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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I also am pretty much convinced that France's reaction at the border has more to do with Brexit than Covid. Not saying it isn't prompted by Covid - but it smacks of "Hmph well you don't want to be in the EU anyway so HA" and I think if Brexit had never happened, it's very, VERY unlikely that the same action would have been taken. I'm anti-Brexit ... but that is just ridiculously petty.

they wouldn't legally have been able to do it had we still been in the eu, we aren't any more remember. Other eu countries have closed their borders in europe during the pandemic and if it were legally challenged they would be told to open up, but the legal challenge would probably have taken 5 years to be heard, so there is that

but anyway, the border closures are to appease the public, if there were an incident like that in France, the Sun would have front page headlines asking for the border to be closed. The governments will mumble about extra precautions and open up again soon enough