Is This Women Drunk With Power!

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-johnson-to-call-on-eu-leaders-to-veto-coronavirus-vaccine-export-blocks-12253288


/// European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted over the weekend that the EU has the power to "forbid" exports of coronavirus doses,adding: "That is the message to AstraZeneca."///

[Apc2604]

I am wondering if her grandfather was called Adolph!

[Bobbisox1]

This is a major reason why coming out of the clutches of the EU was the right decision

[Jackdaw33]

Ms Lili von Stumpf hits the stage again. All she needs is the short, tight black dress, the top hat and the whip. I'm afraid Marlene Dietrich she ain't.

[Sunk]

More like impotent through lack of power.

Reduced to proclaiming empty threats.

Unless the EU plan to pay the penalty clauses that Astra Zeneca will be liable for if it breaks order deliveries, then AZ can and will service its customers as it sees fit.

The UK invested in companies (not just AZ) to facilitate the invention manufacture and distribution of covid vaccines. If the EU didn’t, more fool them.

[Apc2604]

This whole situation has reinforced that our decision on Brexit was right. It doesn't surprise me at all. I just feel sorry for our European neighbours that are now so anxious.

Today's news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9388099/AstraZeneca-vaccine-100-effective-against-severe-Covid-study-finds.html

[Bobbisox1]

Spot on Apc, they are being ruled with an iron fist

[davebro]

Dunno about drunk with power. Many of her predecessors & colleagues appeared to be just drunk!

[lady-janine]

Did they say this particular vaccine was no good because it caused potentially life threatening blood clots and so therefore it is not good to administer? But then they decided we, who were on the whole quite happy with it, should not have it even though we have left their destructive little organisation. Now they have decided they want to stockpile it even though they have no intention of using it against a deadly pandemic.

No, not power drunk. MAABOF. but dangerous with it.

[Apc2604]

And at first they said the would not use it on the elderly, and now say it's only suitable for the over 55s. They are simply trying to make excuses for their mistakes which led to the lack of vaccine . She must think we are stupid if we can't see that .

[New Judge]

The plan is clearly to stymie our vaccine rollout programme until the EU nations catch up. The EU and its member nations have enough resources between them to ensure an effective rollout. The fact is they blew it because of prevarication, arguing over prices (falsely believing it had the weight to control the market), and ridiculous bureaucracy.

I'm fed up with hearing of accusations of "vaccine nationalism" and "we're not protected until the world is protected." The second, particularly, is nonsense. Whatever protection the vaccine provides, the sooner individuals have it the better. I can imagine if the situation was reversed that the usual suspects would be howling from the rooftops of the virtues of the EU, the UK was mad to leave and it must catch up as soon as possible. Nobody would be suggesting the EU delays its rollout until the UK catches up, let alone be considering to enforce such a move by blocking exports to the EU.

Mrs Von der Leyen has thrived on being a mediocre politician. She needs to concentrate on putting right the EU's collective mistakes which has led to their pathetic vaccine rollout programme and not think of doing so by jeopardising te programmes of other nations who have done rather better.

[ToraToraTora]

....for you bobbi, ze var is ohffer!

[naomi24]

Rather than having spent several years arguing for common sense, Brexiters only had to wait. The power-crazed EU is doing the job for them - and rather well.

[ToraToraTora]

the remoaners have been quiet lately!

[aelmpvw]

politics aside, am i the only one that thinks she's elegantly gorgeous?

[AuntPollyGrey]

I thought most of the AZ we get in the UK was made in Japan. I thought only the Pfizer was made in Belgium.

[ichkeria]

It is made in the UK, mainland Europe and India.

There are, as I keep saying, two separate things here: concerns about the AZ vaccine, which were raised by individual countries within and outside the EU but not by the EU, and the alarm in the EU about lack of vaccine supplies. The EU thinks, rightly or wrongly, that AZ is not honouring its export commitment. Which is a separate thing entirely. Both sides need to dial down rhetoric and behave in an adult fashion (not "that" sort of adult. Obviously)

[Apc2604]

The der Leyen and co. are now talking of banning a shipment of one of the incredients which is all set for one of the ingredients for AstraZenica from The Netherlands, and banning it before any decisions are made!!

[Apc2604]

Lost myself mid sentence. Slapped hands!

[Togo]

We paid for the development of the vaccine and as ever the EUSSR now decides it must be seized for themselves. Remember all the other flourishing businesses and enterprises that they quietly purloined. Know this.
A report by scientific data company Airfinity confirms that the UK spent £25 per person on early COVID-19 research, committing around £1.67billion to vaccines before knowing their effectiveness.
The US offered £7.9billion, at a rate of £24.02 per person, while the EU lagged behind again, spending just £3.51 per citizen, with an investment of £1.57billion. We spent more on research than the whole of the EUSSR combined. They forgot that we had left and that they could not just take it off us.

[gulliver1]

Well if she's only drunk with power, that's no worse than getting hissed up on a sat night.