Jon the Hat

Billions are being spent on the rollout in the UK, including payments to GPs and vaccinators. There is as they say no such thing as government money, only taxpayers money. While vaccines themselves are being produced on a not for profit basis you can guarantee someone if making a lot of money on testing or vaccination.

Being stuck at home isn't the problem, the problem is millions waiting for NHS treatment, including for cancer. This highest rates of child mental health cases ever recorded. Whole industries on their knees and millions of jobs on the line. People's lives on hold, opportunities that may never come again. There has to be balance, and with moving goalposts all the time the UK government seems to have lost all perspective.

Ah I see sorry!

Well it won't be a year, is will be a semester, as the School year runs End of Jan / early Feb to December, with the 4th semester from early October to December. Then 6 weeks holidays and start high school in late Jan / early Feb.

Qatar airport authorities treated some women very badly, not sure it was the airline's fault. I seriously doubt after the poor PR it would happen again.

This is a good question, but I haven't heard of cancellation for not activating - indeed it seems people have the been travelling with a letter saying they were unable to enter due to covid and the enter by being waived.

Wales is doing it slightly differently I think, but it makes complete sense to vaccinate everyone in the UK regardless of nationality. The UK has mutual healthcare agreements with Australia, so you have the right to free NHS treatment for 6 months.

Not to be too cynical, but to not know why your visa got cancelled sounds a little far fetched. For a partner visa, you relied on a lot of evidence, statutory declarations, police checks and so on. Were they all genuine? All the police checks etc? If so you have my sympathy, this is a nightmare.

The UK has done very very well in vaccine procurement and roll out. No doubt about that. World leading. This is going to be a huge benefit to the UK in the coming year and years. However you cannot argue with the Australian approach, as it has lost a tiny number of people to Covid. The UK frankly has been slow to react all the way through, and has wasted billions on measures which probably had little effect. They had a very different problem to deal with of course, but it is hard to condemn the Australia approach, and the voters seem to agree in the main.

I can see the appeal of a sea view or river view, but I am with you a bit that going to beach daily is probably not top of my list.

I think so. I recall in the 80s fuses being changed a lot at home. My dad always seemed to be changing something. Mind you he was a electrical engineer by trade.

It is a form you can fill in and print at home. As long as you actually have a reason you are not reliant on Government pre-approval. Very unlikely this is as strict as the Australian model.

The enthusiasm with which you all welcome more and more restrictions on your liberty is a little chilling. 17 people died within 28 days of a positive covid test yesterday. Death rates are below the normal fr this time of year. We have the vulnerable vaccinated. This is ridiculous.

Yes Qatar has joined UAE on the red list, so Emirates and Qatar and Etihad all currently impacted.

That is simply not true. If the UK did what Australia did people would literally starve to death and die from lack of medications. We are fully integrated with the European supply chain. Thousands of trucks with drivers have to come in on a daily basis. We literally don't have enough trucks, drivers or other means to import essential goods without this. Imports to Australia are basically all containerised in one way or another and the domestic supply chain manages all the Australian logistics. That is not to say we could not have limited flights from say Brazil earlier, but to imply this would have enabled an AU or NZ style zero covid strategy is simply a lie.

I would love this to happen for our flights mid September, but I don't believe Australia is going to end quarantine for anyone until every adult in Australia who wants a vaccine has had it. There is no evidence in anything the governments have done so far which suggests letting in people who still have a 5%+ chance of having Covid would fit their Zero Covid strategy. I wouldn't get your hopes up!

I shall email DB as well! Thanks for the suggestion.

I've got PSS coming out to survey end of March. Planning to contact John Masons next.

It can't do any harm to reply to your grant email saying you believe you were eligible at the time of the grant for the 801. Some on here have had luck with that in the past.

Note that SIA only do this as I believe if you have not already flown in to activate your visa - it has to be your first visit after grant.

This reminds me of when we had a 22 degree early summer day in the UK, and we were in the garden with the paddling pool out for the kids. My sister in law meanwhile was in Melbourne out for walk with the family - 22 degrees and all in winter coats

I'm planning on bringing my Landrover Discovery 4 with me. Worth about £10k here, and looking at $30k in Perth. Not much in it financially to be honest, but I would rather keep it as I know the history, had it 5 years now and done quite a lot to it.

Thanks all, I have a booked just under 4 weeks in an AirBnb for now. Will see how we go! Cheers

Exactly this - we have prioritised getting there via a transit which is currently allowed, and sod the bags!

That is good to know thanks. Yeah I think any quarantine change is likely to be later. Cheers.