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Message 2066812 - Posted: 26 Jan 2021, 10:41:47 UTC

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Message 2067057 - Posted: 28 Jan 2021, 1:46:27 UTC

Warming up nicely
Sorry Brussels you want to stop exporting to protect your citizens?
Just a reminder Ms Kyriakides, the UK can say the same.
Also Ms Kyriakides, we have left your "little" club.
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Message 2067208 - Posted: 29 Jan 2021, 21:31:39 UTC

NI First Minister Arlene Foster described the move as "an incredible act of hostility" by the EU.
Well, my dear Arlene, you wanted to stay with the EU.
The EU invoked Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol which allows parts of the deal to be unilaterally overridden.
Well my dear Ms Von der Leyen, didn't you kick up a stink when Boris wanted to do that.
EU invokes Article of the Northern Ireland Protocol
BTW Von der Leyen, what is a third country?
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Message 2067209 - Posted: 29 Jan 2021, 21:44:49 UTC

Also EU, I would be very careful in threatening 2 of the nations that did this to set Europe free.
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Message 2067212 - Posted: 29 Jan 2021, 22:07:46 UTC - in response to Message 2067210.  

Yep, especially as this was said by a German MEP.
So the company and the UK better think twice. When we see Europe is not treated well, not by the United States and not by the UK, then we have to show our weapons.
'We need to tell the other companies in the world if we treat the Europeans as second class, you will suffer for this.'
(Sarcasm on)
Would one of those weapons be a V3 packed with the German Flu virus?
(Sarcasm off )
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Message 2067217 - Posted: 29 Jan 2021, 23:02:38 UTC

EU backs down
Too late Von der Leyen, the damage has been done.
Bye bye.
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Message 2067679 - Posted: 5 Feb 2021, 15:38:40 UTC - in response to Message 2067676.  

In the months preceding the vote to leave the EU I was in a number of meetings with very senior Eurocrats and their general attitude was along the lines "We are the greatest club the world has ever seen, and if GB has the timerity our club we will punish them". In meetings after the vote the attitude was "Now you are leaving we will make sure life is very difficult for you".......
(And this was non-elected Eurocrats, never mind the members of the EU parliament & commission who were even nastier.)
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Message 2067684 - Posted: 5 Feb 2021, 16:26:26 UTC - in response to Message 2067683.  

Well Rob, that sentiment from those "Eurocrats", is totally in line with, (only with other words) what was heard on the European continent during the rule of v1.0:

“Wollen sie nicht arbeiten, dann haben wir andere Methoden.
Arbeit macht frei”
Not forgetting their more famous quote.
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Message 2069804 - Posted: 3 Mar 2021, 13:55:31 UTC

I wonder what those graphs would be like had we remained?
EU in trouble
One comment surprised me even though I couldn't stop laughing.
Can't mention it (against forums rules - so read the article), gotta love the German Finance minister. :-)
Don't think Mis Merkel gives a monkey as she in gone in 6 months.
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Message 2069912 - Posted: 4 Mar 2021, 13:37:47 UTC

Now that the UK is no longer in the EU, US suspends tariffs on single malt Scotch whisky.
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Message 2069931 - Posted: 4 Mar 2021, 19:19:47 UTC - in response to Message 2069912.  

It's a start & this will be another nail in the coffin for the EU.
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Message 2069938 - Posted: 4 Mar 2021, 20:13:27 UTC - in response to Message 2069931.  

It's a start & this will be another nail in the coffin for the EU.
That would be a breach of contact so I guess that we'll just manufacture more than the contracted 50 million doses here. ;-)
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Message 2069939 - Posted: 4 Mar 2021, 20:17:05 UTC

Both sides are at it. Companies are selling more than they can produce, and countries (notably ours) are buying more than they need. Lots of so called "contracts" are going to be argued over by lawyers for decades to come.
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Message 2069947 - Posted: 4 Mar 2021, 21:50:58 UTC - in response to Message 2069939.  

Both sides are at it. Companies are selling more than they can produce, and countries (notably ours) are buying more than they need. Lots of so called "contracts" are going to be argued over by lawyers for decades to come.

The UK has ordered more than it needs, but that assumes, to a certain extent, that they all work. Most of the orders were made before the trials started, probably as a measure to prevent the companies running out of funds, think Valneva. Lots of support from Macron there, for a French company I see, not.

Where would the UK vaccination program be now if the Oxford/Astrazeneca had proved to be a dud.
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Message 2070977 - Posted: 17 Mar 2021, 18:33:39 UTC - in response to Message 2067679.  

In the months preceding the vote to leave the EU I was in a number of meetings with very senior Eurocrats and their general attitude was along the lines "We are the greatest club the world has ever seen, and if GB has the timerity our club we will punish them". In meetings after the vote the attitude was "Now you are leaving we will make sure life is very difficult for you".......
(And this was non-elected Eurocrats, never mind the members of the EU parliament & commission who were even nastier.)
No let up then
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Message 2074413 - Posted: 28 Apr 2021, 12:28:36 UTC

Done deal
Lord Frost's opposite number in the Brexit talks, Michel Barnier, was also less than flattering. "This is a divorce. It is a warning, Brexit. It's a failure of the European Union and we have to learn lessons from it," he told MEPs.
Well my dear Michel, you can always marry (a) Turkey.
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Message 2074545 - Posted: 29 Apr 2021, 18:36:07 UTC

An Italian MEP has apologised to Britain for the treatment it received over Brexit, praising the UK's vaccine roll-out and future prosperity in a withering attack on the EU.
'The UK humiliated us,' Antonio Maria Rinaldi told the European Parliament today.
'I learned that the European Union has sued the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. We hope that the lawyers in charge are not the same ones who formulated the contracts last year!
'Why is the Commission not using some very good London law firm this time? They would be sure to win,' he added.

The European Parliament debated Brexit for the final time on Tuesday ahead of the EU's formal ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement.
Many MEPs fired parting shots at Britain, following Ursula von der Leyen's lead after she warned Boris Johnson that the Bloc 'will not hesitate' to take action if there are any breaches to the Brexit trade deal.
But Rinaldi, a former banker and member of the Eurosceptic Lega party, poured scorn on the 'disgusting lies' told about Britain, 'a great and proud country.'
It comes as Von der Leyen's Commission announced it was suing AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls, the latest development in a furious row that has seen European leaders bitterly attack Britain for having secured more doses.

Britain has administered at least one vaccine dose to more than half the population, while just 20 per cent of EU citizens have had a first dose.
Rinaldi, a professor of economics, argued that now was 'an excellent opportunity' for the EU to admit its folly and commit to reform, particularly in its financial governance.
He lamented the 'swamps of regulations and bureaucracy' in Brussels, adding: 'I want to bet here in front of you all that in two years Britain's growth will be much higher than that of the European Union.'
The 66-year-old continued: 'It took five years to finally reach this agreement having for too long knowingly ignored that the United Kingdom is a net buyer of goods and services to the Union,' Rinaldi told the house.
'Where I come from the customer is always right... But maybe those dealing with Brexit didn't know?
Are the walls crumbling?
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Message 2074556 - Posted: 29 Apr 2021, 20:54:03 UTC - in response to Message 2074545.  

As an outsider my impressiion of the EU on Brexit is that the EU intends to punish GB as much as possible. I always thought the common market was a good idea the EU not so much. It has some good features and others which many find intolerable.
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