The more I hear @BrandonLewis explain plan to impose quarantine to passengers from healthier countries, the clearer it becomes it's a punitive measure, with no scientific basis, designed to give UK a bargaining chip in trying to get others to open their borders to Brits. #r4today
This way, they can make it look like "a deal". Otherwise, the UK appears simply as a supplicant, waiting for countries to announce their decision on whether Brits are allowed in. Which brings into the sharpest relief how poorly it has handled the pandemic.
We know the government became very keen sometime in April to "avoid international comparisons" because they were "unhelpful". And most countries closing their borders to you, is the most brutally unhelpful international comparison. But not if you've closed yours, too.
