Comments by "Drew Hodge" (@drewhodge3820) on "BBC News" channel.

  1.  Grey Wild Wolf  SHAME ON YOU for trying to defend the BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGg6cQ_RTY4
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  2. The UK government saved 80 Billion by opting out of the EU's PPE bulk purchasing failure. Why doesn't the BBC give that any coverage????
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  3. China lied and Millions died.
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  4. Its a good job we left the EU otherwise we would have been bailing out the EU for generations to come. The UK already saved 80 Billion Euros by not signing up to the EU Covid emergency package. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STr3entUFnw&lc=z23ltnhbdm24dfg5204t1aokgqzahyfmbifoqvt4qmdtrk0h00410
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  5.  @FuturePluperfect  I see you comment got Highlighted. Well done you. Its only the Remoaners that get that special treatment by the Biased BBC. You should be ashamed of yourself for supporting and defending such a corrupt organization.
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  6.  @FuturePluperfect  The whole BBC narrative is Anti Trump, Anti General Public, Anti Democratic, Anti Brexit. The BBC Hype up anything that suits there own Pro EU narrative. The BBC agenda is very dangerous. How many people have ignored government guide lines after the 10 day Media Witch Hunt? How many lives will that cost? They have protected pedos for decades. Do you really want to defend the BBC??? That makes you as bad as them. Finally get it into your thick head. The UK is LEAVING the EU sinking ship. We are not going to stand there waist deep in the EU Mire and start bailing. The UK cash cow is leaving. I find it really funny how Remoaners fall back defense is to paint everything as lies and conspiracy. When you literally have no way to defend your actions. Eventually ending up being abusive, which will be your next step or you will make excuses or say you cant be bothered to reply. (like some spoilt little baby)
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  7.  @FuturePluperfect  Your twists and turns are laughable. You pretend to be pro Conservative. You defend the BBC saying its "More Factual" than other news outlets from the USA?? While the BBC is the most despised instituion in the UK. I dont need to watch Fox to know the BBC is broken and on its last legs, fighting for survival to keep the British Public funding. It's already too late. The BBC went against the majority of the British Public for the last 5 years. Now they stoop to a new low. In an attempt to undermine the Conservatives with there biase narrative. To try and keep the BBC afloat. Dont flip flop your view point. Get some back bone. Stand up for what you believe. Personally trade with the USA and the rest of the world can only be a good thing. No matter who is in power in America. Its better than being under the complete control of the EU and far better than being led by the Communist Labour Party. Many years ago Labour was meant to be there for the working men and women of the UK. Now the only thing they want is to remove every ounce of control from the workers of our country. There is a lot of things wrong with the UK and the majority of the is due to the fluffy unicorn huggers in the Lefty Labour Party. They might have a new pair of trousers in Keir Starmer but their extremely dangerous ideals remain the same. Please tell me how to deal with ignorant rioters and looters? Intent on mindless destruction? Yes what happened to that poor man by the hands of the police was horrific. Does that justify burning peoples homes and property? How to you stop those actions without the use of force? When we had the London Riots it required force to stop it. Why is the USA any different?
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  8. Watch the EU leaders start fighting and blaming each other. He said, She said. They all wanted to have their say and now it's going tits up for the EU they are all stepping away in the hopes the blame falls on someone else. They all stood on their high horse, making promises to each other and they all believed their own hype. Now they are not going to get what they wanted or what they promised. So they all crawl back into their little shells and pray it doesn't come crashing around their ears. LOL Next the EU leaders will blame the UK for their own failures. The EU has made impossible demands on the UK.
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  9. So the BBC headlines a fake. Its not just a UK bank. HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) might have a base in the UK but it's a multi national/global bank. More bias BBC news that cherry picking bits of info to push the BBC's anti British agenda.
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  10. Putin must be stupid if he thinks anyone believes his fake narrative.
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  11.  @christopherblackburn6811  Oh before you say a digital trade border wont work. Think again because the EU are pushing the UK to install a digital trade border in the Irish sea, between GB & NI. In 4 years time that digital trade border will them be moved to the border between NI & ROI. Otherwise NI will veto their part of the WA in NI.
