Holidays abroad are illegal from Monday

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9389921/Ban-leaving-UK-amid-new-coronavirus-laws-force-week.html

Along with any other unnecessary travel abroad.

Thought they were already.

I'm finding the erosion of our freedoms extremely worrying. I'm also concerned about the erosion of our healthcare system. I know a lot of people think that we're doing all this (lockdown) largely for our elderly people, but they are actually at risk from many other conditions, which, in my personal experience, they are not being properly treated for. (Pushed out of hospital at the earliest opportunity; reduction in services; diagnosis by phone, etc.) On top of that, it really doesn't help elderly people to be stuck at home all day on their own, without social interaction or exercise.

@MercyBooth

Ive not been abroad since 1986 I dont even have a passport. But i can sympathize with those who want to go abroad to see family.

Thank you.

Yes. My fil is in his early 80s. At this rate, dh won’t see him again. Diabetic and asthmatic. Still unvaccinated. We saw him at the very last opportunity there was before it was too dangerous in feb last year.

Dh is foreign so fil lives in his home country.

The more you travel the more you will notice many communities and countries that are back to normal. Drinking coffees outdoors, visiting each others houses, going clubbing.
Then the penny will drop that this government is no question lying to us and will only set us free when it becomes inconvenient for them not too.

We need to concentrate on vaccinations and getting to a point where we can live with the virus without it causing too much damage (since I hardly think we're going to eliminate it entirely). We're still in a pandemic and holidays really can wait, it's only been a year and so far, in the scheme of a lifetime, a year or so without a holiday abroad isn't too much to bear.

We should have closed our borders many, many months ago, and if people are coming in and out of the country for no reason whatsoever, every hardship we have borne and every step forward with vaccinations and reduced infections will be lost. And if a mutation occurs overseas which is capable of getting round the vaccination we will be completely back to square one. Why on earth people don't see this I don't know. Long term, these bans won't stay, but in the short term they are protective....nothing to do with freedoms and rights and all that, long-term the government has no vested interest in reducing the travel industry so this is purely to reduce infection.

I've recently watched a video of my friend's son attending a wedding in Australia. A big group of friends and family dancing talking laughing eating drinking together. Having fun! That's what we could have here's if we closed our borders and stayed in the UK. I'd love a bit of that some time soon. I really feel for all of us who have family abroad that we can't visit, including me with a brother in Canada. But I want some normal.life here. Soon.

I wished they'd closed the borders months ago. I remember saying they should last March. Europe is on the brink of a 3rd wave, South America (particularly Brazil) is suffering terribly and India is seeing cases jump again. I'm so glad they are doing this

A lot of holiday haters here. Do you also hate all the hotel staff , airline staff , tour operators and travel agents like me that have lost their jobs ?
There are 2 sides to every story .

How long is it going to take to vaccinate the entire UK ? What proportion has been done? Once that’s achieved surely holidays OS will be back on. ( I’m in Australia).

Maybe that’s why China have started anal swabbing....

You mean we haven't? Oh shit, I've been doing the tests wrong!!!

I'm in Australia - we haven't been able to leave our country for the entire year. People are actually starting to appreciate their own area , taking holidays where they'd never been before. Country B+Bs are doing great business.

I notice a few Australians popping up and saying they are happy to take holidays in their own country for a while. That’s great that your population of 25 million people are enjoying their own country of 72 million square kilometres complete with ski resorts, tropical beaches and everything in between. It’s a slightly different scenario in the UK though, with over 65 million people sharing just 242000 square kilometres.

Well worth considering in this pandemic that not everyone’s experiences are the same.

The more you travel the more you will notice many communities and countries that are back to normal. I would disagree with this too. Having travelled more extensively than most people in the pandemic I would say that every community I have been to has had huge mitigation factors in place. I was an advocate of early adoption of many of those mitigation factors that I saw in other countries. Having spent every day I’ve been away at work in the last year wearing masks, being tested, temperature checked, tracked, quarantined, confined to room for days, confined to hotel or even refused entry into countries, having seen the decimation of entire countries’ tourism industries, including many less well off countries that rely heavily on tourism but do not offer state aid to those working in that industry, I would say there is not a community or country I have been to that is back to normal. @Hardcoresoftie I don’t know which communities you are talking about. Most of the world is changed, and ‘normal‘ is different to what it once was.

