Comments by "Drew Hodge" (@drewhodge3820) on "EU Debates | eudebates.tv" channel.

  1. The EU project is broken. Brussels doesn't work for the normal hard working people living inside the EU.
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  2.  @Julian-ux5xd  Just because the system works for a small minority of people, that does not mean the EU leaders in Brussels work for the best interests of the 460 million people living in the block. Was your job working in social media to promote Brussels? (On the EU's payroll)
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  3. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  4. Barnier is the best at making threats on twitter.
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  5. Look at the EU controlled media/press run around to take pointless pictures. All staged propaganda. Why does the EU Commission have a fake flag? The EU is not a country.
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  6. The EU has not ratified the Brexit deal.
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  7.  @joeletaxi7956  What a total load of tosh. The EU had no choice but to back track after they tried to put up a hard border in Ireland. After the ROI and NI and the UK told them to back off ASAP. In regards to the UK-EU trade deal the EU has decided to interpret the trade deal to inflict disruption the same as the EU commission attempt to change the rules on UK shellfish exports. The EU commission suddenly decided to change it mind. After they initially said there wouldn't be a problem. So yes the EU moved the goal posts and yes it's about to backfire on the EU commission AGAIN.
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  8.  @Armasnipe  Why is it that Sad Remoaner Morons think blasting everyone is going to change anything. Brexit is done. You won't change that Fact. You won't reverse Brexit. Move on with your life. You won't get the loopy Labour party in power or the Loopy Lib-Dems in power either. Not in the next decade. The more you scream and shout and attack people the more the vast majority of the general public of the UK will push back. That is why the Brexit Party was the largest political party in Brussels. That is why the Conservative Party has an 80 seat majority. That is why the UK will never rejoin the EU and that is why your rants are pointless. They do more damage to your cause than any political party could do. I'm not even a Conservative Party supporter. One thing is for certain, people have not forgotten Comrade Corbyn's Communist rants that destroyed the Labour party and many of their MPs are still pushing their Communist agenda on the public. Starmer is a big flat Zero. He backed Corbyn every step of the way is on the record as anti establishment and anti Royal. It was Starmer's idea to have a second Brexit referendum where the only choice was Remain and Remain. Thank goodness labour isn't in power because all the vaccines we would have paid for through the EU's joint medical procurements agency would mean the UK would be at the back of the queue.
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  9. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  10. Too little too late. The EU is only usually interested in putting sanctions on Turkey.
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  11. More EU commission failure.
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  12. The EU hasn't even been recognised as a country. So i agree with you totally that the UK shouldn't and probably cant export to the EU for the simple fact that the EU is nothing more than a trade organization (a poorly run one at that)
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  13.  @brunobrauer6301  no the WA is part and parcel of the brexit agreement. Otherwise there is no point to the protocol. The EU already triggered Article 16. So pretending they are interested in Ireland (ROI and NI) is a joke. The WA clearly states trade between GB and NI cannot be hampered with. That is the UK's internal market. To do so risks the GFA. Which will always be more important than anything the EU can say or do.
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  14.  @wanderschlosser1857  The GFA is about both sides making an agreement that works and continues to work. The WA does not work for NI. So the GFA trumps the WA. The GFA came first and no new agreement can over ride it or change it. No matter how much spin Brussels tries to put on it.. It was the EU commission that triggered Article 16 in total disregard to the WA protocol and the GFA. So the EU has lost the moral high ground. Nothing Brussels says or does can undo that damage. They can make as many claims as they want in the ECJ kangaroo court. Both the ROI and NI wont stand for that nonsense. Yes it might remain a war of words but unless the EU shows some flexibility NI will void the WA in less than 5 years. Then there are two choices. A digital trade checks system or the ROI will leave the block. What ever happens the EU wont get its end game of removing NI from the UK. I dont see the ROI wanting to leaving the block any time soon, so it will be digital trade checks. Brussels opened a can of worms and while Mrs May was in charge they thought the UK (including NI) would just roll over. They never took into consideration the strength and pride and determination of the people living in the ROI and NI.
