This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Suspend ALL passenger flights/ferries entering the country OR remove lockdown
we are under lockdown. people are out of work. yet the government are allowing immigrants to be flown in by the plane load to pick fruit etc, despite thousands of UK residents applying for the jobs and being ignored in favour of immigrants from abroad.
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The more people are coming in and out of the country, the greater the chances of the disease spreading. if the disease spread was a real concern, then the airports and ferry ports would have been shut down COMPLETELY to passenger flights/trips. it makes a mockery of having a lockdown as long as the government allows this to continue to happen ALL flights should be grounded and airports closed to ALL passenger flights including charters and repatriations, or scrap the lockdown.
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Close the Borders of the United Kingdom to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309332
End lockdown to prevent further economic damage to the UK’s economy: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/315979
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