Life After Brexit

[barney]

Top story in today’s Times of Malta is their opposition to the Eu proposal for harmonisation of tax.
It appears that it may go through on Qualified Majority Voting.

Eu involvement in nation state’s tax systems?
Surely not.
That could never happen, could it?

[barney]

Another Brexit benefit !

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... egulations

[barney]

Another Brexit benefit !

From today's Politico EU

"Technically, other EU countries can legally follow the U.K. and approve a vaccine for emergency use before the EMA issues a CMA, but the European Commission has encouraged countries to wait for the EMA’s stamp of approval. Even if they did approve the vaccine ahead of the EMA, EU countries would have to wait for the physical vaccine — the EU27 negotiated vaccine doses as a bloc with six producers."

[oldbluefox]

And in time there will be more.

[oldbluefox]

Brexit may have helped UK win race for Covid vaccine, suggests drug company boss Hugo Fry UK Managing Director of Paris based Sanofi. It seems the EU will have to wait a few more weeks before they can roll out their vaccination programme.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/1 ... cine-drug/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/13677 ... s-hugo-fry

[Mervyn and Trish]

Now the media are arguing about whether that is the reason or not!

Do you know, I don't care why. We got it. We will start saving lives. That's all that matters to me.

[towny44]

Brexit may have helped UK win race for Covid vaccine, suggests drug company boss Hugo Fry UK Managing Director of Paris based Sanofi. It seems the EU will have to wait a few more weeks before they can roll out their vaccination programme.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/1 ... cine-drug/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/13677 ... s-hugo-fry

All the remainers have been running round pointing out that this process had always been available to member states, that maybe true but no other country has actually gone down this route, I wonder why?

[Manoverboard]

Should we have held back, waiting for the EU to give us permission. I do hope we haven't been naughty

[barney]

Part of the problem could be that the EMA had to relocate last year to Amsterdam from London due to Brexit.
The assumption was that the staff would transfer with it but the vast majority decided to stay in London and work for the U.K. equivalent.
The Eu had difficulty recruiting qualified staff.
That may explain why Europe is behind the curve on covid.
They still haven’t agreed their much publicised covid recovery financial plan.
That’s the problem when you need 27 to agree something.

[towny44]

If Ken our Sage of NI is reading this can I point him in the direction of John Humphrey's column in todays Mail, his article points out all the flaws I see in the EU federal dream far more eloquently than I could. And this is written by someone who voted remain.

PS I did not know that the French were the driving force behind the Euro, supposedly to prevent the D Mark from dominating the EU financial scene. If true then very soon the Germans are going to tire of propping up the whole EU, especially now they are losing the EU's 2nd largest net contributor.

[Gill W]

We’re on the verge of finding out whether or not a deal will be signed, and STILL all this forum is interested in is moaning about the EU.

You really need to get over this, and soon, as you are on the brink of entering your sunlit uplands with all that lovely sovereignty to roll around in to your hearts content.

In other words, you are all like a broken record. MOVE ON

[towny44]

We’re on the verge of finding out whether or not a deal will be signed, and STILL all this forum is interested in is moaning about the EU.

You really need to get over this, and soon, as you are on the brink of entering your sunlit uplands with all that lovely sovereignty to roll around in to your hearts content.

In other words, you are all like a broken record. MOVE ON

You have shown little sign of moving on over the last few years and, in light of Ken's recent postings, it does not seem that he has either, and my post was primarily intended to elicit a reply from him.

[Manoverboard]

Where should we move to ... we have simply continued to await the end game of Brexit.

26 days to go or even sooner if the French stop being difficult

[Stephen]

Where should we move to ... we have simply continued to await the end game of Brexit.

26 days to go or even sooner if the French stop being difficult

Just let off a fire cracker, there’ll be a white flag showing before you can say ‘sign here’.

[oldbluefox]

Ironic really that it was the French who tried to stop us joining in 1973 and it's the French now who are trying to prevent us leaving (with a deal before the pedantics come knocking!!! Yes we have already left ).

[Onelife]

Where should we move to ... we have simply continued to await the end game of Brexit.

