Boris Johnson humiliated.

GERMAN newspapers have turned on the EU over its vaccine fiasco, with one outlet describing the chaos as "the best advert for Brexit".

The EU has been embroiled in chaos this week, over the bloc's vaccine strategy that has been extremely slow to take off. Brussels' efforts to ramp up vaccinations were hampered by the news vaccine-maker AstraZeneca was not going to meet its orders to the EU this month. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other EU leaders reacted furiously to the news, firmly pointing the blame at the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company. But the EU has also been attacked for the bungle.

In response, German newspapers have heavily criticised the EU's strategy, which may come as a surprise to Ms von der Leyen, who is of German nationality.

Die Zeit, one of the country's most respected broadsheets, led a front-page editorial titled 'AstraZeneca - The best advertisement for Brexit'.

The damning piece claims the EU's mishandling of its vaccine programme has served Eurosceptics.

It said: "In the dispute over the delivery delay of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the EU Commission is currently providing the best advertisement for Brexit: It is acting slowly, bureaucratically and is being protectionist.
"And if something goes wrong, it's everyone else's fault.

"This is how many Britons see the EU and so the prejudices were confirmed at the beginning of the week."

By contrast, the editorial praises the UK for its "swift vaccination policy".

It also heaps praise on Boris Johnson's "statesmanlike manner".

But Die Zeit wasn't the only German newspaper to condemn the vaccine fiasco.

Bild, a tabloid newspaper, heavily criticised Ms von der Leyen's response to the vaccine delays and her threat to pull any supplies exported to the UK.

The article begins: "At the beginning of January, EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides (64) stated that the EU was 'doing very well with its selection of vaccine manufacturers'.

"The opposite is the case. There is a huge crash: snail vaccination in Germany, junk and greed order for vaccines by the EU Commission!"

https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...a-von-der-leyen-Die-Zeit-AstraZeneca-covid-uk
 
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Former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said: "If Europe’s vaccine crisis on the continent has taught us anything, it is that the best decisions are taken by national governments acting in their own interest."

He said the debacle proved the EU is a "bad project, run by bad people" and added: "Brexit was the right thing to do."

AstraZeneca has said the delay in delivering vaccines to Brussels and not the UK is because the EU signed a contract with the company three months later.

CEO Pascal Soriot said: "The UK and the EU have two different production chains and at the moment the British ones are more efficient because they started earlier."
 
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According to the most recently peer-reviewed paper on Covid-19, how many people who get the virus do you think survive? Go on, take a wild guess. Eighty percent? Ninety percent? Ninety-five percent? Nope. Precisely 99.8 percent live to see another day. Under-70s have an even higher survival rate - 99.96. Put another way, they have a 0.04 chance of dying; less than half of half a per cent.

And many of those are already seriously or even terminally ill from other conditions.

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UK passes grim milestone of 100,000 COVID deaths
Health department says 100,162 people have died after testing positive, the fifth-highest toll in the world.


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The shape of Brexit Britain is becoming clearer

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DOVER, ENGLAND - JANUARY 22: Freight queues at Dover port on January 22, 2021 in Dover, England. Since Brexit, new requirements for EU transport firms to provide tens of thousands of pounds worth of VAT and tariff guarantees have left hauliers refusing contracts to carry loads for small and medium sized businesses from the U.K.

One month on, its obvious faults have already emerged. More worrying though is the way Brexit has consolidated its backers, says NICK COHEN.

The comforting thing to say about Boris Johnson is that he is a laughable idiot. And not just a village idiot. But an idiot for all seasons, an idiot who bestrides the narrow world like a colossus, an idiot who, if you could number all the atoms in the universe, you would still have not come close to counting the ways of his idiocy.


I can, and have, expounded at length on how Johnson’s state of permanent adolescence has made him a disastrous prime minister. I can, and have, denounced his cabinet of nobodies, whose sole qualification for office is that they are loyal to the boss. Its critics have documented the incompetence, embarrassed flip-flops, ridiculous boasting, waste, neglect and folly of a government that has brought us the highest per capita death toll in the world from Covid-19. But emphasising the silly runs the danger of ignoring the sinister.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/br...webhWF97fBR8cX-yL6L3cUlTyZ6z8C-S5ullB9sRG8zNI
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Mind you, Bozo has applied for a trade deal- with countries thousands of kilometres away- which is worth 75% less than the EU deal it had.


Haw, haw.............................haw.
 
According to the most recently peer-reviewed paper on Covid-19, how many people who get the virus do you think survive? Go on, take a wild guess. Eighty percent? Ninety percent? Ninety-five percent? Nope. Precisely 99.8 percent live to see another day. Under-70s have an even higher survival rate - 99.96. Put another way, they have a 0.04 chance of dying; less than half of half a per cent.

And many of those are already seriously or even terminally ill from other conditions.

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/c...-facts-richard-madeley-coronavirus-statistics
 
Primavera said:
According to the most recently peer-reviewed paper on Covid-19, how many people who get the virus do you think survive? Go on, take a wild guess. Eighty percent? Ninety percent? Ninety-five percent? Nope. Precisely 99.8 percent live to see another day. Under-70s have an even higher survival rate - 99.96. Put another way, they have a 0.04 chance of dying; less than half of half a per cent.

