Kentish Express Ashford & District
Casting vaccine doubt will lead to many deaths
Remain supporters such as your correspondent K. Browne refuse to recognize 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. To quote from a published letter from Tony Benn, hardly a standard bearer of the Right, “people in all the member states have been forced into surrendering their rights to a political class that does not represent us, is not accountable to us and to whom, therefore, we owe no loyalty or moral obligation whatsoever”.
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