A thank you to Brexiteers.

[NoXion]

This is one of those weird alternative realities constructed on social media. One on hand we have lived reality: which is people going to the shop to buy food. On the other hand we have a social media campaign (this one organised by
Continuity Remain Space Cadets) that aims to tell us our lived reality is wrong and there are food shortages caused by Brexit.

It also ignores the fact that the "just in time" methods that have been used for stock management for at least ten years now, are very easily disrupted by shit like the pandemic and cargo ships getting stuck in the Suez.

The end of just-in-time? | Reuters Events | Supply Chain & Logistics Business Intelligence

The story goes that when Eiji Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, visited American car manufacturers in the 1950s, he was not impressed. Despite Detroit being at the height of its powers, Toyoda saw profligate waste and an opportunity to innovate. This was the start of the famous process of Just-In-Time...

www.reutersevents.com

Why, it's almost as if international logistics is hard, and is made more fragile by having methodologies which demand optimal conditions at all times.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

It also ignores the fact that the "just in time" methods that have been used for stock management for at least ten years now, are very easily disrupted by shit like the pandemic and cargo ships getting stuck in the Suez.

The end of just-in-time? | Reuters Events | Supply Chain & Logistics Business Intelligence

The story goes that when Eiji Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, visited American car manufacturers in the 1950s, he was not impressed. Despite Detroit being at the height of its powers, Toyoda saw profligate waste and an opportunity to innovate. This was the start of the famous process of Just-In-Time...

www.reutersevents.com

Why, it's almost as if international logistics is hard, and is made more fragile by having methodologies which demand optimal conditions at all times.

The real story is how well that supply chain model has stood up to a global pandemic. Food shortages would be an entirely predictable outcome given lockdowns, closed borders and staff shortages caused by illness/isolating etc. Those of us who have criticized the just in time model have been proven wrong over the last 18 months.

The other story is, of course, that sometimes shops offer a certain product and people buy all of that product meaning that there is temporally none of the product available and it is, to use a technical phrase, 'sold out'. Talking of which I am having a BLT for my dinner today having gone searching the food famine wastelands of Birmingham for some lettuce and tomato and having found plenty in the first shop I went in.

 

[krtek a houby]

It's not like the UK is the DPRK.

The people there know all about that kind of deprivation only too well.

Of course, they don't get to question alleged food shortages.

There needs to be more spirit of the blitz.

 

[Artaxerxes]

It's not like the UK is the DPRK.

The people there know all about that kind of deprivation only too well.

Of course, they don't get to question alleged food shortages.

There needs to be more spirit of the blitz.

Illegal black market pork?

 

[krtek a houby]

Keep calm and carry swans

 

[The39thStep]

It's not like the UK is the DPRK.

The people there know all about that kind of deprivation only too well.

Of course, they don't get to question alleged food shortages.

There needs to be more spirit of the blitz.

Any idea if there is a petit pois shortage in the DPRK?

 

[krtek a houby]

Any idea if there is a petit pois shortage in the DPRK?

Peas will not be achieved by counter revolutionary means

 

[Aladdin]

the one in the south are made by a seperate company to the one made in the north so might explain the difference

saying that try Kings next time you in the republic the better cheese and onion

Just buy the proper bags of Tayto. Not the 6 packs.
The best go into the proper single bags. They are unbeatable...

 

[Aladdin]

kings crisps still taste better with batch loaf

*shakes fist at sky

Once you pick out the burnt edge and green tinged ones....yes...

 

[Aladdin]

Which reminds... are the much loved day trips to Callais still a thing?

When I was a kid we had a neighbour who used to go to France by ferry and come back with a boot full of food or drink. Usually wine. But one year he came home with a boot full of bananas.

 

[discokermit]

golden wonder are made by tayto. and ringos.

 

[Pickman's model]

When I was a kid we had a neighbour who used to go to France by ferry and come back with a boot full of food or drink. Usually wine. But one year he came home with a boot full of bananas.

bananas are a recognised food

 

[krtek a houby]

golden wonder are made by tayto. and ringos.

The latter not even the best crisps in the franchise

 

[Aladdin]

bananas are a recognised food

Sure...but there must have been a shortage of them.
A car boot
...full of bananas ...doesn't bear thinking about.

 

[Loose meat]

Massively .. checks massive notes ..

 

[NoXion]

Massively .. checks massive notes ..

You've become a parody of yourself now.

 

[Loose meat]

Massive hot take

 

[krtek a houby]

You've become a parody of yourself now.

Meat The Feeble

 

[Pickman's model]

Have you remembered the names of these bands you say are having no problem touring Europe yet?

Still, all musicians can be overjoyed at the news of Liechtenstein opening up. A truly worthy alternative.

Will UK bands start touring in Liechtenstein?

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www.independent.co.uk

samantha fox for one

 

[editor]

samantha fox for one

She's not in a struggling small band. She's a long established artist with chart success performing solo on the lucrative retro 80s circuit, playing sizeable venues with a load of other 80s acts.

It's not even slightly comparable to the plight of small bands who used to tour the European small gig circuits. I've said all along that it won't affect the bigger acts so much because have the financial resources, management services and legal expertise to get around the obstacles that Brexit has created for smaller bands.

 

[Pickman's model]

She's not in a struggling small band. She's a long established artist with chart success performing solo on the lucrative retro 80s circuit, playing sizeable venues with a load of other 80s acts.

It's not even slightly comparable to the plight of small bands who used to tour the European small gig circuits. I've said all along that it won't affect the bigger acts so much because have the financial resources, management services and legal expertise to get around the obstacles that Brexit has created for smaller bands.

that creaking sound is the goalposts moving

 

[editor]

that creaking sound is the goalposts moving

Or you could just admit you don't have much of a clue about what you're talking about here. Or maybe you're just trolling because anyone trying to draw meaningful comparisons between the plight of small bands struggling to play gigs in Europe and a 1980s celebrity with a string of hit singles and albums touring the retro circuit really has lost the plot a bit.

 

[Pickman's model]

Or you could just admit you don't have much of a clue about what you're talking about here. Or maybe you're just trolling because anyone trying to draw meaningful comparisons between the plight of small bands struggling to play gigs in Europe and a 1980s celebrity with a string of hit singles and albums touring the retro circuit really has lost the plot a bit.

you asked

Have you remembered the names of these bands you say are having no problem touring Europe yet?

now you're hedging this all around with restrictions you never made when the question was first posed. that's moving the goalposts.

 

[Steel Icarus]

There's a thread for this. Hint: it's not this one

 

[Raheem]

that creaking sound is the goalposts moving

It's the leave voters trying to get up from their armchairs.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's the leave voters trying to get up from their armchairs.

not so sure that's the case

 

[brogdale]

Tesco delivery this evening had no crisps* & no subs

This never happened when the UK was a supra state member.

* the "pillow" of 30 packs (mixed) for £2.85

 

[Badgers]

UK civil servants are working on a plan to get grace periods extended for Northern Ireland again.

Oven ready ^

 

[Loose meat]

Massive.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

& no subs

Love their chicken and bacon sub. And it’s in the meal deal. This could force me to rethink my entire analysis of the benefits of the neo-liberal supra state.