So proud of the UK today

[1stDecember]

So, the UK is the first in the world to approve and roll out a Covid vaccination programme. (If another country had done this, say Germany, everyone would be going on about why can't we be as good as the Germans? )

The UK had bought and tested a major amount of the right vaccine - it didn't get here by chance!

The UK Army (which really is world-class) is going to enable the largest vaccine programme ever.

It looks like a Brexit Deal is about to be struck.

And - next year, the UK will be banning the live export of animals. (We couldn't do that in the EU.)

Just feeling really good about the UK today

It doesn't often happen, so I thought I would appreciate the moment

You're proud to be in the country with the highest Covid death toll in Europe?

@Ineedaduvetday

Hard hat at the ready OP! You can't praise the Tories on here and live to tell about it

PS: I agree with you

It's not just the government though, as a PP pointed out many companies, organisations and people are working very hard to make great stuff happen

Too many unnecessarily dead from covid to give the government any praise. Not to mention the fact that they are corrupt, morally bankrupt and incompetent.

Vaccine approval rushed through which is worrying in itself. Would rather be somewhere like Germany where they are taking longer to approve it, therefore doing more research into it.

OP I agree wholeheartedly. However mumsnet is full of Tory haters and there will still be lots of excuses for them to deny how well the government have done!

@thosetalesofunexpected

Hi Op

Absolutly hilarious those Posters who comments are Boris? Is that You?? L.o.l
Hello Carrie

Maybe I'm Dilyn

Nice to see a positive attitude.
I'm exhausted and fed up with Covid - now in tier 3 and it can be hard to see the positives. Thank you for listing them, it's the start to the day I needed

Did the EU force live export? I've never really understood this. I'm glad it's going to be banned but I think it could have just not happened before. Presumably they can still refuse to accept meat that's slaughtered here? So the way I see it (appreciate I might be wrong) is that it's yet another of the things that we have blamed on the EU, when were already able to do our own thing.

@MsTSwift, the OP must be Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish then?

You know the early vaccine approval was entirely due to the schedules of the vaccine approval bodies in different countries? I’m really pleased that we’ve approved it, but serendipitous scheduling isn’t something to be particularly proud of. Be proud that we still have the university and research systems that have allowed the Oxford and Imperial vaccines to proceed and ask your mate Boris if he could stop trying to destroy those systems.

@MsTSwift how xenophobic.

What about the rest of the UK, or don’t we count?

I'm impressed that we have apparently got the widest spread of vaccines lined up. We hedged our bets effectively.

I'm confident we'll get it out and in use efficiently.

I've other concerns, but praise where praise is due, someone did a good job there.

You are aware that the development of this vaccine was in fact an international effort?

Banning live animal exports is one of the few genuine benefits of Brexit. I know otherwise sensible people who voted for Brexit solely on those grounds. I’m glad the government is going to go through with it.

YANBU to celebrate the wins. Lord knows they have been sparse this year.

It's good to see a bit of positivity

It looks like a Brexit Deal is about to be struck

Is it....why are you proud about that?

Vaccine is good news though. It's great when scientists can collaborate easily across borders, work together as a community for the greater good and have reduced barriers for travel, information sharing etc.

(Do you see what I'm doing)

@Biscusting

Just remember when you’re queuing up for your vaccine, that if the UK government had handled the crisis better, you wouldn’t be needing that vaccine at all.

I don’t think there’s a country in the world that doesn’t need the vaccine. Regardless of how well they handled the pandemic.

Inability to access the NHS
Huge rates of unemployment
Businesses folding daily
People living in poverty
Proud of the UK? No not really

It’s not rolled out yet. Do not count your chickens....

@ProudAuntie76

Here was me cynically thinking that the MHRA rushed through the final process to get the vaccine out there before we crash out of the EU on the 31st and our order gets stuck in Europe as the lorries and other transport can’t get through meaning the U.K. would fall to the back of the queue and end up one of the last Western countries to start its vaccination programme (seeing as the Oxford vaccine, the only “homegrown” one, is possibly less effective and needs more research).

Let’s face it, there was no other option.

Glad you are feeling positive, OP. We could all do with some positivity in our lives. But I thoroughly agree with ProudAuntie on the above. It's not good forward planning, it's just circumstances.

The Pfizer vaccine has very little to do with the U.K.
The development was under EU control and regulations.
The MHRA simply did their usual job but expedited one drug
Let’s see how well that roll out goes. Plans are a bit tenuous at the moment, with very limited storage and huge chasms for potential failings.
Brexit importation arrangement hasn’t quite been worked out yet.

Remind me why we would be proud of U.K. instead of celebrating the success of Europe?

I agree, it’s great news about the vaccine.

But we can’t praise the government because they’re Tory so we hate them. Nothing they do can ever be right.

Of course the anti Semitic Labour Party are much better.

@Whenwillow

Did the EU force live export? I've never really understood this. I'm glad it's going to be banned but I think it could have just not happened before. Presumably they can still refuse to accept meat that's slaughtered here? So the way I see it (appreciate I might be wrong) is that it's yet another of the things that we have blamed on the EU, when were already able to do our own thing.

Here you go www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55167473

They have approved the vaccine just in time to distract public attention from brexit noise

The UK Army (which really is world-class)

World-class at what - killing innocent people, tagging along with the Yanks in their doomed (and illegal) attempts to control other people, or matching round in fancy dress to tedious music?

I am hugely grateful to the Oxford/ AstraZeneca team that started work in January this year. Saw a problem, saw it fir what it was and got on with the job.

I am grateful for the independent testing and regulatory bodies.

NONE of this is the doing of Gvt.

I listen to Mark Carney in the Reith Lecture yesterday, I listen to our wonderful scientists. Oh, EXPERTS. So roundly denounced by clowns in the Tory party.

Our country is a laughing stock, thanks to Gvt and drunken twats in holiday places.

But I am proud of the Oxford Astrazeneca team, however hard the U.S try and undermine them. Because of course, profit comes before health in the U.S and they don’t want the market competition.