EU Fun and Games

[barkingmad]

These comments from the German President come the same day as BoJo smilingly scrawls his pawprint across the allegedly historic document which is the UK’s parole papers from our incarceration in the EUSSR.

Though the UK will still have an ankle tag attached to ensure it doesn’t go anywhere UVDL and Macroon have verboten.

Meanwhile, on their own territory, they appear to be running out of Pollyfilla to disguise the ever-widening cracks in the structure of the happy smiling group of 27 who will now ascend to the sunlit uplands with their new EUropean army and ever tighter unity and control freakery and a new budget with eye-watering contributions being wrung out of countries who can ill afford such extravagance. “Open For Business as Usual”!



And this occurring as all eyes are scanning the skies for new Mutant Ninja Covid-1984 particles for which there will be no tax revenues to “fight and defeat” this dastardly enemy.

[barkingmad]

Do I hear the sound of the rats' feet as they dash for the nearest porthole to go swimming?

Coming after the above post it seems the MSM are deliberately ignoring the sounds of the structure groaning under the strain of sinking, noises witnessed by those who've escaped and lived to tell the tale!



And these 2 latest posts can be added to the Poland and Hungary dispute which still simmers ready to boil over and spoil the hob.

[OFSO]

EU leaders have rushed to quell mounting disquiet over the slow pace of national vaccination campaigns, promising that everyone who wants to be inoculated will be.

Meanwhile the founder of BioNTech, the German company that pioneered the first vaccine to be approved in Europe, said the EU had been too slow to secure stocks of the jab, and warned of possible bottlenecks with supplies amid surging global demand.

France has been under the most pressure to accelerate its immunisation campaign, with only a few hundred doses administered so far.

Doctors and opposition politicians have accused the French government of being too cautious in its approach, partly to accommodate vaccine sceptics, and being ill-prepared for the logistical challenges of the rollout. President Emmanuel Macron addressed those concerns head on in his televised New Year’s address, saying that he would “not let an unjustified slowness take hold, because of bad reasons”.

(He didn't mention the good reasons! )

Meanwhile Uğur Şahin, chief executive of BioNTech, the German vaccine-maker, criticised the EU’s strategy on procuring vaccines, saying it had been too hesitant. “The process in Europe certainly wasn’t as fast and straightforward as in other countries,” Mr Şahin told Der Spiegel. “Partly because the European Union isn’t directly authorised, and the member states have a say. In a negotiation . . . it can take time.”

Source: "Financial Times", today.

[Rwy in Sight]

The comments of Uğur Şahin are marketing based rather than scientifically based. The EU has purchasing agreement with several companies producing the vaccine not just BioNTech the others are slow at obtaining a licence/ authorisation but it is coming. So the doses will be there just a bit slower but not significantly so.

[Pontius Navigator]

RiS, the next issue will be the rate of delivery. In UK the target has been said to be 2 millions per month but it is not expected to be achieved until the end of the month.
Another hurdle is batch testing with Astra saying its doses are ready yet only 530,000 in batch 1 have been authorised.
Then besides delivery is the take up rate with many anti vaccers, probably white, and many BAME suspicious.

While the vaccine may be the holy grail the hope of return to normality can only be achieved once the world has achieved herd immunity.

We have eliminated Smallpox however we have been trying to eradicate polio but still there are areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan where there are cases.

[Undried Plum]

We have eliminated Smallpox however we have been trying to eradicate polio but still there are areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan where there are cases.

The distrust in Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan is entirely due to the US having subborned and subverted the medical services there when using the ruse of a bogus polio visit to bin Laden's villa compound to obtain DNA samples of his family members, including small children.

That trickery set back the polio campaign by at least a generation.

[Pontius Navigator]

UP, interesting

[barkingmad]

The title sez it all, what a relief that we're not still entangled with this dysfunctional decaying organisation!
No taxi-drivers nor undertakers were harmed during the making of this film, though I can't speak for some of our members of a nervous disposition;

[OFSO]

Ursula von de Leyen was an utter disaster as a minister in the German government. They wanted her out, and pushing her upstairs to the EU Commission was seen as a happy solution. As might have been foreseen she's continuing her path of incompetence in Brussels.

[Rwy in Sight]

How much is incompetence and how much is serious lack of experience?

The two ladies (Ursula and Stella) where tasked to do something never done before: negotiate, test, assist with the launch, licence and purchase a product that is critical for the health and the well being of millions of people. Were these two ladies really bad at their tasks, did they fail to properly manage the teams doing the actual job or the whole situation is just the teething problems of EU acting as a single unit?

[Boac]

the teething problems of EU acting as a single unit?

- indeed the latter. Proof, if it was needed, that trying to 'run' 27 disparate countries as a single entity was never going to work. I do not think anyone could do it.

[Pontius Navigator]

the teething problems of EU acting as a single unit?

- indeed the latter. Proof, if it was needed, that trying to 'run' 27 disparate countries as a single entity was never going to work. I do not think anyone could do it.

It sort of worked before, though I think it was only 16 then

[Rwy in Sight]

When was that PN?

[Boac]

He is referring to the 'pre-expansion' of the EU, but we need to look at how the significant growth of the bureaucratic organisation - how many 'important' EU posts have been created since then and how much has the 'interference' in individual countries affairs grown.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Maybe it is time that the UK, or rather, mostly the English, stopped whining, and got on and tried to run this country a little better? The country is now out of the EU, and there is nobody left to blame but ourselves now. The continual carping and never ending small minded comparisons, are all a little too sad for this man's taste, but then, as any South African rugby player knows, some of the English are often graceless to the core, in victory and in defeat!

It is all too much like the hunchback trying to big himself up by laughing at the cripple's bad leg!

[Pontius Navigator]

When was that PN?

1938

[Pontius Navigator]

TGG, indeed a country of 50 million should not lose little countries like the West Indies and others. We do have an excuse playing against the bigger players though like India and Pakistan.

[Nick Riviera]

Maybe it is time that the UK, or rather, mostly the English, stopped whining, and got on and tried to run this country a little better? The country is now out of the EU, and there is nobody left to blame but ourselves now. The continual carping and never ending small minded comparisons, are all a little too sad for this man's taste, but then, as any South African rugby player knows, some of the English are often graceless to the core, in victory and in defeat!

It is all too much like the hunchback trying to big himself up by laughing at the cripple's bad leg!

A Saffer calling the English graceless. Oh, the irony!

[om15]

Yarpies have never got it.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Maybe it is time that the UK, or rather, mostly the English, stopped whining, and got on and tried to run this country a little better? The country is now out of the EU, and there is nobody left to blame but ourselves now. The continual carping and never ending small minded comparisons, are all a little too sad for this man's taste, but then, as any South African rugby player knows, some of the English are often graceless to the core, in victory and in defeat!

It is all too much like the hunchback trying to big himself up by laughing at the cripple's bad leg!

A Saffer calling the English graceless. Oh, the irony!

You have a point. By the way did you see what my favourite English team, Harlequins did to Wasps this weekend?