My employer would certainly cover the cost, but we are hardly operating unscathed as a company, and certainly don't have unlimited funds. I personally have strong opinions on being expected to spend 10 days in an even more limited environment than my flat. Whether I could do my job from hotel quarantine is questionable - it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find the government forcing people into rooms with non-existent internet, or services only available at an eye-watering additional fee.
Yes I mean the BBC have been illustrating stories about hotel quarantine with a picture of a Travelodge fairly consistently.
Could you provide some evidence that it'll do anything?
We can't say that sacrificing virgins in volcanos won't.
You can give it go, but there aren't any active volcanoes in the UK, so once you get back from the sacrificing you'll be stuck in a Travelodge with the rest of us. And at £175 quid a night I'll be down first to nick all the sausages off the breakfast buffet.
Good grief, we're not allowed buffet breakfasts any more. You'll get what you're given!
If the breakfast buffet is off then the volcano trip is off. Unless SAGE can find a way to fire up a volcano in the UK then I'm afraid we're all just going to have to learn to live with this darned virus
As of immediately prior to everything closing down, buffets were legal generally in Wales, but in the rest of the UK they were only legal on premises without an alcohol licence.
The BBC News at 18.00 stated that travellers would have to buy the £1,750.00 Quarantine Package up front before travelling...
Hmmm, that wasn't what was originally stated. And whilst that would cause problems for returning citizens where the restricted country list changes whilst they are abroad.
I wouldn't be so sure, Shapp is already coming under fire from legal quarters over the threat of jail, I suspect the rest of this will come under question very quickly. These latest measures are more political gesturing than anything else, the last of the "must be seen to be doing something" policies before the government have to face up to the reality.
There isn't an end game! This will go on for as long as people meekly put up with it.
It appears the intention is simply to 'vigorously' apply the existing Fraud and Counterfeiting Act 1981, specifically the offence of forgery (section 1). It's far from clear that such an offence would be made out through a false PLF declaration, but of course it will be the stick used to beat people into compliance, the same as the mythical £6400 face covering "fines".
If anyone gets given a ten year prison sentence for lying about where they went on holiday I would be amazed. Judges are in most cases going to deem such a sentence grossly disproportionate for the the crime.
I would, that's why this rather off the cuff comment from Shapp won't stick. Just like Gove's "1 hour a day excercise".
Which is precisely why there is then an aggressive interpretation of the law over how passenger locator forms should be completed. Regardless of whether the policy is good, bad or awful, I’m not going to criticise the government for thinking through how things will work in the real world, and looking to avoid creating loopholes.
The wording is "If you have been in or through any of the countries listed below in the last 10 days". So that looks like an entirely rational option - if your chosen intermediate country will allow you of course.
