A thank you to Brexiteers.

[Rob Ray]

The day has finally come where we’re advised to enjoy more turnips, brilliant.

Eat Turnips Amid Tomato Shortage, Therese Coffey Says

We should "cherish the specialisms" that we have in this country, the cabinet minister suggested.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

It's going to be a confused few months for the gammon army. One the one hand, Buying British is back and that's good. On the other it's Environmentally Friendly and that's woke. We all get to live like it's World War II again and that's good, but farmers say they need migrants to come and pick veg and that's woke. There's less of that foreign muck on supermarket shelves and that's good, but turns out a lot of the food we like is foreign muck, and that's woke ...

 

[Raheem]

The day has finally come where we’re advised to enjoy more turnips, brilliant.

Eat Turnips Amid Tomato Shortage, Therese Coffey Says

We should "cherish the specialisms" that we have in this country, the cabinet minister suggested.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Well, it will still technically be a BLT.

 

[Yossarian]

Well, it will still technically be a BLT.

What's the L going to be, liver?

 

[2hats]

Wholesome and filling Lexit.

 

[Raheem]

What's the L going to be, liver?

Listerine.

Cooking the bacon will be a bit dear, so the B is for bread.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

We all get to live like it's World War II again and that's good,

unhinged.

 

[bimble]

This sort of coverage just disconcerting imo. The BBC seems to be pretty insistent that’s it’s just ‘the weather’ which is very obviously bollocks. Because there is no rationing in Europe, only here.


Bbc is complicit in upholding the government line, which shouldn’t be surprising but is just very obvious right now

 

[teqniq]

This sort of coverage just disconcerting imo. The BBC seems to be pretty insistent that’s it’s just ‘the weather’ which is very obviously bollocks. Because there is no rationing in Europe, only here.


Bbc is complicit in upholding the government line, which shouldn’t be surprising but is just very obvious right now

This article would appear to contradict the BBC one:

Spanish growers say weather, rising costs and Brexit caused UK salad shortages

Some producers point the finger at temperature shifts and others at bureaucracy and logistics

www.theguardian.com

unhinged.

Surely your sense of humour hasn't deserted you?

 

[two sheds]

there's a shortage of hinges

 

[brogdale]

Doing my bit to promote bountiful brexit britain; the veritable cornucopia of Solanum lycopersicum in our Sainbury's gives the lie to the treacherous, remoaniacial whinging.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Surely your sense of humour hasn't deserted you?

Nope. Nor my critical faculties.

 

[ska invita]

Surely your sense of humour hasn't deserted you?

 

[gosub]

But you can remove the EU as an institution. Those in charge can vote to disband it, and we the people vote in those in charge.

Sounds fucking wonderful yes you have sovereignty coz you can get rid. In practice though you have to factor in a fuckton of boathappies

 

[brogdale]

Time for all true patriots and champions of independence to cherish the turnip

 

[brogdale]

Also time for a turnip update from Portugal?

 

[Dystopiary]

The day has finally come where we’re advised to enjoy more turnips, brilliant.

Eat Turnips Amid Tomato Shortage, Therese Coffey Says

We should "cherish the specialisms" that we have in this country, the cabinet minister suggested.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Less than a week before they're out of season again.

 

[bimble]

It's pretty interesting the tomato thing, because yes it is very brexit connected obvs (the fact that we are the only ones with rationing) but it wasnt somehow inevitable, its due to government incompetence - we could have brexited and still had plenty of tomatoes but it would have meant being realistic and making plans and spending money to avoid "project fear".
What's biting us in the arse is their failure to act to ensure food security imagining we'd continue to be able to import everything in exactly the same way as before when that's very predictably not the case now we've left the trading block next door.
These absolutely massive greenhouses have apparently got no tomatoes in them for instance, because they were not given any help with their energy bills.

 

[brogdale]

It's pretty interesting the tomato thing, because yes it is very brexit connected obvs (the fact that we are the only ones with rationing) but it wasnt somehow inevitable, its due to government incompetence - we could have brexited and still had plenty of tomatoes but it would have meant being realistic and making plans and spending money to avoid "project fear".
What's biting us in the arse is their failure to act to ensure food security imagining we'd continue to be able to import everything in exactly the same way as before when that's very predictably not the case now we've left the trading block next door.
These absolutely massive greenhouses have apparently got no tomatoes in them for instance, because they were not given any help with their energy bills.

If only those tomato farmers had donated more to the brexit Tory party, eh?

 

[bimble]

The fury of the farmers towards the conservative party is one of the unintended consequences isn't it, apparently they bood the environment secretary off the stage at their farmers union meeting yesterday.

 

[brogdale]

The fury of the farmers towards the conservative party is one of the unintended consequences isn't it, apparently they bood the environment secretary off the stage at their farmers union meeting yesterday.

I remember driving past those giant Leave posters in the farmers' fields and they've forever had tory posters up at every GE I cam remember; they can go fuck themselves, tbh

 

[bimble]

Yep i think the farmers fury gets filed next to 'massive increase in small boat crossings' in the avoidable own goals of the get brexit done party.

 

[ska invita]

Not sure if its an own goal exactly, my understanding is its about the best thing the Tories have done in power, replacing CAP payments with ones that reward "green" land management.. For a while it looked like the farmer lobbying was going to make Boris Johnson backtrack on it, but it seems to be going through.

 

[teqniq]

Yep i think the farmers fury gets filed next to 'massive increase in small boat crossings' in the avoidable own goals of the get brexit done party.

The small boats situation is being quite deliberately milked for political and distraction purposes. It could be solved overnight by providing safe routes and they know this but choose not to. Hopefully there will be a reckoning one day.

 

[bimble]

Not sure if its an own goal exactly, my understanding is its about the best thing the Tories have done in power, replacing CAP payments with ones that reward "green" land management.. For a while it looked like the farmer lobbying was going to make Boris Johnson backtrack on it, but it seems to be going through.

Separate thing, i just meant that if they'd been realistic enough to consider our increased vulnerability to things like the weather in morocco, post-brexit, they might have joined up their thinking and helped the uk greenhouses grow some tomatoes, which they didn't, I got energy bill help but the tomato greenhouses apparently didn't, so they didn't plant any.

 

[bimble]

The small boats situation is being quite deliberately milked for political and distraction purposes. It could be solved overnight by providing safe routes and they know this but choose not to. Hopefully there will be a reckoning one day.

in the leave agreement they failed to include / replicate the bit where you could still return people to the first 'safe' country they crossed, thats whats changed post brexit .

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Less than a week before they're out of season again.

That's a shame.

 

[ska invita]

Separate thing, i just meant that if they'd been realistic enough to consider our increased vulnerability to things like the weather in morocco, post-brexit, they might have joined up their thinking and helped the uk greenhouses grow some tomatoes, which they didn't, I got energy bill help but the tomato greenhouses apparently didn't, so they didn't plant any.

but this isnt why the environment secretary got booed
plus it great news for the turnip farmers

 

[bimble]

i don't think i've ever purchased a turnip.

 

[Pickman's model]

i don't think i've ever purchased a turnip.

Stolen ones taste better

 

[Pickman's model]

but this isnt why the environment secretary got booed
plus it great news for the turnip farmers

Turnips are an admirable item to throw at the environment secretary