Current Affairs EU In or Out

[Billy Dean]

LOL @ digging out the EU for halting exports while the UK and US are doing exactly that.

 

[peteblue]

I don't know to be honest. It's a bit of a strange one. The other day it was announced that France would donate 100,000 doses of the AZ vaccine to Czech, so there are clearly supplies out there.

Germany has 1.5 Million doses doing nothing .........

 

[peteblue]

LOL @ digging out the EU for halting exports while the UK and US are doing exactly that.

Not really. If someone has bought doses and they were within a schedule production with dates and itemised as being owned by a particular country, then certainly the U.K. would not put an export control on their delivery. The EU, apparently at the behest of Italy have done just that .......

 

[peteblue]

Any idea why? Like if the Italians are having problems with domestic vaxing, I can kinda see that sending 250,000 to Oz might be a hard sell to Italians.

No one is asking the Italians to send 250,000 doses of their own supply to Australia. The Australian government have ordered, paid and have a contract for their delivery. The doses belong to Australia.....

 

[peteblue]

UK was part of it once upon a time; however about a third of the electorate voted to leave ,and leave they did.

And as less than one third of the electorate voted to remain, we didn’t .......

 

[Billy Dean]

Not really. If someone has bought doses and they were within a schedule production with dates and itemised as being owned by a particular country, then certainly the U.K. would not put an export control on their delivery. The EU, apparently at the behest of Italy have done just that .......

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have put all kinds of export restrictions in place during the pandemic. It's terrible behaviour but not limited to the EU.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Well well well rip up the TCA and go WTO then. Be a laugh until it all comes crashing down in an instant.

EU parliament shelves vote on Brexit deal after Boris Johnson ‘violates’ agreement

Group leaders have paused the ratification process amid the latest row

www.independent.co.uk

 

[peteblue]

 

[peteblue]

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have put all kinds of export restrictions in place during the pandemic. It's terrible behaviour but not limited to the EU.

The U.K. has put no restrictions in place of Vaccines. We placed an order, just as the EU could have done. All the EU are doing is trying to deflect criticism for the absolute shambles they have made of ordering and rolling out the vaccines. They have millions of doses of AZ which are not being utilised because of their previous deflection onto AZ and the disgraceful Political stance taken, against the advice of their own EMA, to trash the AZ vaccine and undermine its acceptance. They screwed up and continue digging a bigger hole every day.....

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Guardian way of telling it's readership Government lied.

UK Statistics Authority rebukes Gove over Brexit figures

Cabinet Office used ‘unverifiable data’ to rebut a Road Haulage Association survey showing export volumes dropped by 68%

www.theguardian.com

 

[summerisle]

 

[tsubaki]

No one is asking the Italians to send 250,000 doses of their own supply to Australia. The Australian government have ordered, paid and have a contract for their delivery. The doses belong to Australia.....

This is true pete, but it does ignore the elephant in the room that is the EU having ordered, paid and have a contract with AZ as well.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

They can get gigs playing guitar in @Old Blue 2 's local pub though and should stop complaining.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This is true pete, but it does ignore the elephant in the room that is the EU having ordered, paid and have a contract with AZ as well.

Yeah but that contract doesn't count. Incidentally, it's noteworthy that given the dire situation in Czech at the moment that a number of European countries have stepped forward to help, both in terms of accepting Covid patients and donating vaccines. I'm far from a Marxist, but the doctrine of "each according to his ability, to each according to his need" seems quite apt right now.

 

[Old Blue 2]

They can get gigs playing guitar in @Old Blue 2 's local pub though and should stop complaining.

And in return you can go and live permanently on the EU mainland as you are so enamoured of that institution...