TL;DR UK considers using utterly inappropriate legal manoeuvre to try to wriggle out of NI protocol, failure almost guaranteed.
latest wheeze they are playing at is to say don’t go abroad for some sun it’s dangerous!
Will be interesting if it’s a poor weather summer and Brits have to spend their two weeks on a uk beach in overcast skies and drizzly wind…see his popularity crash,
What is the point of world beating vacination programme 75%+ and all at risk people and more are now pretty safe if life and travel can’t quickly get back to something near normal in Europe at least.
From The Independent The Independent calculates 5 million UK holidaymakers are currently booked to travel abroad to “amber list” destinations for the summer.
The calculation is based on information published last week by Tui, Europe’s biggest package holiday company, Tui, that it has 2.6 million forward bookings for summer 2021.
Well my wife and I will be travelling to France for a reccy unless this ‘government’ stops us. Life is on hold until we know where we want to settle - France or another house here in the UK. To us it’s far more than a holiday as we are in limbo.
It’s in the Guardian, it’s a figment of their imagination, it is not real!!!
And so it goes on…
Sorry Paul, but what is so onerous about that? Most of us here probably, and us certainly, have had to give our fingerprints just to stay put in the place where we have lived for 21 years.
PS, I haven’t read the Guardian article, just the headline. Can’t be bothered with constant pleas for money or demands to accept cookies to follow links these days. 
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The US Immigration fingerprinting machines don’t seem to get cleaned between passengers incoming. That always felt really icky.
Has the US started cleaning them or provided wipes between passengers for them since Covid, I wonder.
But at least you can read their articles…on most other media its behind a paywall…its the cost of free reading!
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Yes, I accept cookies from the Guardian for just that reason. Long may it remain accessible.