Tsk, Tsk Poor Euro ?

[Bobbisox1]

Stamping their feet till they get what they want because they were so slow out of the torsos

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ursula-von-der-leyen-threatens-cut-off-covid-exports-uk-b924652.html

[jourdain2]

Seems to me that O_G has hit the nail on the head. No more proof of the sense of leaving the EU at all costs is needed.

[Apc2604]

Love The best answer. Well said NJ.

[ichkeria]

This is a very dispiriting thread.

[ToraToraTora]

hang on UVD is banging on about the AZ jab but haven't they just banned it because someone got an unrelated blood clot? Make your mind up Fraulein!

[ToraToraTora]

judge: "Since, because of their ineptitude, they cannot catch up with the best, the best must be reduced to the level of the worst (them)." - that is the principle on which the EUSSR is founded judge! That's why it's built around inefficient French farmers!

[ichkeria]

It hasn’t been banned - certainly not by the EU. Some individual countries (including by the way the Democratic Republic of Congo) have delayed or suspended its use temporarily.
We shouldn’t be rubbing our hands in childish glee about this. Especially as it will affect travel arrangements adversely if there’s an uneven roll out of vaccines

[Bobbisox1]

Ich, I can't see anyone rubbing their hands in glee, more laughing at the antics that the leaders of the countries concerned ie Macron and Merkel and the sabre rattling from Ursula Von Der Leyen

[vulcan42]

\\ We shouldn’t be rubbing our hands in childish glee about this.//
I'm not, I'm sitting here with my head in my hands at the absolute idiocy of it all. The uneven roll out of the vaccines is because they are not using them but still complaining that they're not getting them- not to use.

[youngmafbog]

The whole debarcle saddens me. Yes the EU have shown us very clealry one good reason why we left, and that is good for us. However having millions of unvaccinated people on our doorstep, ordinary people like most of us, due the politiking is a disgrace.

There also seems to be quite a misunderstanding between the EU, Europe, and private companies operating Internationally - Even on here.

[ichkeria]

Yes indeed, very sad, regardless of what you think of the EU.

[tiggerblue10]

Is Sweden still using the vaccine? Or have they halted it as well?

[Bobbisox1]

Tell you what I think ich, we were living under bullying rules,you don't think there's an element of politics here?
Yes it's very sad that our European counterparts are being held to ransom by their leaders , but that's them , not us! We are no longer in the EU therefore there's nothing we can do about their silliness ,but nobody is 'clapping their hands gleefully'

[ichkeria]

"Is Sweden still using the vaccine? Or have they halted it as well? "

Sweden has halted it also for the time bering (AZ is a Swedish-UK company btw)

[tiggerblue10]

That was why I was asking, given that it's a Swedish-UK Co.

[ichkeria]

Well if you have a mindset that we are being "bullied" by Europe then you will think differently.
Personally, I don't.
I wonder if the boot was on the other foot, though, and we had not had the orders we were promised, despite maintaining exports, would we have been cross?
You bet your life we would.

[ichkeria]

"That was why I was asking, given that it's a Swedish-UK Co. "

Yes I thought that was the case :-)

[Jackdaw33]

This is just one more example of Ms Lili von Stumpf, on the orders of her Fuhrerin, Frau Merkel, trying to make life as difficult as possible for the UK and failing spectacularly.

[Apc2604]

I agree, noone on this thread is rubbing their hands in glee. My first answer said I was sad. I worry for us all - Europe, the world and the UK. This is political and it stinks!

[vulcan42]

Ich, why would you be cross over not receiving something you don't intend to use?

[bobbinwales]

//AZ haven't supplied the EU with the number they contracted for, but the EU has already exported 10 million doses to Britain since the start of February. I can see why they might feel all the sharing is one-way//
Someone said the same on TV today but surely there being deliberatly misleading.
Its not the EU kindly letting us have 10 million doses, its the company selling it after UK planned ahead and made acontract with the supplier