At 6.30 am on Tuesday, December 8, a 90-year-old woman named Margaret Keenan entered the Coventry University Hospital where a Filipino nurse and a large group of journalists, photographers and television cameras were waiting for her. Mrs. Keenan is neither a veteran Hollywood actress nor a successful writer. Because she is not even English, but from Northern Ireland, but her graceful Majesty’s Government wanted her to be the one to inaugurate a vaccination campaign with which Boris Johnson intends that the citizens of the United Kingdomforget your erratic management of the pandemic.
Johnson, like other populists of his ilk such as Trump or Bolsonaro, proudly proclaimed his denial, letting “everyone get infected” to generate group immunity and give priority to the economy. He did not get off the donkey until the imminent collapse of the healthcare system It forced him to apply drastic measures when his country was already suffering from Covid until the bars.
“In the EU they know that Johnson plays dirty and they demand guarantees that he will comply with what is agreed”
These days, his entire hard core of Europhobic fools turned to stirring up pathetic patriotism by presenting the vaccination campaign as a great achievement by the British for the simple fact that their drug agency had given the go-ahead to the Pfizer vaccine and BioNTech before anyone else. In such delusion, their Education Minister, Gavin Williamson, dared to say that they are the first to vaccinate because both the UK and its regulatory agency are “better” than the rest. It so happens that the vaccine inoculated to the British was obtained in a small German laboratory of the BioNTech pharmaceutical company founded by a married couple of Turkish origin. Not only that, but each and every one of the first 800,000 doses that are being distributed for that campaign that they celebrate so much comes from a factory in Belgium, whose capital, Brussels, is the living representation of the evil one for its anti-Europeanism.
Anything goes for Johnson, especially at this critical moment in which the deadlines for the entry into force of the Brexi. Their blatant pretense of agreeing with the community negotiators on a kind of funnel law in which the United Kingdom maintains the commercial advantages of remaining in the EU without assuming its drawbacks has led the community partners to bet on the break before they did. give in to the joys of the English. Understanding that a fair and balanced agreement would be desirable, the European Commission is aware that Boris Johnson’s position has been greatly weakened after Trump’s defeat and that it is now as important or more important to understand with Joe Biden than with him.
The EU cannot and should not allow a country of almost 70 million inhabitants, separated only by the English Channel, to compete with the advantage of lowering labor and environmental standards.
Johnson and Von der Leyen agreed in Brussels to give themselves until Sunday to try to reach some kind of understanding. This occurred after the first British corrected the law that violated the previous agreement reached with the EU, a correction that, in some way, was presented as a gesture of goodwill but that shows the character’s low reliability. In the EU they know that Johnson plays dirty and they demand guarantees that it will comply with what is agreed and, if not, an abrupt exit would already be assumed.
That of the “perfidious Albion” that Napoleon Bonaparte disclosed, to emphasize the disloyalty that he attributed to England, returns two centuries later to make sense in the figure of Boris Johnson. He embodies today that perfidy before his own and before Europe.
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