I think you can be fairly sure that if the UK was doing poorly vaccinating people against covid and there were vaccines being exported from here the government would put in place restrictions and be widely applauded in the UK for doing so.
You can be equally sure that if the EU were well ahead of the UK in terms of vaccinations there would be plenty of snarky stories coming from the EU about how the UK had lost the plot, as indeed there have been about other things.
If you want to go the whole way on UK-EU vaccines it turns out that the UK was so not a part of Europe that those most clearly asserting that we're not a part of Europe are also those most loudly concerned with exactly what is happening in the EU.
And the boring international relations take is that diplomacy is meant to stop supposedly developed countries with numerous interests in common from name calling and ambassador calling because of the name calling.
But as the problems with the Northern Ireland protocol are primarily the fault of the UK government who deny what they signed up for, the covid vaccine fall out is primarily the fault of the EU still evidently unable to believe the UK is doing better and suspecting cheating.
With insincere apologies to those who believe Brexit means either that the UK or EU is always right and the other always wrong.
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