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Swiss. 12:11 Fri Feb 24
No fruit and veg

Another great win for Brexit not.

SecondOpinion 12:18 Fri Feb 24
Re: No fruit and veg

In other news, Brexit has caused draughts and poor weather for growing food.

Side of Ham 12:21 Fri Feb 24
Re: No fruit and veg

Do your research before posting up these types of shitty threads of yours you thick cunt.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64718826

.....and you call for me to be banned for pointing this type of thing out to you.....how you get paid a decent wedge is beyond us all on here....you must be lying....

Lee Trundle 12:21 Fri Feb 24
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Who needs fruit and veg when the likes of me can dine out on your TEARS for a good while longer, Swiss?

Fo the Communist 12:23 Fri Feb 24
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Side of Ham 12:21 Fri Feb 24

So we can believe the BBC these days, Side?
Sorry, I struggle to keep up with WHO trends.

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 12:24 Fri Feb 24
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I suspect our resident fuck-wit is fishing.

However, in other news, small children all over the UK are celebrating the prospect of no tomatoes, lettuce or cucumber for two weeks.

ray winstone 12:27 Fri Feb 24
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TURNIPS!

Eerie Descent 12:28 Fri Feb 24
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Fuck all to do with BREXIT, you plonker.

Energy prices through the roof, so the growers put prices up, greedy supermarkets won't pay it.

Well, some won't.

Mike Oxsaw 12:29 Fri Feb 24
Re: No fruit and veg

No traditional SUMMER fruit and veg.

There I've corrected it for you.

Lazy cunts will now have to turn the page on their "Cooking for arrogant, ignorant fuckers" recipe book and learn how to prepare a meal with traditional seasonal British fruit & veg instead.

Side of Ham 12:30 Fri Feb 24
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Fo it's who they are quoting you have to trust feller, in this case they are just the messenger of info......not all the other stuff they may try to do when storytelling or changing peoples opinions....

Northern Sold 12:31 Fri Feb 24
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Awwwwww nooooo... it's going to ruin my BBQ's....


Anyway can of Heinz big soup (sausage and veg)... job done

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 12:31 Fri Feb 24
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FO

You don't have to trust the BBC. You could check it elsewhere, like here, a site I suspect of being less than Brexit-friendly:

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/23/fact-check-is-brexit-to-blame-for-britains-fruit-and-vegetable-shortages

Anywhere except the silly old Guardian really.

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 12:34 Fri Feb 24
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Pre-Brexit there was never a shortage of any type of food, ever. FACT!

Fo the Communist 12:40 Fri Feb 24
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Surf
That wasn't my point although I'll concede the point I was making - I won't shoot the messenger if he brings me good news - was, perhaps, a cheap one.

That said, your link doesn't give Brexit a completely clean bill of health either.

"Navigating extra Brexit-imposed cost and bureaucracy of getting the fresh fruit and vegetables across the Channel is clearly proving too costly for some producers, which is why tomatoes are reaching supermarkets in France, Belgium or the Netherlands but not Britain."

goose 12:45 Fri Feb 24
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are our European cousins suffering similar shortages?

brother-in-law was in Sicily but didn't mention anything.

J.Riddle 12:50 Fri Feb 24
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Yes Ireland the same.

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 12:51 Fri Feb 24
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FO

Yes, but unlike the rest of the article, that's opinion not backed up with direct quotes.

And the argument they put forward makes no sense. They say Ireland is also suffering shortages but France, Netherlands, etc aren't, so maybe a bit Brexit. But Ireland is still in the EU, so their argument simply reinforces what everyone else is telling them - it's shipping costs, weather and a miscalculation by British growers that are the issue not regulations that don't even come into force until next year.

Short of building about 20 extra channel tunnels, placing a billion zillion electric heaters in Morocco and Spain and building a time machine, there's not much we can do.

Side of Ham 12:52 Fri Feb 24
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They're your cousins goose don't link us to your lot......

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 12:54 Fri Feb 24
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Actually, there is something we can do. We can sort out our energy and food self-sufficiency policy that has been disgracefully ignored by governments of all colours since the start of the twentieth century.

joyo 12:56 Fri Feb 24
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gosse is a fruit

Lee Trundle 12:58 Fri Feb 24
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Waitrose are selling mandarins (in stock) for £3.60 for 1000gm.

In French supermarkets they are €3.99 for 900gm.

So at today’s exchange rate they are also 8% more expensive in France than the UK.

ANOTHER WIN FOR BREXIT.

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