PING: Brian Reay G8OSN

F*ck off dick.

I noticed a huge amount of money shovelled at the NHS.

Aparently there is a pandemic.

Our response to it may not be great but the EU is way behind with members threatening to go their own way.

Just think, we could have stayed in the EU and been as badly off as them.

Given that all that we did was while still subject to EU rules I don't see that it would have made any difference.

Careful, Rog. You know that facts and reality upset Burt.

Poor Old Burt.

I see that your cross-post filter is still broken then, Burt.

The EU has been glacially slow in approving vaccines with which to treat the pandemic, whereas the UK has been free from the bureaucracy of the EU and so has been able to move more quickly. Only a day or two ago we had vaccinated a million people in the same time that Germany had vaccinated several hundred.

I take it Trump is now posting here?

Only Belgium and Italy are ahead of us in deaths per million overall, of comparable countries, and we are catching them up fast.

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:18:18 +0000 Spite snipped-for-privacy@male.invalid Burted this out:

Shoemenders, Burt.

Wasn't the criticism in the early days of the pandemic that the UK was not participating in the measures/purchasing policies that the EU were negotiating for its member states?

we were not wholly subject to EU rules.

My figures are that NHS expenditure on 2015/6 was £136.8b and expenditure 2020/1 is estimated to be £201.7b.

This represents an increase of over £1b per week. That must therefore be the Brexit dividend? You need to get out more.

A good Bexiteer. Still trying to persuade himself he made the right decision. With any facts not let in the way.

Ummm ... we actually left the EU 1 year ago

In fact the UK regulator was free under EU rules (which we were still following at the time) to approve the vaccine when they did. The EU authorities did it a few weeks later. It is quite pleasing that we achieved that, but unaffected by EU membership.

Well let's get to the point and eliminate that prevarication. There is an EU rule that says any EU country can unilaterally approve a medicine for urgent reasons. Several other EU countries considered doing so, and chose not to.

And agreed to follow EU rules for a 'transitional' year. In this particular respect other EU rules were free to do as we did re vaccine approval.

There are suggestions that the Supreme Soviet didn't want a piecemeal response, and so elbowed individual countries into a collective approach. It was this that was responsible for the EUSSR's glacial speed at a time of crisis.

The only thing 'Spuke / Burk' is good at is being a (stupid / pointless) troll.

It's what they do. ;-(

But hey, it keeps them occupied and from harassing any other people.

Cheers, T i m