Alone, a country can be a speedboat, while the EU is more like a tanker,

SuperStu said:
I'm pretty ambivalent about brexit vs the EU but as an observation - I don't think "the EUs good because it's members can just ignore what it tells them to do" is as good an argument as some seem to think.
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You might have missed the point. A lot of brexiteers thought (and very strangely STILL think) that we needed to leave because we didn't have sovereignty. Even though it's been proven incorrect brexiteers still seem to believe it
 
SmallTown said:
So. They leaned on us to join the euro, they leaned on Croatia to get rid of blue passports but we both ignored them. The EU countries all have sovereignty to carry out their own strategies. Hence why some countries are doing well and others aren’t
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See above
 
Does this answer it. She said;

'I can't even imagine what it would have meant for Europe, in terms of unity, if one or more member states had access to vaccines and not the others'.
 
There is also the issue of bureaucracy as the 27 member states had 5 days to say whether they agreed to concluding a contract with a pharmaceutical company which slowed things down.
 
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One of my concerns of EU membership is that you have another layer of Government which tends to slow down decision making.

Away from Covid - you are also trying to govern for a very wide set of needs - what Greece needs is different to Germany and thats differernt to say Romania. Its hard enough in this country where say Teesside's needs are different to London.
 
Is this still going on.. There is nothing to debate here. We were more agile because we were out if the EU. Whilst I don't like the way we left, it is because we are out that we managed to procure more vaccine shots than EU nations generally.

One thing doesn't make leaving the EU the right thing to do, but it will save UK lives, in this instance.
 
Laughing said:
Is this still going on.. There is nothing to debate here. We were more agile because we were out if the EU. Whilst I don't like the way we left, it is because we are out that we managed to procure more vaccine shots than EU nations generally.

One thing doesn't make leaving the EU the right thing to do, but it will save UK lives, in this instance.
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Why? Explain your working. We couldn’t we have followed the same vaccination routine from within the EU
 
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