Jersey tightens its entry rules to local authority or London council level – I can go, Rhys can’t

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• Olly says:

  3 Sep3 September 06:00

  Oh bloody hell, we’re due to fly there a week on Saturday for our anniversary weekend (having already had to cancel Paris and Budapest) – guess it shows that nowhere is sure to be safe. Currently we’re in a green area but it’s going to be a nervy next week or so – will be particularly annoying as had just taken advantage of the Amex SLH to book the Atlantic after your recommendation Rob!

  • Rob says:

    3 Sep3 September 08:39

    Ask for a top floor room at check in. We didn’t get one but sea view would be better.

  • Elizabeth says:

    3 Sep3 September 20:30

    A holiday anywhere is not a necessity. Appreciate being safe and well. The Atlantic Hotel will still be there next year.

• Olly says:

  3 Sep3 September 06:06

  Do you know what criteria they are using to assign to the various categories?

• Mr(s) Entitled says:

  3 Sep3 September 06:11

  How on earth can they independently verify your movements/location? This requires an individual to be honest and ‘do the right thing’. Something I would advocate but as a policy this is a nonsense.

• Andrew says:

  3 Sep3 September 06:34

  Ridiculous – how would they ever be able to check? And what is Rob went for a meeting in another part of London? Makes the assumption that everyone is just staying in their borough.

• Roger* says:

  3 Sep3 September 06:43

  Well, Jersey. It would be difficult to make things more complicated, at least for London postcodes.

  26 London boroughs are on the Green list and 7 on the Amber list. 14-day travel history includes ALL travel including to/from other London boroughs! Sorry, Jersey. Most London commuters won’t even know which borough borders they cross.

  In any case, all passengers require pre- or on arrival testing. The latter offers results within 48 hours.

  There’s a lot to read on the JE website. Is Guernsey open?

  • E says:

    3 Sep3 September 07:30

    Guernsey isn’t open unless you’re flying there directly from the Isle of Man (which is also closed to UK citizens)…

    • Iain says:

      3 Sep3 September 08:33

      I find this Nimby attitude frustrating. This is the UK it’s not Jerseys island, it’s not Cornwall’s Newquay. Temporary Covid official rules excepted the day that UK citizens don’t feel free and comfortable to travel anywhere in our country will be the day our Country ceases to exist. Beaches, beauty spots are British they do not belong to you because you are lucky enough to live near them.

      • Andrew says:

        3 Sep3 September 08:39

        You do realise that Jersey, Guernsey, and Isle of Man aren’t part of the UK don’t you?

      • Elizabeth says:

        3 Sep3 September 20:35

        We are not nimbys, just trying to stay safe. Would you appreciate your local area being visited by outsiders carrying COVID and putting you and your loved ones at risk for a few days “ on holiday”. Totally selfish.
        Jersey is NOT part of the UK.

        • Sharka says:

          3 Sep3 September 23:14

          Jersey is a Crown Dependency and British Citizens have a right of access (if not permanent residence). It is, under accurate analysis, substantially subsidised by British taxpayers, expressly and implicitly: a fiscal crisis catalysed by your attitudes will end up being borne by the UK because of Jersey’s status.

          The risk you perceive from Covid-19 is exceedingly low: for anyone under about 75 with normal health, you have a higher risk of dying from drowning in a year; for younger people, you have a higher risk of dying from being struck by lightning. Indeed, in the UK more people are currently dying from flu weekly and the overall “deaths” from Covid (likely to be reduced by around 90% on revision, as in Italy) are not – very much contrary to reporting – very much higher than those from prior years attributed to “flu and other respiratory diseases” (Source: Public Health England).

          What is selfish is the destructive position you state, suggesting that a major contributor to Jersey’s modest economy be cut off by a capricious and misconceived policy premised on an entirely fallacious and simplistic assertion of “safety”. This axiomatically leads to loss to business owners, those of working age and, under any credible analysis, around 99.8% of the population: the only selfish ones are those harming the overwhelming majority through their misguided anxiety.

          I do wish this site would go back to being a happy discussion of scheme arbitrages, it’s core competence.

  • Hairbrush says:

    3 Sep3 September 07:41

    They don’t have to remember where they have travelled during the day, just where they have spent their nights.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      3 Sep3 September 08:53

      which is nonsense. you catch it from interacting with people not from sleeping in your bed.

• Robert de Mornay Davies says:

  3 Sep3 September 06:53

  I live in Richmond borough – quarantine – which (I believe) is also in Surrey – no quarantine…

  • John says:

    3 Sep3 September 07:04

    Richmond is only in Surrey when the daily mail wants to publish the house prices of local celebrities/criminals

    • Pete says:

      3 Sep3 September 07:14

      😂

  • Joe says:

    3 Sep3 September 07:29

    It isn’t in Surrey and hasn’t been for many years.

  • ChrisC says:

    3 Sep3 September 09:50

    London Borough of Richmond uponThames

    Clue of its location is in the title.

    But the list is nonsense. They clearly have no idea how local government is organised in the UK.

    It looks like if you are a unitary authority or equivalent you get listed but if not you are lumped in with a wider county area

    So Brighton & Hove gets a listing of its own but if you are in Eastbourne you are lumped in with the wider East Sussex county. If Eastbourne (which is a district council under two tier East Sussex) became a hotspot it’s high rate would be diluited by the rest of the county.

    • bazza says:

      3 Sep3 September 15:34

      Any place that has a time table for its trains aint London – I anit havin it!

      That’s called “in the country”

      • Rob says:

        3 Sep3 September 16:20

        Richmond is on the tube!

• Lumma says:

  3 Sep3 September 07:04

  I live in Tower Hamlets and one of my jobs is in Edmonton Green which is in the borough of Enfield. Both on the green list, but the Overground train goes through Hackney which is amber.

  Ludicrous policy.

• AspirationalFlyer says:

  3 Sep3 September 07:39

  Same issue with Islington vs Hackney. Islington is currently green and Hackney is amber. I live right on the border between the two.

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