If we don't get mandatory vaccine passports in the UK then the law will need to make it illegal for businesses to insist of proof of vaccination before entering a pub/shop/restaurant/workplace/other premises. I don't think any businesses would try for fear of reputational damage and loss of business to competitors.
Personally as a fit and healthy 30 year old with no history of any significant illness I am happy to forgo vaccination and take the risk, which I believe to be rather low in my circumstances. The problem is other countries may demand proof of vaccination before one can enter or quarantine and a negative test. This alone is reason enough for me to get vaccinated as I want to be able to go abroad on holiday. I couldn't bear the thought of many countries outside the UK being off limits for the foreseeable future.
My mother used to work in a law firm, and she’s still in contact with a couple of old colleagues, one of her best friends has told her that there’s been meetings regarding this matter, it’s an issue that delves too deeply into religious reasons (most religions are against vaccines, rightly or wrongly not up to me to speak for them) also employment laws, human rights laws, lots of laws would have to be torn up and rewritten Overnight and many of those laws prevent discrimination and abuses against human rights.
International health passports are fair enough there’s literally nothing we can do about that and that’s fine, yellow fever health passports still exist in many countries.
I think the route this will go down is a on the door test which will be similar to track and trace and we know what happened to that, after a few weeks maybe a few months it’ll be quietly dropped by most venues
I agree if they try and mandate it domestically it will be political suicide. I can see some form of one being required certainly in the short term for international travel though
Indeed, I’m sure the authoritarian wings of the mainstream parties will want this but by and large we are a a Libertarian nation, and this will come off the back off one of the hardest periods of time in history, pubs, restaurants and shops will want to entice customers back, not put them off, Raab as ever opens his mouth before he even thinks about the consequences of his views.
Well said excellent post. As the polls Boris is still ahead despite a budget of massive tax hikes. I think people will vote for anybody I am voting SNP for the first time since 2007 in May I am sick and tried of Whitty Boris and Hancock.
Thank you.
2024 will be interesting on which party will win.
I can imagine the Reform U.K. party will come out the woodworks then, despite Farage not being their leader, but with us being out the EU and Covid being over by then I don’t know what platform they’ll use to battle the other parties.
The Tories and Labour are finished, there’s a general feeling that the public are done with them.
I can see there being more regional parties as a way of getting away from the Westminster establishment