So much for closed borders

Australia is a continent. Granted it is also a chunk of land surrounded by water, but geopolitically it is a continent.

Didn;t Grant Schapp say we couldn't close our borders because we are an Island whereas Australia isn't!!! Education sadly lacking in some of these tories

This government just hasn’t a clue. Why are 21,000 people still arriving into this country every day. I expected a trickle but not that amount. The large hotels are ready and waiting just waiting for Government direction which may possibly be this week, next week or sometime never. What a total shambles.

It is a shambles- how History will judge us I dread to think. What little news I saw today said Hotel chains had heard nothing from the government regarding quarantine services they need to plan for.
Almost all Australia's cases can be traced to quarantine not being adhered to by the staff who were employed in them. It is so important to get this right but I sense the government hasn't a clue, as usual.

I read that we can't just shut our border as Australia did even though we are an island because "we are too connected to Europe" ???

It was obvious that we needed to close our borders just as it was obvious that we needed to go into lockdown sooner rather than later. The government has let us down at every turn. The pandemic has become an excuse to line the pockets of their friends and donors whilst reducing the benefits bill by culling the old and vulnerable.

Sunlover - they still haven't got the hotels sorted so it will be entirely down to them and how public spirited they feel.

Scotland also couldn't do anything about people coming in via Scottish airports as they are controlled by the UK.

We wanted borders closed last year ,Nicola Sturgeon wasn't "allowed" to close them in fact the chief clown said there wasn't a Scottish border!!
Still some who wonder why we NEED independence ?

A colleague of mine recently ( this week) has travelled to South Africa for a funeral. I know this is one of the reasons for travel but I still feel it is rather foolhardy. She’s taken her adult daughter with her. I only hope she follows the rules of quarantine when coming back to the UK.

I appreciate that it is not an easy decision to make, but we are never going to get out of this in and out of lockdown farrago without stern measures. There was a woman being interviewed on the news last night who had come from South Africa via Dakkar and was then presumably about to hop onto public transport.

Apparently they have decided not to talk about the traveler isolation today. They will do it next week.
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