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[k38] 30/1/2021 00:05

This is democracy under Democrats..The State Bar of Georgia told highly successful and outspoken Attorney Lin Wood to undergo a mental health examination this week if he wanted to keep his law license in the state.Look for this to be the norm on the left in the coming months and years in the escalating attacks on conservative Americans.

[k38] 29/1/2021 23:43

Barnier, after 4 years of negotiations, knows best......;)Barnier tell EU to step back from vaccine war.The French dog still make noises...lol

[maxk] 29/1/2021 23:22

Will they do it again?









Huge LOL!

[k38] 29/1/2021 23:14

More mess from Brussels.. what a f# useless lot.Lol..."Incredible act of hostility"... Brussels, not triggering the "safeguards clause" and admits mistake .Also will no stop the AstraZeneca vaccine exports to third parties......

[cantrememberthis2] 29/1/2021 22:45

Shorters finally speak

[xxxxxy] 29/1/2021 22:15

EUSSR gone stark raving MAD.EUSSR not worth spitting on.Nos da. Cymru am byth.

[xxxxxy] 29/1/2021 22:13

Mal Hunitop29 Jan 2021 10:10PMSpinning round and round the plughole as their credibility drains out; not a legal leg to stand on so they descend to farcical border controls. Let's see how that works when they're after the AZ vaccine and others that will be made in the UK months before they are even approved in EU.Macron chimes in with a typically witless comment. He should have other things on his mind, like his impending defeat in the French elections.

[joestalin] 29/1/2021 22:07

They have had their EU payout - they no longer need to be in power.

[joestalin] 29/1/2021 22:01

It means nothing of the sort. '66% less' presumably means two thirds fewer. That would leave 34% if it were actually true.

[scruff1] 29/1/2021 21:40

Sounds a load o cobblers to me that chaps.66% less got covid.That means 44% did get covid. What sort of vaccine is that

[cheshire pete] 29/1/2021 20:39

Where are the high profile eurofiles such as Blair, Major, Adonis, Heseltine, Soubry, Grieve, Cameron, Osborne who tried to tell us we were stupid to leave the EU now? Deathly silence...."no-one's saying the EU is perfect"...lol.

[psychochopper] 29/1/2021 20:15

The EU is beginning to resemble a failed state. I can see why they were not happy with us leaving.

It will never fully recover from this and I hope the like-minded in any and all EU countries will start agitating for their own referenda. Sooner this structure is destroyed, the better for all.

[daddy warbucks] 29/1/2021 20:12

The EU don't want their member countries seeing the UK making a success since leaving the bloc. It may give others cause for thought on leaving.

[joestalin] 29/1/2021 19:58

You can always trust the EU to lead from the front!

Now, that is sarcasm!

[diku] 29/1/2021 19:55

It looks like EU are looking for a scapegoat to blame somebody for Vaccine delays...and seeing UK well advanced...

[joestalin] 29/1/2021 19:53

"Scottish independence is an hilarious concept lol."

Not necessarily. If its status was changed to that of Jersey or the IoM, they would be able to set their own taxes, mint their own currency, withdraw from the Barnett formula, and the English could go there for a cheap holiday!

[1carus] 29/1/2021 19:50

N Ireland / EU border Agreement renagued on.... border no longer in the Irish sea!!!

Oh! dear!!

[xxxxxy] 29/1/2021 19:40

Lessons learned.NEVER EVER TRUST THE WORD, OR AGREEMENT, OR ANYTHING WITH THE EUSSR AGAIN.

[dr biotech] 29/1/2021 19:39

85% didn’t get severe symptoms. It’s easy enough to what the different figures refer to, but would be helpful to sing off the same songsheet. That’s how simpletons such as elbee get confused.

[maxk] 29/1/2021 19:32

EU threatens war-time occupation of vaccine makers as AstraZeneca crisis spirals

Invoking powers that would allow the European Council to seize intellectual property and data from pharmaceutical companies would be madness



AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD
29 January 2021 • 3:20pm
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard



The EU sledgehammer is coming down. The European Council is preparing to invoke emergency powers of Article 122 against AstraZeneca and Big Pharma within days.

This nuclear option paves the way for the seizure of intellectual property and data, and arguably direct control over the production process – tantamount to war-time occupation of private companies. This is Europe First pushed to another level. It takes the EU into the territory of 1930s methods and an authoritarian command economy.

Charles Michel, President of the European Council, is being badgered by member states to take action before the escalating vaccine crisis mutates into a political crisis as well and starts to topple governments. He is offering them the most extreme option available in the Lisbon Treaty.

Article 122 allows the EU to take emergency steps “if severe difficulties arise in the supply of certain products”, or “if a Member State is in difficulties or is seriously threatened with severe difficulties caused by natural disasters or exceptional occurrences beyond its control”.

Mr Michel raised the idea in a letter to four prime ministers on Wednesday night. He is now canvassing all 27 leaders. The clear intention is to hold AstraZeneca’s feet to the fire.


“We can do this very quickly,” said one EU official. “We have to be prepared. That does not mean we will necessarily use it.”

The process requires a proposal from the Commission, followed by a qualified majority vote in the Council. Article 122 could be activated within days.

Germany has become the hardest of hard-liners, departing ever further from its traditional role as a good global citizen and defender of markets. The dirigiste economy minister, Peter Altmaier, says he favours seizing control of the production process and ordering companies to manufacture vaccines at multiple sites, with a gun to their head. Germany has moved a long way from the Wirtschaftswunder of Ludwig Erhard.


Lost in this squalid saga is the relevant fact that AstraZeneca is not making money out of the vaccine. It is producing it at cost as a service to the world. It has produced a miracle in 10 months as its exhausted staff are working gruelling hours to lift output as fast as they can. Their reward is a police raid at the behest of the European Commission.

Britain is vaccinating rapidly today because the Government began preparing the ground last February, three months before it ordered the AstraZeneca vaccine. It bathed the pharma companies with love. It fast-tracked clinical trials. It waived normal liabilities rules. It did not haggle over prices.



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