Proof EU are sore losers over Brexit
THE CAMPAIGN of vindictiveness being waged by some of the useless articles running the EU and its member states against us for the crime of Brexit has become completely ridiculous. To the “V” factor one may add incompetence as the “I” factor. A short recap explains all.
Way back, last spring, it was clear we were all in the grip of a spreading epidemic and the only true resolution would be the invention of a reliable, effective and safe vaccine. Across Europe a dozen or more research laboratories went to work, including British-owned Astra-Zeneca.
Last autumn these young scientists looked as if they were coming up with something hopeful and in one of its rare moments of perception our Government took a gamble. It placed a huge order. The gamble paid off.
The American Pfizer company was first but Astra-Zeneca was about a fortnight later. Both passed all the safety tests and we activated those pre-orders. Deliveries began and permitted a rapid start to rollout and mass vaccination. The European governments sat on their over-paid buttocks.
Then they woke up and started to yell for supplies. They are still yelling, but not unnaturally we got priority. The response, in an attempt to cover their own incompetence, is where the vindictiveness came in.
In Paris, President Macron said our jab really wasn’t much good so please could he have much more of it? Elsewhere the rumour was quite deliberately started that the AZ jab could give you a blood clot, known as a thrombosis.
How about some facts? According to the experts, Thrombosis UK, the normal incidence of thrombosis is about one per thousand per year. On our population that is 66,000 per year or 1,270 per week. The EU complainers have discovered eight. Or is it 12? Should we send them a slide rule? Clearly their arithmetic is a bit dodgy.
The final idiocy is that having attempted to trash the AstraZeneca jab, the same numpties are screaming for more supplies because it is so good. Their performance over this is surely the final answer to the dwindling British Remainers who claim they should still be running British affairs because they are so good at it.