I enjoyed this on Twitter from Pete Clark: If you’re not doing so already…Please buy British bananas Grown in abundance in the sunlit uplands, under the rainbow of mis-truths. Go on. Spoil yourself. As an incidental footnote almost all bananas we eat today are actually ‘British’ in that the variety is generally thought to have… Read more
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This is what ‘prospering mightily’ actually looks like
For a few cheese exports – something I used to do: Austria– Meat, Cheese and foodstuffs containing animal ingredients, fish and fish products are prohibited.Belgium– Anything that requires veterinary control is prohibited therefore you cannot send here.Bulgaria– Can be shipped but additional Analysis and Quality Certificates required for customs.Croatia– Any shipment containing animal products are… Read more
Stymied by your own government
The ‘Newsletter’ shows very worrying news from Northern Ireland, where transport providers estimate there are just five days before food distribution breaks down, Remarkably this includes Tesco, which is by far Britain’s largest food distributor and who, in my experience at least, are usually legally and technically proficient. Some of HMRC systems are thought to… Read more
So EU countries have control of their borders after all…
…It’s just that, this time, the UK, still currently an EU member, is the pariah. Of course coming just before Christmas and just before Brexit this (so far) 48 hour embargo by all our nearest neighbours will cause supply chain disruption to any just in time deliveries. And international deliveries are already under threat from… Read more
Loaves and fishes
After Smugg Mogg belittled the efforts of Unicef to feed Britain’s hungry children (one cogent comment I saw was ‘Tough on Unicef but not tough on the causes of Unicef’) it has emerged that their expenditure was in fact £700,000: This is an indictment of not only Mogg himself but also the UK government, who… Read more
By Conservative government error or by Conservative government design?
This is the table from the Independent Food Aid Network – the competition to the Trussell Trust, and who, I fear, have even more hard hitting statistics: So all the top three reasons for attending – and overwhelmingly the majority are caused by the delay or lack of benefits. (These percentage proportions are not of… Read more
EU Market forces say no…
This piece today from Bloomberg rather emphasises my previous suggestion that EU lorries have to want to come to the UK. It begins to look as is they are deciding against: Europe’s largest truck owner warned it could turn away deliveries to the U.K. if Brexit triggers chaos at the border, a move that could… Read more
Reeling in the deal
This clever image is from Cold War Steve and sums up the stupidity of Johnson’s self-imposed deadlines, which turn out to be breached – one after the other. Of course he hasn’t brought back the fish yet, but it is likely to be as eventually worthless as Neville Chamberlain’s note if he does… Ed Milliband… Read more
Not meriting the description of democracy…
I thought this piece on charity – a sector so beloved of our government – by Tom Serpell, from Sussex Bylines was very powerfully written (I thought of my own recent piece on the same subject and thought ‘must do better’): … if filling in the holes in the needs of the people is left… Read more
Fishermen’s regrets
This (below) is from the FT and a quote from someone who was vocal – at least locally – in supporting Brexit. He works in Brixham – the most prosperous fishing port in England and Wales, which now catches much more than even Grimsby or Hull, whose precipitous decline was the historical result of the… Read more