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  12.  @christopherblackburn6811  Any import or export required a digital paper trail. At the moment it is far easier to send or receive deliveries between the UK and the USA, than it is to send goods a few miles between Northern Ireland and GB or GB to France. The EU has crippled its own export economy over night. Those border restriction they have enforced so strictly to the UK are having to be applied to all EU exports out of the block. Every attempt to attack/damage/disrupt the UK's economy has backfired on the EU's economy and damaged EU businesses far more. Even the delays at the French ports are mainly effecting EU hauliers. Even before the Brexit vote 87% of trucks and drivers entering and leaving the UK were EU register/owned truck and EU drivers. The Spanish hauliers are up in arms over the delays at the French crazy customs checks. When trucks and drivers are delayed by 6 hours each way by the French customs the EU based haulage firms are losing thousands every day. For the EU that is not sustainable. The UK has not seen in increase in prices on supermarket shelves so EU based manufacturing and haulage companies must to be taking the hit. Over the past year UK businesses have had to adapt and find reliable alternative supply chains from inside the UK or outside the EU because of the combination of Covid and the constant threats from the EU commission. The UK has been a Net importer of food for more than 100 years (pre WW1) so importing food isn't an issue. There is a new direct shipping route from Morocco to bypass buying fresh fruit salad and veg from Spain. The UK will start enforcing the customs rules on imports from the EU later this year which will cause some disruption but that gives UK importers plenty of time to find cheaper alternatives supply chain from outside the EU. The UK makes up 70-80% of the ROI's sales of goods into Europe. The ROI's exported goods mainly go to the USA Canada and the UK. The ROI's exports to the rest of the EU27 is minuscule. Yes they export most of their digital service to the EU. That's because companies like Google and Facebook are based in the ROI, simply because the ROI is a tax haven inside the EU. With it's low Corporation tax rate. So the trade in goods (mostly food/agricultural) from the ROI to the UK is very important to the ROI. We are going to see a lot of changes in the next 12 months and normal people dont understand the massive impact/damage it's going to have on the EU's exports. Combined with the financial impact of Covid across the EU, has created the perfect storm. Even the AfD are pushing their next election to take Germany out of the EU. In France Marine La Pen has jumped to poles with her Anti EU campaign. France Italy Spain were basically bankrupt before the impact of Brexit and Covid. Greece will never be able to repay it's debts now. Germany is propping up the Euro but that is not sustainable. If the UK or Germany called in there loans to the individual EU countries the EU would go bust overnight. We could easily see an exchange rate of 1.4 to 1.6 Euro's to the Pound Sterling later this year or the first quarter of next year. There is a very quiet mass exodus of businesses and investment moving out of the EU at the moment. Estimate iv seen amount to over a Trillion Euro's because the EU is not a safe/secure place to do business or for investment.
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  13.  @christopherblackburn6811  Global trade is Global trade. Closed or open borders make little difference. All global trade has a digital paper trail. That is all that is required in Ireland. If a truck or a plane travels over a closed border it has a digital paper trail. A plane doesn't cross a physical barrier. It just lands in a different country with a digital customs paperwork. The same applies to ships. So what difference does it make if there is a few CCTV cameras on the Irish border??? This is a problem for the EU commission to resolve because they want to protect their failed Internal Market. The UK delaying customs checks will allow UK businesses time to adapt. The UK will do the same volume of paperwork on exports to the EU as it does when it trades with the rest of the world. The difference is the UK has a choice who it trades with now. Without collecting tariffs/taxes on None EU imports, which were sent directly to Brussels slush fund. Why would anyone join a membership club, where you pay in more than the benefits you receive. At the same time the club treats you in a hostile manner?
