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'Nothing much, just faraging for food...'
https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1373765153536278536
And the argument that AZN hasn't fulfilled its obligation to the EU is complete bollocks. They've also not met their obligation to the UK.
https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1373766304730079239?s=20
Have they actually learned self control, or is it just that, domestically, the EU helps Boris with Brexit issues every time they rail at the UK over vaccines so the government simply cannot get angry in return?
And it makes an amiable EU/UK relationship near-impossible
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1373737990732800010
One part bile, one part bitter.
For a Brexiteering government, you could not have scripted 2021 better (in terms of politics, not the human suffering). Every Leaver argument (over sovereignty, bureaucracy, transparency) has been vindicated a thousand times over
Tragic, but true. All Boris has to do is say nothing and look reasonable. I have a lot of Remainer friends, they are all deathly quiet, or actively angry at Brussels. Only the absolute loons are holding out
Nevertheless our own government’s prior idiocy weakens our moral position considerably.
Problem is stuff like this takes on a life of its own, and what may begin as a performance becomes real and you can quickly cause far greater damage than you intended.
I've just been reading Francis Fukuyama's wrongly maligned The End Of History And The Last Man. The final 'Last Man' section asks how satisfied we will actually all be with secure liberal democracy. On the uprisings of 1968 I quote:
'Those students who temporarily took over Paris and brought down General de Gaulle had no rational reason to rebel, as they were for the most part pampered offspring of one of the freest and most prosperous societies on earth. But it was precisely the absence of struggle and sacrifice in their middle class lives that led them to take to the streets and take on the police. While many of them were infatuated with unworkable fragments of ideas about Maoism, they had no particularly coherent vision of a better society. The substance of their protest however was a matter of indifference; what they rejected was life in a society in which ideals had somehow become impossible.'
So our gov being awful on something can be true, but not really relevant in a specific moment.
I think they're stuck between the logic of what you say (they can see this is mad) but also the frantic panic of German and French politicians: the CDU staring at an historic meltdown, Macron terrified he might go out in the 1st round, or might even lose to Le Pen. By contrast, Rutte has scraped another term, probably, so is not afraid of his voters
But he is afraid of Germany and France
So the risks of a messy legal argument with the UK (which they seem to have been seeking for over a month, in trying to draw the UK into their contractual dispute with AZ via Article 16 and accusations of vaccine nationalism) really seem to outweigh any potential benefits. Bluster and sabre rattling can have a purpose, but that was already going on, why escalate it further?
WHY cannot NF further monetize himself, by making peddling a cute, cuddly plush toy named after himself? Why not indeed?
And IF he takes up my idea, will only cost him my standard commission of 13.6147% per diem compounded hourly.
Perhaps the Nigel Numbat? Or maybe the Farage Ferret?
It's displacement activity, so that they can pretend to themselves that they are doing something.
If this is correct it is an outrageous betrayal of our armed forces and our national security to cut them yet further in an unstable world and I know most of my fellow Tory members will be appalled too
Coincidentally the EU meeting on vaccines is on Thursday. So on Thursday maybe the EU are going to announce that they "insist" that all vaccine supplies held at Halix are distributed to the EU. AZ will oblige, by doing nothing more than fulfilling a contractual obligation. The EU will claim they've faced them down (and imply that they've redirected vaccine previously destined for the UK). But it will all be smoke and mirrors, and strangely won't impact on the UK rollout at all.
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1282111081146650624
How else do you explain the behaviour of, say, Jens Spahn, the German Health Minister? Leaking the 8% AZ lie, then banning AZ, now ordering Sputnik....
I am almost serious
If they'd done that they could have had massive supplies coming on sooner rather than later.
I wonder if the big CureVac* order is part of the problem, with a desire to have an EU solution to CV19.
* I hear CureVac is efficacious but with a lot of adverse reactions - it will be interesting if they can sell it to a vaccine sceptical public.
The whole thing is a disaster that could have been fixed with €10-12bn in January for manufacturing subsidies.
You'd also think that Spain will have had to have given assurances to Moderna, otherwise there is no chance that they will do fill there.
The obsession in the commission around cost saving has been a real disaster.
I've never been in favour of no deal, I'm now starting to see the attraction of just dropping the EU trade deal completely in 5 years and giving our 1 year of notice unless the EU agrees to wide ranging mutual recognition within the treaty rather than these tight band equivalence or uncompetitive unilateral alignment.
Adding totally useless nukes, taking away actually useful soldiers, is indefensible, should be overturned, and should be used as a stick to beat Johnson and anyone who defends to that decision with.
Can nukes help with our vaccine rollout? Thought not.
The root cause of EU irrational behaviour is the pressure being put on both heads of state and commission, by media and public, due to performance on this issue by those heads of state and commission. The problem here on PB is you respond in terms of law, this is example of crap contract, this example of water tight contract, and this means IPR resides here, not there. And with science, where you can cancel a moonshot because it’s better to have no answer rather than go with a wrong answer. But in politics you can’t. It’s about saying you have answers and taking action. In politics you can’t even say “no, we made no plans for early election” when you plainly did.
So we come to the clear difference between many of you posting here and me. I would like to see the problems on the continent causing the pressure on the commission and heads of state go away, and I am beginning to doubt now if so many of you think like me. For lesson from the Bible influence comes from friendship, you help others to receive help yourselves. but rather like the front of tomorrow’s Metro and Daily Express, you don’t appreciate finding solution to their political difficulty and helping with it as in any way important to us here? Like, our end of the boat is dry and out the water, their end is taking in water and going down, but that’s not our problem. But we are sharing the same boat?
eg Imposing a new hard frontier in Ireland probably *sounded* great in Brussels over a glass of dark monkish ale - tough, firm, rigorous - but if they'd talked to someone sane and mapped it out over the next day or two, they'd have realised it was barmy, if not dangerous.
They need to clear our the entire Commission, all of them. They have competent people, Barnier for instance. But the obsession with elevating mediocrities that can't menace the national leaders is killing them.
OK, night night, PB, night night
All down to the decision to go with a first jab first policy in the UK. That's the biggest reason we psychologically feel we are so far ahead of the EU as well I would guess. It still seems remarkable that no other country has had the guts to go with a 12 week dosing gap.
Surely in the end diplomacy will resolve this before lives get lost and things become more ridiculous. The thrashing around by Von der Leyen and co is rapidly diminishing the global status of Europe to somewhere between Myanmar and Venezuala.
I don't think we were "right to leave" but I'm certainly not happy with how the EU are acting and I'm certainly not angling to rejoin any time soon.
There's a difference.
You don't have to turn everything into a Remain vs Leave thing ffs.
That will show em
FFS what has happened to posters today.