So some Belgian MEP has accused the UK of wanting a "vaccine war" and a German MP was saying we needed to "think twice" and demanding a trade war with the UK the other day. Okay.
If it makes you feel better because you didn't sign an exclusive geographical manufacturing and supply deal with a manufacturer and contracted things out to the EU who spent an extra three months squabbling over the price and future liabilities. Blame the UK.
Definitely our fault that you've taken longer to approve vaccines too.
If factories in your very own country aren't efficient and can't currently grow the virus quickly enough in the required quantity and as a result are manufacturing vaccines at a slower rate (conveniently forgetting we've been through the same teething problems here and aren't getting vaccines at the rate we expected either). Sure, that's clearly the UK's fault too.
You should definitely demand with menaces that UK vaccine plants should be forced to give you the vaccines you need to cover up for the shortfalls in your current production, despite the UK having much bigger problems with the virus.
Impose export controls on EU manufactured vaccines and claim "national security" and now try to force private companies to surrender their closely guarded and highly valuable intellectual property so that you can pass it on to those pharma companies that weren't up to the job in the first place.
Sh!t, you could even get mutti to have a cosy chat with Putin about how you might be able to work together on vaccine production because we know how the Russians care deeply about IP.
Then tell the world this is an example of how non-cooperative and unhelpful a post-Brexit UK is going to be. Funny how Sweden isn't under fire too given it's and Anglo-Swedish company at the heart of it.
Mate, you, the EU, have parked a battleship off our virus riddled coast and have started shelling us and you accuse us of wanting a war. Prick.
We'll happily send you any excess doses we have from our production lines, if it helps. Though they'll obviously have to go through exactly the same national security export controls as your exports will need to. After all those exact rules are in now on our legal books after adopting EU legislation en-masse on Brexit.
