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29 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Well, what do you know... the EU's contract with AstraZenica appears to contain a clause that includes the UK within the definition of the locations AZ agreed to use to manufacture vaccines for the EU market.

No wonder they're peeved!
That doesn't mean they're wholly in the right - only lawyers and those who have seen both the UK and EU contracts will be able to determine that - but it seems at the very least they've been unfairly hit by a string of vile jingoistic articles in the British press in recent daysz
The hole AZ has dug for itself seems to go even deeper. See the below...

(Presumably the Tories were cowering behind NDAs and their attempt to drive domestic public opinion entirely against the EU.)
Presumably we can now expect prominent front page retractions from all the major newsp-

Sorry, I can't even... 😆 😂 😆

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
27 Jan
Here's a puzzle...

How can over 7 million people have received their first dose of the vaccine, and yet only 80% of over 80s have been vaccinated and letters are just going out to the over 70s?

That doesn't readily square with the demographics of the UK?
ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peop…
Even if we assume all age groups 75+ have seen the same 80% takeup, that leaves a couple of million doses unaccounted for.

Does that mean that significant numbers of over 70s have already been vaccinated? Or have various other groups got in ahead?
I'm not suggesting the figures are *wrong*, but it would be good to have more transparency into who got what.

(Not just in terms of age groups, but how many of each vaccine have been given.)
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
26 Jan
Deaths with COVID-19 in the UK have doubled since 7 November 2020.

80 days ago, the figure stood at 50,063.

Yes, 80 days ago, the UK had only seen HALF the current number of deaths.

Now think back to the dither and delays and tier fiascos and weak November lockdown and Xmas.
To put it another way...

It took Boris Johnson 250 days to preside over the first 50,000 deaths of people with COVID-19.

It only took a further 80 days of his oversight for another 50,000 to die.
Does that look like the kind of pattern you'd expect to see from someone who'd "done everything they could" and who'd "learned the lessons" of the first wave of the pandemic?

Or does it look more like that of an arsonist tipping petrol on the flames?
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24 Jan
Mastercard is raising its fees on EU purchases made by holders of UK credit cards from 0.3% to 1.5%.

Another Brexit dividend, because we no longer fall under the EU-wide Interchange Fee Regulation that used to cap the fee at 0.3%.

on.ft.com/2KIM3rE
The amazing thing is, we have the EU to thank for it rising only to 1.5%, because they negotiated a lower cap for non-EU credit cards used in the EU.

Without that EU-brokered cap (which lasts 5 years and 6 months) we would face paying even more again.

ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
It's a known Brexit issue that was explicitly acknowledged by the UK Government in November 2018 when it set out the new law "Interchange Fee (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018"

They talk about it in the notes accompanying the statutory instrument.
gov.uk/government/pub…
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23 Jan
"An international removal company in Maldon in Essex says its business has been reduced to zero because of Brexit."

Post-Brexit changes mean their clients face vast fees to import their worldly goods into Portugal, and are cancelling in droves. So sad. itv.com/news/anglia/20…
Here's the official UK Government advice page on "Living in Portugal", updated for the end of the transition period.

Not one word about HOW one might go about moving there (which is the position this firm's clients are in.)
gov.uk/guidance/livin…
And here's the official UK Government advice on "Moving personal belongings to the UK".

The page has a notice on it saying it's out of date. There doesn't seem to be any newer information anywhere.
gov.uk/moving-to-uk
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23 Jan
Over the last few days, the Daily Mail has published some fairly even-handed articles about Brexit chaos.

Seems they saved up all their jingoistic vitriol for this travesty, which has every punishment narrative and anti-French trope you can imagine in it!
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
Our side is waving incoming loads through with barely a glance (an estimate yesterday was that HMRC loses £800 million in uncollected VAT and duties as a result). We *should* be scrutinising everything meticulously as well. Instead we're doing nothing. Makes France look stricter.
It's like two classrooms, in one of which normal school-level discipline is being maintained, while in the other total anarchy is allowed to reign. The normal classroom will feel stricter than it really is as a result of the contrast with the apocalyptic free-for-all next door.
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21 Jan
We know the Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph etc. lied about Brexit.

We know that Johnson, Gove, Farage, Hoey & hundreds of other prominent people lied about Brexit.

We know that some economists and business leaders lied about Brexit and got 50% of BBC coverage.

(please read on)
We know vast amounts of money were spent on highly targeted, corrosive social media campaigns.

We know all of those things, yet we're still enraged at Leavers? (Some of that is human nature.)

"How dare they have voted Leave! They had all the facts."

(please read on)
No, they didn't have all the facts. Why? For every reason in this thread.

They were living in giant info bubbles. Every source of information within those bubbles was consistent with every other source (and lying).

So how could they REALISTICALLY know better?

(please read on)
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