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  15. Oh let's pat the EU Commission on the back for threatening to trigger Article 16. What a joke.
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  16. So the UK pre-paid for AZ vaccines last year and the EU will allow those UK owned vaccines to be delivered to Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. Thanks for giving the UK what it already owns.
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  17. Wouldn't it be better if the EU commission just stated clearly that mistakes were made and they were slow to react. Then state they are going to do everything possible to resolve the problem and help to increase vaccine production. There are many countries around the world that are desperate for these vaccinations and many of those countries outside the EU placed order with vaccine companies based in the EU. Making noise and making excuses and blaming other countries is just making things worse.
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  18. The UK ordered and Pre-paid for those vaccinations 3+ months before the EU finally got organised. This proves Brussels bureaucracy is a failure. Brussels actually stopped individual EU countries placing orders with AstraZeneca which delayed the production in Europe by 3 months. Now Brussels wants to jump the queue to cover up their failure to act. SHAME on Brussels, they will cost many lives lost. No one in Brussels is accountable for this tragic/horrific mistake. No one in Brussels will be punished. The EU/Brussels unelected leaders are a Dictatorship. The EU/Brussels are not a democracy. They work for themselves and not for the normal hard working people living in the EU.
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  19. EU commission failure. Blame everyone else in the world.
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  20. Scotland doesn't collect enough tax revenue to fund its spending on public services. Scotland has a 15 Billion black hole in their budget every year.
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  21.  @phoebus45  I think you will find nothing has been stolen. Scotland collects half a Billion in tax revenue from Gas and Oil. That leaves the SNP with an over spend of 15 Billion a years. Only some of that Oil and Gas tax revenue belongs to Scotland. Scotland collect the tax revenue because that is where the oil and gas is shipped/piped to. Dont forget the Scottish Isles have said they well vote to leave Scotland and become a Crown Dependence if Scotland votes to leave the UK. Leaving Scotland with Zero rights to north sea gas and oil. So your argument is null and void.
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  22. ​ @phoebus45  Your talking rubbish. The residents/owners of the Scottish Isles have stated very clearly they would break away from Scotland to become a Crown Dependence like Jersey and Guernsey, if Scotland voted to leave the UK. Scotland would lose it's access to 95% of it's fisheries and 100% of its rights to North Sea Oil & Gas and a lot of the renewable energy off shore. They would become the most wealth people in the UK over night. Why would you think anyone will believe your lies? Scotland doesn't own the Scottish Isles. LOL The SNP has a 15 Billion black hole in their budget every year. They spend 15 Billion more than the SNP/Scotland collects in taxes every year. That is using the SNP's/Scotlands own data. If your going to try and make things up, at least try to make them partially believable. LOL Since the 2014 Scots Referendum the SNP have racked up more than 100 Billion in over spending. Even before you consider the financial impact/cost of Covid (now and in the future) The SNP have been in power 14 years and racked up 300 Billion in over spending. That is Scotlands national debt that Scotland would have to repay to the rest of the UK. Dont forget Scotland cant raise loans using the UK Pound Sterling. That means Scotland would see a minimum 49% tax increase over 20+ years and public service spending would have to be slashed for 20 years before it came close to meeting the EU's criteria to join the block. Wave goodbye to free NHS and Benefits and State Pensions and free University Education. After 20 years of Scottish poverty would the EU ever let Scotland join the block? Do they want another Greece in the EU? Let's not forget most of Scotlands financial sector businesses will move to England. If they were going to move to the EU they would have already done it before the end of 2020. So it's going to take a lot more than 20 years for Scotland to clear it's national debt and start to balance the books. SNP fiction and lies wont pay the bills in Scotland.
