Scottish travel ban to Manchester and Salford

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I was wondering how Nicolas Sturgeon can enforce this. The border is completely open as far as I know.

She can't enforce it in anyway at all.

Its also just an announcement - its not legislation.

Unenforceable political posturing. She’s trying to distract from the high covid levels in parts of Scotland and stoke up more England-bad feelings. She’s tried to make out that she’s the Jacinta of the northern hemisphere during this crisis and claim that Scotland is managing crisis sooooo much better than the English. Current rates blow that argument out the water so she’s doing anything to redirect the narrative.

I think she's really lost the plot( as well as her husband and £600,000, but that's another story)
She doesn't have the authority to make it illegal for UK citizens to travel in the UK. More bloody egotistical posturing.

Given the UK government has failed to enforce a sea border properly and the limited policing, no chance. In any case, a parking fine in all but name is no real deterrent.

Really? But it’s ok for our fans to travel to London en masse from cities with high rates?

@snookie no government can get people to take responsibility for their own actions - and god knows the Scottish government has tried and without the crookedness of Westminster. Unlike Westminster they dont make out that everything they've done is perfect.

Calling it a ban is ridiculous - but they cant really tell people "fine, suit yourselves, do what you want and suffer the consequences"

I have to mute the tv or change channels as soon as the whining, smirking, little shit appears, so I thankfully haven’t heard any of her silly posturing!
However, it sounds like her usual tired schtick of deflecting attention from her own failed policies - pretend everything is worse In England.

And how, precisely, is she planning to enforce this ban? It’s unenforceable and she knows it.

Notice she hasn’t posted any heartbroken or furious tweets about the Scotland fans blatantly disregarding covid rules unlike she did when the Rangers fans did similar. Does covid transmission differ depending on what team you support? Imagine how much she’d have been moaning if 20,000 English fans had come to Scotland?

@dementedma

I think she's really lost the plot( as well as her husband and £600,000, but that's another story) She doesn't have the authority to make it illegal for UK citizens to travel in the UK. More bloody egotistical posturing.

She can restrict travel within Scotland, but if it's legal for Scottish residents to travel to even one place in England, they can then get everywhere else. Because there are no travel restrictions here. It's totally unenforceable.

@Babdoc

I have to mute the tv or change channels as soon as the whining, smirking, little shit appears, so I thankfully haven’t heard any of her silly posturing! However, it sounds like her usual tired schtick of deflecting attention from her own failed policies - pretend everything is worse In England.

Don't pretend you don't enjoy hating her.

Sorry. Phone call from my mum.

I thought it would be unenforceable.

Friends have a holiday booked to the Highlands later in the summer. Had visions of having to hand over phones at the border so that they could check Google Maps!

wed8pril, joking aside, I don’t enjoy hating Sturgeon and her poisonous anti UK party of separatists.
I just wish they didn’t exist, and that all parts of our great country could go back to peacefully sharing life together. She, and they, are divisive and toxic, playing to their supporters worst instincts, to try and tear us apart.

@Babdoc

wed8pril, joking aside, I don’t enjoy hating Sturgeon and her poisonous anti UK party of separatists. I just wish they didn’t exist, and that all parts of our great country could go back to peacefully sharing life together. She, and they, are divisive and toxic, playing to their supporters worst instincts, to try and tear us apart.

The only toxic one I see hear is you.

Babdoc’s toxic for wishing that Nicola and the SNP didn’t exist?

@MaMelon

Babdoc’s toxic for wishing that Nicola and the SNP didn’t exist?

For hating them, and any signs of scottishness, obsessively and blaming everything bad that happens on them, yes.

Hardly toxic to have a different political opinion. Unless the SNP equals Scottish/Scotland in your opinion of course.

No, no, you don't understand.

Being on one side of a debate that splits opinion roughly 50/50 = toxic and divisive.

Being part of the other half of that debate = not toxic and divisive at all.

'toxic and divisive' is nothing more than a jingoistic unionist mantra, because they know they can't mount any credible argument against the perfectly normal, rational, and entirely common place phenomenon of self-governance. So all that's left is to bandy about ridiculous terms that don't stand up to scrutiny.

All politics is 'divisive' by nature, because, newsflash, people have differences of opinion. What unionists actually mean when they carp on about 'divisive', is 'you disagree with us. Sit down, shut up, get back in your box because you're making us uncomfortable'.

Sorry, ain't going to happen. The irony is, it's invariably from the same types who rant endlessly about people being 'cancelled', and 'wokery'.

The hypocrisy and total lack of self-awareness is astounding.

As others have said she can't enforce it.

But, if you mean your friends are travelling from Manchester to highlands I would be wary of the accommodation provider. Most have followed the guidance and may not take bookings from restricted travel areas.

I hardly need to comment, as the separatists on here are making my point for me, very eloquently!
We held a referendum and the separatists lost.
But they wouldn’t accept the democratic wish of the majority of Scots to stay united with their English friends and families - and they have been trying to tear us apart ever since.
Nationalism is poisonous, creating an “us and them” division where we prefer just an inclusive “us”.

I'm not just talking about this thread, I'm talking about throughout the forum. She's obsessed.