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Come back for news tomorrow, but I have a feeling from her statment that there maybe some enforced quarantine but new measures will focus on enforcing the exisiting quarantine much more closely.

Yeah, BBC saying there is a meeting tonight. So the urgent question forcing PP to the dispatch box was a bit preemptive.

There are issues with the physical hotel space to house all these people. Heathrow hotels will be full in one day!

PP says, nothing announced!

Looking at the drift up in the sp, it looks like the 'educated' guesses are getting good vibes, from the pile of chicken bones. I beleive PP is makeing a statement any moment, 12:30.

https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/736cbd87-af24-491f-bfc9-8ed2cda5b324?agenda=True

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I am expecting that at some point people will be able to buy their jabs, as you would currently do for travelling to dodgy parts of the planet.
I have posted before that such an option will be a difficult one to get by the chest beating busy body politicians. I expect after the most vunerable people are vaccinated, and it was actually said on R4 this morning, then the rest of the population will be able to 'elect' themsleves for the jab.
BUT, what constitues a vunerable person and where is the line drawn for key worker priority. There is going to be a whopping big argument as trade unions try to big up the importance of the road sweepwe against the tourist dollar flying to Lesbos. There are going to be some very big arguments.
I think that the planet will be awash with vaccines, and at some point the cost issue of the vaccines will also come into play and if 20% of the population wants to pay £30 rather than get it free on the NHS (like now with some travel vaccines) then let 'em pay.

I am still pitching for my 168, only a 20% increase, it was around 165 on the 19th, a mere 7 days ago, two of which were a weekend.
This can flip up as fast as it can go down. Those pension funds need to generate profits to compensate fo lack of divs to come!!!!

I saw the 140 being the bottom yesterday ahead of the travel news today, looks like the market also looking at 140ish the bottom.
Of course, if there was to be draconian arrivals measures the, ermm how shall we put this, the people with large holdings would be, errm, make 'educated' guesses and selling stock. But the iis are making 'educated' guesses that there is no draconian measures to be implemented. There is clearly some very specific detail that hasn't been leaked, I mean guessed, by the educated traders so the market is in stasis for the travel stocks (well the ones I am looking at).

I am expecting, no 'educated' guess, that there will be some sugar pills in the annoucement latter and I am hoping for the governments first formal reference to a passport scheme of some sort. Hopefully it will be be recipricol arrangmenet allowing Brits to travel with just one dose. We wait to see, but there is ne further crash and this does seeme to be the bottom of this dip despitethe fear news agenda and false posting by some.

Sitting on my hands then, the details of any travel restriction changes look more dilute than the initial hysterical predictions.

Now I see the sp being lowered, by design. ii with large cash pots letting enough shares go to push pi to 'cut losses'. At some point the restrictions will be lifted and/or vaccine passports will allow free travel. That is what the iis are now gearing up for. Looking forward in the diary, the long bank holiday weekend is at the very start of April. Back track preparing for a large scale return 4 weeks, so that is the start of March. Start of talk of the opening up for the long weekend and what types of covid passport will be used mid Feb, basically within three weeks.

So it is a matter of sitting on my hands for about 3 weeks.

Irrespective of what else happens, faliure or success of vaccines and treatments, tourism, travel, free movement MUST return lest we regress back to the middle ages. So a form of covid passport will be introduced.

BUT, I still have a big fear that the UKs single dose policy will not be recognised at the begining of any passport scheme at least and the UK will be the one countyr not allowed to travel.

Downing Street clarification on earlier statements, back peddling a little on lifiting some bits of lockdown. Media pressure to extend restrictions on flight arrivals (strong insider campaign, but it is just that, not a concensus - significant economic issue)

I'll just keep saying 168 until it hits 168 at which point I shall declare my self the new sage of the board.

It has bottomed until the news tomorrow. Trading blips if you are in to day trading - not me for a while, more comfortable these days to buy, stick and wait. Take a breif look at the sp over the last year. Things can go up as quickly as they go down.

At this level, remove some scares and off it will go. ii always keep a large cash reserve to jump on these opportuities. It can catapult 15% in the blink of an eye. FOMA, oh yes. My final target before considering taking profits is still 180. Very easily acheived.

So who is going to make this announcment today before the cabinet meeting to discuss it tomorrow? I think if whoever is doing the press conference today were to unilateraly declare a border closure policy, bojo would pop his head round the door and sack them on the spot live on TV.

And there is that 5pm again, i.e. the normal press conference.

When you take one look at the flight radar it is immediately obvious, there isn't a hope in hell's chance of stopping the spread of a virus globally. You would to ground every single aircraft includeing all the freight.
You would have to anchor every container ship and ferry of shore.
You would have to build trump walls across every single border.

It is impossible to stop the spread of a virus with the level of transmission this one has unless it starts in a small remote community and is rapidly identified like ebola. Although, ebols is still around and there are rapid quarantines put in place in remote areas of Africa where it occurs. There is also a vaccine process for ebola.

https://www.flightradar24.com/52.72,-35.84/3

For a travel ban, there an awful lot of aeroplanes heading from UK and EU to the US. The flight maps show that complete border closures is just not practicle. ALL those that are supposed to be closed do in fact have many flights. Movement of people has been the esscence of human kind since the first cave man noticed tree trunks floating in a river.

https://www.flightradar24.com/20.83,113.75/3

Just look at the movements in SEA. Border lockdown? Are the infection rates and deaths better or worse over there? Border lockdown only damages the economy and does virtually nothing to stop the spread of virus. It will get through anyway or self-mutate right slap bang in the middle of the closed territory.

Note as well, when certain policies are being pushed, and the debate spills over to the public domain in an attempt to use media as an influence, the reason can often be traced back to the continued attempt to have the UK behave as is it were still a member of the EU. There is still a deep and wide movement within the political communisty and civil service that is dedicated to shadow the EU in every possible way. SO if EU is looking to increase lockdown of borders, that will be the automatic position of the dark forces in Whitehall. It does not follow an independant UK is bound to follow EUs lead. That is an important factor now in makig investment decisions.

To 168p, and beyond.................................

All drops have a rise, so we will profit soon enough.

Astonishing, the old Blair v Brown war is back.
Brown on R4 this morning plugging his agenda for building a perfect world, Blair also pops up every now and then with his new world philosophy.
The pair have been trying to sell their individual quick fixes to the pandemic at various times.
The war of supremacy between the two continues. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum of British politics. They should not be given these public platforms, we have serious issues to deal with.

168 will be done soon, just let the numpties who have no stratergy sell out. The rest of us will sit on our hands. If people want to sell at a loss, that is their problem not mine.

Given the dire warnings of travel bans, a 'mass' sell off doesn't even make a 5% dip. After tomorrow has cleared away the threat of hotel quarantines then a big bounce back will be on the cards.

In the meantime, it is sit on my hands time, and I think a bacon butty to start the day.

"If the reasoning behind all of this is to stem the tide of supposed influencers or celebrities posting self publicising pictures"

Not withstanding the majority of them use private jets! Grounding commercial jets will have no impact on them at all.