I have a limitless loathing for the curtain-haired EU slimeball Guy Verhofstadt because of his attempts to overturn the UK’s Brexit referendum.
But I take my hat off to him for the effort he has taken to go through both the EU and UK AstraZeneca contracts line by line and he’s come up with some remarkable findings.
He notes that “ the EU has paid €336 million upfront to support production, before the products existed and had been authorized. The UK however only pays on invoice 30 days after delivery.
So in effect the EU has helped pre-fund the production of vaccines that the UK only has to pay for afterwards. “
More importantly, where the UK has foreseen possible problems six months in advance and written them into their contract there are gaping holes in the EU negotiated deal. These include timing, supply and delivery and pricing.
Moreover,” the UK contract is fully concentrated on the UK supply chain, so as to guarantee the UK deliveries, while the EU contracts are solely focused on the overall supply chain, without special emphasis on the fulfilment of the EU-wide demand for doses.”
It’s a short document but well worth a read as it blows holes in the EU’s catastrophically inept vaccine procurement programme.
You can see why the Wiseguy shafted Leyen Low.
You also won’t see it covered anywhere in the Irish media.
Toodle pips Charger! No vax facts today though? :(
Charger random facts #1
Charger Salmon is an anagram of Charles Morgan. A fascinated unsolved crime case from Arizona in the 70’s. Officially suicide but clearly not!
Charger random facts #2
Charger Salmon’s anagram namesake, Charles Morgan was also a British playwright in the early 1900’s. He once said, “One cannot shut one’s eyes to things not seen with eyes”
Charger Salmons
Thanks for your concern but I retired the nightly Charger’s Vax Facts™ in favour of just the occasional outing as it was clearly causing so much pain and angst on here.
You know, facts like it was only on December 8th that the very first UK ( and world ) vaccine was administered.
Two months later a quarter of the nation has received its first jab. Amazing progress.
Charger Salmons
I’ll tell you another man who gets my goat and that’s Steve Coogan.
But I’ll forgive him everything, even his boring travel series on Greece with Rob Brydon, after watching Stan & Ollie on the Beeb last night.
Him and John C.Reilly are genius even with a poor script.
Oh that made me laugh.
Thanks Daisy (loving the French nom de plume by the way).
Cú Chulainn
What’s not to love.. the Star shines again…
ce
Waiting for the Beavers Versus Psycho Gulls Special…someday
Cú Chulainn
Those psycho gulls get all the attention.. but no more. I’m a hands on supporter of the Beaver. I’m right behind the beaver and am looking forward to episodes of repeated beaver mayhem.
Steph Pinker
Another 10 week lockdown as Ireland self-immolates.
Otis Blue
Fever mayhem
f_lawless
Is it just me, or is Angela Merkel coming across as a bit of a demented maniac at the current G7 summit?
According to this Reuters article, she relayed to journalists what she had earlier told G7 leaders : “the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated”.
…I see Cuba have joined Russia and China in the rollout of vaccines to third World countries…besides constant demonisation by the West, I wonder what else these countries have in common…certainly can’t be altruism…
Well, not to get to tied into weekend @Broadsheet argy bargy
But one of the activities not forbidden under the various Cuban Embargoes
Is medical and scientific research
That they worked on with Russia yes mainly, but also with other countries and with big pharma
But with Russia alone, there were many exchange agreements between them – pre- glasnost mainly
Also Russian Scientists and Medical Research and Breakthroughs were very much in their own hands for most of the last century
They had to find their own answers and treatments for all sorts of diseases and what-have-yas
The most relevant example being Stem Cell Replacement Therapy, and we have our very own witness, Stephen Garland
In other words folks
I wouldn’t be so quick to diss any Russian/ Cuban Covid response
Just saying
ce
+ 1
ce
the cure for the poison plant often grows in the same place
Bitnboxy
Funny how Putin is already mass exporting his Sputnik vaccine to third and developing nations. Only thing is though, Russians haven’t seen sight nor sound of it and at this rate Sputnik is far more available to citizen’s of countries outside Russia than to ordinary Russians themselves. Still, I’ll bet the thugs and kleptos in Putin’s circle will managed to get vaccinated- wonder if it’ll be Sputnik though?
We should wonder though why Russia is offering theoretically millions and millions of doses while not sufficiently progressing in vaccinating their own people, whatsoever. Ireland per head of population has vaccinated more.
ce
Because they’ll face vaccine resistance at home and frankly in Russia could do with a lower population, or fear of cover keeps protest lower?
