The British Call The Shots

[Khandro]

Isn't it a fantastic achievement for Boris' Vaccine Taskforce, now having vaccinated more UK residents that the entire 27 countries of the EU combined have done for theirs?
Lots of men & women deserve accolades, but at the top should go Sir Patrick Vallance, "who from early on was hammering the point about onshore manufacturing" & the largely unsung 'Vaccine Tsar', Kate Bingham.
Three cheers for Britain at its best!

[Sunk]

bednobs

I posted on the previous page,
EU 20.4 million doses
UK 15.1 million doses.

[Sunk]

// If only sunk/gromit could have had Corbyn/McDonnell running things, then we'd have really seen some action. //

A diversionary post so early?
You lied, you were caught out, and now you try to change the subject.

[bednobs]

blimey this is hard work.
I KNOW what you posted, I CAN read
"Europe combined has vaccinated more people than the UK. " is your comment I was referring to

[bednobs]

I suppose it just annoys me regarding the difference between EU and Europe. When I asserted UK was still in Europe the other day, I got shot down till I asked "well what continent are we in then". Resounding silence from the person who;d been rude to me

[Khandro]

sunk: from where are you getting your figures ?

[Sunk]

This is a good read. It confirms Vallance’s pivotal role. Also reveals that Bingham has quietly gone away.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/secrets-of-the-vaccine-taskforces-success

[Sunk]

Khandro,
OurworldinData.org based at Oxford University. It was linked to earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_World_in_Data

Specifically, this page...

https://ibb.co/cTrMSph

[Khandro]

-'This is counted as a single dose and may not equal the total number of people vaccinated'-

[Sunk]

The majority of the UK vaccinated have so far had a single dose. Not sure what point you are making?

[vulcan42]

Sunk you refer to a specific page, that shows the EU started to inoculate before the UK, that's wrong for a start.

[New Judge]

This does make me chuckle.

The UK has administered more doses than the top five EU nations put together. More doses than the bottom 25 put together. It has provided vaccine to 21% of its population. Only five countries have managed a quarter of that percentage and one of them is Malta, with a population half that of London.

And here we are quibbling over whether it is "people" or "vaccinations" or whatever else.

[Canary42]

Isn't it odd that in the early days when Boris and his advisers were getting a lot of flack for their appalling handling of Covid, his sycophants raised the cry "How low can you go, making political capital out of the pandemic".

But now it's "wonderful wonderful Boris", so it's suddenly OK to make political capital out of the pandemic.

No change there, two-faced Toryism.

[Khandro]

Two faced Toryism (sic), beats two faced socialism any day.

[New Judge]

//No change there, two-faced Toryism.//

It's not two faced at all. I am a Tory supporter but I have been fiercely critical of some aspects of their handling of the pandemic, some of which has been an unmitigated balls-up (see my answer to this question at 12:25). But they've got the vaccination programme (so far) right - certainly considerably more right than our "Friends" in the EU.

There's nothing two-faced about criticising failure and applauding success.

[diddlydo]

I agree that the vaccine roll-out has been a great success story. But....the UK had a lot of catching up to do given the monstrous level of Covid deaths in this country compared to EU countries.

[Khandro]

^^ Meaningless post

[naomi24]

diddley, //During the past week, Portugal has had the world's highest death rate and new cases per capita//

https://www.politico.eu/article/world-highest-covid-19-rate-portugal-seven-free-icu-beds/

[diddlydo]

Naomi - I wasn't just talking about last week and you know that.

[Khandro]

"One Estontian MEP Jaak Madison told the European Parliament that von der Leyen has to resign .
He also lashed out at the EU's struggling vaccine rollout programme, pointing out that the UK is vaccinating at a rate five times higher than the EU average."

[diddlydo]

Not surprising that France for example has a pathetic vaccination rate compared to the UK - it's a well known fact (and nothing to do with being in the EU) that you have to fill in at least 5 forms in France even to be allowed to breathe. Covid has changed nothing in that respect.