Except that one was before the fact, written into the contract, and justified by substantial upfront investment and taking on of financial risk. The other was after the fact, and (if imposed) indepen… (View Post)

I think it's more that the EC do know that there's a difference, but in an attempt to deflect blame are whipping up populist outrage to try to justify their position. And naturally a substa… (View Post)

No they didn't. Guaranteeing initially ordered UK supply from UK plants (into which they put substantial upfront investment) is not an "exclusivity clause". For example, the UK couldn&… (View Post)

In other words... the contractual circumstances in place. All of which are a consequence of your 3 points. And why the EU don't have a (contractual) leg to stand on. And look bl**dy ridiculous w… (View Post)

Over the last week the EU approach seems to be largely predicated on an assumption of some level of UK duplicity/conspiracy and manipulation of vaccine supplies. Whereas their problem is that actuall… (View Post)