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UK Can't Close Its Border Because It's An Island 'Unlike Australia', Says Grant ShappsTransport secretary defended the government's record on border controls.https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/grant-shapps-uk-border-australia_uk_601a78c0c5b668b8db3d3a74?ncid=fcbklnkukhpmg00000001&fbclid=IwAR3b6hhQ0DGa70SHzWDTcdyFXjJg5zYtwUaQvTN15vDH0MAi9PpjbjQuBsg&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sLmZhY2Vib29rLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALpJNAGkZ3ARylIz6D6L8MFBmp7dZKtIiYln5V1-Fzye-5fdcm36nNsNVyTVtlbaIpJb7kPwpmC3MR115VJ3T2hIZH9eOZA0XWNKAlKQX5SHFYh4tqm1-xrAS4twrDjinCuj2bTBge3KkcrV_QiImG6HZJ_lWlwTGWYyAbXXppQs

Ivonne Holliday ● 1886d12 Comments

I've only heard about training more Border Force recently.  It surprised me to learn that such a lot of freight came in on passenger planes.  I always thought it would be more one or the other.  Whether that has changed or how it has changed I don't know.I was walking in the park the other day in front of some loud teenagers going on about how they had just come back from South Africa and had gone because they could.  There are some people who just won't consider putting themselves out at all or changing their plans.BTW Isn't the Chairman of Heathrow Airport Lord Deighton who was called in to help Matt Hancock with the PPE...

Philippa Bond ● 1883d

Outsourcing?

Ivonne Holliday ● 1885d

"More Border Force has to be trained"Philippa, the Conservative government has been moaning about the borders whilst in government for almost 10 years!What have they been doing?

Ed Robinson ● 1885d

It's interesting. I've seen some "Warning: irony" introductions posted on some comments on US FB threads ...

Michael Ixer ● 1886d

I think Philippa was being ironic?

Lucille Grant ● 1886d

~Australia has 13 International Airports.

Barbara Stevens ● 1886d

Round a continent the sea is rougher?  Australia doesn't have any airports does it?How far do they think they have dumbed down education?Privatised airports, and not enough Border Force.More Border Force has to be trained and that is more difficult with Covid reducing numbers.  It takes thought, time and preparation.  Sounds like a re-run of being short of hospital staff and PPE.  What happened to:  Be Prepared.

Philippa Bond ● 1886d

Ed, exactly, so it's either ignorance or deliberate obfuscation by a government that's not fit for purpose ... Listening to the R4 Today programme it sounds like there's no plan for  arrivals from abroad being placed in hotels ...

Michael Ixer ● 1886d

Michael 90% of Singapore's food is imported.You have to put the article in context with May's 10 years at the home office/PM and we still do not count people in and out.The scenes at Heathrow recently indicate the UK just hasn't put the investment in."In fact, Singapore was ranked number 1 in the world in the Global Food Security Index – which measures if people have access to affordable, quality food - for the second year running in 2019."https://www.gov.sg/article/food-security-its-not-just-about-the-eggs

Ed Robinson ● 1886d

Grant Schapps seems a bit confused between personal travel and the goods, controlled, supply chain. (I'm assuming Singapore has to import food, etc.)

Michael Ixer ● 1886d

Who is going to tell Grant Shapps about Singapore - another huge continent - takes weeks to travel across it :)

Ed Robinson ● 1886d

Are Taiwan and New Zealand continents?https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-no-masks-and-no-social-distancing-as-lockdown-ends-on-the-isle-of-man-12205913

Ed Robinson ● 1886d