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  23.  @phoebus45  Your say the SNP/Scotland had a choice in 2014 to have a referendum. You attempt to say the Scottish Isles dont have a right to vote for Independence? LOL
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  24.  @deadlydundee  Scotland can't borrow money. You don't have your own currency. Scotland just overspend English tax payers money. The SNP can't balance the books. Next you will attempt to say oli revenue from oil landed in Scotland but fail to mention 80% of that revenue is from English owned oil. Next you will attempt to state Scotlands financial sector which on mass will move to England the moment Scotland became independent. (Oh wait Scotland wouldn't be independent because it would be an EU slave member) The majority of valuable property in Scotland isn't owned by Scottish people. Got on mention scottish fish that actually belong to the Scottish Isles (Not the Scottish mainland) The Scottish Isles have clearly stated they would become a crown dependent. Happy to educate you further. I know you need education because the SNP have decimated the Scotlands education system. Do you need to learn about the Barnet formula? That is English tax payers money funding your public services. That was designed to run for 3 years and 15 years later English tax payers are still funding the SNP's financial failures.
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  25.  @wanderschlosser1857  Your talking about a hard border that checks the moment of people. A digital border that checks goods in commercial trucks is all that is needed to protect the EU's failed single market. P's there has been border checks on the Irish border for months due to Covid. What is the difference??? The EU is play politics but they started a fight with the Irish. That is a fight the EU cant win with their bonkers rules and regulations. The Irish dont fight with words and silly bits of paper with rules written on them. Its a fight the EU cant win.
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  26.  @wanderschlosser1857  This is a typical EU propaganda reply from you. You lost the argument and then you revert to fiction. It's only the EU that is obsessed with their single market. So it's an EU problem that they manufactured and it will be a problem the EU has to resolve. The WA will be null and void in less than 5 years. The EU Commission picked a fight with Ireland which will backfire on the EU. You can talk in circles (its the EU way) The GFA is the only important thing. The GFA came first and it over rides anything the EU says or does. Barnier used the peace process as a weapon against the UK. You can expect gold to rain from the sky. You wont get what you want or expect or demand. The EU triggered Article 16 and instantly lost the moral high ground. Now the UK is free to do what it wants.
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  27.  @wanderschlosser1857  The single market and the euro are tools to filter wealth and power to the larger and wealthier countries like France and Germany from the rest of the block. That is not sustainable long term and its coming to an end. Every year more than a Million people move/migrate to the EU but the GDP is shrinking? That means less money shared between more people (even before you consider natural population growth). The EU's combined Net exports were only 33 Billion a year before Brexit and Covid. To put that into perspective the UK spends 43 Billion a year on German built cars. Germany imports almost 1 Billion of cheap Chinese goods every single day of the year, which is distributed across the EU. That has destroyed every industry across the EU. The single market is not sustainable. Yes its good for German profits but not for everyone else. The single market Bubble is about to burst. Russia and China see blood in the water. The only question is which country will leave the EU next? Brussels made a power grab over the EU27 with their 700 Billion recovery fund and the German high court has blocked that for now at least. Lets not forget the UK has zero fee access to the single market. Yes there is now more paper work involved. EU countries are already looking to do direct trade deals with the UK.
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  28.  @wanderschlosser1857  You see once you start making up fiction, you lost my interest and lost my respect. As soon as you attempt to pass of fake info as fact. You lose your argument. Im all for people having different view points and ideals. Now you have wasted my time and yours. This is why a lot of people voted to leave the EU in 2016 because they were sick and tired of listening to lies from the Remain side. Which is why you lost the Brexit Referendum. Next you will revert back to insults. Dont waste your time thinking you will hurt my feeling.
