Vaccine doubt risks deaths

Remain supporters such as your correspondent K. Browne refuse to recognise that repeating tired old canards about Brexit does not make them any more valid. To imply that support for

Brexit is a policy of the Right is nonsense, as opposition to involvement in the European project was a consistent policy of the Left in the days before and since the time that the Conservatives took Britain into the EEC.

The accusation of xenophobia is equally false. I have friends on the Continent, have travelled widely there, and love European culture.

I do not hate anything about Europe but do despise the bureaucratic monster of the EU, a very different thing.

As far as the the defence offered by K. Browne concerning the behaviour of the EU regarding vaccines, the facts are that the EU has shown itself willing to threaten to break contracts, and sequestrate commercial assets at will.

Businesses will be reluctant to locate new ventures within its boundaries and it seems inconceivable that large pharmaceutical companies would be happy to place their factories where they may be seized by unelected bureaucrats anxious to deflect blame for their own faults. It is clear that the incompetence, and arrogance, of the European Commission, in its failure to organise the order, and rollout, of vaccines, followed by the subsequent farce of casting doubt on the AstraZeneca product, will have led to the unnecessary death of many EU citizens.

Colin Bullen