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Originally Posted by Hugh
As have the EU, so not sure of your point...
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It’s not difficult Hugh.
The may have “placed an order” but nothing has arrived and there doesn’t seem to be a hard delivery date.
U.K. has physically gone to Turkey put the items in the trolley and gone home with them.
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The point of the EU Procurement Exercise was to provide a central stockpile, using co-ordinated mass buying power, to be called off as required after delivery, with regular agreed future orders, rather than individual countries having to continually scrabble around competing against the rest of the world.
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Well it hasn’t provided anything yet.
Also there is no detail as to how the stockpile will be managed, who will manage it and who will get what and when.
What if we put all our faith in this EU scheme and nothing turned up for 3-4 weeks and when it did a lesser amount arrived in the first shipment and we got allocated a smaller % than Italy and Spain, and not enough for our needs.....................
No doubt the media would be very understanding that we didn’t go out and procure our own stuff?