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  29.  @plebius  That wasn't what i said. I clearly stated trade between NI & GB cannot be hindered under the terms of the WA. There have been border checks in the ROI for months due to Covid. The moment the EU made the announcement they triggered Article 16 because they didn't follow the protocol. The EU did a U-turn after all parties involved put the EU in their place. You clearly understand what happened by the tone of your argument. The UK has only paused the implementation until the problems are ironed out. This a perfectly routine action that takes place all the time with trade deals. Yes the EU loves to push their propaganda and we all know they love to make a sing and dance about their proposed legal action that takes years to start. The EU Commission have an average of 200 cases at any given time against its own EU member countries. A legal case with the complexities of the WA would take more than a decade. Just over 4 years time Northern Ireland has the right to vote for or against the WA. So the EU's threats of legal action is pointless noise. The bias BBC dont make me laugh. Who even watches the BBC? Let alone believes anything the BBC says.
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  30.  @plebius  The checks take place on the border. So they are border checks. They have been carried out constantly for many months and trying to defect that fact means your trying to mislead people. As soon as you try to push half truths as facts, you have lost your argument. Saying checks are taking place in other areas as well doesn't change there is border checks taking place on the Irish border on the side of the ROI. All under the banner of Covid checks but they are checking people ID. In effect its a hard border.
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  31.  @Armasnipe  No we have been listening to the constant threats from the EU commission for the past 5 years.
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  32. Too little too late.
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  33. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  34. 9 Million shared between 450 Million people living in the EU. Is this on the same type of 12-18 month time scale the EU27 will wait for the Covid recovery funding?
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  35. What recovery Plan? You mean loans + Interest on those loans. Or the EU's terms and conditions (Power Grab) over it's member countries in exchange for access to the so called "recovery fund". How are these Green agenda loans going to help normal businesses recover from the financial impact of Covid over the past 18 months???
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  36. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  37. Will someone please give VDL a chair. LOL .... No one ever lets her sit down... VDL is looking more and more like a spare part every day. Now they are keeping her busy by visiting different countries, in an attempt to justify her job.
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  38. @Spartacus Compared to WHAT? Labour or Lib Un-Democratic party, or your corrupt Brussels MEP's?
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  39. @Spartacus There is no need to talk about the failed/broken/corrupt EU project. 45 years and the combined EU's 27 countries Net Exports are only 33 Billion a year. Hardly a shining example of a trading block that was set up to be a trading block to compete with the world. Shrinking GDP year on year while over 1 Million more people move/migrate to the EU every year. More people sharing less money year on year on year. Next year the EU will instantly take a massive hit financially because the EU has spent 4 years hurling insults and threats towards the UK public and UK businesses. Why would the EU think the UK would want to carry on buying goods and services at the same rate/volume that we did before??? Especially without a Genuine Free Trade Agreement goods from the EU will cost 12-37% more than the same goods from outside te EU. None EU imports wont have to have EU tariffs on them which range from 10-80% which got sent to Brussels budget. Plus EU goods will be hit with WTO tariffs after the first 6 months of 2021. All import tariffs (EU & None EU) on imports will go directly to the UK to fund public services.
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  40.  @isacadc4552  Who has to repay the debt? There is always a cost to people. Debt incurs interest which the normal hard working people inside the EU have to repay. There isn't a magic money tree in Brussels or at the ECB.
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  41.  @mijicmugendo  I see you back to being a TROL and calling everyone a Liar, over and over again. How is the EU treating your home country Ireland ? I see they were just about to put up a hard border!!! How are you going to defend that action as a hardcore Irishman?
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  42.  @mijicmugendo  I see you back to being a TROL and calling everyone a Liar, over and over again. How is the EU treating your home country Ireland ? I see they were just about to put up a hard border!!! How are you going to defend that action as a hardcore Irishman?
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  43.  @mijicmugendo  I see you back to being a TROL and calling everyone a Liar, over and over again. How is the EU treating your home country Ireland ? I see they were just about to put up a hard border!!! How are you going to defend that action as a hardcore Irishman?
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  44.  @isacadc4552  They dont have fake national anthems like the EU does, Only a country can have a National anthem.
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  45. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  46. The EU manufactured the mess in Ireland and now it's going to backfire on them. You can't mess with Ireland and expect to walk away.
