Current Affairs EU In or Out

[peteblue]

Cockles and chips anyone ?

EU shellfish import ban indefinite, UK fishing industry told

The government promises to push Brussels to change its transport rules on scallops, clams and mussels.

www.bbc.co.uk

Friends and Allies, I even heard Boris call them ‘partners’ yesterday....we can of course just put a couple of million into facilities in the U.K. to purify the shellfish, then send them over to the EU with appropriate paperwork. This will unfortunately create more jobs in the U.K, and remove some jobs from the EU.......

 

[Billy Dean]

Headline writers know how to get people wound up, yes. Just to reiterate though, how does her stating that the EMA took longer to check the safety of the vaccines undermine faith in those vaccines among Europeans? Indeed, given that the vaccines we're getting here have all been approved by the EMA, I'm not sure how they undermine faith in those vaccines here either.

I tend to agree. The headlines have turned her words around on her a little bit. Not as bad as Macron's comments at all.

 

[summerisle]

Friends and Allies, I even heard Boris call them ‘partners’ yesterday....we can of course just put a couple of million into facilities in the U.K. to purify the shellfish, then send them over to the EU with appropriate paperwork. This will unfortunately create more jobs in the U.K, and remove some jobs from the EU.......

Taxpayers' money I presume, another Brexit bonus.

 

[Kurt.]

Friends and Allies, I even heard Boris call them ‘partners’ yesterday....we can of course just put a couple of million into facilities in the U.K. to purify the shellfish, then send them over to the EU with appropriate paperwork. This will unfortunately create more jobs in the U.K, and remove some jobs from the EU.......

 

[thirdmantackle]

The simple fact is that so many of your public representatives actually had no clue about what was going to happen after Brexit nor had any interest in educating themselves

Sunny uplands though, innit?

 

[thirdmantackle]

They won’t let it go, they just keep digging the same hole while trying to undermine the British efforts and decisions as a way of justifying their own incompetence. Not realising the immense damage they are doing to the confidence of the populations. But as long as they can get themselves off the hook then that’s ok......

The UK paid a higher early price for access to vaccines
They are also changing the time between doses. Who knows what the effects will be

AND they are preventing UK plants delivering vaccines to the EU for orders there, while at the same time accepting EU made vaccines

 

[peteblue]

The UK paid a higher early price for access to vaccines
They are also changing the time between doses. Who knows what the effects will be

AND they are preventing UK plants delivering vaccines to the EU for orders there, while at the same time accepting EU made vaccines

Cost is irrelevant isn’t it, or would you rather the U.K. negotiated the price down over a further three months. he U.K. has spent more money than the whole of the EU on developing and purchasing vaccine, and I for one am pleased about that. Penny pinching at this moment in time is lunacy and the cost represents barely a small % of the overall Covid cost.

Oxford have confirmed that the timescale between doses at 12 weeks is fine.

The U.K. is not preventing AZ from delivering vaccines to the EU, they are just receiving those which they ordered. The U.K. does not have a block on exporting vaccine unlike the attempt by the EU. The U.K. is receiving EU made vaccines precisely as they ordered them. They are owned by the U.K. International law you see.....

 

[peteblue]

Taxpayers' money I presume, another Brexit bonus.

And why not. The EU call it state aid. How much money have the EU put aside for their fishermen ?.....

 

[summerisle]

And why not. The EU call it state aid. How much money have the EU put aside for their fishermen ?.....

I've no idea, never mind, perhaps we can use some of this :

 

[peteblue]

I've no idea, never mind, perhaps we can use some of this :

Why not, it’s peanuts and it keeps businesses going. Personally I would address every single attempt by the EU to shaft one of our businesses and put money in to improve facilities and productivity.....

 

[Old Blue 2]

Why not, it’s peanuts and it keeps businesses going. Personally I would address every single attempt by the EU to shaft one of our businesses and put money in to improve facilities and productivity.....

Look out, pete. Gross equivalence rears it head. Again...

 

[Jebus_lives]

Who could have predicted that the 'not border' in Northern Ireland is, as it turns out, a border?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Who could have predicted that the 'not border' in Northern Ireland is, as it turns out, a border?

Seems a bit like

PM: ‘No hesitation’ in triggering post-Brexit trade safeguarding measure if needed

The Prime Minister said ‘teething problems’ had led to images of empty supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland.

uk.style.yahoo.com

“I can tell him that at the moment goods are flowing effectively and in normal volumes between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So far no lorries have been turned back.

“Yes of course there are teething problems and what I can confirm to him is that if there are problems that we believe are disproportionate then we will have no hesitation in invoking Article 16.”

but then about a fortnight later

Gove: EU 'made a mistake' in triggering Article 16

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says he's "confident" of UK vaccine supply after EU row.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[peteblue]

Seems a bit like

PM: ‘No hesitation’ in triggering post-Brexit trade safeguarding measure if needed

The Prime Minister said ‘teething problems’ had led to images of empty supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland.

uk.style.yahoo.com

but then about a fortnight later

Gove: EU 'made a mistake' in triggering Article 16

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says he's "confident" of UK vaccine supply after EU row.

www.bbc.co.uk

I think there is a slight difference between potentially using article 16 to send urgent food supplies to NI from U.K. without barriers, rather than deny vaccines to NI by erecting a barrier between ROI and NI........but carry on defending your beloved EU.....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think there is a slight difference between potentially using article 16 to send urgent food supplies to NI from U.K. without barriers, rather than deny vaccines to NI by erecting a barrier between ROI and NI........but carry on defending your beloved EU.....

I'd suggest perhaps the supply of vaccines to the people of Europe is pretty urgent, no? It wasn't the right thing to suggest, but it wasn't exactly done on a whim.