…. In any event who knows – I’d take it in the morning. Russian science since the early 20th century has been consistently sniffed at outside, jealousy about what they can accomplish with less resources for the most part. Don’t want their politics or geopolitical outlook, but their research in all disciplines is incredible.
f_lawless
There’s just no place for naturally acquired immunity in this brave new world being manufactured around us. Citizens, it matters not that for the majority, the virus is known to cause only mild symptoms to none at all, it matters not whether you may have already developed an immune response to the virus naturally, every single one of you – man, woman, and child – must take the experimental vaccines before we declare the pandemic over. The body’s own immune defense system is something we must in time, learn to look at it with scorn, better yet cast it from our minds entirely.
What’s that you say “the more we vaccinate, the more it will induce mutations of the virus resistant to the vaccines”, (as confirmed by UK Vaccine Deployment MP Nadhim Zahawi https://twitter.com/jengleruk/status/1358353911002902530) ? Don’t think twice citizens, we have each and every one of you covered: with every dangerous new mutation of the virus induced by the vaccines, we will have a new variant of the experimental vaccines put into production, .the future is glorious! ;)
Bertie blenkinsop
I have to admit, Throne It All Away is a decent pun.
Charger Salmons
I look back with some amusement at the dunderheads on here who gleefully reckoned the Pound was doomed because of Brexit.
Sterling ended the week above $1.40 and €1.15.
But I’m not sure UK economic policy makers will want the Pound to strengthen much further.
Brother Barnabas
up there with the dunderhead who gleefully asserted the brexit backstop wouldnt hold. oh wait.
GiggidyGoo
How does one define strength of a currency? Is strength of a currency equivalent to strength of an economy?
Bear in mind that GB exports are already suffering because of Brexit, meaning higher prices for goods bought from GB, that the ‘stronger’ the pound means that GB goods have gotten more expensive they again, which will have the knock-on effect of less purchasing of GB goods by EU, and US. Less purchasing of GB products will result in more job losses in GB.
Ben Madigan
But still down 10% from pre- Brexit referendum level…
Charger Salmons
That’s the whole point.
Strengths and weaknesses of a currency have plus and minus points.
But the idea that it will only ever go one way – as the economic boneheads on here at the time predicted – is nonsense.
As I mentioned upthread I doubt whether Dishi Rishi will want sterling much higher but as a currency it’s still very attractive.
I horsed a lot of euros into it at the end of 2020 as soon as the EU deal was announced.
Easy moolah.
GiggidyGoo
The Walter Mitty is coming out again. ROFL
Charger Salmons
But it is rather sweet when inhabitants of the 29th richest country in the world with a GDP of 388 billion worry their silly little heads over the 5th biggest economy in the world with a GDP of 2.6 trillion.
Almost cute in its own fluffy kittens sort of way …
Ben Madigan
GDP? Nice own goal. Ireland’s is almost double the UK’s per capita…
Charger Salmons
” per capita ”
* Sniggers *
MacGafraidh
It’s only been 6 weeks..
goldenbrown
‘paper of record’ sez we have to bail out the banks again
Due respect
The Banks have been enjoying a few bailout-lites by stealth for ages
Charger Salmons
The Irish judicial system works in bizarre ways.
According to the Irish Times leading Dublin criminal solicitor Cahir O’Higgins (46), whose practice Cahir O’Higgins & Company Solicitors is based at Dublin’s Parkgate Street, was arrested at 3.46am(!) yesterday.
He was cautioned and charged just over 10 minutes later with assault causing harm to another solicitor.
Yet he was held overnight in cells before appearing in a court on a Saturday where there were no objections to bail.
The case was adjourned for seven weeks.
What was the point of all this rigmarole ?
Was all this necessary when the incident happened way back on February 11th ?
If the 3.46am time is correct why choose this bizarre time ?
Why hold a special court sitting on a Saturday ?
Or am I missing something obvious ?
Cú Chulainn
Check out any other charges against The barrister in question.. might give a clue… or two..
And a former, by now I suppose,
Client
That’s the best bit in this story tbh
Birdie
Wow that Stephen Downey is some creep. 4 years reduced to 2!!!! That poor woman terrorised for years and he gets 2 years off his sentence, not good enough.
Birdie
Donnelly and this amateur hour government boil my pee but come on! Throwing stuff at his house and stressing out his family is just a joke. If you’re as annoyed as I am just don’t vote him back in or those parties that irk you, you don’t have to bully the man and his family. It’s not on and I hope they go after the idiots that think it’s okay to do that. I can only imagine how scary it is for his kids and wife.
CHARGER’S JAB JIBBER-JABBER™
(An occasional series)
Or Goodbye and thanks for all the vaxx baby
I have a limitless loathing for the curtain-haired EU slimeball Guy Verhofstadt because of his attempts to overturn the UK’s Brexit referendum.