@Don'tforgetyourbrolly. Don't be daft. No-one is hating holidays, in fact I'm just back from one . I'm in Oz, where it is safe because of the closed border. For a little while people will just have to holiday closer to home, and keep local tourism alive where we can.

It's common sense but typical people want all the benefits and none of the sacrifices.

My right that I will exercise is to be pissed off at people going abroad because "they want to and have the right to" and fucking it up for the rest of us

For a little while people will just have to holiday closer to home, and keep local tourism alive where we can.

Hell no, we can't do that!! Everyone will then jump on here complaining that where they live is busy, as it's full of SELFISH people trying to enjoy themselves during a global pandemic!!

The word global must be included.

@Dontforgetyourbrolly

A lot of holiday haters here. Do you also hate all the hotel staff , airline staff , tour operators and travel agents like me that have lost their jobs ? There are 2 sides to every story .

Nobody is a "holiday hater" and nobody wants this to happen per se. It's just that some people see this option as the lesser of two evils. Yes it's terrible to see the economic damage being done to the holiday industry, just as it's terrible seeing the economic damage being done to other sectors like hospitality in this country. The thing is, in the short term opening up and encouraging everybody to take a week's holiday somewhere sunny might help that industry, but throwing the country back into another wave won't help anybody. So please stop calling people "haters" because they disagree with you!!

@Skinnytailedsquirrel

What is wrong with people?? We're in the middle of a bloody pandemic. Get a grip if you think a holiday is the most important thing in life.

Covid doesnt care about your freedom.

It's because they don't want to undo all the good work of the vaccination programme. We will be able to travel domestically and pubs, bars, non essential retail open again. In fact pretty much back to normal, except no international travel. So similar to Aus / NZ.

Centreparcs will be rubbing their hands in glee

@wizzywig

Centreparcs will be rubbing their hands in glee

I couldn't be further from a conspiracy theorist but that does make you think doesn't it? Good way to keep money in the country.

Welcome to how we've had it in Australia for the last year, give or take.
I mean, we're allowed to GO abroad, but have to sit in a hotel for 14d mandatory quarantine on return, at the cost of $3000 per person, no option - which puts a "holiday" out of most people's budget anyway. To say nothing of our interstate restrictions that come and go!

But you know what - apart from the fact I can't get back to the UK to see my Dad, family and friends, unless something awful happens, I'm not bothered. Because our govts took the drastic action early on, we have very little in the way of restrictions here just now.

Although who knows what will happen once international travel restrictions are lifted! That won't happen until the vaccine program has been rolled out though, pretty sure. Some airlines have intimated that they will also refuse to take non-vaccinated passengers on board, so that will prove interesting too.

@Cocogreen

How long is it going to take to vaccinate the entire UK ? What proportion has been done? Once that’s achieved surely holidays OS will be back on. ( I’m in Australia).

Currently have vaccinated about 50% of the adult population with the first dose.

I don’t really get why people keep complaining about holidays when the right to protest is being restricted by the government? There are clear reasons for not travelling currently supported by science, there are no clear reasons to prevent ‘loud noise’ about important issues just because it ‘irritates’ someone. Lots of people never get to go on a holiday in the first place, certainly not abroad as they can’t afford it. The situation is not pleasant at the moment, but no it isn’t like North Korea. Vaccination isn’t being forced on people, it’s still a choice, so not sure why that gets moaned about either. It’s being given fact - unless you’ve had covid (which gives its own protection) then you’re more likely to survive covid if you’ve had a vaccine - and being encouraged to choose to take up the vaccine, but there are no guards dragging you forcibly from your bed to have it done. You’re perfectly able to say no. A foreign holiday is a nice addition to life, but it’s not a right in extreme situations like that of a pandemic. I hate this government, but I do recognise what is and isn’t sensible.

It’s a very lucky coincidence for the Tories (who’ve destroyed ease of travel via Brexit) to be able to ban travel. It helps them delay some of the ramifications of their crappy deal.

This enforced safety is over rated

Hasn't it been illegal not to 'stay local'? Therefore holidays were illegal under the same restriction?