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Oh I’m sorry. I must have forgot to laugh at an entity, the corrupted EU, who scorned us for wanting to put an hard border on the Island of Ireland, were the ones to do just that tonight and then realise their feckup when Dublin just had to remind them they’re still there. :rolleyes:

jfman

30-01-2021 01:20

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36068751)

The British desperation for the EU to fail is my main reason for scepticism on the 62/70/90% effective AstraZeneca vaccine.

If you'd a product, even 30% effective, you'd punt it out the door quickly under emergency use authorisation and see what happened after. It's almost as if we are the big 65+ test the world is waiting on. If it doesn't work blame mutant strains.

Mick	30-01-2021 01:44

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I can’t be desperate for something to fail when it is already a failing entity.

Paul	30-01-2021 02:06

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The EU have made themselves look fools, even to their own members.

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Brussels was already under fire from a growing number of EU countries for having been slow to sign vaccine contracts with pharmaceutical companies.

This "mishap" over the Irish Protocol as Spain's Foreign Minister called it, hasn't exactly helped the Commission's reputation.

You can bet that 'mishap' is not the word used privately. ;)

Mr K	30-01-2021 07:31

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Another pointless post removed.

Maggy

30-01-2021 09:09

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36068743)

Give the EU some credit. For about 2 hours this evening the DUP and Sinn Feinn were in complete agreement on something.

Chris

30-01-2021 11:46

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Back in July, Boris Johnson turned down an invitation for Britain to join the EU's Covid vaccine scheme, taking the view that we'd be better off sourcing our own.

Cue the most almighty stink, with Opposition politicians falling over one another to score cheap points.

Catherine West, Labour's shadow minister for Europe, dubbed the decision 'dumb and dumber'. Her colleague, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, accused the Government of 'yet again putting ideology before saving lives'.

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James Felton, a comedy writer for The Guardian and BBC, accused the evil PM of 'killing your own citizens to own the EU'.

Six months on and we can all see exactly how these fanciful predictions panned out.

For in reality, the Government's decision to forgo the EU's hapless procurement vaccine scheme was neither stupid, nor evil. Instead, it has proven to be little short of a triumph. Britain now leads not just Europe but almost the entire developed world in inoculating its citizens.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...i-EU-plot.html

A story that really needs re-telling, repeatedly.

nomadking

30-01-2021 12:07

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The EU is guilty of judging the UK based on their own standards. The UK is far too honourable to want to hijack vaccine meant for the EU or anybody else.

Sephiroth

30-01-2021 16:59

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It's always worth digging into what the European press are saying.
This one is excellent. It definitively shows the degree of dither on the EC's part. I hope all of Europe has read this.

https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/...6986.bild.html

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A letter proves that the German Minister of Health, Jens Spahn (40, CDU) and his counterparts in France, Italy, and the Netherlands had to hand over the procurement of the life-saving vaccine to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen (62). They had to humbly apologize for their efforts to obtain the vaccine. This letter is exclusively available to BILD.
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The letter says: “Unfortunately, the parallel approach of the Alliance caused concerns. Therefore we believe that it is of utmost importance to have a common single and joint approach towards the various pharmaceutical companies (…) We also agree that speed is of the essence in this case. So we deem it very useful if the COM [Commission] takes the lead in this process. Of course, we are more than willing to continue our further support and expertise.”

The letter is date "June 2020"; no idea why there isn't a day given. I hate that - people often do that in documentation and Guvmin certainly does that.

Mad Max

30-01-2021 20:38

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36068777)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...i-EU-plot.html

A story that really needs re-telling, repeatedly.

This.........^ ^

1andrew1

30-01-2021 22:08

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36068751)

Oh I’m sorry.

Apology accepted. ;)

Sephiroth

30-01-2021 22:25

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36068813)

Apology accepted. ;)

You wish!

I suppose we can be just a little kinder to Remainers than Mick might be (he didn't mince his words telling you what the EU is like - and they've proved him right).

The small kindness I can offer is that the Remainers on this thread never saw anything like this coming. Now that it has happened, perhaps you could have the grace to admit that there was a strong case for leaving the EU.

The UK will rebuild its economy. I will be interesting to see how the failed Commission will facilitate the EU's revival. A total pox on the EC.

Chris

31-01-2021 00:11

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The BBC’s chief regime apologist for the EU, Katya Adler, has twisted the knife in the European Commission’s twitching body today, after trying, and failing, to get any of her usual friendly rent-une-quote contacts to say anything remotely nice about it. That’s how bad this was.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55872763

nomadking

31-01-2021 02:46

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For all the arguing over the end of the peace process, if a hard border had been put in place, I wonder which side(UK or Irish) the IRA would've attacked, if the EU regulation had actually been carried out.

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