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  47.  @GianniFrankis  Do you remember the EU triggering Article 16 and totally ignoring the protocol? That is when the unrest started again in Ireland. This has nothing to do with Brexit. Only a complete Moron would think that.
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  48. This bloke couldn't make porridge.
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  49. How is this news worthy? The UK was sending 300 Million every week to Brussels.
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  50. Yes the UK as part of Europe has funded the majority of vaccine export across the world through Covax because the UK has paid more into Covax than the EU.
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  51. What doesn't the EU understand about the UK being a Sovereign State that won't be controlled be the EU. That is why the British people voted to leave the EU in early 2016. Yet the EU carries on making bonkers demands to control the UK after January 1st 2021
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  52.  @isacadc4552  That is very simple. Cap public sector wages. Charge tariffs on EU goods entering the UK. P's it's 200 Billion the UK wants to raise. How is the EU going to raise it's 1.8 Trillion recovery budget without lending it through UK banks and clearing houses???? That will tie the EU's population in debt for generation.
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  53.  @isacadc4552  The UK's banks and clearing houses already hold the vast majority of the EU's individual national debts. The UK is the cheapest place in the world to raise the 1.8 Trillion the EU needs. The EU simply cant afford to raise the capital anywhere else. Which is why Brussels has extended the use of UK banks and clearing houses for a further 18 months after January 1st 2021.
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  54. NO UK Fisheries. NO level playing field. NO control over the UK after 2020. The UK WILL be Independent. WTO here we come.
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  55.  @cyberkraut5139  The same applies to the EU. I dont see the UK in panic mode (in the same way the EU leaders are) What happens when the narrative from Brussels falls apart, more than it has already? The people of the UK don't dislike the people of Europe. We just dislike being controlled by the Unelected leaders in Brussels. The past 4 years of Constant threats from the EU have proved the UK public did the right thing in the 2016 Brexit vote. Yes there will be short term disruption but we have faced a lot worse due to the Covid Crisis. The UK only buys 26% of its fresh food from the EU and this time of year (winter) most fresh fruit, salad, veg is imported from outside the EU. By the time the spring comes, when the UK would normally start to import a lot of fresh food from the EU, alternative supplies will already be arranged from outside the EU (without a genuine UK-EU free trade agreement) It's worth mentioning the UK has vastly changed it's supply chain over the past 6 months as the EU has threatened to block shipping ports. So the impact will a lot smaller than it would have been.
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  56. Watch the remoaners put down the idea of a Genuine Free Trade Deal between Canada and the UK. First the Remoaners said the UK wouldn't be able to do trade deals on it's own. Then they said UK trade deals would take 10 years or more. Now every trade deal the UK signs wont be good enough for the remoaners. Even if the new trade deals are similar or better than the EU's trade deals. They will still carry on moaning. All this is being done without paying Billions every year into Brussels Slush Fund.
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  57. Well it didn't work out well for Greece.
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  58.  @conor1077  Hmmm you think the EU will do better without Billions from the UK every year???
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  59.  @conor1077  45 years of EU failures isn't a good track record. Unity is a pipe dream. Now Switzerland has walked away from the EU. Hungary and Poland have a foot out the door. There is more Anti EU feeling in Europe than ever before. What you call unity is actually a Dictatorship.
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  60.  @conor1077  There have been many areas with civil unrest. You have a short memory. Have you forgotten about ongoing unrest in the Ukraine and what about the Millions that died in Yugoslavia because the EU refused to step in. I think you are wearing blinkers. The EU Commission has roughly 200 court cases ongoing at any given time against the EU27. Hardly harmony in the EU is it?
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  61.  @conor1077  You cant cherry pick. You tried to imply the EU some how stopped a world war? Now the EU wants to form their own EU Army. So the new threat to Europe is the EU commission.
