Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "James O'Brien takes aim at Michael Gove's defence of £8.7bn in wasted PPE | LBC" video.

Our Vaccine rollout is median not leading, the best rollout was Portugal and they used the EU purchasing scheme to pay a fraction of what our government forked out on vaccine doses. They also were part of the EU PPE purchasing scheme which we were invited to which supplied high quality PPE again at a fraction of the cost the Cons and their VIP lane paid
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Our Vaccine rollout is median not leading, the best rollout was Portugal and they used the EU purchasing scheme to pay a fraction of what our government forked out on vaccine doses. They also were part of the EU PPE purchasing scheme which we were invited to which supplied high quality PPE again at a fraction of the cost the Cons and their VIP lane paid
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@lestrem11 Go read up and stop believing Tory propaganda, the EU are methodical and it ended like the Tortoise and the Hare with the bulk of EU countries ahead of us after we made a fast start. We were also part of the EU medicines agency so having the vaccine early was nothing to do with leaving the EU. Our initial policy and burst of speed was down to gambling that 2 doses could be given further apart than the 2 weeks recommended which is why everyone else caught up and we ended middle of the pack For that middle of the pack position the current government have wasted tens of billions and have a wretched record on death per 100k with a fairly staggering overall total at 156,000 August 2021 Guardian and New European - 6 countries have overtaken the UK rollout so far Financial Times - EU wins vaccine marathon after UK sprint September 2021 Sky News - multiple EU countries overtake UK rollout
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@lestrem11 What the NHS staff? The government could have used internal NHS procurement lines to get quality PPE at a fraction of the cost and within a shortened timescale instead Billions has been wasted pretty much the same story with test and trace
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