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  14.  @christopherblackburn6811  The EU's own electronic customs checks are being drawn up. Just google the words "digital customs checks" and the EU's digital customs should be the first result at the top of the page. The EU has requested the UK puts in place a digital customs system to smooth imports and exports between the UK and EU. So what is the difference between a digital customs border checks in the Irish Sea and digital customs border checks on the Irish border? All the noise and bluster from Brussels is pointless rubbish. When the digital customs checks are agreed between the UK and EU, the EU will do a big song and dance about how the EU suddenly made it happen and demand all the praise. Like the EU Commissions propaganda machine always does. They wont mention the pressure big business has put on the EU Commission over the past 3 months to smooth trade between the UK & EU. The UK and EU are in talks over this subject right now. The agreement will be signed and sealed before the UK enforces it's customs checks on EU goods entering the UK later this year. The UK makes up 20% of the EU total trade. (both internally and externally) With the added financial impact of Covid, has forced this action though quickly.
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  15.  @christopherblackburn6811  The GFA came first. The WA came second. The WA cannot over write the GFA. The EU's demands of the WA has caused the the New unrest in Ireland. P's there has been a hard bored checks (police checks on the ROI;s side) on the Irish border for many months due to restriction of movement to control the spread of Covid. The border on the Irish sea is just as offensive to the people of Northern Ireland, as a hard border is to the people of the ROI. The heavy handed enforcement of the EU's "Interpretation" of the customs rules has backfired on the EU. The EU lost the moral high ground when the EU triggered Article 16 and totally ignored the set protocol, Now the EU is facing increasing pressure from the USA to resolve the problem quickly.
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  16.  @christopherblackburn6811  Yes much of that is going to change. Your quoting a revision from 2019. A lot has changed since then. The EU made that revision when they were backing up their demands over Brexit negotiations. There will be new revisions. You see the customs border in Ireland is a problem for the EU to resolve. It is their own single market they are trying to protect. The UK isn't interest in border customs checks in Ireland and has never asked for them, As for digital customs, they remove the need for any checks on the Irish border. It's the ROI that has police checks on the border right now due to Covid. The EU has lost the backing and leverage from the ROI and the USA and now they are being forced to deal with the issue they manufactured in Ireland. None of the political parties in Ireland want a return of the unrest in Ireland. The ROI want full integration in Ireland in the future and this unrest is undoing everything they have worked for over the since the GFA was signed. So NI & ROI will force the issue on the EU. This is one battle the EU cant win. Brexit didn't cause this mess. The EU's heavy handed enforcement of customs checks in the Irish sea border made the whole system unworkable and triggered the New unrest in Ireland.
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  17.  @christopherblackburn6811  Sorry your totally wrong. I'm sure you fully understand the moment the EU made the public announcement about Article 16, they broke the protocol and put Article 16 in action. There should have been 30 days of mediation, which should of included all the political parties from NI & ROI and the UK and EU representatives. All parties involved should have been informed prior to any formal announcement and only after all that had happened and nothing could be agreed after the 30 day period, should the EU have made a public announcement. I dont why you dont understand these basic terms of the protocol? Or are you trying to deny the Genuine facts with lies? That is why the EU retracted their public statement within hours of making it.
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  18. China has put a blanket ban on any investigation about where the virus started. The leaked CCP documents are online for everyone to see.
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  19. It won't be long before Putin locks down the border with Finland. To stop people escaping Russia. Simply because it doesn't look good for Putin. The Russian people remember what it was like before. They fear a rapid return to strict control measures like the former USSR. It's already starting with the closure of western social media. Soon it will be conscription of Russian men and anyone that questions the Russian state will disappear into a Russian prison and never seen again.
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  20.  @fingerscrossed2453  Sadly reading and education is not going to help the elderly across the EU27 if Covid comes knocking at the door. Not that i wish harm on anyone.
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  21.  @WilliamLesourd  That is because the UK is recording all deaths of people that had the virus in their system as covid deaths. If EU countries were recording deaths the same way as the UK their numbers would be far higher than the UK's. The pipe dream of the EU having more buying power per capita is a pipe dream that went up in smoke last year with the EU's PPE scandal. Last year Germany kept all the PPE to themselves and this year Germany is buying up vaccinations for themselves.
