General Discussion
I was in Exeter yesterday. As I was casually looking at clothes I couldn't help but overhear a conversation taking place almost right next to me between two couples. One was saying to the others "everywhere they are. Our local (name of business) manager is a Pole and his deputy is a Pole. Can't move for them. They all need to go back". I wondered then, as I still wonder now, if it was ...
Well it makes sense to me that plans should get made, just in case things go pear shaped on the issue of trade. For with roughly 50% of the food on our shelves being grown overseas and not by ourselves, it’s very important for future days that we have enough food to feed the UK. As from the EU to Blighty much food gets imported, it’s really quite crucial this issue gets sorted. If ...
So why don't you enlighten us then with the news reporting to which you have access but to which so many of us, apparently, do not.
Not a lot of people still around who have had first hand experience of rationing during and after the war so food rationing/shortages would come as a bit of a shock to the vast majority.
Just imagine the uproar, the hullabaloo Should our food end up rationed As per World War Two.
“Fruit and vegetables could be particularly vulnerable to price rises and lack of availability, because of the UK’s dependence on EU imports: around 40% of vegetables and 37% of fruit sold in the UK come from the EU. For this reason Professor Tim Lang, from the Centre for Food Policy at City University London, described horticulture as “the most fragile of all the industries”. The level of ...
And at some point they will run out of whatever it is they have in storage. And they will run out even faster if there is an increase in demand for whatever it is they have in storage if imported goods are taking longer to get to the supermarkets/these storage facilities.
So what is going on in this country?
Well if the EU based supermarkets are geared up for no deal then they will be aware that goods they wish to have imported into this country will be subject to customs checks/tariffs. And as far as I am aware our ports are not geared up for such a no deal situation.
Not food shortages within a couple of weeks then but within a couple of months? Where are these food mountains in the UK?
