THE EU block on life-saving Pfizer jabs bound for Britain is a grotesque act of unforgivable hostility.
Enraged first by Brexit, then by our vastly superior vaccine rollout, Brussels’ unelected tyrants are prepared to sacrifice British lives on the altar of their own incompetence.
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Their naked protectionism aims both to shore up their disastrous position and drag ours back. It is repugnant.
The EU’s failure to secure Covid jabs more rapidly was wholly predictable. It is a feature, not a bug, of a monolithic bureaucracy serving 27 nations.
Every day it is costing thousands more lives.
No wonder its leaders are in a full-blown panic. They were too slow, have misunderstood their deal with AstraZeneca and have no credible excuses.
Their media, and the public they feign to serve, can see what a clinching justification for Brexit this all is.
So Brussels is now reduced to blatant propaganda and dangerous lies. To claiming, baselessly, that Britain somehow cheated.
To falsely branding the AZ jab a dud, as Germany did and as France’s foolish President Macron did yesterday — just as it was approved for use in all adults by the European Medicines Agency and the EU clamoured for supplies.
Got that? “It doesn’t work . . . we must have more.”
Macron even claimed the UK’s rollout — another 443,985 shots yesterday — is “not serious”.
We’ll let French voters decide who’s the joke.
It is a catastrophe of leadership and our sympathies lie with the EU citizens failed by it.
They can only watch in helpless mortification as terrified national leaders and arrogant bureaucrats — who long ago should have resigned — lash out, hoping to save their skins by shifting blame to literally anyone else.
Any British PM would have quit. No hint of that in the corridors of Brussels. Why the hell not?
Kate did great
KATE Bingham was vilified by the usual suspects when Boris Johnson put her in charge of our vaccine buy-up and rollout.
They whined she was a Tory crony with no experience. And they truly lost it when she refused to be locked into the EU’s abysmal procurement scheme.
How could little Britain compete with the mighty Brussels club they loved?
Bingham proved a spectacular success.
Many already owe their lives to the rapid decisions and gambles she and her team took. She struck early deals for as many viable vaccines as possible and over-ordered so we could supply excess jabs to other countries in need.
Two highly effective new ones have been announced in the past two days alone. Thanks to Bingham we have had millions of both on order for months.
Trending In The News congratulates her.
Those who see everything through the prism of their hatred for the Tories should take a hard look at themselves.
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