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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,161
Sky Blue Pete said:
There’s millions agree Boris trumps Keir
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One Nation Tory...just one nation of the UK left when he leaves office
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,162
clint van damme said:
That's fine

I just hope they can hold their hands up for enabling this shit show though of course they won't even though if Corbyn had been elected and overseen this disaster people who voted for him would be getting pelters.

We've seem leavers trying to blame remainers for Brexits early failings already This week. That's the mindset we're now dealing with.in this country now.
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For five years we have had endured sneering from remain voters who have celebrated every potential downfall of brexit and now all we see when the EU fuck up with the vaccine is; 'don't play politics'. Come on mate.

Yes, if Corbyn was in power and this was happening I suspect he would be getting more of a hard time, but you really think Johnson isn't? I saw a survey where 70% of people said he should resign.

I agree with your statement regarding politician accountability. There isn't any. But we are now living in a society where no one can ever accept they did anything wrong. All it means is that when people try and defend the indefensible, they just look silly. As I said, Starmer is the best chance Labour have had in a while. If he can sort some of their own shit out, come election time we might see a change. I suspect the handling of this virus will play a big part, but that also includes the vaccine roll out.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,163
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
What is a lazy opinion is believing that anyone other than the tories should get into power by default because the former are shit.

The competition has been consistently rejected by the general public. If you got relegated every season would you point the blame elsewhere or accept you were doing something wrong?

I genuinely believe a lot of people want to have someone else to vote for, but they cannot find anyone that represents them. I'm certainly in that camp. The fact that the tories keep winning suggests to me that the alternative is even worse. Trust me, I wish it wasn't the case, but it is. Apart from Blair, how many elections have Labour won in the last 100 years? They keep alienating potential voters.

I have very little good to say about the tories or Johnson (vaccine otherwise), just for the record.
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The Tories aren’t the default. The same question to you of why should they get in power because you think the others are shit?

The general way politics works is governments lose elections and the other lot are given a go. Why should there be some higher bar here just because it’s the Tories and large parts of the U.K. public have some weird posh man domination fetish?

What happened before the war couldn’t be more irrelevant. Stick to today, you can’t vote out Blair or vote in Churchill in 2021.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,164
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
For five years we have had endured sneering from remain voters who have celebrated every potential downfall of brexit and now all we see when the EU fuck up with the vaccine is; 'don't play politics'. Come on mate.

Yes, if Corbyn was in power and this was happening I suspect he would be getting more of a hard time, but you really think Johnson isn't? I saw a survey where 70% of people said he should resign.

I agree with your statement regarding politician accountability. There isn't any. But we are now living in a society where no one can ever accept they did anything wrong. All it means is that when people try and defend the indefensible, they just look silly. As I said, Starmer is the best chance Labour have had in a while. If he can sort some of their own shit out, come election time we might see a change. I suspect the handling of this virus will play a big part, but that also includes the vaccine roll out.
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You expect people not to point out stuff like the current state of the fishing industry given the bright post Brexit future that industry was sold?

Or the problems exporting which were dismissed as project fear when they were hilighted years ago?
Or the fact that we didn't sign the fabled 40 trade deals the day after leaving as many of us predicted? Come on. Of course people are going to say I told you so.

And no Johnson isn't getting a hard time. He's getting a very easy ride in the circumstances and even sympathy which is shameful.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,165
clint van damme said:
You expect people not to point out stuff like the current state of the fishing industry given the bright post Brexit future that industry was sold?

Or the problems exporting which were dismissed as project fear when they were hilighted years ago?
Or the fact that we didn't sign the fabled 40 trade deals the day after leaving as many of us predicted? Come on. Of course people are going to say I told you so.

And no Johnson isn't getting a hard time. He's getting a very easy ride in the circumstances and even sympathy which is shameful.
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This is a guy who says Starmer ‘answers to his union paymasters’ while ignoring that he answers to his oligarch paymasters
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,166
Brighton Sky Blue said:
This is a guy who says Starmer ‘answers to his union paymasters’ while ignoring that he answers to his oligarch paymasters
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They are called wealth creators!!! Come on
 

Skybluefaz

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,167
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
remain voters who have celebrated every potential downfall
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Some of that shit like losing freedom of movement, potentially losing workers rights is a crusher. Far from a celebration.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,168
Sky Blue Pete said:
They are called wealth creators!!! Come on
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Teachers are the real enemy, stand up to Big Teaching with the University of Life
 
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PVA

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,169
Sky Blue Pete said:
There’s millions agree Boris trumps Keir
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Yeah and there's millions of idiots in this country

Johnson does not trump Starmer in any possible way except floppiness of hair.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,170
Skybluefaz said:
Some of that shit like losing freedom of movement, potentially losing workers rights is a crusher. Far from a celebration.
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Yes, but it goes a lot further than that, and you know it.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,171
clint van damme said:
You expect people not to point out stuff like the current state of the fishing industry given the bright post Brexit future that industry was sold?