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  22.  @WilliamLesourd  Please remember the people of the UK love the people of Europe, We dislike the unelected leaders in Brussels. That is why we left the EU. While i will try to bite my tongue regarding anyone calling Brexit selfish. Especially someone from France saying that comment. France has more strikes and protests than any other European country. While you might call those protests selfish? I would call them self protection to fight for the right to earn a living and human rights. As for the EU setting out to punish the UK. The more attacks the EU makes towards the UK, the less people will want to buy from the EU. The UK makes up more than 20% of the EU's exports. When the EU's 27 combined NET exports are only 33 Billion and you consider the UK spends 43 Billion a year on German built cars every year. Trade works both ways and the UK has signed New trade deals with 62 countries in the last 2 years, Plus the UK-EU trade deal, with Zero membership fee to access the EU's Single Market. Brussels bully boy tactics failed to keep the UK inside the EU and there is little Brussels can do to the UK unless they want to risk the UK cancelling the trade deal. Yes the EU is great at self promotion and propaganda to attack the UK. Dont be fooled by the hype because every time you put the EU's propaganda under the microscope it totally falls apart.
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  23.  @WilliamLesourd  Your right the UK does roughly 50% of its trade (buying and selling) with the EU. One thing is certain, that figure will reduce over time. Purely for the fact that the Brussels has spent the last 4 years hurling threats at UK businesses and that has forced them to make changes prior to the end of 2020. UK supermarkets simply dont stock many EU items. Even supermarkets like Aldi and Lidl have found alternative suppliers inside the UK or from outside the EU over the past 4 years. Previously Aldi and Lidl said they would close all their stores in the UK if we left the EU but they both have a large market share inside the UK and the losses would be to much. So they have had to adapt. Now they carry a much wider choice than they did before the 2016 Brexit vote. The same applies to all businesses across the UK over the past 4 years. I'm sure it will be a bumpy ride on both sides. Just remember the normal hard working people of the UK didn't fall out with the normal hard working people of Europe. We just had enough of the political leaders in Brussels.
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  24. @Steve Ruddick The Blame for that falls firmly on the WHO and the CCP for covering it all up. A year later the WHO tried to enter China to investigate and they were refused access. Even now they will be carrying out a sham investigation because the genuine facts will never come out of China. Yes in hindsight we could have closed the borders like Taiwan because they understood how China/CCP always covers up these outbreaks, the same as they did with SARS and many others. The CCP will only admit to an outbreak once it has spread outside of Chinas borders and then they cant deny it any longer. If you want to make a stand, you need to stop buying Chinese made goods until the CCP is thrown out. For almost a year the whole world has been suffering because of the CCP. At the same time China is buying up businesses across the globe for pennies in the pound. (cents on the Dollar) Where are the media headlines about that????? At the same time the EU has just done a trade deal with china for Billions of investment. What that really means is China is buying up European companies on mass.
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  25. @Steve Ruddick Every government around the world made the same mistakes. They all listen to their top medical professionals that were being fed information by the WHO , that were being controlled by the CCP. Playing the blame game and pointing the finger at Boris isn't going to change anything. Do you think Labour or any other political party in the UK would have done anything differently? No of course the wouldn't. They would have asked the top medical professionals, the same way every government around the world did.
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  26. @Steve Ruddick If you are set in your mind to pick apart the present government for your own political gain. Is there really any point proving your wrong? Your not interested in genuine facts or data. Are you talking about the Communist Corbyn clone Starmer? Both of them are multi Millionaires but stand on their Communist podium preaching about equality. LOL Every government in the world would refer to medical professionals and take their advice.
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  27. @Steve Ruddick So what is the alternative to the Tories? Because it's not Labour. Labour has been taken over be Anarchists and Communists. Every other political party made a firm stand against the general publics vote for Brexit. I'm not a Tory fan boy. But the Choice is between Communist Extremists running the Labour party or Tories i will take the commons sense vote every time. If there was a logical alternative i would take it.
