Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
You seem to have a great deal of knowledge about the EMA and I simply don’t know enough to argue.

My only point is that you began your argument by questioning whether, as participants in the EMA, we would have made as much progress with vaccination as we have. You then used this as a potential criticism of Starmer because he had, according to you, backed our membership of the EMA. When asked when this was you came up with ‘four years ago’ in 2017.

In all fairness, I don’t think a statement made 3-4 years ago, about our possible membership of the EMA, can be used as criticism within the context of a pandemic which only emerged 12-14 months ago.
But had he been successful with his argument 4 years, it is likely that we wouldn't have gone down this successful, to date, vaccination programme. At some time in the last 4 years, he's changed his mind, I suspect that's likely to have happened quite recently.

On another side note, the Guardian/Observer is usually left leaning and pro EU, but the article yesterday dragged itself down to the level of the Mail or the Express. They were actually promoting that the EU's vaccination programme has been a success and qualified that it was better than that of the UK, quoting that Denmark had proportionally delivered more second doses than the UK. Any creditability that publication had, just went out of the window, for me.