On 05/02/2021 01:04, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Fredxx wrote:
The lack of foresight in the advance purchase of these doses in the EU
civil servants speaks volumes of the impotence endemic in EU bureaucracy.

Incompetence. There may be impotence too but I'm not at liberty to say.

The intended meaning of impotence was "Lacking power or ability" rather
than an alternative :-)

Wasn't one of the main Brexiteer arguments to get away from the all
powerful EU bureaucracy? Who now apparently are impotent?

The vaccination purchase on risk was a UK decision.

If we were in the EU we wouldn't have been able to pre-order at risk or
invested in manufacturing facilities.

As a direct result, whilst some money will have inevitably been wasted,
we will have vaccinated the population well before the EU countries.