France travel ban is 'inexplicable' says Simon Calder

‘It is inexplicable why we should be [banned from travelling to France], the French have even more Omicron cases than we have.’

Travel expert Simon Calder speaks to Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster about the outlook for holidays.

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[edenbreckhouse]

If you're expecting governments to make decisions that make sense then perhaps it's time to examine your expectations.

[stuartmenziesfarrant]

GB News is going from strength to strength and sticking to the BBC big time! ...Good!

[markcorby]

Not inexplicable, when you accept it's all about control and fck all to do with health!!!

[shanewhite]

Best idea is to boycott france altogether, I’d rather burn my money than buy anything french & certainly wouldn’t even contemplate going there

[caroleparker]

Got a motorhome Feb 2019 must have been divine intervention, travelled UK no mask, no jabs, testing, apps, freedom is precious and worth fighting for 😀

[bouncingbennyboy]

people who are scared after the lack of evidence for lockdowns, should stay at home. Let the rest of us get on with our lives.

[rtk]

The French travel ban is purely political.

[unclem]

OhMacron variant causes petulance as a symptom.

[mrboaty]

To be frank I think there’s a lot of buyers remorse in the jabbed, went through all that jabbing and some having horrible side affects to find out less than 9 months for many the efficacy is in the toilet and they are now being asked for a 3rd and by spring a 4th booster and yet still they are catching it, spreading it and ending up in hospital albeit in less numbers now that we have omicron, whereas the average healthy unjabbed and no comorbidities didn’t get stabbed with something that has yet to have any long term studies, caught the thing, got over it and now have natural immunity . The laugh of it is those that held out against getting jabbed and now caught omicron had mild symptoms have now better immunity than the jabbed . Having the jab or caught delta doesn’t infer immunity against omicron whereas omicron according to the latest research is the first variant that gives immunity accross the board against other variants . The fact the UK doesn’t recognize natural immunity is shockingly bad science and proves it’s all about control, when you think about it it is exactly what the jab does, the jab doesn’t give you immunity what it does is make your body produce natural antibodies and T cell responses to a particular antigen . The antibodies from being jabbed are identical to those with natural immunity, it’s your body that produces antibodies in both cases yet one group can travel the jabbed, and yet the other naturally “jabbed” (which more often higher have levels of immunity) are banned . The entire medical and science community has dragged itself into the gutter with such pathetic understanding of immunity at this stage I wouldn’t trust them to prescribe an aspirin .

[AthelstanEngland]

Unvaccinated, so I’m banned from almost everywhere!! Despite all the jabbed I know being poorly.

[yournextlondonmayor]

I think this testing before and after foreign trips at your / our own expense is going to be the new norm, just like the 100ml product size scam.

[jonathansimmons]

You should be avoiding france anyway.
Mugs if you go there.

[Louisejames]

Wait so France is banning people from taking their nappy off for any reason on their trains? Ye gods what utter crap. Won’t be going there for a while then…

[ogasi]

how are folk still so naive>? Nearly 2 years in people, come on now....

[daffidkane]

Path dependency. Someone wise once said that “doing the same thing and expecting different results is insanity.”

[andrewsweeney]

Simple---stay in UK.Why spend your money on the hassle!

[redmondial]

I just hope GB news isn’t paying over the odds for presenters ? I love the channel but it needs to pay !

[davidseals]

Start popping the dingies that float from France now then. Two can play silly games

[garyfry]

You’ll have to release some equity from the house to afford a package holiday !

[d]

Unvaccinated, doing fine but banned from travel, whereas many vaccinated people I know have been ill and spreading it everywhere. A couple of my vaccinated friends were even taken ill on the plane recently!