Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Coronavirus latest: What's behind the EU/AstraZeneca row? | SpectatorTV" video.

  1. As a result we've got more read tape and more non viable businesses.
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  2. What? It's been all over the news including the BBC. I've seen it on the BBC online.
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  3.  @chrisstone5743  I'm sure I've seen it as headline news at the time when the EU invoked article 16 and tried to reduce the supply of vaccines to NI. The EU quickly backed down from that though, so it soon dropped out of the headlines. Continuing to report on it after that would just be gloating over the EU's mistakes. The BBC doesn't do gloating. Plenty of other media do that.
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  4. @KEEP BRITAIN FREE Add back all the people who've had Covid and never been tested.
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  5. @Terry pipe Perhaps because they've been protecting themselves better as a result of Covid but I wouldn't say nobody got the flu. It's just not attracting as much publicity. * It's flu not flue. A flue is a duct for smoke and waste gasses.
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  6.  @Davemac1116  Not true. The excess deaths figure indicates how many people have died of Covid. The average deaths figure indicates those that have died from the usual causes.
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  7. @Terry pipe Touché. Well spotted (see my pun). I did mean been but 'all is bene that ends bene'. I've corrected it now.
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  8. @FlapJack NI They've not been using NI as a weapon, just upholding The Good Friday Agreement which the UK is also signed up to.
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  9. @FlapJack NI Who? Where? There are probably arseholes on both sides but was that an official position? To my mind there is no Brexit solution to NI because the Good Friday Agreement which was signed up to by the UK, NI, The Republic of Ireland, the USA and the EU forbids a hard border on the island of Ireland. The nationalists also don't want a border there. Under the terms of Brexit we came out of the EU customs union so there have to be customs checks between the EU and the UK. The solution offered by the EU and accepted by the UK was to have a 'border' in the Irish Sea but the loyalists in NI don't like that and are kicking up about it. There's no solution to please everyone in the UK and NI, while NI is part of the UK. NI also voted to stay in the EU in the 2016 Brexit Referendum. Loyalists don't like the 'border' between Britain and NI (in the Irish Sea) because they think it makes a United Ireland more likely. They want a border on the island of Ireland because they think it makes a United Ireland less likely so there is an underlying political agenda on both sides as well as trade considerations.
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  10.  @galleon1968  That's an accent you are referring to. Accents are perfectly legitimate. Tories may speak more in received pronunciation but they also talk more bollocks.
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  11. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat their mistakes.
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