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Their conduct is just making me cringe now to be honest. I know people (rightly) said if Johnson broke the WA it would damage our reputation internationally (although I think we all felt it was probably a negotiation tactic)... I think their current conduct is that multiplied by ten (let’s hope...

she’s a sneaky one (a good ‘politician’ in that sense). She has chosen to apply slightly stricter measures all the way through (knowing public opinion supports her....and the UK will probably pick up the tab)

To be fair (I hate to say it as we share the same opinion of her) they have upped their game with 53k yesterday Edit - I tell a lie(ish), they didn’t post any numbers for the day before so average of c27k per day for past two days

Vaccinations back up again which is obviously great news (443k) Case numbers still stubbornly high (29k), frustrating when in lockdown, schools off etc however at least dropping a fair bit week in week (30%). Also as a percentage of tests taken its reduced massively. Was about 10% at peak...

Maybe he's got a cunning plan

Not been approved yet but read somewhere early summer (assuming approved), so a while yet. Think Moderna is due to land in April from memory

Got to agree with SBD, Fernando, Dave and BSB on this and was going to raise the same point. The EU may well have right to the supplies manufactured in the UK, but if we ordered first and by three months (and approved the vaccine a month ago), how can the EU justify receiving UK manufactured...

Not good at all. I wonder if the AZ situation has given them an excuse to do something they wanted to do anyway !

Think GSK is tied in with Sanofi (the one that’s not going well) - I had to Google that ! Novovax is the one Fernando mentioned. Would be manufactured in U.K. as well I think

Was thinking about cabinets/shadow cabinets yesterday (I blame the dull life of lockdown !!). One of the reasons both main parties are poor at the moment is neither appear to have a lot of their best ministers on their front benches. Talent wasted on back benches is inexcusable really Sorry...

great explanation dubed (clearer than the reports !) ps anyone interested in shorting Betting on Zero (Netflix) is worth a watch. Fundamentally disagree with it, although quite liked it done to Herbalife as there is at least a (pretence of) moral angle to it. Also been said before but The Big...

I think he does take it seriously SBD, he just can’t control his gob ! Johnson needs to be careful what he says, I don’t think keeping the union together is a lost cause (I hope it isn’t) but he’s got to cut out these comments and focus on SNP performance, consider devolving additional powers (I...

gotcha. I was talking about the European public understanding the current slow vaccine roll out isnt an AZ problem though (as it’s not even approved yet)

Did I say something funny Brylowes ? Probably a first I know but was accidental if so ! ps European public, not ours

I know, it’s bizarre. It’s a massive smokescreen due to the poor purchasing and roll out. Surely the public can put two and two together and see that’s the current problems have nothing to do with AZ Ps Maybe there’s something else at play as well. Just looking at the vaccine numbers per...

To be fair I don’t think we have at the moment. If/when we do I think we have already indicated we would look to help other countries. Nothing to do with Brexit, but based on the EUs recent behaviour I’d say fuck ‘em and send any spares to Africa/developing nations (would probably do that...

Thing is I do sympathise, they were trying to do it as a bloc so everyone was treated equally but ultimately they dragged their feet, tried to keep everyone (French by all accounts) happy and they are where they are. Also I presume Pfizer has supplied the EU with far more vaccines even though we...

Exactly Dave, we’re owed a load of doses ourselves. And we signed it off a month a ago. It took a couple of weeks to get it up to 2m per week I’m not going to get into whole EU debate again, as it’s been done to death. we’ve seen their bullying before though but this is another level

Guardian overview article mate, there’s a couple of other more detailed ones but this captured the main quotes https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/28/thursday-briefing-spectre-of-vaccine-trade-war-between-britain-and-eu

Charming... Britain is on a collision course with the European Union over vaccine shortages after Brussels refused to accept that people in the UK have first claim on Oxford/AstraZeneca doses produced in British plants. Stella Kyriakides, the EU’s health commissioner, said the UK should not...