A Guardian Story Ttt Will Enjoy

[jno]

"I hate to say it, but Britain's doing OK. Even Germany envies us..."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/28/i-hate-to-say-it-but-britains-doing-ok-even-germany-envies-us

Sorry, can't think of a question, but feel free to chatter among yourselves.

[Jackdaw33]

Thank you for that. Now it is the Leavers' turn to say:

"I told you so".

[woofgang]

I know...and there is bickering and swearing https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/04/german-minister-criticises-von-der-leyen-over-covid-vaccines-disgrace

[douglas9401]

For you, ze var is over.

[woofgang]

and who'da thunk the vaccines would have been developed so quickly and its better to be a tanker than a speedboat....
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/emmanuel-macron-and-angela-merkel-defend-eu-vaccine-approach-1.1160473

[KARL]

130,000 people are not clapping.......but who cares, let's move on.

[tonyav]

I hate to say it, but Britain's doing OK. Even Germany envies us...
Ed Cumming

For those of us who like to talk Britain down, all this good news is hard to take.

What a strange man ( mind you he does write for The Guardian ).

[ToraToraTora]

wow has jno been taken over by aliens?

[jno]

just thought you'd like a little light reading from a paper you might not normally look at, TTT.

[naomi24]

Coo … there’s a first. A diehard Remoaner who, unlike the rest, admits he likes to talk Britain down. :o)

[tomus42]

Satire disappearing up its own April.

[ichkeria]

Nice.
Thanks jno :-)

[mushroom25]

just inserting some advocacy of the devil -

had the UK still been in the EU, then so would Oxford University, and the EU's attitude to their vaccine is likely to have been very different. It's likely it, and other UK-produced vaccines would have feature more prominently in the EU's buying spree. would the EU have been any better off in such a scenario, or the UK worse off? we'll never know, but it's possible.

[jno]

mushroom, as I recall the Oxford one was the one they initially suspected Britain was withholding from them. They only changed their tune on it when reports started coming through that it was less effective on the elderly (which is probably a good reason to be wary, if the reports prove to be true).