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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Our European friends have supplied us with millions of vaccine doses. That situation was not about threatening the UK, it was about putting pressure on AstraZeneca. How many doses have we supplied our European friends with?
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Yeah ... let's knock this on the head right now.
To reiterate Papa's point: The EU supplied us with nothing. The British government has contracts with private companies. These have supplied the vaccine. To claim the EU was somehow responsible for this, and that we should be grateful, is to normalise the idea that normal rules of trade and contract exist only at the whim of governments. That says nothing good about respect for rule of law within the EU.
We have no reason to be grateful, or to consider the EU our 'friends', just because they have not yet arbitrarily intervened in the normal flow of international trade between their territory and ours. The same, sadly, cannot be said for Australia.