Members of the Lords immune from travel bans?

[Hacker]

Today saw the arrival of a “superyacht” Virginian in a Falmouth. Our good friends on google suggest that it is owned by Lord Bamford, he of JCB fame. Marine Traffic suggests that it has come from France. I suspect that the crew are going to isolate for a minimum of 7 days and will not be coming ashore. Obviously necessary travel. Discuss.

 

[[70521]]

14 days is the norm.

Please let me know when friends arrive in UK waters from Cuba, they set off about a week ago.

 

[Halo]

The Bamford family have built a world leading business that makes things in the UK. They are not money shavers, property developers or asset strippers like so money other rich people. If they want to sail or move a superyacht in international waters that is fine by me.

 

[awol]

The Bamford family have built a world leading business that makes things in the UK. They are not money shavers, property developers or asset strippers like so money other rich people. If they want to sail or move a superyacht in international waters that is fine by me.

I'm sure they are much relieved to know that!

 

[mainsail1]

Nice looking motor boat.

 

[V1701]

Well wherever they departed from presumably wasn't in complete lockdown or they wouldn't have been allowed to leave and they're still allowed to land here (subject to quarantine?) so much as I'd quite like to tut & say one law for the rich and another for the rest of us it looks like that's not the case. I live in the marina here as do many others but nobody's going sailing because it's not in the spirit of what we're all supposed to be doing so you could argue that their trip isn't in the spirit. There was one boat (large mobo, well it would be wouldn't it) that left the marina a couple of days ago, that's all as far as I know, apart from the fishing boats of course...

 

[alan_d]

In order to be able to stay at home you have to get there first ....

 

[mm42]

Keep looking around Marine Traffic and you’ll see there is all sorts of commercial shipping moving around. Maybe it was a repositioning run, maybe coming in for work to keep yards employed, who knows.

Sir Anthony used to be a client of mine and is a very pleasant chap, whose company is currently using their engineering expertise and capacity to make ventilators for the current crisis so maybe cut him some slack?

 

[Laser310]

Keep looking around Marine Traffic and you’ll see there is all sorts of commercial shipping moving around. Maybe it was a repositioning run, maybe coming in for work to keep yards employed, who knows.

hopefully the commercial shipping will keep moving around..., considering that quite a lot of food arrives that way...

 

[dombuckley]

hopefully the commercial shipping will keep moving around..., considering that quite a lot of food arrives that way...

Yes, those who work in merchant shipping and supporting trades have been classed as "key workers"

 

[mm42]

Quite right. There’s a lot of us out there in the commercial world making sure the UK keeps going.