01-05-2021, 11:41
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Reduced trade friction between the UK & EU is not an attractive proposition because it means that they make the rules. As OB said, the majority of the UK didn't want that and the EU's current behaviour militates against any reconciliation.
Threatening to turn off the vaccine tap was, effectively, a potential death threat to many Brits. Enemy comes to mind.
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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?
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01-05-2021, 11:43
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Re: Britain outside the EU
Russia hasn't nuked us . . . I guess that means we're friends?
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01-05-2021, 12:07
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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That's rather one sided, don't you think?
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Eh? Not at all. "They" refers to the UK and the EU.
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Russia hasn't nuked us . . . I guess that means we're friends?
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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.
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01-05-2021, 12:18
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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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?
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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.
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01-05-2021, 12:22
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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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?
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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):
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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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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.
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Nor is the EU threatening to withhold exports of the vaccine to the UK.
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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.
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... who then royally tried to stiff us over Brexit.
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01-05-2021, 12:24
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Further to the point about the USA, the American decision to invoke emergency defence laws to prevent drug exports was known and understood from a very early stage and was factored into the purchase agreements HMG signed with drugmakers with facilities there. There was no arbitrary, unfriendly attempt to intervene in a privately negotiated contract after the fact.
The EU's behaviour has been quite different. It has, in essence, alleged breach of contract, for which they ought to seek remedy in the courts. However, instead of going to court, they have acted as judge and jury and made regulations allowing them to intervene directly, effectively making a judicial ruling in their own favour.
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.. who then royally tried to stiff us over Brexit.
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Well, to be fair to them, that Anglophobe Varadkar didn't become teeshirt until 2017.
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01-05-2021, 13:05
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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However, instead of going to court
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??? That's exactly what the EU is doing.
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European Union lawyers on Wednesday demanded AstraZeneca (AZN.L) immediately deliver COVID-19 vaccines from its factories in Britain, in a move that risks reigniting a spat with London over scarce vaccine supplies.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...rt-2021-04-28/
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Nor is the EU threatening to withhold exports of the vaccine to the UK.
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False equivalence.
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... who then royally tried to stiff us over Brexit.
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A Telegraph op ed writer doesn't fully appreciate that the UK is now a third country, I get that. But it doesn't mean anyone's being royally stiffed over.
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01-05-2021, 13:06
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OK, so if I understand, preventing vaccine exports AND preventing the export of materials that allow other countries to make vaccines is all cool but suggesting that you might do similar is not.
If the EU just stopped exports without threatening to do so beforehand, that would be OK? I guess that is how the UK prohibits exports of lifesaving drugs..
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01-05-2021, 13:06
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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??? That's exactly what the EU is doing.
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Having already taken extrajudicial measures, as you well know. Australia has been denied a shipment, others have been threatened.
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01-05-2021, 13:09
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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European Union lawyers on Wednesday demanded AstraZeneca (AZN.L) immediately deliver COVID-19 vaccines from its factories in Britain
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Says it all doesn't it, and lawyers 'demanding' something isn't (to my knowledge) the same as 'going to court'
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01-05-2021, 13:12
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Says it all doesn't it, and lawyers 'demanding' something isn't (to my knowledge) the same as 'going to court'
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Correct, stamping your feet and shouting demands isn't quite the same as a judicial hearing.
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01-05-2021, 14:48
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Says it all doesn't it, and lawyers 'demanding' something isn't (to my knowledge) the same as 'going to court'
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It depends upon the circumstances in which you say it. In the bath, possibly not but at a court hearing like this one, yes.
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Having already taken extrajudicial measures, as you well know. Australia has been denied a shipment, others have been threatened.
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You said that the EU ought to seek remedy in the courts. I pointed out that they are doing exactly this. Hopefully we can concur on this.
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01-05-2021, 15:22
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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It depends upon the circumstances in which you say it. In the bath, possibly not but at a court hearing like this one, yes.
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You said that the EU ought to seek remedy in the courts. I pointed out that they are doing exactly this. Hopefully we can concur on this.
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No, because if their intention was to abide by the rule of law this would have been their first and only action. What they’re doing now is giving themselves political cover - they’re aiming for exactly what you’re far too eager to give them, which is to get people to forget their heavy-handed and clumsy foray into foreign policy and to fix their attention on the subsequent PR effort.
Regretfully you’re sounding a bit like a regime apologist today.
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01-05-2021, 16:40
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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No, because if their intention was to abide by the rule of law this would have been their first and only action. What they’re doing now is giving themselves political cover - they’re aiming for exactly what you’re far too eager to give them, which is to get people to forget their heavy-handed and clumsy foray into foreign policy and to fix their attention on the subsequent PR effort.
Regretfully you’re sounding a bit like a regime apologist today.
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I've been saying that about Andrew for months.
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01-05-2021, 19:52
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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No, because if their intention was to abide by the rule of law this would have been their first and only action. What they’re doing now is giving themselves political cover - they’re aiming for exactly what you’re far too eager to give them, which is to get people to forget their heavy-handed and clumsy foray into foreign policy and to fix their attention on the subsequent PR effort.
Regretfully you’re sounding a bit like a regime apologist today.
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You're crediting the EU's actions on vaccine procurement with more respect than they deserve, Chris. They've blundered along like a drunk in a dark alleyway and eventually have reached the correct route with this week's court hearings.
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