And many of those are already seriously or even terminally ill from other conditions.

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/c...-facts-richard-madeley-coronavirus-statistics
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BoJo has done the UK proud by ensuring that we now have 3 vaccines approved and more on the way. Meanwhile the EU has presided over a monumental cockup! Many erstwhile Remainers have had the scales fall from their eyes, Macron is fucked!

Boris Johnson told Ursula von der Leyen the EU's planned vaccines blockade of Northern Ireland could KILL British pensioners by preventing them getting a second jab in 'spicy' phone calls that forced Brussels to abandon the 'nuclear option'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...accines-blockade-KILL-British-pensioners.html
 
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You're simply content in your belief of lies, Vera.
It's called ' contentedly delusional '.


Even Sir Tom Moore has Bozo's virus.
 
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyentemer, almost pulled a blinder last week by decreeing a “hard border” between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. Her clever plan was to prevent Covid vaccines being transferred from the EU, which is overflowing with them, via the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, to the UK, which has none (or is it the other way around?)

Sadly, Ursula hadn’t quite thought it through. All hell broke loose, especially from the government of Ireland, which, being a two-bit country somewhere over there, hadn’t been consulted. In Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, the DUP and the SDLP all damned her eyes. It was the closest the EU had ever come to achieving agreement among all parties in Ireland. Poor Ursula had to back down and apologize to everybody. :(

Then there were those who said: wait a minute, isn’t the European Commission an unelected bureaucracy? WTH are they doing playing political games like this? But they had to find a way of diverting attention from the shambolic screw-up they had made of vaccine procurement. Perfectly understandable, really. Vrai communautaire.It could happen to anybody.
 
An odd version indeed. According to my sources the vaccine manufacturer failed to honor its supply contract to the EU, claiming insufficient production. The EU smelled a rat, believing that the manufacturer was selling product at a higher price to other parties. Thinking that the UK was one of these recipients the EU threatened to close the porous border between Eire and Northern Ireland to prevent ' contraband' EU vaccine going to the UK. ( the UK has already trashed international agreements and so was suspect ) Realizing that the UK public would now be alerted to how piss-weak Bozo's Brexit agreement was London went bananas, hoping to pour blame on the EU for activating Clause 15- which enables it to shut the Irish border in an emergency. HOWEVER- the EU launched a raid on the manufacturer's factories and 'discovered' that it was indeed struggling to produce product- so the smuggling was a false alarm and the EU retracted from the border closure.
Strangely enough the manufacturer has now stated that it will be able to supply the EU with its full quota after all- so you can draw your own conclusions from that.
 
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The EU smelled a rat, believing that the manufacturer was selling product at a higher price to other parties.
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The "EU" - specifically the unelected European Comission - smelled its own odor and mistook it for a rat. Quite understandable.

AsatraZenica sells its product at cost price to everyone. Check your sources.

"The price is around 2.50 euros ($3) per dose. This is the main subject of our agreement with Oxford, in order to be able to provide this vaccine to the widest possible population, under the most equitable conditions of access possible. We are committed to these three billion doses at cost price for 2021."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-astrazeneca-virus-vaccine-price-worldwide.html
 
The EU flexed its muscles and obtained its contracted quota. Success story.

The manufacturers' side-deals are not visible to me or you.

The only loser here is Bozo. His Brexit ' deal ' is , quite clearly now to everybody, a total crock. His humiliation continues- not that that bothers the thick-skinned Eton eejit.
 
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The "EU" - specifically the unelected European Comission - smelled its own odor and mistook it for a rat. Quite understandable.

AsatraZenica sells its product at cost price to everyone. Check your sources.

"The price is around 2.50 euros ($3) per dose. This is the main subject of our agreement with Oxford, in order to be able to provide this vaccine to the widest possible population, under the most equitable conditions of access possible. We are committed to these three billion doses at cost price for 2021."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-astrazeneca-virus-vaccine-price-worldwide.html
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Moonshi'ite is a damned uninformed fool, 'twas always so. Notice how she isn't bellyaching about the EU attempting to circumvent the international law by putting up a hard border so let's add monumental hypocrite as well.
 
Primavera said:
Moonshi'ite is a damned uninformed fool, 'twas always so. Notice how she isn't bellyaching about the EU attempting to circumvent the international law by putting up a hard border so let's add monumental hypocrite as well.
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The EU acted within the Brexit agreement signed off by Bozo, you moronic wee numpty.

Furthermore , it will again if your Tory creepos attempt any scurrilous manoeuvres


Haw, haw..............................haw.
 
Ursula von der Leyen is now blaming her trade commissioner, Valdis Dombrovskis, for the vaccine fiasco that led her to threaten a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland without consulting the Irish government (or the UK, of course).

She has refused calls for a public debate in the European Parliament. Instead she will hold closed-door meetings with MEPs of parties who supported her appointment as President.

Accountability, EU style. :)
 
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