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  62. They are still bashing on about the Bonkers "level playing field" or "ECJ" in an attempt to control the UK in the future. Give it a rest. Offer a Genuine Free Trade Agreement or BOG OFF >>>>
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  63. EU/Brussels bureaucracy = Failure. They will cause many deaths because of their normal SLOW action. Now the whole world can see the EU/Brussels leadership is a Broken System that does not work for the people living in the EU.
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  64. You have got to admire this amazing lady.
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  65.  @alfredttarski4521  LOL where have you been living over the past few weeks? It certainly isn't Earth if you believe your own comment. LOL Brussels Triggered Article 16.
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  66.  @alfredttarski4521  If that was the case (its not) Why did Sinn Fein issue a statement against the EU's triggering of Article 16 ???
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  67.  @wanderschlosser1857  So you agree the GFA set legal precedent and the WA cannot over ride any part of the GFA. So if the EU tries to use their interpretation of the WA to over ride any part of the GFA, the EU's argument attempting to use the WA is null and void.
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  68.  @Armasnipe  again your wrong. The UK records covid cases differently from the rest of Europe. If someone dies of cancer or a car accident or falls down the stairs and dies but they test positive for having Covid within 3 months of death, it's still recorded as a Covid death. Normally the UK see's 60-80 thousands deaths due to flu every year. In the past year the UK has recorded 36 deaths due to the flu. So it's clear the UK's figures are flawed. As for your comment about the UK's PM he has remained civil towards the UK and has issued zero threats towards the EU. It's not the British way to hurl insults and threats.
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  69.  @joeletaxi7956  the EU commission has constantly moved the goal posts. This has been highly documented.
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  70.  @Armasnipe  Macron hurls insults and threats towards the UK on a weekly basis. If people react to those actions, especially when the French leadership's comments are not justified, you can't blame them. The people of the UK didn't fall out of love with the French people or the rest of Europe. We just decided we didn't agree with the EU commission/leadership making our rules and regulations and laws.
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  71.  @Armasnipe  why waste my time with a stupid question like that?
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  72. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  73. Too little too late. AGAIN.
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  74. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  75.  @SoundTourist  Article 16 ring any bells? The UK placed orders for the bulk of their vaccine requirements from AZ in May 2020. The EU placed their first order for 30 Million AZ vaccine in June. Then placed orders for 300 Million vaccines in December 2020 and a further order in early January with AZ. Why do people believe the foolish lies from Brussels, when they have already been proven wrong????? .
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  76.  @SoundTourist  WOW your deluded. The EU gave nothing. Vaccine exports were done by the vaccine companies who are based in the EU. The EU did NOTHING. To say anything differently makes you look Foolish.
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  77.  @SoundTourist  The EU exported Zero vaccines. Vaccine companies exported vaccines to for fill their contracts. The EU has never had any vaccines to export. The EU has done everything in its power to ban vaccine exports to cover up their vaccine purchasing mess. The whole world knows it. If your foolish enough to believe Brussels fake propaganda? Brussels messed up and that will effect you directly, so why are you attempting to defend the EU Commission? The EU27 will require Covid vaccines year after year to deal with new Covid strains and all the vaccine companies view the EU as a hostile customer. So the EU will be at the back of the queue. Some vaccine companies are already refusing to sign supply contracts with the EU. Novavax is now manufacturing vaccines in the UK and refusing/stalling with the EU's contract.
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  78. German greed created this. The EU has plenty of gas reserves. Those gas reserves are not in Germany. Those EU gas reserves would have taken power away from Germany so the EU stopped fracking in the EU and continued buying and relying on Russian gas. With the billions Russia made every month from sales to the EU and the EU's reliance on Russian gas, Russia went to war in Ukraine. Trump warned the EU about this years ago but the EU controlled by Germany ignored Trump. So the EU funded the war crimes taking place in Europe directly.
