plus all all the other members of the entourage flying all over Europe, which is currently experiencing another wave of Covid 19. Makes perfect sense doesnt it.
They are power crazed .. another house of cards,
House hunting here I come..
Can someone come get all the British celebs who’ve come into Australia (we’re not allowed out or our families in). Maybe start by fining them
How much would your stay in hospital with this awful COVID 19 cost you if you had to pay?
Apart from second home owners.
At just £5000 rita ora is off straight to marbella
A £5000 surcharge for the wealthy to go on holidays while they tell the rest of us that there is a travel ban
How's that vax working out.. What a pantomime.
Only a year too late. I wonder if this includes Dad's who want to check on their Greek villa 🤔.
It’s all a load of bollocks. I know of people who have travelled to Africa only last month for a holiday and they were allowed to. There was no permitted reason to do so yet they were still allowed.
Just shut the boarders, problem sorted
Double the amount of fine. Some wealthy folk will think it worth paying only £5,000.
Why would you want to go on holiday abroad when many countries are having a third wave of infection & locking down again. Plenty of holidays in the UK.
Good ..
What a shambolic strategy. Celebrate vaccinations which don't allow a return to normality just more dithering,procrastination and further never ending restrictions to UK citizens rights to freedom. All Govn appears to guarantee us is more of the same!
Best tell Boris's Dad!
Covid is about an adjustment to the 'new normal', not a virus. The powers that be wish to change the global socio-economic system and want us used to the totalitarianism that will be a part of it.
good and IF they bring anything back its them fault
I don't think £5000 is fine, it seems too much - maybe take 400 Euros and withdraw the rest out of the cash machine when you get there
How can you fine someone BEFORE they do something? This isn't a fine, it's a fee. Want to go on holiday, just give the Gov't £5000 and then you can go.
Disgrace
When you “find a cure” to a disease/virus that really isn’t a Cure lol 😂. The Vaccines are a pure sham !!!!
We're now North Korea.
Vaccination is a scam. These things don’t work. If it does, we still won’t be locked away in our homes. Whatever the agenda of the west (in general) on this COVID situation, it’s not for the good of the majority of the people. Africa, Asia, etc have returned to normalcy!
The data does not support yhese measures.. why can those that have been vaccinated not travel to a contry with similar covid control/vaccines successes? Blanket ban is just gross abuse of power and control
London to be twinned with Pyongyang. To mark this auspicious occasion all anti vaxers are to receive a jolly good thrashing off the police.
It’s like east Germany
CenterParks just doubled its prices again.
What's the point of going on holiday abroad. You're probably in lockdown when you get there.
Ladies and gentlemen, your Tory government....... 👏👏👏👏
Ironically the UK is in a better position than most of the world at the moment. Pandemic is almost over here but the EU bungled handling of the vaccine rollout has shot them in the foot. It would be laughable if it were not trafic
So the rich and famous get away with it again? What a surprise.
A fine if you go away to enjoy yourself.....however if you want to be a moaning twat or trouble maker they’ll change the rules so you can join together in groups and protest. Couldn’t make up how shit this country can be and how much it appeases the permanently offended!!
Does this Include the wealthy like rol stars I have seen a few photos of pop stars holidaying abroad but then they can afford the fine.
Could just ground the flights
Totalitarian nonsense. What’s next? A wall?
If the choice is a week in Benidorm or more sitting on the sofa watching Homes Under The Hammer, I think we have the better deal so perhaps should stop complaining.
Pathetic. All this means is the wealthy will be able to travel whilst us plebs won’t. Those with enough cash will just pay the fine and travel anyway. I thought we were all being vaccinated so we can get back to normal?
You can go abroad if you use the 'Stanley Johnson loophole'.
It’s ok to fine people when they go on holiday,but not ok to fine people when they go on protests,social distancing when marching 🤔🤔🤔🤔
But I’m vaccinated 🤷♂️
Surely it’s their return to the UK that needs to be prevented? It makes more sense to ban travel from red list countries completely rather than to debate the acceptable reasons for leaving the UK...
This is not about COVID anymore, it’s controlling the UKs citizens and hiding the impacts of Brexit under the COVID banner. Was it not the same ministers talking up going on holiday only a matter of weeks ago? What support is the travel industry getting? BorisJohnsonMustGo
caliphbando they want you to die in Berwick and not escape to boroma. Stay safe bro.
Surely we should get some money back on our passports as we can’t use them.
Hope this ends soon!
British_Airways can start auction its birds!
And sheeple say these measures are not controlling and for our own good.
It's getting really nasty now, I do hope they will make sure everyone who has already booked a holiday overseas will get a full and immediate refund. I myself haven't been overseas in a few years, I found there are so many good holidays to have here in the UK.
Credit facilities will be available, subject to status, as normal. 🤭
So that’s all of 30 minutes of flight time on a PJ… in effect; plebs stay on “lockdown island” while the rich and famous go to the French Riviera anyway. Makes sense
Get vaxed, stay home, protect the economy.
Heathrow airport had 677,000 passengers in January, how many fines were given out?
Absolutely ridiculous the things that have become illegal over this past year. Might as well open a crack den and be done with it
Kim Jung-Un has nothing on these dictators.
only idiots would want to chance going on holiday...and catching covid...
We have to identify as one those
The rich are travelling but normal folk are in lockdown bet they love that
good idea that might help find new possibilities of existence after so many years of contaminating water !
This is ridiculous! 🙄
Despicable a government who didn’t want to go down this road are probably the worst dictatorship in Europe
Well, this will get the natives restless...
If the punishment is a fine the crime is therefore vindicated for the rich ! Why not just suspend the passports of those going on holiday for say 2 years 🤷♂️ this then isn't about class wars but a punishment in line with the crime ?!
Good, ridiculous to go abroad with the high Covid rate in Europe
You support these nutters ,you are meant to speak for the nation,hold them to account for this and support the care home workers,it’s a bloody disgrace!
3 weeks to protect the NHS they said. A year later with an amazing vaccine and things are set to get worse. Eh
What a joke of a country we have become. Whoever voted for this shit show should be throughly ashamed of themselves.
With the increase in covid rates in Europe people will be lucky to actually get a foreign holiday this year.
So many family business trips being booked
The power and control has gone to their heads. It's beyond a joke now. A year has passed and they're still tightening the noose.
More good news please(((
Piers Morgan has already had one
Please save my life SrBachchan sir with 50000 rupees for clear to my borrowings sir
Passports should be confiscated. NO one should be going abroad unless absolutely necessary.
Propaganda ⬆️
Airstrip One. This dictatorship is beyond taking the michael now.
When they say ‘reasonable excuse’ that just means millionaires please have an ‘excuse’ ready for the public if your caught. 🙄
Why would people who voted for Brexit want to leave anyway?
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