Europeans now need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) permit to visit the UK – here’s what to know
New £16 charge for UK visitors as ETA travel scheme finally rolls out
Exclusive: Unofficial sites charging eight times the official price have already sprung up
Okay, will choose another country to visit next then. One of all the fellow EU countries I can freely visit without any sort of visa. The UK needs the EU and shoot's themselves if you ask me
That's exactly the point. You're not wanted here, and shitty policies like this are in place to deter you from coming here. It's a byproduct of the anti-immigration hysteria.
I wouldn't blame you in the slightest for going elsewhere. The UK is a sickly place these days.
I had a survey from my local (Tory) MP. On it were "on a scale of zero to ten, how important are these national issues to you?" Alongside obviously important stuff like the NHS, was "Immigration". I rated it Zero.
Just for completeness sake, the EU is currently in the process of introducing a similar system called ETIAS.
Wow, reading that side in-app browser without the fancy ad blockers is literally cancer, there is basically no space left to read anything
On topic: those brits will forever puzzle me, on the other hand, so do most humans
Visting internet without an ad blocker is literally impossible these days. It's simply mandatory.
more of an Ireland kind of guy anyway..
Can someone eli5 why this exist other than to milk tourists?
It's defintely that. They went even further before until it was pointed out to them that it was a bit to obvious.
Appeasing the anti-immigration political right. Since hating immigration is in vogue right now. It's not just non-EU citizens that we treat with contempt. It's also EU citizens, especially eastern Europeans.
I hate the direction the UK is taking.
Eh, I guess that also makes sense in the dumbest way possible. Man what shitty times.