Is that really good enough? Just a photo of the test. Does the date in the metadata serve as proof for when I took it? Has anyone else entered the country recently who has done this as their pre-entry test?
Probably. Never signed on..
No tuts represent my resentment.
British Government accused of trying to start an "AstroTurf grass roots campaign", with government funding for a £565,000 publicly paid for ad campaign. To attack end to end encryption, particularly for messaging. On "a think of the children" basis.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/revealed-uk-government-publicity-blitz-to-undermine-privacy-encryption-1285453/
Like many other people covid left me unemployed with no future after just finishing a degree. I went onto universal credit (the dole/welfare) and they encouraged me to join a kickstarter job where I'm paid minimum wage to do work that requires degree level digital skill. I wondered why they never kept on their previous kickstarter employees and found out that the government still pays 100% of my wages plus the company get a tax break. Fucking disgusting. Tory government that pretends they're lowering unemployment and cutting spending and its all a big fucking lie, what a surprise.
TL;DR: Government is creating fake jobs to pretend the economy isn't collapsing and tory friend corpos are getting highly skilled degree graduate labour for free out of it.
Should I wreck my companie's socials and google drive files while I still have access? I'm so angry I could beat my boss to death with the company laptop he gave me.
Edit: For people who aren't understanding the context, the government is paying more for this than they do for normal UC, it's not to save money it's to pretend they are. Also some people seem to have taken the liberty of assuming I've not had a job before. I've worked solidly since I was old enough to get a job as a paperboy at 13, then worked a normal 9-5 in a factory when I left school at 17,did a few jobs working tills at tesco, then worked in pubs for 6 years while also volunteering at a youth group and getting a degree until covid closed the entire hospitality industry.
Just curious! Obviously it would be really easy for them to search the UK land registry to see if you'd ever been a UK homeowner, but how would they know beyond your own declaration that you had never had an interest in overseas property? I'm excluding UK overseas territories from "overseas" here. I mean like a house in Germany or the USA or something.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-for-people-travelling-to-england
From 4am 7 December, you can take the test any time in the 2 days before the service on which you will arrive in England departs. Children 11 and under are exempt.
NAAT tests (PCR), Lateral flow/antigen and LAMP all accepted.
(ETA: other NAAT tests accepted eg IDNOW in US - available at walgreens/CVS for free to non-citizens - appointment reqd). You will need to find a private test provider to take a test - NHS tests taken abroad won't be allowed.
Your test result can be provided as either:
- a printed document
- an email or text message you can show on your phone.
It must include:
- your name, which should match the name on your travel documents
- your date of birth or age
- the result of the test
- the date the test sample was collected or received by the test provider
- the name of the test provider and their contact details
- confirmation of the device used for the test, or that the test was a PCR test.
Like you all - I'm extremely exhausted over all these changes. I leave for US in a week and things constantly keep changing. This will definitely have a negative impact on tourism in the UK sadly.
