In that picture, I reckon the bloke on the right is thinking that he needs to find somewhere else to have a drink...
Seems like the ERG is just mad dog Baker these days...
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1629618090148257793?t=E8JLeDUKSjyo7wsqfYbaxw&s=19
Absolutely no shortages here in southern Spain.
Are Brexiters twigging on yet?
I think this is just a taste of what's to come, tbh. Just come visit Norway if you want to get an idea of what food costs if you're operating outside the Common Agricultural and Fisheries policy.
It's good from the point of view that your country is more self-reliant (assuming you're set up to mostly produce food at home, which the UK isn't).
It's bad from the point of view that food costs 3 to 4 times as much and there is nothing like the variety available that you are used to.
It also helps if your country is the richest in the world, and has a heavily unionised workforce and strong social security safety net.
Neither of which applies to the UK, I believe?
Seems like the ERG is just mad dog Baker these days
if only…
It looks like the country is once again about to be held to ransom by Mark Francious and his motley collection of hardcore Brexiteer loons, propped up by the ‘no surrender’ bowler-hatted headbangers of the DUP
The lunatics are once again calling the shots 🙄
Sunak warned of Tory chaos over Northern Ireland protocol deal
Some wishful thinking from Andrew Rawnsley
https://twitter.com/andrewrawnsley/status/1629787142393065472?s=46&t=LJfq8dkl5eTAqUHBSZgbLA
And let's not forget the beloved DUP who are doing most of the heavy lifting towards a united Ireland. The Wolfe Tones would be proud of them.
@Caher the brothers still in NI have commented that the moderates in the Unionist population can see that they are going to re-unification. They both have purple passports from "The Free State" as my late FIL used to refer to the Irish State.I'm trying to persuade herself to get an Irish passport to facilitate our retirement.
How many times have we got Brexit done now?
Its deja vu all over again
Its a good job theres nothing else important going on so that once again the various deranged factions of the Tory party can indulge in another civil war over how pure their personal visions of the cult of Brexit are
Absolutely no shortages here in southern Spain.
Are Brexiters twigging on yet?
Or Ukraine apparently, which might be even more of a clue to the hard of thinking.
TBH I just don’t get the having Farage picture on the wall
I guess you're joking, but that's clearly a photoshop
Apparently the Minister for Food* is hauling the supermarket bosses in to tell him why there is no fresh veg in the shops.
Hope they offer him some possible explanations.
*Who was surely only given the job because of his name.
In my naivety I always have trusted the BBC news but their coverage of the fallout of brexit is woeful. Not once have they mentioned that low stocks of tomatoes is unique to the UK. Think I'll stick to the Daily Mash.
How many times have we got Brexit done now?
As many times as I have had a BrexShit.
To just blame Brexit for the "foot shortages" is hilarious.
This is the thread that just keeps giving.
To just blame Brexit for the “foot shortages” is hilarious.
Brexiter in 'can't read' shocker.
No one is saying that the shortages are due to Brexit alone. But Brexit has made our supply chains more brittle, so when under pressure due to, for instance, weather conditions, they break. The UK is at the back of the queue for the currently scarce products, and that is 100% down to Brexit.
Is everyone ready for the usual unhinged Brexiteer suspects to soil their collective petticoats in hysterical horror this afternoon then?
I do find it amusing that the press are speculating about how the ERG/DUP axis of stupid will respond.
Why speculate? We already know exactly how they'll respond...
To just blame Brexit for the “foot shortages” is hilarious.
This is the thread that just keeps giving.
The weather is the reason there are fewer tomatoes.
Brexit is the reason everywhere else in Europe has them and we don't.
And energy prices. Homegrown salad is very energy intensive. Geography matters. One of the reasons that "sod Europe, we'll do it ourselves" isn't always a better way forward than "all of Europe is one big market, let's specialise in what we can do best".
Brexiter in ‘can’t read’ shocker
Oh the level of discourse. Good old circle jerk.
Fruit and Veg wholesalers in Ireland are facing similar issues.
https://businessplus.ie/news/fruit-and-veg-bad-weather/
Even that Ireland based reporter mentions the problems in UK supermarkets (which are worse than in Ireland, for whatever reasons).
"let’s specialise in what we can do best”.
Leave us to our the turnips. In my experience, I've never seen a turnip or parsnip on sale in a French, Spanish, Italian, German or Austrian supermarket
Yeah, the parsnip is not appreciated much outside the UK.
BTW, of the many big chain and independent shops selling greengrocery near greyspoke towers (North Cardiff), the only lack of tomatoes and salad veg I have noticed is at a pavement greengrocery stall. No doubt there are empty shelves in places, but I haven't seen any.
I do find it amusing that the press are speculating about how the ERG/DUP axis of stupid will respond.
Or is this the time someone has the balls to call the ERG and DUPs' bluff?
I'm going to have to try a bacon, lettuce and parsnip sandwich now.
DUP still won't return to Stormont due to the outstanding issue of grass being green.
Yeah, the parsnip is not appreciated much outside the UK.
Possibly quite true, but we get through a bunch (no pun intended) of them when they are in season here in Sweden and the local supermarket is good at having stocks of them.
The DUP only have two words in their vocabulary:
NO! and NEVER!
To just blame Brexit for the “foot shortages” is hilarious.
I thought we left the EU so we could use imperial measurements? This isn't the Brexit I voted for etc...
NO! and NEVER!
Thats unfair and inaccurate.
They can occasionally find YES and MORE for example when it comes to dodgy subsidies such as the cash for ash.
This is the actual announcement from number 10 😳
https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1630229952405594112?s=20
In other news, this morning I tied my shoelaces #achievements
The crux of it seems to be that anything intended for NI doesn't get scrutinised, anything intended for ROI does.
Can someone explain how that works in practice? Is someone going to be labelling every box of sausages in the lorry and then checking where they end up? Are we going to have different labelling on the packets, so they will have to say 'NOT FOR SALE IN NI' on them or something?
Food available on supermarket shelves in Great Britain, will be available in Northern Ireland – including sausages.
In practice, nothing will happen until the EU/Republic start complaining again, then another 'agreement' will be reached which pleases some people all of the time, or all people some of the time (what Rishi has done here). Give it 5 years and NI will be part of Ireland.
Can someone explain how that works in practice?
For supermarkets supplying themselves. Easy.
For business to consumer direct sales. Also quite easy.
For wholesale and resale … 🤯
EU sausage police gotta be on standby.
So a good day so far until we see the details then. Nice to see things slightly moving towards sensible.
A step in the right direction…
Except the treasury took the money back last week - money that was earmarked either for Horizon participation or to be spent on UK research if we couldn't participate. But stuck in limbo, unable to do either.......
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64726522
Hopefully that will be reversed and we can join; what can't be reversed is the drain of researchers that couldn't wait and have gone abroad for the certainty that brings.
Oh, it’s all about cushioning the fall… but we can still welcome that and hope we progress further. It’s the turning the ship around analogy… we’re still going the wrong way but early signs of a course direction, or at least a slowing down of the rush to go the wrong way.
^^ Shocker eh?
I actually saw a bloke wearing union Jack trousers today like the guy in that twitter pic a page ago! That's a first for me.
Let's just day he tucked every single Brexiteer box you can imagine.
I almost shouted, "bingo!"😁
If you wear union Jack trousers you are a red flag for mental illness