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  79.  @eLeft6  Oh yes we fully understand. We have seen the EU's constant threats and dirty tricks over the past 4 years. We refuse to be controlled by the unelected in Brussels. What you fail to understand is the UK makes up 20% of the EU's trade. Even the EU admits that when the UK leaves the EU and stops funding the EU's budget in January 2021 it will be the financial equivalent of at least 20 of the EU 27 leaving the block overnight. All those countries that have been taking more out of the EU's budget than they have paid in, will become Net contributors next year. The UK already has 57-58 NEW trade deals agreed around the world (within the last 2 years) without paying a single penny/cent to Brussels. Yes many of them are a basic copy and paste of the deals the UK had while it was paying into the EU. Yes the EU tried to apply pressure to stop the UK doing those trade deals. So ask yourself WHY is your country paying Billions into Brussels slush fund? When you could easily copy those trade deals and pay nothing to Brussels and do your own trade deals that suit your own country without EU restrictions. Please dont try and tell me the EU is a power house, when the combined EU's 27 countries Net exports are only 33 Billion a year. The UK spends 43 Billion on German built cars every year.
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  80.  @bertrandmarion1927  We have no interest in being part of the Single Market. We asked from a Canada style deal. Otherwise it's NO DEAL & WTO.
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  81.  @bertrandmarion1927  Yes and the EU wants access to the UK. We will still not be controlled by the Level Playing Field or the ECJ. The UK will be an independent country that wont be controlled by the EU from next year.
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  82.  @NoName-hg6cc  As per usual your totally WRONG. The UK now has 58 NEW trade deals. Without paying a single penny into Brussels slush fund. The UK completed the Singapore trade deal and signed the Canada trade deal today. In the next few days the Vietnam trade deal should be ready as well.
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  83.  @NoName-hg6cc  No your WRONG AGAIN.. Here is the list of the UK's 58 NEW trade deals. .https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries#trade-agreements-from-1-january-2021
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  84.  @shinigamirikko3507  WOW you really are deluded. The EU offered a Canada type deal while the WA was being negotiated and then withdrew the offer. Now the EU is in a mess and your failed attempt to defend the EU leaders is laughable. Yes a Genuine Free Trade Agreement negotiated in good faith would work for both sides. No country in the world would agree to the EU's bonkers demands. LOL The EU moves the goal posts on a weekly basis.
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  85.  @shinigamirikko3507  Do you understand the UK has a trade deal agreed with Canada??? The UK has agreed NEW trade deals with 57 countries in less than 2 years. Worth 200 Billion. Plus there are many more trade deals to follow next year. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries#trade-agreements-from-1-january-2021
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  86.  @azounx  Sorry your wrong. It is a well know FACT that the EU blocked a group of EU countries ordering the vaccines. Brussels told them it had to be done by Brussels.
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  87. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  88.  @taniaarthur  The same way the UK funded AstraZeneca and many other vaccine companies which are just about to put their vaccination into production. While the EU/Brussels leadership from the information that they have released didn't put money into vaccine manufacturing. Brussels just placed an order once they knew there was a vaccine ready to purchase. At least 3 months after the UK had invested heavily into vaccine testing with many companies. With all the purchasing power the EU leadership says they have, WHY didn't they do anything sooner? Why did Brussels ban individual EU countries placing orders on their own? Now thousands of lives will be lost due to Brussels pointless bureaucracy. Those unknown unelected and unaccountable people running the whole of the EU behind a smoke screen. Will any of those unelected bureaucrats take responsibility for their complete failure to act? Will they face criminal action for the deaths they caused across the EU? The EU is being run as a dictatorship with the illusion that MEP's really have a way of making a difference.
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  89. @Jo Sm I have a lot of friends and family that live in the EU and i do hope everyone across the EU and the whole of Europe is provided for. I just cant see it being done in a timely manner when there is so much global demand for vaccines and the EU was so slow to react. The same happened when the EU took far to long to buy PPE and ventilators. I dont want to see people in the EU suffering.
