All countries are having supply issues.
Indeed and in a twist of fate not being in the EU allows a greater amount buying flexibility.
All countries are having supply issues.
All countries are having supply issues.
That's simply untrue. There are no countries having comparable issues.
I understand that it can be tempting to stick our heads in the sand, parrot the government's latest soundbite and say "Oh other countries are struggling too", but they're really not in any comparable way whatsoever.
Ireland's deputy PM has warned governments doing trade deals with the UK that it is a nation that "doesn't necessarily keep its word".
Leo Varadkar made the comment after Dominic Cummings suggested the UK had always intended to tear up the Brexit deal it signed with the EU in 2019.
Boris Johnson's ex-adviser said the plan had been to "ditch the bits we didn't like" after winning power.
The government said the deal had not worked as intended and must be changed.
And it accused the EU of failing to protect the Good Friday peace agreement in its implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol.
It's not just us.
There are no countries having comparable issues.
That's simply untrue. There are no countries having comparable issues.
I did read that 1 in 6 people in the UK couldn't find food in the Daily Mail, must be true!I never said every country is having exactly the same issues as the UK, I said all countries were having supply issues, of which you cannot dispute, doesn't matter if its GPU's, food, fuel, electricity, hgv drivers or even carrier pigeons, its still a supply issue, bought on almost entirely because of the GLOBAL pandemic that has affected the entire planet!
I never said every country is having exactly the same issues as the UK, I said all countries were having supply issues, of which you cannot dispute, doesn't matter if its GPU's, food, fuel, electricity, hgv drivers or even carrier pigeons, its still a supply issue, bought on almost entirely because of the GLOBAL pandemic that has affected the entire planet!
it's partially down to Brexit and over a decade of government incompetence.
There we go fixed it for you.
There we go fixed it for you.
Well it depends on what you want the reason for. If you want to know why the UK is suffering fuel and supermarket shortages (among other things), well that's primarily the pandemic, along with Brexit and a decade of Tory incompetence. If you want to know why the UK uniquely among European nations is suffering those shortages then it's down to Brexit and a decade of Tory incompetence. To me, the second question is the more interesting: throughout history countries face external threats that buffet them, throw them off course, and challenge them to respond. The pandemic was inevitable, if not this particular pandemic at this particular time, then another pathogen on another day. Brexit and Tory incompetence are so bad not because they removed the ability to handle these challenges.
Watch out, you’ll be told that it’s a fact that remaining in the EU would have prevented our earlier vaccination start (which of course is bolleaux)![]()
It actually probably would have done. Not because any of the herp about the EMA approval, but because we now know that the UK's early vaccine success was achieved by AZ using EU money to provide extra doses to the UK whilst grossly breaching their commitment to the EU. I can't imagine that would have flown if the UK was still in the EU.
On the other hand, we also now know how little difference it made. Countries success through Spring wasn't driven by vaccination it was driven by non-medical control policies. The UK did brilliantly after the disaster in the early part of the year, Germany screwed the pooch by not locking down when it needed to, etc. By the time disease dynamics were vaccine-led, the rest of the EU had caught up with the UK, with some now moving ahead (and others, especially in Eastern Europe, far behind).