I Though That Going Abroad For A Holiday During This Pandemic Had Been Banned

[bluemoon1]

Apparently nipping off to a foreign country for a wedding is ok.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9452909/Passengers-film-chaotic-scenes-Islamabad-Airport-hundreds-race-reach-UK.html

[-SharonA-]

Obviously they went before the ban came in. These poor Muslims probably been out there for the last 3 months!!

[fender62]

not to worry if they bring along another shut down, all for the good of diversity and social cohesion, on there terms.

[bobbinwales]

Passenger numbers overall in and our of uk are down by 95%. For some reason passengers from to Pakistan are down only 50% due to funerals weddings an other excuses

[fender62]

so you can go abroad for a funeral or wedding and bring back a variant of covid... but you cannot go to a eu country for obvious reasons, but pakistan is exempt.

[ichkeria]

The link seems to be about people travelling TO the UK.
All foreign travel FROM the UK tho is not banned. You can travel with a valid reason

What is the thinking behind making people take a test before going on holiday though,
I’d have thought needing to take one before returning made more sense

[fender62]

it said thousands, thats a lot of valid reasons from one country.

[ichkeria]

Like I say, this refers to travel TO Britain.

The rule for Pakistan and other red list countries is:

Red list travel ban countries
If you have been in or through any of the countries listed below in the previous 10 days, you will be refused entry to the UK.

If you are a British or Irish National, or you have residence rights in the UK, you will be able to enter. You must quarantine in a government approved hotel for 10 days.

[Zacs-Master]

If your daft enough.

[jno]

isn't this what was happening last summer, Brits cramming into airports, seaports and railway stations to get back into the UK before the cutoff?

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, it has happened before - the rush to beat the deadline and save the extra cost must have been evident to all.

[tomus42]

People rushing to get home before a deadline. Big deal.

[douglas9401]

Good news for workers needing a room with all of these quarantine hotels lying half empty.

[bluemoon1]

Well to be quite honest I've found most of the comments about this, sum up the general pathetic indifference that is the British public.

We have all been told for the past twelve months and more that leaving your home for any reasons other than essentials is not to be done. Everyone I know has stuck to the rules and yet we have a group of self centred people who can just carry on doing whatever they want and nobody gives a flying fig.

The fact that we have a labour MP from my constituency pleading for the government to help get these selfish holidaymakers home and nobody thinks there's anything wrong with it, astounds me.

What justification can a man give for taking his nine children half way around the world during a pandemic? If he had any thoughts for the safety of his kids, or for other people they would all stay indoors to prevent transmission of the virus.

And then at home we have the plod issuing a fine to a little old lady who nipped next door for a cup of tea. What a pathetic country this has become.

[youngmafbog]

You know it is one rule for us and another for them.

There is no way we should pay to bring them back as being suggested. They went there, up to them to get back. Shouldn't have gone in the first place.

[ichkeria]

These are people rushing to get home before the “red list” deadline.
It’s plainly a dire situation but can you blame them?
It’s dominer to the situation last summer when travel rules changed while people were away. Personally I would think risk it for a holiday a wedding or whatever but then I have no reason to go anywhere

[ichkeria]

“Similar” to the situation

[youngmafbog]

Oh come on, I am one who is critical of many Government Covid actions but travelling abroad at this moment in time for anything other than absolutely essential is selfish. To expect others to pay for your selfishness is beyond selfish. These people are just like the plastic lot in Dubai.

[THECORBYLOON]

"To expect others to pay for your selfishness is beyond selfish" who paid for their return to the UK?

[ichkeria]

I’m not saying they should receive any money necessarily.
But it’s not the case that there’s “one rule for x and another for y”
Maybe they shouldn’t have gone but they were but barred from doing so.
In general though as I’ve always said, we are NOT all equal in these restrictions. Of necessity. The argument that “I’m hiding under my bed and therefore so should everyone else” is rather tiresome