EU slaps vaccine export ban rules on UK

[Centralscrutinizer]

It's about brexit now. I once started a thread about dark Vs milk chocolate on biscuits and three pages later it was about brexit, two people had been banned and something was on fire.

And I imagine that after pages of rather strident posts nobody "won" the argument or changed anybody's mind Same as this thread.

 

[Andy_W]

You seem to have conveniently forgotten that EU asked us last year to be part of their vaccination procurement programme. We said thanks but no thanks we can do it better than you guys. Boy what a good decision that was despite the outcry. Enjoy your bingo.

I've not forgotten. We chose not to do it, largely because we didn't want to be part of something we had no say in (which is a point we remainers have been saying for years). This will be the same for trade, except we won't be able to turn down trade, or "go it alone" and trade only internally (or we will go broke), we will just not get a say on the EU's methods and approvals, yet still have to abide by their criteria.

I've not denied that being outside the EU gave us more vaccine options, of course it has, but one right does not correct ten wrongs. At least I can admit the vaccine thing is a positive, you can't look beyond your brexit blinkers.

What have we done "better"? You think 106k dead and some early vaccines is better than say Germany? IF I had to chose I'd rather have less virus, less deaths, less vaccine and economy more likely to recover. They will be caught up by summer with the vaccine, but will never catch us with the deaths, and we will drop further behind economically.

 

[Laughing]

It's about brexit now. I once started a thread about dark Vs milk chocolate on biscuits and three pages later it was about brexit, two people had been banned and something was on fire.

That should have been an easy thread, dark chocolate the devils work, milk chocolate yummy. McVities do a bakewell digestive, top notch biscuit.

 

[bear66]

BBC has just quoted 80-90% efficacy for vaccines against the original variant, which is better than the 60% against the SA variant (by vaccines other than Oxford AZ, which is still being evaluated). But the Oxford AZ efficacy two doses were only 62% efficacy in stage 3 trials, which were even before the Kent variant. 60% is now considered poor.

 

[billsykes]

That should have been an easy thread, dark chocolate the devils work, milk chocolate yummy. McVities do a bakewell digestive, top notch biscuit.

Yes but milk chocolate will have to be regulated by the EU thus denying us our sovereign rights while dark chocolate was invented by Oxbridge scientists and is as British as Haggis, which will also be banned by the EU once Scotland gains independence and rejoins the EU.

Did I miss anything out?