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The Brexiteers Are Continuing To Lie About The Vaccine Roll-Out

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Hymie | 08:18 Sun 25th Jun 2023 | Society & Culture
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Just how many times do they have to be told that they are lying about the vaccine roll-out?

When will the Brexiteers stop telling lies in support of their failed pet project?

There are even ABers who believe these Brexiteer lies.

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//it's clearly preferable to be accurate rather than fanciful.//

Indeed it is. See Webbo's link.
Clare, you forget the pressure the EU exerts to stick to their party line an d not to act independently,
Again from memory one of the problems for the EU was that Pfizer had difficulty initially in ramping up production to meet their needs for a fast rollout.
I am convinced it was the EU's anti British views post Brexit that produced their antipathy to The Astra-Zenecas being more widely used in their own rollout
"for exactly the same reasons the existing EU members didn't"
‘ the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been free, under regulation 174, to give temporary approval to an unlicensed medicinal product in the case of certain types of public health threat, such as a pandemic’
https://news.sky.com/story/what-is-article-16-and-why-did-the-eu-make-a-u-turn-after-triggering-it-12202915

this was invoked by EU, albeit briefly, to stop UK getting vaccines that they had a contract for getting Pfizer vaccine.
So yes, covid vaccination was effected by Brexit, but most specifically by the EU's attitude
Spot on NJ @11.23. Sorry, I didnt see that when I put up my last post
//‘ the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been free, under regulation 174, to give temporary approval to an unlicensed medicinal product in the case of certain types of public health threat, such as a pandemic’//

I'm not disputing that at all, Zacs. What I'm suggesting is that, had we still been EU members, despite that freedom in theory, in practice it would not have happened. None of the 27 EU members went it alone and that's because the EU Commission made it quite clear that development, approval and rollout was to be on an EU-wide basis. There was no accommodation for lone wolves.
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The Brexiteer logic to this issue is that although we could have done exactly what we did (with regards the Covid vaccine) regardless of whether we were in the EU or not – we did it when we were not in the EU, therefore it is a Brexit win.
Hundreds of thousands wish the so-called vaccine wasn't rolled out at all.
‘ in practice it would not have happened’

That’s pure speculation on your part, NJ.
// there's every probability that [UK death] figures may have been much higher without it //

The UK approved the vaccine 19 days before the EU did. And our number of deaths is higher than everyone else.

UK 226,27 deaths
France 167,61 deaths
Germany 174,35 deaths
Italy 190,78 deaths
Spain 121,62 deaths
The UK approved the vaccine 19 days before the EU did. And our number of deaths is higher than everyone else.
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On this occasion you may get away with spinner...but that's just lying when you know the truth.
// Indeed it is. See Webbo's link. //

I did. And I've explained why the four links I've provided address that point: von der Leyen is in effect speaking after the choice has been made to cooperate.

As to those saying that we would have been sucked in to the EU's approach had we stayed inside, there are two points:

1. We can hardly know this for certain, given that this is a counterfactual. It's clearly possible. But as explained above it would have been a choice the UK could make, o not; and it would hardly be the fist time that we'd gone our own way (see eg Euro, Schengen, a few other opt-outs, etc.)
2. Perhaps most importantly, though, this is a completely different point from the one that Hancock made to start with, and that was propagated since by the speaker in the interview sampled in the video. Political pressures may or may not have led the UK to taking a different path; but as a legal question -- as a matter of EU regulations -- it's unambiguously wrong to claim that Brexit freed us from them in this instance.
The UK approved the vaccine on 2 December 2020.
The EU approved the vaccine on 21 December 2020.

The UK death rate is higher than our EU neighbours.
What part of that do you not understand royfromaus ?
Can you back that up, Gromit?
Why didn't you use deaths per million?

That's right, it didn't suit your narrative.
The part *I* don't understand is what conclusions you're trying to draw from that, Gromit.
Gromit might want to have a read of this before he answers…..
https://fullfact.org/health/covid-survival-rate-chart-false/

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