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Originally Posted by nomadking
So the EU decides who gets what. Say the EU orders 200m doses, but how many would we be allowed to have? If the UK alone produced 100m doses, how many of those would we be allowed to use?
Doesn't matter what the price the EU offers, somebody else out there is always going to outbid. The price of PPE went up mainly to individual customers. EU suppliers aren't going to charge outrageous prices, because it would be a PR nightmare.
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Drugs aren't produced by states, they're produced in states by drugs companies. This is consortia purchasing. If you get how this works then you will understand how the remainder of your post makes little sense.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
You can't resist the dig, can you. Your point is stilted beyond reasonableness.
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It's actually a spot-on point and I could see objections to this from EU member states. It's not a dig, that's a disappointingly defensive suggestion. It actually allows BoJo to face his critics in the eye and own the cake and eat argument.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Sort of true (it's really to secure supply) - but it doesn't invalidate Nomad's point that the EU is all about control and that's what the Guvmin will be weighing up.
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From what I've heard, the government's weighing up money saved v any donations and votes lost from hard line Eurosceptics so is consulting the latter, who are positive about it.