If there was ever a way of hardening anti EU sentiment.......difficult to imagine a more effective way. Who was advising the EU. Would’nt have been Farage by any chance would it?
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I saw that and you have a point but it's still a stupid idea, particulaly if it actually comes from the commission and not the member states. Though, thinking about it I wonder if Von Der Leyen isn't under pressure behind the scene which would explain her behavior in the last few days.
So after all that talk of avoiding hard borders at all costs and not risking they peace process... the unilaterally override the protocol for short term political optics. Despicable if that’s the reason.
Yeah, pretty much. Politicians primary motivation for everything is winning votes. This week’s shocking revelation.
I’m sure she’s under pressure. All the heads of state are being crucified by the opposition in every session of parliament, all over the EU. So who else do they pick up the phone to when they want to vent at the end of the day?
How does it feel to live in a world without any room for nuance?
Ha ha, everyone I’ve spoke to who voted remain is scratching their heads at this.
Don’t let that get in the way of Vidic narrative though, we can never speak out of line about the EU, we all think it’s perfect.
Doesn't this describe this thread?
Where else but our Frankish cousins? Will be just like old times.
I’m really interested as to where he wants them? Attack Belgium? Drones to Den Haag? U-Boats to Stockholm?
If an uninvolved third party just happened to read through this thread from the beginning, I think that this would be the conclusion.
Oh no, they’ve pissed off God now.
I’ll say it again, they are acting out Star Wars trade wars. Who is palpatine?
Tanks in the sea to guard our fish should be our first priority.
Bit rich to take the moral high ground if the jist of this is that the UK won’t allow any export of the AZ vaccine until they’ve received 100 million doses
I wanna see that UK contract sooo bad.
Our happy fish.
feck me there’s a fate worse than death.
We've just closed our borders to non-EU. Another time.
Bit rich to take the moral high ground if the jist of this is that the UK won’t allow any export of the AZ vaccine until they’ve received 100 million doses
I wanna see that UK contract sooo bad.
I don't think the UK have said that have they? In fact, the AZ vaccine is already being produced in India.
The rumours have been that the UK AZ site must give the first 100m doses to the UK.
Is that false information?
Not until the pasteur institute vaccine went tits up.
Ah I thought you meant the UK government had released something saying they were going to control exports, in a similar vein to what the EU are saying now.
If you mean contractually, I have no idea to be honest.
Guardian article
"Ministers were prepared to pay a few hundred million upfront, allowing the company to build its first virus manufacturing process, and the UK government to demand its citizens be vaccinated first.
“That underpinned all of it,” an industry insider said."
So the UK is doing vaccine nationalism and AZ probably did two contracts, with colliding obligations.
And just as a thought:
The US is probably doing the same, so the EU and its production sites are providing not only their own citizens, but also the vaccines for the rest of the world that has no access to vaccinees ( and in fairness Russia and China, not sure about India).
So the UK has the high ground in this debate?
I wonder who authorised this. Looks like a move that has been thoroughly deliberated and planned by Donald Trump.
Mr. Pmurt from some place far away
few people in this thread and other related threads, who for 5 years couldn’t let a gnats fart go by if it painted the EU in a bad light without responding. Suddenly all out for dinner on Friday night it seems
The pfizer-biotech vaccine is a German-American endeavour.
The AZ is a Swedish-British endeavour.
Moderna American.
J&J American.
Novovax American.
All of those vaccine candidates, in different stages of being authorised and used around the world. How exactly is the EU 'providing vaccines for the rest of the world' while the UK and USA are not?
The post makes even less sense seeing as India has been authorised to produce the AZ vaccine in large numbers and has already supplied Brazil with some of the vaccine too.
To be honest, I don't find it that funny to see the EU descend into the same nonsensical political football playing the Tories have been engaging in for the past few years and it isn't good news for the UK if that is the kind of political discourse both sides will engage in in any kind of regular way from now on.
Let's hope it was a one off bad decision made in the heat of the moment by people under incredible pressure and that they row it back before we have the chance to respond in kind.
Let's hope it was a one off bad decision made in the heat of the moment by people under incredible pressure and that they row it back before we have the chance to respond in kind.
The EU is officially finished.
I hope not. The RAF are entering data onto our vaccination system for us. We need them where they are
I mean, you don't actually think that politicians on the continent aren't as cnutish as the ones you have in the UK? Have you seen a single european poster say something good about their politicians?
Sparky still hasn’t told me where he’d send the tanks? The fecker, I’m on tenterhooks here.
ha ha.
We make them that way though in fairness, no non-cnut gets far in politics as we won’t vote for them. We seem to like the sneakiest cnuts best of all.
You're right, they are of course as cnutish as the ones we have here. Just we've been airing our cuntishness for all to see in the past 5 years. Maybe I expected slightly better than the utter depths the Tories have taken us from the EU commission though.