But I take my hat off to him for the effort he has taken to go through both the EU and UK AstraZeneca contracts line by line and he’s come up with some remarkable findings.
He notes that “ the EU has paid €336 million upfront to support production, before the products existed and had been authorized. The UK however only pays on invoice 30 days after delivery.
So in effect the EU has helped pre-fund the production of vaccines that the UK only has to pay for afterwards. “
More importantly, where the UK has foreseen possible problems six months in advance and written them into their contract there are gaping holes in the EU negotiated deal. These include timing, supply and delivery and pricing.
Moreover,” the UK contract is fully concentrated on the UK supply chain, so as to guarantee the UK deliveries, while the EU contracts are solely focused on the overall supply chain, without special emphasis on the fulfilment of the EU-wide demand for doses.”
It’s a short document but well worth a read as it blows holes in the EU’s catastrophically inept vaccine procurement programme.
You can see why the Wiseguy shafted Leyen Low.
You also won’t see it covered anywhere in the Irish media.
https://guyverhofstadt.medium.com/two-contracts-lots-of-questions-and-not-nearly-enough-vaccines-cf1c2380cf29
Toodle pips Charger! No vax facts today though? :(
Charger random facts #1
Charger Salmon is an anagram of Charles Morgan. A fascinated unsolved crime case from Arizona in the 70’s. Officially suicide but clearly not!
Charger random facts #2
Charger Salmon’s anagram namesake, Charles Morgan was also a British playwright in the early 1900’s. He once said, “One cannot shut one’s eyes to things not seen with eyes”
Thanks for your concern but I retired the nightly Charger’s Vax Facts™ in favour of just the occasional outing as it was clearly causing so much pain and angst on here.
You know, facts like it was only on December 8th that the very first UK ( and world ) vaccine was administered.
Two months later a quarter of the nation has received its first jab. Amazing progress.
I’ll tell you another man who gets my goat and that’s Steve Coogan.
But I’ll forgive him everything, even his boring travel series on Greece with Rob Brydon, after watching Stan & Ollie on the Beeb last night.
Him and John C.Reilly are genius even with a poor script.
Handy that the Sussexes are there to take the heat off Brenda officially celebrating Noncey(An)Drew’s birthday
https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1362690647187161090
Well spotted, Marguerite.
Beaver mayhem… say no more
My Drag name!!
Oh that made me laugh.
Thanks Daisy (loving the French nom de plume by the way).
What’s not to love.. the Star shines again…
Waiting for the Beavers Versus Psycho Gulls Special…someday
Those psycho gulls get all the attention.. but no more. I’m a hands on supporter of the Beaver. I’m right behind the beaver and am looking forward to episodes of repeated beaver mayhem.
Another 10 week lockdown as Ireland self-immolates.
Fever mayhem
Is it just me, or is Angela Merkel coming across as a bit of a demented maniac at the current G7 summit?
According to this Reuters article, she relayed to journalists what she had earlier told G7 leaders : “the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated”.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-politics-g7-merkel/pandemic-will-not-end-until-world-is-vaccinated-merkel-says-idUSKBN2AJ1WG?il=0
It is just you, I think.
So “the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated” makes Angela Merkel a demented maniac
And all the lads saying the same thing are …. wha?
Like Mike Ryan for example
…I see Cuba have joined Russia and China in the rollout of vaccines to third World countries…besides constant demonisation by the West, I wonder what else these countries have in common…certainly can’t be altruism…
Well, not to get to tied into weekend @Broadsheet argy bargy
But one of the activities not forbidden under the various Cuban Embargoes
Is medical and scientific research
That they worked on with Russia yes mainly, but also with other countries and with big pharma
But with Russia alone, there were many exchange agreements between them – pre- glasnost mainly
Also Russian Scientists and Medical Research and Breakthroughs were very much in their own hands for most of the last century
They had to find their own answers and treatments for all sorts of diseases and what-have-yas
The most relevant example being Stem Cell Replacement Therapy, and we have our very own witness, Stephen Garland
In other words folks
I wouldn’t be so quick to diss any Russian/ Cuban Covid response
Just saying
+ 1
the cure for the poison plant often grows in the same place
Funny how Putin is already mass exporting his Sputnik vaccine to third and developing nations. Only thing is though, Russians haven’t seen sight nor sound of it and at this rate Sputnik is far more available to citizen’s of countries outside Russia than to ordinary Russians themselves. Still, I’ll bet the thugs and kleptos in Putin’s circle will managed to get vaccinated- wonder if it’ll be Sputnik though?
