UK is Fucked
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- cherub-2
Someone who is more clever than I, please help me understand UK politics.
From what I gather,
The EU would like to procure as much vaccine as possible from Astrazeneca and route it to EU member states to appease the populace.
Nikola Sturgeon as the prime minister of Scotland is in a historical position as, prior to any other thing, she is poised to lead Scotland into independence as soon as westminster shows weakness.
Nikola Sturgeon was publishing actual vaccine supply figures on a govt website, took it down when asked by westminster, but now sees an opening and decided to use the opportunity to humiliate Boris.
Boris finds himself in an awkward position as a result. This is like a ween un misbehaving horrible in public and yet you cannot spank the little shit because of the blowback from bystanders.
Do I have it right?
- There were problems supplying the Oxford vaccine in the EU due to an error in one of the Belgium factories.Chimp
- cherub0
^Took so long to write, forgot to post the video.
- Nairn1
Beyond independence, Sturgeon is keen to keep close to the EU with an eye to readmission therein, so either way it makes sense for her to get the boot into Johnson any time she can. In other news, she also mooted disallowing Johnson permission to visit Scotland due to it not being deemable as 'essential work'. Petty. Funny. Unlikely to actually happen.
The detail in this whole vaccine mess is more likely just down to the EU fumbling procurement whilst AZ slightly mismanaged production ramping. I'd be surprised to see any intentional complicity from the UK government, despite what some blinkered continentals with bright yellow stars in their eyes might want to believe...
- The egregious thing in all of this is the EU disallowed member states to sort their own vaccines out. Great work!Nairn
- Well, Boris already went to scotland yesterday. Press opportunities with politicians as so cringe.shapesalad
- The vaccine / Eu / UK issue is: EU a bit slow, but did get their vaccines at cheaper price. UK, lowered standards to get vaccine first to 1up EU.shapesalad
- They didn't 'lower standards' they just hurried along the usual bureaucratic steps that create delays in the approval process.Nairn
- We like to moan about our country, but the fact is, the UK is 'quite good' at pharma - they might actually know what they're doing moreso than us plebs.Nairn
- that's dangerously wrong, shape. The EU dropped a bollock - nothing to do with lowering standards. You can still hate brexit.Fax_Benson
- lol "cheaper price" — that makes it ok / not so bad then?NonEntity
- he already went to Scotland yesterday.fadein11
- ^^^^Couldn't agree more, Nairn. AZ was designed by Oxford? I'll take it, based on reputation alone. Meanwhile, Moderna enters the chat...cherub
- https://www.nytimes.…cherub
- Supposedly it's more effective because it bypasses the genetic component and just tries to interfere by spike protein binding... =less transmissibilitycherub
- PhanLo2
- Pffft. I used to live in Partick - pure fucking bandit country.face_melter
- Bluejam3
Meanwhile in Handforth ...
"Read the standing orders - read them and understand them!"
... shit kicks off at 3:00
- Standard local politics. I've had the misfortune of going to several local party meetings in my area over the past 5 years and this is horrifically familiar.Wolfboy
- Julie's iPad FTWHayzilla
- Jackie Weaver is drunk with her own power.cherub
- I literally came here to post this...it was amazing!BaskerviIle
- Brexit is starting to become understandable, because across the UK... these are the people that make decisions.shapesalad
- @shapesalad Agreed. It's why things won't change anytime soon. The psychopaths have their claws dug in at the top...Wolfboy
- ...but it's these old, petty wannabe bureaucrats who block any bottom up movements or change.Wolfboy
- what is going on?milfhunter
- @milfhunter It's a Parish Council meeting over Teams - that's a level of local authority in the UK. The woman has been drafted in to help facilitate the meetingWolfboy
- the guys are councillors who clearly live and die by the hand book of how to run a council. Real jobsworth, NIMBY fucknuts; the kind of people who think how...Wolfboy
- you raise a point of order is more important than the point itself. They are the reason it's so hard to get things organised and done at a local level.Wolfboy
- cherub1
Lads, Jackie Weaver has learned her lesson. See?
- Freudian slip, she says at 3:45 ish "hard to say no, sex doesn't play any part in it" sex or gender?shapesalad
- cherub1
- https://twitter.com/…cherub
- Scroll down to the bottom, or command-F "You're not going to thank me for this" https://davidallengr…cherub
- (to see the sequel to that meeting, and the return of Jackie)cherub
- Here is an excellent summary post. https://threadreader…cherub
- sausages-1
Keep calm and do not resuscitate:
- Bluejam3
- via https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- it's good to know schoolboy humour is alive and well amongst our leaders, gives me much confidence in their abilitieshans_glib
- fuck, I've been calling him Wanksock for a year now.fadein11
- indeed, we are truly blessed with this current government ...Bluejam
- he's probably the most competent one. remarkable.Fax_Benson
- yep that's likely true faxfadein11
- So Partridge! hahaIanbolton
- Bluejam1
- You got me good with that video. I didn't realize what it was until it was too late. lolcherub
- ^ ha! :-PBluejam
- that bottom pic is perfect lolcherub
- the 'leader' ageing effect has really kicked in now for him. Like when Blair realised he facilitated the deaths of 100,000's of Iraqi civilians. No strummingfadein11
- on a guitar is gonna fix that.fadein11