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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Much as I'm amused by the boycotts taking place in a leafy corner of Berkshire, should you not be boycotting Indian and US companies instead?
These countries have actually prevented vaccine exports to the UK whilst the EU hasn't and has sent us 21m doses.
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A point of information: the EU hasn't sent us a sausage. A company which has directly contracted with the UK government has begun fulfilling that contract by sending vaccines here, from its factory in Belgium. There is no EU largesse here, unless of course we are to understand that the ability of any business to export its products is a privilege to be bestowed or withdrawn on a whim.
The 'but we're exporting more than anyone' line is a piece of PR smoke-and-mirrors, an attempt by the European Commission to both have its cake and eat it. It can't simultaneously claim that its problem with AstraZeneca is with the company, not the UK, while at the same time claiming credit for the vaccine exports of other companies.