We should wonder though why Russia is offering theoretically millions and millions of doses while not sufficiently progressing in vaccinating their own people, whatsoever. Ireland per head of population has vaccinated more.
Because they’ll face vaccine resistance at home and frankly in Russia could do with a lower population, or fear of cover keeps protest lower?
…. In any event who knows – I’d take it in the morning. Russian science since the early 20th century has been consistently sniffed at outside, jealousy about what they can accomplish with less resources for the most part. Don’t want their politics or geopolitical outlook, but their research in all disciplines is incredible.
There’s just no place for naturally acquired immunity in this brave new world being manufactured around us. Citizens, it matters not that for the majority, the virus is known to cause only mild symptoms to none at all, it matters not whether you may have already developed an immune response to the virus naturally, every single one of you – man, woman, and child – must take the experimental vaccines before we declare the pandemic over. The body’s own immune defense system is something we must in time, learn to look at it with scorn, better yet cast it from our minds entirely.
What’s that you say “the more we vaccinate, the more it will induce mutations of the virus resistant to the vaccines”, (as confirmed by UK Vaccine Deployment MP Nadhim Zahawi https://twitter.com/jengleruk/status/1358353911002902530) ? Don’t think twice citizens, we have each and every one of you covered: with every dangerous new mutation of the virus induced by the vaccines, we will have a new variant of the experimental vaccines put into production, .the future is glorious! ;)
I have to admit, Throne It All Away is a decent pun.
I look back with some amusement at the dunderheads on here who gleefully reckoned the Pound was doomed because of Brexit.
Sterling ended the week above $1.40 and €1.15.
But I’m not sure UK economic policy makers will want the Pound to strengthen much further.
up there with the dunderhead who gleefully asserted the brexit backstop wouldnt hold. oh wait.
How does one define strength of a currency? Is strength of a currency equivalent to strength of an economy?
Bear in mind that GB exports are already suffering because of Brexit, meaning higher prices for goods bought from GB, that the ‘stronger’ the pound means that GB goods have gotten more expensive they again, which will have the knock-on effect of less purchasing of GB goods by EU, and US. Less purchasing of GB products will result in more job losses in GB.
But still down 10% from pre- Brexit referendum level…
That’s the whole point.
Strengths and weaknesses of a currency have plus and minus points.
But the idea that it will only ever go one way – as the economic boneheads on here at the time predicted – is nonsense.
As I mentioned upthread I doubt whether Dishi Rishi will want sterling much higher but as a currency it’s still very attractive.
I horsed a lot of euros into it at the end of 2020 as soon as the EU deal was announced.
Easy moolah.
The Walter Mitty is coming out again. ROFL
But it is rather sweet when inhabitants of the 29th richest country in the world with a GDP of 388 billion worry their silly little heads over the 5th biggest economy in the world with a GDP of 2.6 trillion.
Almost cute in its own fluffy kittens sort of way …
GDP? Nice own goal. Ireland’s is almost double the UK’s per capita…
” per capita ”
* Sniggers *
It’s only been 6 weeks..
‘paper of record’ sez we have to bail out the banks again
?
Due respect
The Banks have been enjoying a few bailout-lites by stealth for ages
The Irish judicial system works in bizarre ways.
According to the Irish Times leading Dublin criminal solicitor Cahir O’Higgins (46), whose practice Cahir O’Higgins & Company Solicitors is based at Dublin’s Parkgate Street, was arrested at 3.46am(!) yesterday.
He was cautioned and charged just over 10 minutes later with assault causing harm to another solicitor.
Yet he was held overnight in cells before appearing in a court on a Saturday where there were no objections to bail.
The case was adjourned for seven weeks.
What was the point of all this rigmarole ?
Was all this necessary when the incident happened way back on February 11th ?
If the 3.46am time is correct why choose this bizarre time ?
Why hold a special court sitting on a Saturday ?
Or am I missing something obvious ?
Check out any other charges against The barrister in question.. might give a clue… or two..
And a former, by now I suppose,
Client
That’s the best bit in this story tbh
Wow that Stephen Downey is some creep. 4 years reduced to 2!!!! That poor woman terrorised for years and he gets 2 years off his sentence, not good enough.
Donnelly and this amateur hour government boil my pee but come on! Throwing stuff at his house and stressing out his family is just a joke. If you’re as annoyed as I am just don’t vote him back in or those parties that irk you, you don’t have to bully the man and his family. It’s not on and I hope they go after the idiots that think it’s okay to do that. I can only imagine how scary it is for his kids and wife.
https://t.co/DEJipb9UIu https://twitter.com/Dempz8/status/1362729827858587652?s=20
worth a watch