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"Our people first" is much more than nationalist chest thumping. When a plane is crashing from the sky, you put your own mask on before helping your neighbour,

"Our people first" is much more than nationalist chest thumping. When a plane is crashing from the sky, you put your own mask on before helping your neighbour, otherwise you risk both parties getting hurt (not just one).

qart 6y ago
India has been giving away planeloads of vaccines. Presumably, they are going to get used by healthcare workers and other supporting industries in those countries. I don't mind if I have to wait a couple of months longer for my turn.
zpeti 6y ago
Yes but it doesn’t help that you just complained loudly about the Uk breaking international law, then you go and break private company contracts with eu law to obviously cover your own backside in failed negotiations. This is the EUs bullying negotiation strategy which they employ everywhere spectacularly failing.
- Dogeke 6y ago
  AstraZeneca is the one breaching the contract, the EU export ban will help the private company fulfil its contractual obligations it signed with the EU.
  - thu2111 6y ago
    AstraZeneca is not breaching its contract with the EU. That appears to be propaganda: note that the article doesn't actually state what part of the contract is being breached, and the link in the first paragraph that superficially looks like it would support this claim goes to an article that's not about contracts at all, in fact the word contract doesn't appear anywhere in that article. The EU accidentally leaked its own contract with AstraZeneca after trying to redact it. It showed that AZ were correct about the wording of the contract and the EU had been lying. There is no real disagreement about that anymore: the EU is on the wrong side of that dispute which is why there's been a lot of posturing but no court cases. BTW several EU countries have stockpiles of the AZ vaccine they aren't using because their citizens aren't turning up for appointments or volunteering to be vaxxed.
    - s1artibartfast 6y ago
      More explicitly, The contract the EU signed gave no priority to the EU over other customers, no exclusivity to EU based on manufacturing location, and no penalty for late delivery.
cameldrv 6y ago
Yes but this was pre-ordered by Australia and produced for them. If your expectation when ordering this type of product in a crisis situation is that the order will be seized by customs, there's no reason to place the order next time, and the product simply doesn't get produced.

qart 6y ago

India has been giving away planeloads of vaccines. Presumably, they are going to get used by healthcare workers and other supporting industries in those countries. I don't mind if I have to wait a couple of months longer for my turn.

zpeti 6y ago

Yes but it doesn’t help that you just complained loudly about the Uk breaking international law, then you go and break private company contracts with eu law to obviously cover your own backside in failed negotiations. This is the EUs bullying negotiation strategy which they employ everywhere spectacularly failing.

Dogeke 6y ago
AstraZeneca is the one breaching the contract, the EU export ban will help the private company fulfil its contractual obligations it signed with the EU.
- thu2111 6y ago
  AstraZeneca is not breaching its contract with the EU. That appears to be propaganda: note that the article doesn't actually state what part of the contract is being breached, and the link in the first paragraph that superficially looks like it would support this claim goes to an article that's not about contracts at all, in fact the word contract doesn't appear anywhere in that article. The EU accidentally leaked its own contract with AstraZeneca after trying to redact it. It showed that AZ were correct about the wording of the contract and the EU had been lying. There is no real disagreement about that anymore: the EU is on the wrong side of that dispute which is why there's been a lot of posturing but no court cases. BTW several EU countries have stockpiles of the AZ vaccine they aren't using because their citizens aren't turning up for appointments or volunteering to be vaxxed.
  - s1artibartfast 6y ago
    More explicitly, The contract the EU signed gave no priority to the EU over other customers, no exclusivity to EU based on manufacturing location, and no penalty for late delivery.

cameldrv 6y ago

Yes but this was pre-ordered by Australia and produced for them. If your expectation when ordering this type of product in a crisis situation is that the order will be seized by customs, there's no reason to place the order next time, and the product simply doesn't get produced.