[hibeejim21]

The BBC might place the responsibility for the current fruit and veg shortage with europes weather. Yet supermarket shelves across the continent remain fully stocked and not rationed.

In any shortage the suppliers will sell to who are easy to supply anyway, and that doesn't include the UK. Remember boris boasting about the ferry service from tangier to poole to supply us all with moroccan toms ? xxxx thing doesnt exist.

Chris Lowndes on twitter exposes the whole sorry saga.

[theo_luddite]

Anyone with 2 braincells to rub together knows damned well it's Brexit but the Guvinmint won't let the BBC broadcast the truth. Showing snow covered fields, supposedly in North Africa, yeah right, when the whole of Europe has had a mild winter fools nobody. All this stuff is grown in industrial greenhouses, not open fields. The clowns take us for fools.

[hibeejim21]

You can get as much salad as you want in Kherson by all accounts.

The tories have the BBC by the balls, it's just blatant tory propaganda they push now.

[0762]

I'm wondering how long it will take before the "shit hits the fan" and more and more citizens realise the con that is Brexit and want it changed back to the way it should never have been initiated!! The consistent anti-Brexit OPs already bear this out while the BBC and other media outlets are still shamelessly trying to peddle these lies and clearly not criticising it enough!! They are definitely under orders to present/broadcast this shit and suppress critical scrutiny of the sham that is Brexit.

[theo_luddite]

This article in the Grauniad shows two sides of the coin. Some producers have no issues, some do, however when you've a market that is easy to sell to and another one that is a bloody pain in the arse, who doesn't pay you for the full load because some is already a bit over-ripe due to delays of days, not hours at Calais (and the rest), realistically, who are you going to supply first?

Supermarket shelves have been devoid of certain items for weeks on end for the last year (the local Morrisons, Asda as examples of where I regularly shop), whether perishable or non-perishable. Not all of it is shipped in from abroad either. In the past, if a shelf was empty, it was because they hadn't restocked from the stuff in the back, just a timing issue. Now it's an almost permanent issue. Morrisons is a 5 minute walk for me so I don't need to do a humungo shop once per week and it's not down to bad timing on my part. If the useless woman(?) that is our Environment Secretary thinks we're all going to live on a diet of turnips, (neep soup, neep curry, neep risotto, neeps 'n' tatties alfredo, neeps and custard), well fine - but where the feck are the turnips this week you dumb assed @@@@@ let alone the softer fresh fruit and veg that is normally there?

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproje...port-rules

This was once parody

[hibeejim21]

1) Drivers from the continent are facing 80 hour queues to get goods to the UK and are understandably in short supply.

2) British farmer have had to reduce their crop through heating costs and labour shortages.

3) Toms and salad were meant to come from Morrocco via a tangiers to poole ferry that as yet only exists as a shell co in Gibraltar.

4) Investors always go to the largest market first. Thats just common sense. And we aint it.

5) UK importers have to manage direct logistics from Morocco to UK retailers, crossing two EU borders en route


The tories have put us in a position where UK food security is at risk, by creating high-risk dependencies on single non-EU trade partners.... They were warned about this plenty as well.

[theo_luddite]

Yeah, but, no but, like ... why can't they import it via Australia? We've signed a great trade deal with the bent stick chuckers, apparently.
Should be a piece of cake, or vegemite sandwich anyway. I don't doubt some dickhead in the HoP will suggest this next week.

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Some more Brexit benefits, thought some would say nothing would have changed anyway.

BT have just told me they are entitled to a 14% increase in what I pay them for no actual improvement in services (inflation plus 3.9% according to their terms and conditions) or actual costs to them and Severn Trent have informed me they will increase my annual water tax (by any other name) from £462 to £510 so they can afford the cost of pumping yet more shit directly into the rivers and canals of Middle England and pay their shareholders and top brass a big fat dividend.

Yes, inflation is only running at 10% - my arse. It's closer to 20% in real terms.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/202...s-dog-food

[0762]

The veteran reporter John Sweeney shared on his war diary a video of a Kyiv supermarket amply supplied with tomatoes. In the clip he suggests that the Brexit campaign was partly funded by donations from Russia – donations that have never been adequately investigated.

Twitter users shared a clip from Talk TV Breakfast News incident where a reporter from Kyiv in Ukraine tried to say that it is easier to get tomatoes there than in London and that this is because of Brexit, but the presenter drowned him out by repeating “It’s nothing to do with Brexit”. The usual chancers trying desperately to cover up this f####### sham of a con!!! No wonder this country is a global "laughing stock" with antics like that and failures that are so self-evidently linked to Brexit.

[theo_luddite]

The last election was partly funded by donations to The CONservative Party from Russia and the report into it is still hiding in the long grass somewhere.

[0762]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/br...5c95&ei=35

Some winners from Brexit, but they aint British after all the bogus preaching from all the lying bastards who said it was so easy!!