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Originally Posted by jonbxx

But the very fact that the EU have not switched off the tap is a friendly act, is it not? If preventing vaccine exports is an unfriendly act, how do we stand with the USA? Is India being unfriendly by stopping Serum Institute manufactured vaccine exports?

Beg to differ. If they were threatening us and didn't then carry out their threat doesn't make them friendly in any sense.

The USA is a red herring. They haven't threatened us and vaccines are now being exported by American company. https://www.reuters.com/business/hea...th-2021-04-29/ (paywall but the headline says it all + the quote below):

The vaccine shipment, produced at Pfizer's Kalamazoo, Michigan plant, marks the first time the drugmaker has delivered abroad from US facilities after a Trump-era restriction on dose exports expired at the end of March, the source said.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Eh? Not at all. "They" refers to the UK and the EU.

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It means we're alive!

Poisoning a British police officer in Salisbury with novichok is not the most friendly of gestures.

Nor is the EU threatening to withhold exports of the vaccine to the UK.


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Originally Posted by Chris

This is nonsense on stilts. Respect for rule of law isn't a deliberate friendly act. It's neutral. We don't decide each morning whether we're going to follow the rules today. Normal behaviour is simply to do so, and nobody should expect to get a pat on the back for it.

Following the financial crisis of 2008, the UK made bilateral loans to the Republic of Ireland that allowed that country to access finance on more favourable terms than it could secure by going to the money markets directly. That's an example of a deliberate, friendly act. It went over and above the normal rules (while not breaking them) in order to help a neighbour.

... who then royally tried to stiff us over Brexit.