Irish PM Micheal Martin blasts the EU saying people were 'blindsided' (including him)

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I do have to laugh at how people were saying that the UK was endangering the Good Friday Agreement and potentially breaking international law. Yet here is a clear case of the EU attempting to put up a hard border!


Ireland's prime minister lashed out at the European Union today over its vaccines threat to Northern Ireland, admitting he was one of those 'blindsided' by the announcement.


Taoiseach Micheal Martin said he had been given no advance notice of the intention by the EU to trigger Article 16 of the Brexit Protocol on Friday.

He told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that the first he was aware of it was a public announcement by the bloc on Friday night.

After invoking Article 16 to stop the unimpeded flow of vaccines from the European bloc into Northern Ireland, the EU later backtracked, following condemnation from London, Dublin and Belfast.

It is understood that a compromise will see vaccines crossing between the Republic and Northern Ireland being recorded in Dublin, but will not be at risk of being blocked.

Any move to prevent vaccines entering Ulster via the republic would effectively create a hard border that could have had serious ramifications for political stability.

The Taoiseach said he articulated the 'very serious implications' the move would have and engagement began between his office and the office of president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

'I had a number of conversations with President von der Leyen and, in the aftermath of those, I also spoke, of course, to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and we discussed the implications of all of this, and the importance of getting a resolution by the close of that evening, Friday evening, and thankfully the commission did issue a statement pulling back and reversing its decision.'

Mr Martin also criticised French president Emmanuel Macron for suggesting - contrary to all available evidence - that the AZ jab did not work for those aged over 65.

''I don't think politicians should pronounce on the efficacy or otherwise of vaccines,' the Irish leader said.

Taoiseach Micheal Martin said he had been given no advance notice of the intention by the EU to trigger Article 16 of the Brexit Protocol on Friday

Boris Johnson handed the EU a stark warning that a vaccines blockade of Northern Ireland could kill British pensioners in 'spicy' late-night phone calls with Ursula von der Leyen.

The Prime Minister told the European Commission president that plans to stop 3.5 million doses from the Pfizer factory in Belgium the UK risked preventing people from receiving the second injection, forcing it into a hurried climbdown.

While a single vaccination gives some protection from coronavirus, both are needed to achieve the maximum impact and Mr Johnson told Ms von der Leyen the EU's hardline plan could lead to the deaths of the most vulnerable, including elderly grandparents.

During two phone calls just 30 minutes apart, the Prime Minister made Ms von der Leyen abandon the 'nuclear option' of imposing a hard border on Northern Ireland to prevent vaccines reaching the UK.

She immediately capitulated in a tweet sent out shortly before midnight on Friday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...indsided-including-vaccine-border-threat.html
 
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Not surprising that von der Leyen would like to exact revenge on G.B. Petty but with possible lives at stake. Makes Brexit even more justifiable. Gives a little more strength to AFD and FN parties (IMO).
 
Not surprising that von der Leyen would like to exact revenge on G.B. Petty but with possible lives at stake. Makes Brexit even more justifiable. Gives a little more strength to AFD and FN parties (IMO).



Oh trust me this has been a real eye opener for many, especially the Irish. They now see that the EU doesn't have their back but will just use them and then dump them. I just love how so many like Moonshi'ite and Arsecheese were bleating about international law but are strangely silent now.

I can easily see Macron being deposed next year he is deeply hated in France and this won't help, especially as the French vaccine has been abandoned.

Boris Johnson told Ursula von der Leyen the EU's planned vaccines blockade of Northern Ireland could KILL British pensioners by preventing them getting a second jab in 'spicy' phone calls that forced Brussels to abandon the 'nuclear option'



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...accines-blockade-KILL-British-pensioners.html
 
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Oh trust me this has been a real eye opener for many, especially the Irish. They now see that the EU doesn't have their back but will just use them and then dump them. I just love how so many like Moonshi'ite and Arsecheese were bleating about international law but are strangely silent now.

I can easily see Macron being deposed next year he is deeply hated in France and this won't help, especially as the French vaccine has been abandoned.

Boris Johnson told Ursula von der Leyen the EU's planned vaccines blockade of Northern Ireland could KILL British pensioners by preventing them getting a second jab in 'spicy' phone calls that forced Brussels to abandon the 'nuclear option'



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...accines-blockade-KILL-British-pensioners.html
Good to see The Republic , N. Ireland and GB in solidarity. Ironically against the EU.
 
Good to see The Republic , N. Ireland and GB in solidarity. Ironically against the EU.

I think the Scots are seeing things a lot more clearly as well! You can now see the real reason why the EU wanted to keep Northern Ireland in the Single Market and Customs Union. Nothing to do with the Peace Agreement and everything to do with control. Von der Leyen was the most incompetent German defence minister ever, so perfect for the EU.

AS a crass act of self- destruction, Ursula von der Leyen’s Covid humiliation was an Oscar-winning bombshell.


“Shotgun Uschi”, as she was known in her blunderbuss days as German defence minister, did more than “blow the bloody doors off”.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13905684/eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-covid-vaccine-humiliation/
 
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Oh trust me this has been a real eye opener for many, especially the Irish. They now see that the EU doesn't have their back but will just use them and then dump them. I just love how so many like Moonshi'ite and Arsecheese were bleating about international law but are strangely silent now.

I can easily see Macron being deposed next year he is deeply hated in France and this won't help, especially as the French vaccine has been abandoned.

Boris Johnson told Ursula von der Leyen the EU's planned vaccines blockade of Northern Ireland could KILL British pensioners by preventing them getting a second jab in 'spicy' phone calls that forced Brussels to abandon the 'nuclear option'



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...accines-blockade-KILL-British-pensioners.html

Macron only got elected because his opponent was viewed as an extremist. No one really believed in him st the start, and, he didn't waste any time getting started at pissing everyone off.
 
I think the Scots are seeing things a lot more clearly as well! You can now see the real reason why the EU wanted to keep Northern Ireland in the Single Market and Customs Union. Nothing to do with the Peace Agreement and everything to do with control. Von der Leyen was the most incompetent German defence minister ever, so perfect for the EU.

AS a crass act of self- destruction, Ursula von der Leyen’s Covid humiliation was an Oscar-winning bombshell.

“Shotgun Uschi”, as she was known in her blunderbuss days as German defence minister, did more than “blow the bloody doors off”.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13905684/eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-covid-vaccine-humiliation/

Luckily, the krauts have had their share of those.
 
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