EU point-scoring on jab costs lives

HAS THERE ever been a better advert for Brexit than this week’s tyrannical, Stalinist rant from the EU’s lost-the-plot boss, Ursula von der Leyen? The woman, who sounds like she’s gone completely mad, has for months headed the worldwide smear campaign against the AstraZeneca vaccine and actively encouraged its suspension.

Yet, this week she’s screaming that the EU will commandeer doses destined for us and other countries and then invoke Article 122, allowing the bloc to seize AZ factories along with its patents and control of its production. A pointless exercise obviously because if the EU was too stupid to order enough vaccines it sure as hell isn’t capable of actually making them.

Of course none of the threats will ever amount to anything because the consequences would be catastrophic. This is just bluff and bluster from an incompetent leader whose politically motivated blame game has spectacularly backfired and now she doesn’t know what to do. So, she does what the bloc has always done – she threatens. Trouble is, now the world, and especially Britain, sees those threats for what they are – the mark of a blundering, floundering organisation that has failed the only real test it’s ever had, and now feels the ground beneath it crumbling.

Still, it’s beyond belief that the EU, which is sitting on seven million unused doses of the AZ vaccine, is prepared to go to any lengths to seize every other available dose.

This is despite the fact it’s spent months telling the world it’s useless and it kills people.

The upshot now, as Covid spirals out of control throughout much of Europe and lockdowns are back, is millions of its citizens are still too scared to have it and hundreds of thousands of unused vaccines are being destroyed thanks to the EU’s killer propaganda.

Does anyone in the EU actually care about saving lives? Or is it all about scoring points and discrediting Britain and all things British?

Yes, this farce is about the EU trying to cover up its own incompetence in not procuring enough vaccines. But it’s also about the bloc’s obsession with trying to hurt us because we had the audacity (and determination) to escape its clutches.

And because Britain has had THE most stupendous vaccine rollout it’s made the EU’s look all the more shambolic.

Britain has so far given 28 million jabs – more than France, Italy, Germany and Portugal combined. And the EU doesn’t like that so it’s desperate to discredit our inoculation programme even if it costs the lives of EU citizens and people all over the world.

If it was called the Paris or the Stuttgart vaccine not the Oxford vaccine it would have been a whole different story.

But this obsession with trying to destroy us had President Macron telling everyone it was ineffective as Chancellor Merkel refused to have it because she said it didn’t work in older people.

Then came the claims about it causing blood clots – 37 people out of 17 million EU citizens died of clots some time after having had the vaccine but no causal link has been proved.

AstraZeneca’s own research suggests the vaccine actually lowers the incidence of blood clots.

Translated, that means the vaccine is safe, a fact confirmed not just by the EU’s own European Medicines Agency but also by the UK regulator and the World Health Organisation, who are all pleading with the EU to stop messing about and get on saving lives.

How must the citizens of those countries feel now, seeing that the EU is playing politics with their lives in order to shore up the bloc’s power and keep safe the jobs of their unelected, overpaid EU masters?

“All options are on the table,” said Ursula this week.

Well let’s hope those options include her being kicked out before needless numbers of EU citizens die thanks to her towering incompetence.