Once again, the European Union is trying to divert attention from its own shocking failings by throwing mud around and making a series of ludicrous and contradictory statements.
Rather ridiculously, it's first target is AstraZeneca, the company whose COVID-19 vaccine is currently suspended from use by France, Germany and several other EU member countries, the complaint being that it has failed to deliver on its contractual commitments. How can anyone take this seriously when there are reported to be stockpiles of this vaccine lying around in various EU cities, untrusted and unused ? Either the EU wants, trusts and will use this vaccine or it will not; it cannot claim that supplies are inadequate while also refusing to use them.
Inevitably, alongside AstraZeneca, the United Kingdom is also in the EU's wonky sights. According to the EU, part of the reason for the limited supplies from AstraZeneca is a ban on vaccine exports to the EU implemented by the UK government, something which the UK government vehemently denies. Pushing on regardless, the EU is now threatening to impose its own ban on the export of vaccines to the UK in revenge. Part of its argument appears to be that its own incompetence in all matters to do with COVID vaccines should be ignored and, instead, the supply of vaccines should be regulated so as to ensure that countries which have managed matters well and are well advance in their vaccination programmes - that is, the UK - should now have their supplies restricted to allow the slow, bureaucratic and incompetent rest - that is, the EU - to catch up. What poppycock !
That all of this is nothing but political 'smoke and mirrors' intended to create an entirely false picture should be obvious; that it is the European Union taking aim at a country which dared to leave its orbit, equally so. The turmoil at the heart of the European Union is palpable and the sooner this ugly, overbearing and moribund organisation collapses, the better for all of us.
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