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  90.  @mijicmugendo  Brexit is working for the UK. Where is the lie in that? I see you back to being a TROL and calling everyone a Liar, over and over again. How is the EU treating your home country Ireland ? I see they were just about to put up a hard border!!! How are you going to defend that action as a hardcore Irishman?
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  91.  @mijicmugendo  Yep things are going Great for the UK. Were just about to sign up to the CPTPP. Plus the UK has NEW trade deals with 63 countries Plus the UK-EU trade deal 27 countries. What has your country done lately?
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  92. Novax has signed a vaccine supply contract with the UK for 60 million vaccines but has not signed a supply contract with the EU. This is what happens when you threaten and blackmail vaccine companies and block vaccine exports to the world.
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  93. Brussels is now classed as a hostile customer. No vaccine company wants to deal with the EU now, unless the EU pays more for vaccines. Moderna signed a supply contract with the UK first.. Novavax signed a vaccine supply contact with the UK weeks ago to manufacture their vaccine in the UK. Novavax has not done a deal with the EU. Covid is going to come back year after year with new strains/variants and no vaccine company will do a deal with the EU in the future. The French vaccine company Valneva has moved to the UK and they are building their vaccine factory in the UK. The UK funded the expansion of the Halix factory so it can expand production to 5 times the volume. What has the EU actually done? Well they have certainly upset half the world by stopping/restricting/banning legitimate vaccine exports. The EU even stopped countries like Germany ordering their own vaccines.
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  94. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  95. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  96. Yes Covax received more money from the UK (UK is funding Covax with 500 Million) which is far more than the whole of the EU27 combined.
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  97. @Spartacus Really? The EU have said many times, that the UK public didn't know what they were voting for?!?! The list of EU threats is endless. Blockading ports. Stopping UK trucks entering the EU. Stopping UK plans/flights entering EU airspace. The EU threatened the Good Friday Agreement/Peace process in Ireland. The EU threatened the free movement of goods inside the UK. I can go on and on if you really want. The EU's constant threats and insults towards the UK have been hurled at the UK on an almost daily basis.
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  98.  @isacadc4552  Do you understand the UK owns part of the ECB? The ECB was partially funded by the UK when it was first formed. All debts have to be repaid eventually. Those bonds are loans. All loans have to be repaid with interest. There is no magic money tree. Money paid out has to be repaid.
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  99.  @isacadc4552  The UK part funded the ECB when it was first formed. Look it up.
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  100.  @isacadc4552  You clearly didn't look at which countries set up (funded) the ECB.
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  101.  @mijicmugendo  There you go again. LOL calling everyone a liar. You really do make yourself look stupid when you attempt (and fail) to call everything everyone says is a LIE. What a dumb ass. LOL Do you want me to post a couple of dozen media links to the papers across Europe and beyond that proves your wrong? They will be todays headline news. Even Sinn Fein spoke out against the EU's actions today. Or don't you read the news?
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  102. Best Effort is not a promise to supply vaccines. We dont believe the hype.
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  103.  Aris Georgopoulos  Did you even watch the video. There have been 80 Million vaccines exported. Only 10 Million of them went to the UK. The majority of those exported vaccines that were sent through Covax were funded by the UK. Yes the USA didn't change the rules, in the way the EU has done to cover up their failure to order vaccines. I dont understand why anyone would attempt to defend the EU Commissions mistakes? Because they are affecting you directly. !!!
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  104.  @imeldam1183  I'm well under the age of 50 and I'v had my UK funded and researched OXFORD-AstraZeneca vaccine less than an hour ago.
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  105. I thought the recovery agreement needed to be completed by the end of April, by all EU 27 members?
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  106.  @GianniFrankis  The EU broke the set protocol and triggered Article 16 the moment they made the announcement. Watch this and then tell me the EU is not to blame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScW5XydvVc&list=PLEVw1mLD2isGWhFoJWBS5pXF9oCu96A81&index=1
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  107. 40 years of failure.
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