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Blue passports, cheaper tampons - you should be bigging up the two main Brexit positives so far.

I’ve got a horrible feeling these new strains are worse than we thought.

No doubt it will, but wanting to keep your wealth doesn't make you less woke.

Some people get rich and want to keep hold of their money - I'm not sure anyone would dispute that.

Big difference there is no one voted to leave the single market in 2016, as you Jihadis like to tell us - the EU is completely different now to back then.

It's nothing to do with your red v blue bollocks, fact is the world my daughter is growing up in is massively more woke than my upbringing during the 1980s, and her children's will be more still. At my school during the dark days of Thatcher, racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia were all accepted and normal. You don't have to go back too far and we were putting war heroes behind bars for being gay. I expect even your beloved Tory party is way more woke now than back in the 70's.

I think you are wrong there, most old fuckers nowadays had their views on Europe shaped by the war, that won’t be the same for younger generations. Plus the world is getting ‘woker’ by the day, dinosaur opinions like yours will be long gone soon.

If these problems turn out to be more than just teething issues I don’t think you could rule out a rejoin ticket winning the next election. Brexit is a toxic issue at the moment but 2024 is a long way off, if it continues as it is people will soon turn.

Brilliant.

Tampons are cheaper and passports are blue.

The list of key workers is long so they probably are, our little one’s school is about half full so to say they are closed is a bit of a stretch. We qualify but pulled her out anyway because we were concerned about the new strain and the class size. Trying to work and home school is hard work though, will probably send her back if the numbers come down enough.

To be fair to Rees Mogg, our fish will be much happier if all the fishermen go bust.

I thought Trump boasted about defeating ISIS in Syria?

Think the Village Idiot has been injecting bleach again.

I see what you mean but it’s not completely irrelevant, it’s one of the reasons why only one of the parents need to be a key worker for the child to get a place.

Of course it doesn’t, your job does.

No, you can be classed as a critical worker and still work from home.

You can be a key worker and work from home.

Agree that, thanks to the vaccine, deaths will drop sharply at some point but isn't there a 3 week delay before they take effect, so add that to the time it takes to get them done and it may be a while yet.

"A Democrat Hoax - It will just go away - Don't wear face masks - How about we try injecting bleach" Only the Village Idiot would think Trump handled Covid well.

And the vaccine was funded in part by the EU: https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-horizon-2020-2021-1-biontech-chief-eu-r-d-funds-helped-develop-covid-19-vaccine/

here's another article, the heading is pretty clear so you don't have to worry about any long words in the article... https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-brexit-did-not-speed-up-uk-vaccine-authorisation

Regulation 174 of the Human Medicine Regulations 2012 The facts behind this story lie with regulation 174 of the Human Medicine Regulations 2012. Until the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December, vaccines in the UK are supposed to be authorised via the European Medicines Agency (EMA). However, since 2012, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been free, under regulation 174, to give temporary approval to an unlicensed medicinal product in the case of certain types of public health threat, such as a pandemic. When the MHRA approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for use in the UK on 2 December, the government press release accompanying this announcement made clear that approval was given under regulation 174. The government has previously said that “if a suitable Covid-19 vaccine candidate, with strong supporting evidence of safety, quality and effectiveness from clinical trials becomes available before the end of the transition period, EU legislation which we have implemented via regulation 174 of the Human Medicines Regulations allows the MHRA to temporarily authorise the supply of a medicine or vaccine, based on public health need.” This is clear that using regulation 174 is implementing EU legislation.

"none of these successes can be chalked up to Brexit. As the chief executive of the MHRA swiftly pointed out, Mr Hancock was wrong to say that the UK could approve the vaccine early because it was no longer subject to EU rules. The MHRA’s decision was taken in accordance with the relevant EU legislation, which allows member states to grant temporary authorisation for a medicinal product in response to the spread of infectious diseases (among others). [1] This legislation still applies to the UK until the end of the transition period. Any EU member state could have used the same provision of the legislation to approve the vaccine. They decided not to for political and technical reasons, not legal ones. Similarly, the member states were in no way obliged to take part in the EU’s joint vaccine procurement scheme. The EU has very limited competences for public health under its founding treaties: it can take action only to “support, coordinate or supplement the actions of the Member States”. The EU member states in this case voluntarily decided to opt into the joint procurement scheme. If one or more of them had decided to follow the UK’s path and procure its own vaccines, no one would have stopped them." The village idiot talking shite as usual.

We've got cheaper tampons though, stop fucking moaning.