Or the problems exporting which were dismissed as project fear when they were hilighted years ago?
Or the fact that we didn't sign the fabled 40 trade deals the day after leaving as many of us predicted? Come on. Of course people are going to say I told you so.

And no Johnson isn't getting a hard time. He's getting a very easy ride in the circumstances and even sympathy which is shameful.
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It is nothing to do with the genuine concerns regarding brexit. It's every fucking thing.

Look at the reaction to this vaccine scandal. People just refuse to cricise the EU for anything. It's all well and good complaining one way then crying the other. Give me a break.
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,172
shmmeee said:
The Tories aren’t the default. The same question to you of why should they get in power because you think the others are shit?

The general way politics works is governments lose elections and the other lot are given a go. Why should there be some higher bar here just because it’s the Tories and large parts of the U.K. public have some weird posh man domination fetish?

What happened before the war couldn’t be more irrelevant. Stick to today, you can’t vote out Blair or vote in Churchill in 2021.
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Labour keep losing. Perhaps people should listen to the ones not voting for them and something might get learnt.

It's pretty basic. You want to win voters over then their concerns need to be listened to.
 

chiefdave

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,173
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Look at the reaction to this vaccine scandal. People just refuse to cricise the EU for anything. It's all well and good complaining one way then crying the other. Give me a break.
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I think I must be reading a different forum as I'm seeing people on here criticising the EU over their vaccine stance.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,174
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Boris saying provisional school reopening of March 8th
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Don’t be worrying about that Alexander Johnson is not very good with time he’s late for very appearance so his March is probably October
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,175
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
What is a lazy opinion is believing that anyone other than the tories should get into power by default because the former are shit.

The competition has been consistently rejected by the general public. If you got relegated every season would you point the blame elsewhere or accept you were doing something wrong?

I genuinely believe a lot of people want to have someone else to vote for, but they cannot find anyone that represents them. I'm certainly in that camp. The fact that the tories keep winning suggests to me that the alternative is even worse. Trust me, I wish it wasn't the case, but it is. Apart from Blair, how many elections have Labour won in the last 100 years? They keep alienating potential voters.

I have very little good to say about the tories or Johnson (vaccine otherwise), just for the record.
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The Tories keep winning because they do what the privileged classes have always done - sell themselves well. They're shit at policy, shit at governing but excellent at electioneering. They can take a policy that isn't in most people's interest and spin it by focusing on a small part that works in people's favour even though overall it's shit when inspected closer. People vote for tax cuts despite it massively being to the benefit of the rich and them being worse off overall. They deliberately miss that detail out. They could get turkeys to vote for Xmas by telling them they'll get more food and a nice warm home in winter if they vote for it.

They also manage to be like Teflon with scandals etc whereas other parties that shit just sticks. Maybe part of that is deep down you expect right wingers to be selfish and a bit of a shit but if you put yourself forward as being about society as a whole and if you fall off that pedestal people are dissapointed and disillusioned. I guess it also helps having many of the newspapers owned by those of a Tory persuasion.

Meanwhile the 'left' get pulled into semantics on policy rather than sticking to the buzzwords, slogans and lack of detail the Tories do. Last election the Tory manifesto was a microcosm of Johnson - vague, had very few actual policies and lacking any detail in those few they did mention. It may as well have just said GET BREXIT DONE GET BREXIT DONE GET BREXIT DONE repeatedly. Result - landslide win. So they problem there is that the public aren't paying enough attention and then when things inevitably go wrong and the rich get richer they act all surprised and outraged even though a bit of careful analysis shows that was the intention all along. Then they go and fall for the same tricks next time anyway.

Fact is if you want an alternative you have to put forward policies that are different and change the way things work. But people are scared of change so they don't vote for it. The Tories exploit this fear at every opportunity by saying stuff like "the country will go to the dogs if we do that". They can't prove that, but just putting the fear it might into people's heads is enough to make them reject it.
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,176
Seamus1 said:
A wonderful quote I heard, sadly I cannot remember the source (it might have been on James O’Brien’s LBC programme), is that Johnson wanted two things; to become Prime Minister and to say that he was Prime Minister. Sadly the bit in between of actually being Prime Minister is somewhat of an inconvenience.
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That something I've long said about Johnson. He wanted to be Prime Minister. He wants to have been Prime Minister. He doesn't want to actually be Prime Minister because it involves having to do stuff.
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,177
Sky Blue Pete said:
There’s millions agree Boris trumps Keir
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Sadly that's todays obsession with personality politics, which Johnson wins hands down. When it comes to competence and ability it's not even a contest. Like putting a Heavyweight in with a Strawweight.
 
