EU wants us to pay 89 BILLION divorce charges.

So funny how Brexiteers think it's okay for prices to go up, when a year ago you were probably saying they wouldn't.

If you want to pay more for your milk so the farmer gets a fair price, buy organic.

We still have ours delivered, from a local dairy farm. Surely that option’s still open to everyone.

I want all the farmers to get a fair price not just the organic farmers.

I presume, in that case, Firecracker, you buy the most expensive milk when you go to the supermarket.

If you want to pay more for your milk so the farmer gets a fair price, buy organic.
Most people won't, though, and it is again the supermarkets who drive the price. Most people who can afford a weekly shop could afford to pay just a little more for their milk so that dairy farmers can earn a reasonable living. This could mean not buying so much in the way of soft drinks, crisps etc.
I saw a baby in a pram today, not more than a year old, being handed a bottle of Coca Cola.
I expect the young mother would say that she couldn't afford to pay more for milk.

I would be happy to pay a higher price for milk if the dairy farmer got a good deal, I always buy British milk. Just because you are paying more in one supermarket doesn't mean the dairy farmer gets paid more.

So, you're worried about farmers not getting enough money for their milk, but not concerned about British Nationals living abroad who's pensions are reduced because of brexit? Or people in Ireland worried about a hard border and a return to the troubles?

What about Irish farmers?

Start a petition to Gove to say you want farmers to be paid more for their milk.
It won't help the soil, which is what this is about, but never mind.

Sorry, wrong thread.

Jalima I can't believe you said that most people won't pay more for their milk, or buy organic.
Most people are not vegan or vegetarian. It doesn't mean you can't be if you want to be, or I can't be.
That's a real cop-out.

Yes, I think we are on the wrong thread djen!
How did that happen
but, while we're here, no, it's not a cop-out - the number of people I know who go to certain supermarkets because everything is good value and 'the milk is cheap too' is astonishing. So what I said is probably true. So most people is probably correct.

As for So, you're worried about farmers not getting enough money for their milk, but not concerned about British Nationals living abroad who's pensions are reduced because of brexit? Or people in Ireland worried about a hard border and a return to the troubles? - words fail me (nearly).

So - because one wonders about one thing one cannot worry about another? Astonishing.

I expect a deal will be brokered regarding the pensions of people living in EU countries - which is more than can be said for pensioners who live in Commonwealth countries whose pensions have never gone up since they left these shores.

But that is yet another thing to worry about.

Along with the Gibraltese and the Falkland Islanders and countless other concerns.

I don't think Tegan meant you, Jalima.

Yes, most people could be correct, but people on here who care about the price of milk that farmers get could buy the more expensive milk at the supermarket, leaving the cheap milk on the shelves.
Changes take time - speaking as someone who has been vegetarian for over 40 years!

If the prices of imported food is going up after Brexit, the cost cutting in supermarkets will be on local foods like bread and milk. The mindset needs to be changed before we leave the EU.

That was bad grammar, wasn't it?

If the PRICE of imported food IS going up....

OK Tegan it was probably a misunderstanding.

Sorry Jalima; was replying to Firecracker. Am dipping in and out of the forum at the moment [having my never ending clear out at home] and am not reading things as thoroughly as I should!

Sometimes I get confused about which thread is which as they seem to cblend into one another.

David Davis really doesn't inspire confidence does he. Yesterday in the Committee he said that the Commons might get a vote on the final deal after we'd left... Today his department are back pedalling.

It looks as though there is not going to be any exodus of banking from London. There's an article in the FT today where UBS has received “regulatory and political clarifications” and will not be moving staff.

Mr Ermotti said that UBS already has all of the licences it needs in its EU bank in Frankfurt to continue all its EU businesses after Brexit. “Our target is to keep as many people as we can in London,” he stressed.

Many banks do not particularly want to move out of UK but I think the point of that statement is that they already have all the paperwork they need in Frankfurt to operate across the EU. Other banks need to get that paperwork in place - the banking jobs create so much tax revenue for the UK Govt it is to be hoped that not too many do move.
Most of the banks that have announced staff moving to the EU are keeping staff in London also - this one is no different - the more staff they keep in London the less relocation packages they have to pay and the less new staff to recruit and train.