26 days to go or even sooner if the French stop being difficult

Just let off a fire cracker, there’ll be a white flag showing before you can say ‘sign here’.

He was always a pumped up flag hoister…and will be again if Merkel has anything to do with it

[Ray Scully]

We’re on the verge of finding out whether or not a deal will be signed, and STILL all this forum is interested in is moaning about the EU.

You really need to get over this, and soon, as you are on the brink of entering your sunlit uplands with all that lovely sovereignty to roll around in to your hearts content.

a DEAL? Gill? possibly a deal of sorts. Another case of rank incompetence by this government, definitely will not please the monomaniacs.

[oldbluefox]

We’re on the verge of finding out whether or not a deal will be signed, and STILL all this forum is interested in is moaning about the EU.

You really need to get over this, and soon, as you are on the brink of entering your sunlit uplands with all that lovely sovereignty to roll around in to your hearts content.

a DEAL? Gill? possibly a deal of sorts. Another case of rank incompetence by this government, definitely will not please the monomaniacs.

You really need to get over this, and soon,..................... In other words, you are all like a broken record. MOVE ON

[Ray Scully]

We’re on the verge of finding out whether or not a deal will be signed, and STILL all this forum is interested in is moaning about the EU.

You really need to get over this, and soon, as you are on the brink of entering your sunlit uplands with all that lovely sovereignty to roll around in to your hearts content.

a DEAL? Gill? possibly a deal of sorts. Another case of rank incompetence by this government, definitely will not please the monomaniacs.

You really need to get over this, and soon,..................... In other words, you are all like a broken record. MOVE ON

Not a question of moving on OBF until those responsible take ownership of the outcome. This was put to Sir Bill Cash last night and apart from mumbling about a deal, he looked decidedly uncomfortable

[Mervyn and Trish]

a DEAL? Gill? possibly a deal of sorts. Another case of rank incompetence by this government, definitely will not please the monomaniacs.

You really need to get over this, and soon,..................... In other words, you are all like a broken record. MOVE ON

Not a question of moving on OBF until those responsible take ownership of the outcome. This was put to Sir Bill Cash last night and apart from mumbling about a deal, he looked decidedly uncomfortable

Agree 100% Ray. So that's Major, Blair, Brown and Cameron mainly.

[Ray Scully]

You really need to get over this, and soon,..................... In other words, you are all like a broken record. MOVE ON

Not a question of moving on OBF until those responsible take ownership of the outcome. This was put to Sir Bill Cash last night and apart from mumbling about a deal, he looked decidedly uncomfortable

Agree 100% Ray. So that's Major, Blair, Brown and Cameron mainly.

You forgot Bojo Merv, but yes.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not a question of moving on OBF until those responsible take ownership of the outcome. This was put to Sir Bill Cash last night and apart from mumbling about a deal, he looked decidedly uncomfortable

Agree 100% Ray. So that's Major, Blair, Brown and Cameron mainly.

You forgot Bojo Merv, but yes.

No Ray. Bojo is only trying to deliver the outcome of the referendum. The others caused it.

[oldbluefox]

Not a question of moving on OBF

Better have a word with Gill then Ray. See post #886.

[Gill W]

We’re on the verge of finding out whether or not a deal will be signed, and STILL all this forum is interested in is moaning about the EU.

You really need to get over this, and soon, as you are on the brink of entering your sunlit uplands with all that lovely sovereignty to roll around in to your hearts content.

a DEAL? Gill? possibly a deal of sorts. Another case of rank incompetence by this government, definitely will not please the monomaniacs.

I should have said ‘ a very thin deal’.

But the monomaniacs should be happy, as they knew what they voted for, and apparently anything is acceptable to escape the ‘yoke of EU oppression’.

[Ray Scully]

Agree 100% Ray. So that's Major, Blair, Brown and Cameron mainly.

You forgot Bojo Merv, but yes.

No Ray. Bojo is only trying to deliver the outcome of the referendum. The others caused it.

I think history will prove that Bojo's decision (the two letters) as to which side to support was a main determinant in the outcome of the referendum. He really is a latter day pied piper. Anyways I shall now be keeping my powder dry for a while.