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Skybluefaz

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,178
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Yes, but it goes a lot further than that, and you know it.
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So what are the facts informing your opinion that the opposition are a joke compared to the current incumbents? So I can get your point of view.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,179
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
It is nothing to do with the genuine concerns regarding brexit. It's every fucking thing.

Look at the reaction to this vaccine scandal. People just refuse to cricise the EU for anything. It's all well and good complaining one way then crying the other. Give me a break.
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If you looked you would see me challenging DOD on his claims on the AZ/EU vaccine dispute.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,180
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Sadly that's todays obsession with personality politics, which Johnson wins hands down. When it comes to competence and ability it's not even a contest. Like putting a Heavyweight in with a Strawweight.
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Another problem of the Americanisation of this country
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,181
chiefdave said:
I think I must be reading a different forum as I'm seeing people on here criticising the EU over their vaccine stance.
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Fake news.
 

SomersetSB

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,182
Brighton Sky Blue said:
He even sacked the ‘Crazy Commie’ and beat him in court. What more do folks want
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I quite like Starmer certainly looks PM material.
Could Labour get a majority without Scotland though?
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,183
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Labour keep losing. Perhaps people should listen to the ones not voting for them and something might get learnt.

It's pretty basic. You want to win voters over then their concerns need to be listened to.
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You listen to voters concerns, you make policy to address those concerns, other party creates fear and negativity around them, policies don't get voted for.

Alternatively pretend to listen to voters concerns, make policy that does nothing to alleviate those concerns (and in many cases will make them worse) butsell them like they do and watch it get lapped up.

No-one does Project Fear better than the Tories.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,184
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
It is nothing to do with the genuine concerns regarding brexit. It's every fucking thing.

Look at the reaction to this vaccine scandal. People just refuse to cricise the EU for anything. It's all well and good complaining one way then crying the other. Give me a break.
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As stated I based my comments on yesterday's EU issue on comments made by the minister concerned.
It's ramped up today and people on here have had a go at 5he EU.

More than the Tories on here have said about the 100k deaths. But Johnson's trying his best so that's okay.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,185
It’sabatch87 said:
I quite like Starmer certainly looks PM material.
Could Labour get a majority without Scotland though?
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I don’t think it’s impossible but it’s a lot harder. Pleased you’re willing to give him a look though.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,186
Deleted member 5849 said:
Fake news.
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People have voted for the charlatans running the country into the ground and now don't like it when it's pointed out what a mess it is.

It's early days but if Brexit delivers they'll be shouting it from the roof tops , same as they are about the success of the vaccination roll out and that's fair enough.

But they also have to own the struggling industries, the 100k deaths, the cronyism etc because they enabled it.
 
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hill83

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,187
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Teachers are the real enemy, stand up to Big Teaching with the University of Life
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School of hard knocks
 
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David O'Day

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,188
Brighton Sky Blue said:
If you looked you would see me challenging DOD on his claims on the AZ/EU vaccine dispute.
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ESB is talking whiff, you've been far harder on the EU in this regard than most
 

David O'Day

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,189
It’sabatch87 said:
I quite like Starmer certainly looks PM material.
Could Labour get a majority without Scotland though?
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in 1997 and 2001 they definitely would of had a majority without Scotland and I think that might be true of 2005 as well
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,190
David O'Day said:
ESB is talking whiff, you've been far harder on the EU in this regard than most
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I agree on the former and disagree on the latter
 

David O'Day

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,191
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I agree on the former and disagree on the latter
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yeah but i'm just trying to be nice
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,192

Britain's Pfizer vaccine supply threatened by new rules expected to be approved by European Commission

Tensions between the UK and EU over vaccine supplies have reached a crisis point
www.telegraph.co.uk

Oh dear.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,193
David O'Day said:
yeah but i'm just trying to be nice
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To be fair you’ve avoided dropping c bombs all over the place which is your usual MO
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,194
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:

Britain's Pfizer vaccine supply threatened by new rules expected to be approved by European Commission

Tensions between the UK and EU over vaccine supplies have reached a crisis point
www.telegraph.co.uk

Oh dear.
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The first couple of lines sound bad but it's behind a firewall

Edit - Just googled and can't see it being reported anywhere else so either the telegraph are ahead of the game or bullshitting
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 28, 2021
  • #41,195
clint van damme said:
The first couple of lines sound bad but it's behind a firewall
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EU to unveil export ban that could stop millions of Pfizer jabs from reaching UK

BRUSSELS is set to publicly outline its vaccine export ban plan tomorrow – which could see millions of Pfizer doses blocked from entering Britain within days. Under the move to be finalised o…
www.thesun.co.uk
 
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