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  28. @Steve Ruddick Mate your no better than those nut jobs if you are attempting to defend Labour and their Communists Ideals. Have you forgotten Corbyn's Free Everything for Everyone ideals that he was preach in the last general election. Shouting about taxing the rich, when Comrade Corbyn is a Multi Millionaire, who spends most of his time with extremist groups and terrorists. Lets not forget it was Starmers idea to have a second referendum, where the two choices were to Remain or Remain. That is why Labour wont get into power for at least another 10 years. Now they want to bring Old Tony Blair back and they are even talking about Gordon Brown??? . LOL
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  29. @Steve Ruddick I will give you the same question. What is the alternative? It wont be an alternative political party and hot swapping someone new into the PM's chair while Brexit and Covid is ongoing wont solve anything. Honestly the only people that attack Boris in the way you have are life long Labour/Lib-Dems/SNP supporters. You call Boris lazy, yet he's been dealing with Covid & Brexit at the same time. So your comments are not based on reality. You call the Tories inept but the UK government has completed new trade deals with 62 countries plus the UK-EU trade deal and more to follow this year. If you were honest about which party you support instead of pretending you dont, maybe people would take you more seriously. Your 100% anti Conservative party biased comments are proof your narrative isnt genuine. The only people that shout to burn everything to the ground and tear everything apart are the Extremist loopy left Anarchists and Communists. Saying those kind of comments are not logical in modern world. Even if you didn't realise that was what you were saying because you have frequented certain political groups and been drawn into their narrative without understanding it.
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  30. No one cares. The BBC is trying to save it's skin by getting rid of the Conservatives.
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  31.  @ScottishRoss27  Scottish revenue is almost Zero, over the past 2 years since crude oil prices crashed. Which is why the SNP keep publishing old figure from 2017/2018 as if they have any basis on fact?!!? That's because the SNP are using "Projected Figures" that include old data, instead of genuine (up to date) facts and figures. You are fully aware of this because i have proved this many times in comments directed at your attempts to twist the info to meet your Pro SNP Propaganda. Dont waste my time trying to deny it. I also proved 100% with genuine facts that NHS & Education & all the other public services have been failed Scotland under SNP control. The SNP have cut public spending by council by 2% while increasing council tax by the maximum 3%. Where did that 5% of Scotland's public funding go??????
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  32.  @ScottishRoss27  Yes i agree the SNP is a complete failure. P.S your figures dont add up. I'm sure you are fully aware of that by the way you have cherry picked those half truths/half facts. in an attempt to promote your Pro SNP Propaganda
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  33.  @ScottishRoss27  LOL yes iv read that SNP propaganda. It's not based on genuine facts. It did give me a good laugh. If your daft enough to believe the hype more fool you. You cant fault the SNP propaganda. If only the SNP put that much energy and money into running Scotland properly. Especially when the Scottish government gets more money per capita/per person than England Wales or Northern Ireland, from the UK government.
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  34.  @ScottishRoss27  It's fake figures because the SNP are using Predicted crude oil revenue figures to fudge the numbers. We already know Crude Oil prices crashed 2 years ago and have not recovered since. So to quote oil revenue in that was i just a lie. How can the SNP twist things so openly and fool the Scottish people. It FAKE, end of.
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  35.  @ScottishRoss27  Your constant deluded Copy & Paste comments amount to nothing. Over the past few weeks you Copy & Paste the same old rubbish and expect people to believe your Fake comments as if they are honest. LOL I'v pulled every single one of those apart and proved without a shadow of doubt, at best they are biased and at worst they are complete fiction and lies.
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  36.  @ScottishRoss27  You forgot to mention those figures your quoting are mostly Net Imports to the UK-England. That gives the UK spending power. When things become 12-25% more expensive from the EU. The UK will buy None EU/International goods and services and save 12-25%. (12% if there is a UK/EU FTA or 25% on a No Deal) For the record roughly 50% of the UK's spending is done in the EU. The other half is International trade outside the EU. If the SNP managed to con the Scottish people into an independence vote, Scotland would lose most of its Exports overnight. Yes the rest of the UK is the largest buyer of Scottish goods and service. The Combine 27 EU countries only buy roughly 12-15% of Scotland's exports. So you grandkids to ask for a Second Referendum. Instead of collecting 10% import tax on None EU goods, that is sent directly to Brussels slush fund. That will make None EU goods 12% cheaper in the UK. Without an FTA (No Deal) the UK will charge at least a 10% tariff on EU goods and services which will fund the UK's public services. So it's a Win Win for the UK. Simply because the UK buys almost double the amount from the EU, compared to how much the EU buys from the UK. That means the UK will collect roughly twice/double/2X the amount of tariffs to pay for the UK's NHS Police Schools etc etc. The EU is on the losing side and if Scotland ever joined the EU it would be broke/bankrupt in two years and up to your neck in Migrants. So please tell me why the SNP leaders want to sign Scotland into the EU's financial slavery????
