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Originally Posted by jfman

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That's not really what she's saying. Imagine a bidding war where London and the south east drove up the prices (and bought all the supply of) vaccines to the UK leaving Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the North or England to fend for themselves at the back of the queue?

It'd be preposterous and the same principles applied to the EU - a situation where rich, northern European nations bought up the first doses leaving the rest at the back of th queue would be untenable.

There's no guarantee the EU states working seperately would have got more vaccines - only that they'd be unequally distributed and (in economic theory at least) cost more.

A ridiculously contrived scenario to make a lame point.
You usually do better than that.

The rest of that argument is reasonable conjecture without the contrived UK comparison. It's just that the centralised Commission should have performed better.