Vince Green

In America they would get twenty years and a free jar of vaseline every two weeks for what they did.

Telegraph this morning AstraZeneca’s vaccine production site in Belgium was raided yesterday at the request of the European Commission, as Brussels continued to heap pressure on the British company over delays in jab deliveries. Belgian officials from the country’s medicines regulator inspected the factory on Wednesday afternoon after the pharmaceutical giant blamed production problems at the plant for a shortfall in vaccine supplies to the bloc. Brussels suspects that AstraZeneca may have sold reserved EU vaccine stock to other non-EU countries, including Britain, which paid more for the jabs. The Commission has launched unprecedented public attacks against AstraZeneca over the past few days and the raid is seen as another example of the EU heaping pressure on the company. Brussels has demanded millions of AstraZeneca vaccines made in Britain be diverted to the EU but the company said British orders had to be fulfilled first before supplies could be switched. It has also threatened an export ban on EU-produced vaccines, jeopardising the UK’s supply of the Pfizer jab. The Belgian Health Minister said that the raid was carried out on behalf of the commission. It was aimed at proving whether or not AstraZeneca’s explanation for the failure in supply was genuine. A European Commission spokesman confirmed the inspection. “We do not comment on the scope, on why it's been undertaken and what has been audited,” the spokesman said, before refusing to answer if Brussels had ordered the raid. Officials from Belgium’s medicines regulator are expected to have drawn up a report on their findings in the next few days. A spokesman said: "Belgian experts are now examining the elements that were collected, together with experts from the Netherlands, Italy and Spain." The AstraZeneca CEO, Pascal Soriot, and the European Commission held a meeting last night. The commission said afterwards that it wanted a clear plan for the rapid delivery of the vaccines it had reserved for the first quarter of the year. EU officials have said that AstraZeneca has only offered a quarter of the jabs promised, which they claim is in breach of contract. AstraZeneca denies this, which has led to calls on the company to agree to the confidential contract to be made public. Brussels insists the EU contract does not allow the company to prioritise supplies from its two British factories for the UK. Kim Van Sparrentak, who is on the EU's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, told the Today programme on Thursday: “The problem is that there is a contract with AstraZeneca. They have promised us a certain amount of doses and they are not able to deliver. "Based on these promises, we have rolled out vaccination programmes in 27 countries and the most vulnerable people were able to finally breathe again, to have the feeling 'OK we will get the vaccine soon' and now the planning is completely being jeopardised so we need clarity and that's why I think transparency is most important." Commission: We expect that we can and will get UK-made doses

didn't say that, personally I love a good hanging

Lets not forget the part played in all this by the car manufacturers by making unsecure key less cars in the first place

He most certainly wasn't cleared, the process was blocked by the Republican majority. Big difference, that file is still sitting on Dromey's desk and I should think he will be dusting it off any time soon

Lithuanians, this is the reality of free movement within the EU.

An employer has very little fear of claims about unfair dismissal. It is a lengthy, time consuming and expensive process for the claimant and very few can afford it or are willing to take the risk.

I believe it is more able to latch on to cells in the human body. So "better hooks" effectively

A friend I used to work with, his wife has bred and sold labs for decades, Its been a tidy business for them over the years its not much work for the rewards when you think about it

Fantastic places, like dying and going to heaven when you walked through the door

No you are either deliberately or unintentionally missing the point. Why do **** poor bland, mind numbingly boring care homes get away with charging vunerable residents ridiculously high fees for couldn't care less "care" in circumstances that compare very badly against other benchmarks? eathat is int

Yes but that was only a glitch in the grand scheme of things. There are always more oldies coming down the pipe line. The business in retirement homes, as opposed to care homes, is huge and growing exponentially. Its wrong to think of these places as gods waiting rooms for the incontinent ga-ga oldies. We enquired about one of these places for my mother, she is not short of a bob or two but the prices quoted are extortionate. We could book her on a 120 day world cruise with P&O or Cunard in a balcony cabin with fabulous food, entertainment every night, gyms and activities galore etc for a lot less per day than staying in some of these overpriced death camps. And I mean a LOT less. nearly HALF! I could spend a year at sea going three times around the world in exquisite luxury, eating lobster and smoked salmon, drinking champagne and watching cabaret every night and having access to gyms and sauna's every day for around £36,000 to £40.000 per year Or I could spend £70,000 a year living in a characterless box room with a rickety old bed being fed scrambled egg and propped up for hours in front of a TV I can't change the channel on wearing a nappy because the staff can't be bothered to take me to the toilet. Unable to speak to most of the staff you just get ignored you choose

Its ring fenced, with an aging population and an almost captive workforce its hard to see what could go wrong

There was a man who used to come shooting with us a few years back. He seemed very wealthy, nice car, two sons at expensive private school etc all the trappings. But he never seemed to be "at work", always free to go shooting and he did a lot of the time. Well out of our league in that respect. I wondered for ages what he did for a living, it turned out he owned a care home or two

£1000 is cheap round here. Also the care homes are sneaky, once my Aunt was in her home and settled every 1st Jan they sent us a letter to say the fees are going up another £100. It happened every year

Or sell the house and put the money in a bank in India, Cyprus or Israel like people I know have done. Then the council can't get their hands on it.

It seems patchy my brother 63 and his wife 62 were suprised today to get a phone call to say be ready for theirs later this week or at the week end. Neither are special occupations or have any health issues. They live in Oxfordshire not far from Old Pigeon Popper My mother in law however, 92 only got her first jab in Cornwall yesterday and had a 90 mile round trip to Truro get it

I'm going through the options with my solicitor at the moment. If you 'gift' a property or money to an offspring now (when you are alive) its a taxable transaction. All gifts are taxable, theoretically even the socks you got for Christmas. The rules are much tighter these days Also, make sure all your dependents know which solicitor has the will and what it says. Its far from unknown for dodgy relatives to chuck self penned wills on the fire if they don't say what they want them to say.. Anybody can contest a will and many more do so now, the wording has to be watertight

My friend who is a pest controller say the only real money is in rodents.

Thats what containers are for, not rocket science. And the containers are sealed so migrants cant break in

ten flights an hour still coming into heathrow and thats just one airport. Flights from such covlid secure places as Nigeria, Kenya, India, New York, etc.

There is more to it than just wind. A sporting rifle barrel is very likely to shift it point of impact as it heats up and ten shots is going to heat that barrel up considerably

I wouldn't want to live in the country, its different strokes for different folks.

good post

There will always be detractors, like that idiot James O'Brian on LBC, but I for one think they are doing really well The only thing I would say is I think teachers, police and bus drivers etc should have got one early on along with NHS staff But the EU is all over the place, typical bureaucratic nightmare. So glad we are out of all that now