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  37. Everything in this so called news report would have been vetted by the Kremlin before the BBC could release it. It's simply a Russian propaganda piece.
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  38. The truth about the New unrest in Ireland is out there. Search youtube for a video called, ( Audio confirms Michel Barnier weaponised Irish Border to trap Britain in trade negotiations )
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  39.  @Special_Agent_NSB  The BBC automatically removes youtube links to other videos. Search youtube for a video called, ( Audio confirms Michel Barnier weaponised Irish Border to trap Britain in trade negotiations )
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  40. @Andrew We have a choice to fund companies like SKY. With the BBC the cost is forces on the UK public under threat of fines and even prison. The BBC goes against the majority of the publics ideals. They support the loopy left and anarchists and worst of all they support every word that come out of the EU. At the same time the BBC attacks the UK government every chance they get, even though the Government has a massive 88 seat majority that the UK public voted for a fully support. That makes the BBC completely ANTI BRITISH.
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  41. Great news for the UK. WTO asap. We are escaping the EU sinking ship. The will never hand over control and we wont carry on negociating into next year, otherwise the UK would be tied into the EU's next 7 year financial cycle. We have already been paying into Brussels slush fund since the Brexit vote.
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  42. They say Not a genetic woman. Its a man boxing in womens sport.
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  43. The figure from China are Fake. Stop comparing numbers to China.
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  44.  @lssnow8195  Compared to the EU who said the AZ didn;t work on the over 65's at the same time demanding more AZ vaccines from the UK's production plant. Now the EU is only giving vaccines to the elderly over 65 years old. The UK isn't asking for anything. The UK funded and produce the most effective Covid vaccine available for Zero Profit. Plus AZ licensed the production of their vaccine to India and Australia. The UK isn't begging for anything because the UK part owns the AZ vaccine patent.
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  45.  @ronaldobrien6870  What should we do??? The EU stuffed up the vaccine orders and we dont have any AZ vaccines to give out. Lets say their is a problem with the vaccine so no one complains in the ROI.
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  46. The EU said they had all their plans in place for a No Deal. The biased BBC fails again.
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  47. We have already seen numerous dirty tricks by the EU commission to get more AstraZeneca vaccines. From raiding AZ and trying to ban vaccines entering the UK and triggering Article 16, Saying the AZ vaccine doesn't work on the over 65's. Export restrictions until April that has now been extended to June and will probably be extended until the winter. Stopping exports of pre-purchased vaccines being shipped to Australia. Now the EU says the vaccine causes blood clots?!!!! Is that because they hope countries might cancel their orders of AZ and allow the EU to purchase them? In another attempt to catch up some how. Or is this the EU making an excuse for the lack of vaccines available and wanting to reduce the overall demand for the AZ vaccine by the public? Just the other day the EU Commission was telling lies. Trying to say the UK had an export ban. They have proved they will stop at nothing.
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  48. BBC morons at it again. It was a global pandemic. No country was prepared for the pandemic.
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  49. There are only threats and dirty tricks from the EU. There is no sign of "Trust or Good Faith" from the EU Bureacrats. The EU got caught, trying to block the food supply to Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK. The EU spent 3 years threatening the peace in Ireland for there own gain. Shame on the EU for putting the Good Friday Agreement at risk.
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  50. Lefty waffle by Pro EU A-Holes. NI is and always will be part of the UK. They are a brothers and sisters, friends and family. A border down the irish sea is just as unacceptable for Northern Ireland as hard border is for the Republic of Ireland. This could and should have easily been solved with a digital trade border. Yet the EU wanted to make life hard.
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