Quote Originally Posted by Tichi1 View Post
Think AMerkel and Macron where simply trying to justify their piss poor foresight when it came to ordering the various vaccines last August, The people of Europe are rightly asking how we can be so far ahead of them - and the response is "don't worry comrades - the UK are using untested rubbish vaccines."...
Vaccine ordering for the member states of the EU is governed by Brussels, not national governments. The UK could order independently as we were already in the "transition" state by the time COVID hit. Its the Commission that f00ked up (the lack of foresight you refer to), because as with all things, they try (and fail), to get 27 very different countries governments to agree to a single course of action. Macron and the rest have attempted to do as you suggest (rubbishing the AZ vaccine), and have succeeded only in making themselves look childish and foolish. Be interesting if a class-action was put together to sue the Commission for the harm caused by their incompetence.