How will the 14-day UK travel quarantine work?

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• Samuel says:

  22 May22 May 20:45

  These measures seem like a BNP policy. No foreigners anymore and all done for health. Tommy Robinson & co must be having a field day. How can business people do international business like that? No company is going to send an employee for two weeks into quarantaine.

  • mvcvz says:

    23 May23 May 10:06

    High time all this so-called business travel was properly reviewed by all organisations, public and provide. With current technology, at least 75% of it must be entirely unnecessary.

• Andrew says:

  22 May22 May 21:30

  Remember, by the very fact that we are all on this website means we make it our hobby to exploit loopholes – Iberia 90k Avios anyone? So we are in a bit of an echo chamber here. Most people won’t be looking at ways to avoid being caught for breaking quarantine – they will be looking for B&Bs in Cornwall.

  • marcw says:

    22 May22 May 21:35

    Was the IB90k a loophole? No, it wasn’t.

  • Sapiens says:

    23 May23 May 06:23

    IB 90k .. what a time to be alive that was! Ended up burning mine at Grand Hyatt HK

• Richie says:

  22 May22 May 21:55

  Presumably you avoid the quarantine by getting a flight from wherever in the world to Dublin, then get a separate flight from Dublin back to London/Manchester / wherever – given it doesn’t apply to travel between Ireland and UK.
  All so stupid – if you’re going to do this, then do it 3 months ago!!

  • OB says:

    23 May23 May 07:16

    Once you’ve completed your mandated 14 day quarantine in Ireland obviously.

• BJ says:

  22 May22 May 22:08

  So much garbage in the comments today, it’s enough to elevate some of @Shoestring’s rambling monologues to classical masterpieces.

  • Darren says:

    22 May22 May 22:18

    Strange times indeed

  • mr_jetlag says:

    22 May22 May 23:13

    Well, what I really want to know is whether Rob would be cashing in his Virgin miles and if I should do the same.

    • Chrish says:

      22 May22 May 23:37

      mr_jetlag@ Robs Saving his for a rainy day (whats the weather forecast) Not that i’m allowed to speak for him so probably you’ll never know lol

      • BJ says:

        23 May23 May 06:15

        He’s stated as much here in the comments often enough. He has also explained that the transfer to Hilton doesn’t work for him well due to the difficulty of getting family rooms as standard reward nights while premium rewards for better rooms or suites don’t work because of poor value/point. Doing something just because Rob is doing it would hardly be a wise strategy as everybody has different circumstances? And Rob’s are likely far from typical.

        • TGLoyalty says:

          23 May23 May 08:01

          🙂

• BJ says:

  22 May22 May 22:19

  And now we have Cummings breaking the rules too, got to feel sorry for his parents though, they must be hugely disappointed.
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52779356

  • TGLoyalty says:

    23 May23 May 08:01

    They obviously knew he was coming and going.

  • Oh Matron! says:

    23 May23 May 08:40

    To quote Alan Partridge: “Do you ever look at your child and think, ‘Oh my god, I have spawned a monster!'”

    The problem with the top 1% is that it’s an awfully small gene pool

• Yawn says:

  22 May22 May 22:33

  So the policy will be reviewed every three weeks? Any guesses how long it will hold? I actually do need to leave the UK at the end of next week (a long and personal story), and I’m not scheduled to be back until late July, but I really don’t like the idea of effectively not being able to get back home.

  My sense is that they would have to renew it at least once – possibly twice – not for any public health reasons (there are none), but to save face.

  • ankomonkey says:

    23 May23 May 17:33

    Interestingly, if they extend it once only (total 6 weeks) then it will finish on the weekend at the start of most English school summer holidays. Extending it one more 3-week period would allow someone to travel during those 3 weeks and complete quarantine before the schools are due back in September. A 4th 3-week period would prevent someone with school aged kids and following the rules from taking a trip for more than a week. The government’s decisions on quarantine extension will impact the ability for a lot of people to take a summer holiday this year. Obviously, this may be a major point in these decisions.

• Anna says:

  22 May22 May 23:11

  It’s a farce and yet another example of how those in government don’t understand how things happen in the real world. It’s impossible to prove whether someone is in or out of their house unless you actually catch them outside, and even then it’s far from clear whether people will be allowed out to buy food (in which case, “I was on my way to the supermarket” should cover it). There is zero chance of anyone being tasked with watching to see if someone in quarantine leaves their house and then following them to see where they go. As far as enforcement goes, all the person will have to do is challenge the fine then offer as their defence in court, “I didn’t hear the doorbell because I was having a nap/in the shower/I’m actually deaf, your worships”.
  And to cap it all, you can spend quarantine in the same house as people who aren’t quarantining?!! Please can someone explain the science behind that 😂

  • mr_jetlag says:

    22 May22 May 23:16

    Let me be clear, we are entirely led by the Science, and the Science says, since its ok if my married girlfriend visits me in quarantine, then its ok if others who live with ppl in quarantine then visit their married girlfriends. QED.

    • Boi says:

      22 May22 May 23:25

      What is a married girlfriend?

      • Rob says:

        23 May23 May 10:18

        A girlfriend who has a husband.

        • TGLoyalty says:

          23 May23 May 13:07

          I was going to go with somebody else’s wife

    • Alex M says:

      22 May22 May 23:48

      You should have consideration for your girlfriend’s husband – he could have caught covid from you through her!

      • mr_jetlag says:

        23 May23 May 08:58

        indeed, that’s why I was forced to resign from SAGE.

        • ChrisC says:

          23 May23 May 09:22

          They didn’t have thyme for your ramblings and told you to get stuffed?.

• Nick says:

  23 May23 May 05:45

  The simple solution is quarantine insurance. At £30 per person it would only need a small take up rate to cover the small chance of a fine, and in any case the exemptions (food, medical needs etc) should allow most people to avoid any possiblity of a fine at all. They say shouldn’t leave the house if possible, but if you need good then it’s not possible to stay home.

  The whole idea is ridiculous ie those people arriving on 7th June are fine and can go anywhere, but those arriving on 8th June are infectious and must quarantine (sort of!). It also appears to be unenforceable in terms of exemptions and scale. At 100 visits for the current 15,000 arrivals per day the risk is low. 24 million arrivals in the last three months and even we had half that in the next three, 9000 visits over the next three months (at 100 per day) on 12 million arrivals means there is almost no chance of being fined.

  Probably the most stupid idea of this ruinous lockdown.

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