Brexit Fallout

The Italian prime minister is one to watch with potential deals with Africa.

Oreo

MaizieD
Well duh! Ooh I never knew that, amazing what people will do in an effort to patronise on forums.😂

I buy as much from British producers as I can afford to do, and as local as possible too.Farmers markets are another good source of local foods.

This fact has been mentioned for some years. I remember a man who was involved in importing food for one of the large supermarkets. He pointed out that we were leaving on 1st January. Too cold to plant seeds and no much too harvest. Just root crops.

My thought at the time was why people realise?

ronib

Recovering from cataract surgery and using a magnifying glass to see and type!

How was it? I've just been to see the anesthetist today before my first next week.

ronib

The general thrust of a sustainable life style should include grow your own and remove long haul transportation as part of net zero targets. Also buy less too.

What are all those thousands/millions living in flats supposed to ? Window boxes I suppose.

The US…………..made it clear that one of the terms of a potential deal was that foodstuffs wouldn’t be labelled as from the USA

That would of course make it very difficult to reject American foods. No wonder we failed to get a trade deal, and I say thank goodness for that. I guess that I, along with others who have travelled, have probably eaten meat produced in this inferior way at some point in our lives, but we can normally avoid it by buying British or European goods when at home, which is most of the time.

It’s sickening. So much trouble caused by lies, the Daily Mail, Johnson and people who voted for Brexit in the belief that immigration figures would go down and we would have straight bananas.

Dinahmo it was fine. Having a tooth filled is much worse. Four weeks of eye drops, no bending , no heavy lifting no housework for a week…… such hardship.

Dinahmo. Allotments, community allotments, grow bags re flat dwellers wanting to grow produce.

ronib

Dinahmo it was fine. Having a tooth filled is much worse. Four weeks of eye drops, no bending , no heavy lifting no housework for a week…… such hardship.

Thank you.

On University Challenge last night both teams seem to have forgotten that we were no longer in the EU. And one team was the Open University one! I couldn’t believe it.

I suppose some students are only eighteen or so and therefore hardly remember the fraudulent referendum of 2016 when they were only about ten.

Many young people seem to take no interest in current affairs, even quite clever young people.

But it still shocks me.

Actually I am not sure that's true, they consume news in a different way, I think the popularity of the long form podcasts shows that. They just consume current affairs in a different way.

varian

I suppose some students are only eighteen or so and therefore hardly remember the fraudulent referendum of 2016 when they were only about ten.

Many young people seem to take no interest in current affairs, even quite clever young people.

But it still shocks me.

But the Open University team were much older!

True. So were they all asleep in 2016?

Maybe they all misunderstood the question.

I am not sure that people on University Challenge are representative of anything really, even university students

Love this twitter feed by Brian Cox - the physicist

So JRM on GBNews

Jacob Ree-Mogg says we don't need to apply the terms of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, because food standards in the EU are much higher than they are in the UK.

And by applying them, we turn the UK into a miniature EU.

Brian Cox

This is worth watching for the cognitive dissonance on display. As far as I can tell, the argument is that implementing Brexit in the form of a customs and regulatory border between the U.K. and EU damages Brexit.
Furthermore, the argument continues, we don’t need to implement border controls on food because the EU has higher standards than we do. Therefore, it follows, as long as we maintain lower standards than the EU, we don’t need to implement Brexit.
And furthermore (II) the EU are criticised for having higher standards, which presumably means that they should lower their standards, which would then necessitate the introduction of border checks, which would damage Brexit.

Oh dear😀😀

Or it could mean that if they lower their standards we could lower ours even further. It a little world of wonder people like JRM live in Whitewave

Galaxy

I am not sure that people on University Challenge are representative of anything really, even university students

😂

Andrea ('I'm a mum') Leadsom told Kate Burley that businesses simply needed to adapt when Kate skewered her about the £330 million of extra costs they will incur as a result of border checks with the EU. Translation: the Tories don't care about small businesses going to the wall.

Not just medications, can't get anyone in Europe to ship us a new exhaust for our old LHD van!

Maremia

Democracy means you may vote again. Let's put this whole issue to bed, and see how many folk still agree with Brexit. Simples.

So we simply keep on voting till we the anti Brexiteers get the result they want. Shall we do that at every general election when the minority dislike the result ?

glammagran

Hormone fed beef cattle imported from Canada? No thanks! Apart JRM who I’m sure thinks it’s fine.

Plus Chlorine washed chickens which are not allowed in UK

The Canada deal has not been abandoned. We failed to agree on chlorinated chicken and beef imports. The deal can still be brokered but I hope without the chicken.

Oreo

Groan, this old record being played again?
My Mum has no probs getting her diabetic type2 meds, I know cos I pick them up for her.
All this years down the line bellyaching has to stop at some point, it’s like some just enjoy being prophets of doom.
I didn’t vote for it but more people did and I accept that.Have to say I haven’t noticed anything changing since then.The pandemic was the worst thing and thank God that’s over.

Bit selfish that…I haven’t noticed a problem…but many of us have …I’m a small specialist self-employed trader and cannot sent to France, Germany or Spain any longer due to ‘packaging restrictions’ , customs taxes, etc, and general red tape to other countries. The stockpiling referred to May have an effect on medications on the near future and trade agreements are almost impossible to get since Brexit.
YOU might not have noticed a difference in your world, I and others certainly have!