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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
We absolutely did the right thing on vaccines. But to use one optional procurement project as a business case for not retaining closer ties to our major market and to replace it with lots of red tape, costs bureaucracy and other deterrents to trade is interesting, to say the least.  |
On the contrary, the vaccine debacle has shown up the European Commission for the dictatorial, inept organ that it is. This is not a new thing - it’s just our first major experience of seeing it the way
most of the world sees it. Previously we would sit in our corner and moan about its pettifogging bureaucracy and its political tin ear, and all the while our national reputation and economic power was propping it up and adding to its legitimacy.
The European Union is diminished by our departure, and a good thing too. No longer will the world perceive us to be a part of that shower.