Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "EU will not trigger 'safeguard clause' over vaccine exports to Northern Ireland" video.

@Daniel Wood of course it is the EU's fault, the uk exercised its rights to leave the EU. Other member states should note EU policy, it is the same as those of other criminal protection rackets.
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@Martyntd5 but the Germans and french have said the vaccine is inferior and don't want it.
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@SnackAttack6 the moral is to be careful what you wish for. It is interesting that the UK internal markets bill would have broken the WA inorder to maintain trade between the UK and NI. The latest move from the EU would have broken the WA to deprive NI of covid vaccine. I suspect the intention was originally to force NI into the arms of the south, and by extension the EU. The EU wants to increase trade with NI at the expense of the rUK, but the last thing it wants is Irish reunification, as that would shift the NI financial and political liability from the UK to the EU. It is possible that the UK government secretly favours such a move, as it would provide a significant windfall for the rest of the UK and eliminate the long-term festering political wound that Ireland represents. While this might be the UK government's real ambition, it cannot possible express that in public. Much better if the motivation comes from the EU and the south, then not only can the UK receive a financial windfall but also a political one, as it will be the EU that takes the blame and suffers any retribution by die-hard loyalists. For the UK government, it is important that the loyalists do not feel rejected by the UK, but disaffected by a combination of the south and the EU. Then any paramilitary retribution with not fall on the UK, but is directed where it belongs.
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@drakehound2244 I do not entirely agree. Is it not the duty of the company to fulfill one customers order before meeting the later requirements of another, or is queue jumping common in European shops? Worse still, do shop owners raid the bags of customers who have paid for their shopping, to meet the demands of a shopper who arrives late to the store. Not only do the EU want to stop vaccine exports to the UK, they want the UK plants to make up for any short fall in Europe, due to production problems in the EU plants.
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@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527 what contract? The uk does not have a contract with the eu.
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@Daniel Wood United Ireland under EU control, now that's funny. The EU have just shown there real feelings towards Ireland. Your just a useful tool in there efforts to punish the UK. I wonder how long before the EU turns Ireland into a dumping ground. You are already being used to make up for losses of UK fishing rights.
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So now we know how much the EU really care about Ireland and the Good Friday agreement, if the EU can do this and puts a border in northern Ireland, than the UK can reintroduce the internal markets bill. After all, the border control will already have been implemented by the EU. It also shows how much the EU wants to punish the UK for leaving the EU. It wants an excuse to treat the UK as a special case of a third country, one it can treat more unfairly. The EU solution for its own incompetence in ordering vaccine late, is to try and steal vaccine from another country. Seem this is a common trait of EU behaviour.
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@maroc7889 hopefully brexit will halt the import of those really horrible tasteless waterlogged misnamed " golden delicious" apples from the EU. With luck UK farmers can fill the market vacuum that results from the loss of EU fruity imports. Maybe we can grow our own apples again, along with the other traditional fruit that were once grown in the UK. and maybe some of the more exoctic fruit under glass. The warming climate is certainly moving in our favour, but imports from outside the EU is welcome, provided its free from the political control that the EU wants to enforce on everyone.
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@drakehound2244 there is a get out in the contract about to the companies best endeavour. What is not clear, is why a default on one customers contract should be allowed to affect that of another's. Why should supplies to the UK be affected by the failure to supply to Europe, Particularly when the UK contract significantly predates that of the EU.
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@henkduym9430 the rest of the UK is still paying for NI, so in that respect it does own it. It is questionable if the EU would want to take on the liability that is NI, it has certainly shown it has no interest in its welfare. They are certainly prepared to see NI shops empty of goods, and have just shown they are willing to deprive NI of covid vaccine and install a border between North and South. So much for EU respecting the GFA. As for Scotland, it is unlikely that it would qualify to join the EU, unless the EU fiddles the figures, as it did with Greece, but than Scotland would very quickly turn into another Greece type financial crisis. It's doubtful that the EU would want to take on this liability, given its current financial position. If you thought the four year divorce of the UK from the EU took a long time after only forty plus years of membership, consider how long it will take to dissolve a 400 year old union.
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Northern Ireland elected to be a vassal state of the EU, to keep its border open. Ironic really as the EU was contemplating closing it. You might ask if the EU will allow covid vaccine to be supplied from the UK, after all your shop shelves are now poorly stocked.
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@SnackAttack6 it is simply an analysis of the politics, and I cannot say if it is correct, it is just an opinion. But given that NI costs the UK far more than our old EU membership fee, the UK government has billions of motivation, particularly as now the EU has effectively taken control of northern Ireland. Under the circumstances, NI is unlikely to get much financial infrastructure investment from the UK, it would be pouring money down the drain, as it would be transferred to the south under reunification. The process put in place will result in positive feedback, driving NI towards reunification. When the EU understands what is happening, you can expect them to resist, for in the eyes of both the republic and the EU, reunification is an ideal best left to tomorrow or the day after, or much later.
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@drakehound2244 The EU backtracked only after there hypocrisy made the news and united both sides in Ireland against them. The EU let its mask slip for an hour, and really only backtracked after they realise what an own goal they had scored. No use you complaining at me, I am not responsible for EU policy. I did not provide disinformation, it is what the EU said, you cannot claim its fake news, just because you don't like it.
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@rustypipe do you really think the threat not to ratify the brexit deal yet is a threat. It was what we wanted. The EU has now shown that breaking the WA is ok. If the EU can do it so can we. Maybe the EU realised that is precisely what would happen, which is why they backed down. The EU moment of madness, as you would have it, shows their real concern about the welfare of Ireland and NI in particular. Clearly the commission does not really regard Ireland as truely part of Europe.
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