EU and vaccines29 Jan 2021 08:43
One of the Brexit issues that will rumble away in the background for many years is shown in the vaccine muck up by the EU. There is a deep seated vein of politicians, broadcasters and civil servants who will continue shadowing EU policy as closley as possible to replicate the EU within the UK. Basically the EU's assumed ownership of UK, one of the satellite states of a soviet Europe, has not been changed in any way. So when the EU manufacturing of the vaccine is delayed three months by the EU itself, the EU simply assumes that UK manufactured vaccines are the property of the EU. That mindset that everything UK is EU is as strong now as it was over the whole membership. They are explicit in demanding UK manufactured vaccines should be diverted for use in the EU and also looking to fiddle the laws to control the supply of all vaccines in the EU for the exclusive benfit of the EU. On that point, the UK will convienetly suddenly stop being a member of the EU.
This maybe important for IAG because, in the blink of an eye, BA will be a UK issue not to be protected by EU, or IAG is an EU company and therefore BA is a possesion of the soviet EU. If the EU takes the atitude that BA is defacto an EU possesion then allocation of routes may be interfered with by the soviet EU (oh yes, that is coming over the horizon, the EU starting to control routes to favour EU based airlines). The Brexit political issues have really only just started. Consider the rhetoric coming out of the EU at the moment. This is what has been happeing behind the scenes for decades. Occassionaly it surfaces and the mask slips. IAG would be wise to make BA isolated from EU interferance.