Political relations between UK-EU

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blueish swede said:
The EU are just playing the UK at their own game. I doubt it was multinational giant AZ who came up with the idea that vaccine produced in one country should primarily go to that country. I don't think it was the AZ negotiators that sat at the table and said "How about this for an idea..."

Maybe if the UK changed their stance a little and said "vaccine produced in the UK should primarily be used in the UK and the 70 other countries that the UK has spread a more aggressive, more deadly variant to because of our failed Covid policy" everyone might reach an agreement.
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Is this some sort of inverted jingoism? The UK is now being blamed for a Chinese disease, imported from the EU, then reimported from Spain, for the now infamous UK variant to piggy back upon?
Nice try.
 
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BobKowalski said:
Well, yes. AZ will pay for this in some way shape or form, unless they can come up with the vaccines sharpish.

The EU just invoked Article 16 of the NI protocols on us without bothering with the niceties of a formal letter to the JC Committee or the one months notice they are obliged to give. Gove is apparently writing a letter of concern. You reckon they will be any nicer to AZ if this isn’t resolved quickly?
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Just because they behave like cunts doesn’t mean they a right and it doesn’t mean they will win the argument.
The more they behave like the bully stamping their feet actually suggests they know they are Probably in the wrong
 
grunge said:
we have a contract in place for the supply from the UK factory until our order is fulfilled. EU doesn’t have the same with the vaccine made there.
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Well, yes. That’s kind of the point. One side contracted to keep the supply for themselves, the other didn’t, so now the the side that didn’t are applying measures to redress that.
 
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Tb1981 said:
Just because they behave like cunts doesn’t mean they a right and it doesn’t mean they will win the argument.
The more they behave like the bully stamping their feet actually suggests they know they are Probably in the wrong
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It doesn’t matter if they are right. What matters is what you can do about it. In the case of Article 16, London can lodge a protest. Dublin can directly pressure the Commission to back down.

That’s the difference between membership and non membership.
 
BobKowalski said:
It doesn’t matter if they are right. What matters is what you can do about it. In the case of Article 16, London can lodge a protest. Dublin can directly pressure the Commission to back down.

That’s the difference between membership and non membership.
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It doesn’t matter if they are right????
If you are telling me Dublin can do more than London your talking shit
Dublin May bend over for the Eu and play lapdog over brexit but don’t act like they are any kind of major player.
 
BobKowalski said:
It doesn’t matter if they are right. What matters is what you can do about it. In the case of Article 16, London can lodge a protest. Dublin can directly pressure the Commission to back down.

That’s the difference between membership and non membership.
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Can’t we also sink the french fishing boat fleet because we think they might be smuggling back a vial of the AZ vaccine?

It would certainly get our quota of fishing boat posts back up in this thread
 
This is actually showboating by the EU as really it is purely symbolic as vaccines for NI are distributed from within the UK. The rationale is supposedly to prevent the UK from smuggling vaccines in from the EU by the back door.

It's risible nonsense but it has the potential to massively backfire.
 
Tb1981 said:
It doesn’t matter if they are right????
If you are telling me Dublin can do more than London your talking shit
Dublin May bend over for the Eu and play lapdog over brexit but don’t act like they are any kind of major player.
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Dublin has more influence with the EU than London. Members states will always have more influence than non member states. That’s why they are members.
 
BobKowalski said:
It doesn’t matter if they are right. What matters is what you can do about it. In the case of Article 16, London can lodge a protest. Dublin can directly pressure the Commission to back down.

That’s the difference between membership and non membership.
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All the while the UK still keep their powder dry. Our smugness is deafening.
 
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