Originally Posted by
Dannyboy39
So it’s not a quarantine then. What a nonsense!
Absolute nonsense, this is a clear example of policy being formulated on the hoof, with no thought being given to how it might be enforced, or of it's consequences. Government would appear to be looking for ways to back itself out of this corner with a policy that might go a bit like the old joke "when is a quarantine not a quarantine?....when it's brought in by the British government!"
The reality is that there is, as so often here in UK, more than a whiff of "British exceptionalism" in believing that we can control who comes or goes where, and under what restrictions. With the reality of the UK's daily new infections running at much higher level than most of Europe, and much of the Far East and Australisia, the situation is that it is the British who will be banned from entering most countries, and would be visitors to the UK from those countries quarantined on arrival back home. British MPs are going on about having Air Bridges with Australia and NZ...does anyone really think either country would participate with UK given the disparity in levels of Covid-19?