Petition · past parliament
Suspend ALL passenger flights/ferries entering the country OR remove lockdown
Rejected
13 signatures
What the petition asks
we are under lockdown. people are out of work. yet the government are allowing immigrants to be flown in by the plane load to pick fruit etc, despite thousands of UK residents applying for the jobs and being ignored in favour of immigrants from abroad.
The more people are coming in and out of the country, the greater the chances of the disease spreading. if the disease spread was a real concern, then the airports and ferry ports would have been shut down COMPLETELY to passenger flights/trips. it makes a mockery of having a lockdown as long as the government allows this to continue to happen ALL flights should be grounded and airports closed to ALL passenger flights including charters and repatriations, or scrap the lockdown.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Petitions have to call on the Government to take a specific action.
We have published the following petitions, which request the options referred to in your petition.
Close the Borders of the United Kingdom to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus: Close the Borders of the United Kingdom to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus.
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https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
We have published the following petitions, which request the options referred to in your petition.
Close the Borders of the United Kingdom to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus: Close the Borders of the United Kingdom to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus.
End lockdown to prevent further economic damage to the UK’s economy: End lockdown to prevent further economic damage to the UK’s economy.
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
Timeline
| 16 Apr 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 22 Jun 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
13
Status
Rejected
Rejected
22 Jun 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.