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London Calling

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London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

James and Toby spend more time on the road than Hope and Crosby but unfortunately it’s not together. This week we’re all about James’s return to grey old England after his glorious week in Croatia and Toby’s trip to Scotland (in which he fails, spectacularly, to shoot a deer). After the personal preliminaries we touch on the redaction of the emails from Sir Patrick Vallance (the UK’s version of... Source

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0:00.0

This is London Calling.

0:03.0

You know, we've now lost that traffic light system and the constant changes between the various different parts of that traffic light system which really was putting people off.

0:13.0

And also more importantly if you're double vaccinated now,

0:16.0

you no longer have to take that lateral flow test

0:18.0

to get back into the UK from your holiday destination. Welcome to London Calling with me, James Dally Paul and my very good friend, Mr. Tobey Young.

0:31.0

Well Tobes, I'm very, very grudgingly back from Croatia.

0:38.0

And I can tell you, it's so much better than it is here.

0:41.0

When did you get back, James?

0:43.0

Um, yesterday, Sunday.

0:44.4

In fact, that was past the problem, you know?

0:46.7

I was going to come back today, but Boris, I don't know why, Johnson, rather.

0:53.8

Johnson decided that he was going to change the rules.

0:58.4

So had I come back today as I originally planned and booked and paid for, I would have had to do 10 days

1:06.6

in quarantine because of course the coronavirus knows what day of the year it is and changes

1:12.4

its habits accordingly.

1:14.3

It's just...

1:15.3

I understand that but yesterday because you came back yesterday and it was a green listed country.

1:21.6

Because you're unvaccinate, even though you're unvaccinated, you don't have to spend 10 days

1:26.5

in quarantine, but you do have to do what do a two day PCR test? Yeah, yeah. So, so it's all

1:31.7

designed to punish the unvaccinated. That's all it is. It's designed to put more

1:38.0

rig-n-roll in their way. And I saw the headline in the Sunday Telegraph saying something like great news everyone

1:46.6

Boris makes it easier to travel or something I think no he hasn't this is an absolute

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