Let's Get Political!

[StfcRusty]

What a day. Ginger Pelé returns, left wing fascists defeated, Swindon top of the league. The town end will be rocking tomorrow and rightly so.

Why do you care? You were always a Man City fan Dan, no?

[StfcRusty]

The tears, the tears 😭 I can feel sadness in your beta male voice 😭😭😭

Ahhhh “beta male voice” - the language of the angry incel. Explains a lot

[hobodan]

The salty tears. Glorious 😂

[mexico red]

Big piece on Spanish news this morning. How the UK like the rest of Europe buy most of their fruit and veg from the Andalusia region east of Malaga.
It was basically saying it’s going to cost the uk so much more money as there is no way they are striking a deal with the uk as good as the rest of Europe .
Days of cheap fruit and veg are going. Best get an allotment

[Nijholts Nuts]

Don't worry we'll grow our very own British produce that will be bigger and better than anything that any Europeans can grow.
The great British soil will cultivate anything we choose now that no foreigners will ever step foot on it again.

[Exiled Bob]

Don't worry we'll grow our very own British produce that will be bigger and better than anything that any Europeans can grow.
The great British soil will cultivate anything we choose now that no foreigners will ever step foot on it again.

Yeah, but there will be no cheap foreign labour to pick it.....

[Legends-Lounge]

Big piece on Spanish news this morning. How the UK like the rest of Europe buy most of their fruit and veg from the Andalusia region east of Malaga.
It was basically saying it’s going to cost the uk so much more money as there is no way they are striking a deal with the uk as good as the rest of Europe .
Days of cheap fruit and veg are going. Best get an allotment

What a load of old bollocks. Firstly, they will do what the EU tell them to do. Secondly, there is nothing that we cannot get from another part of the world that they grow. Why, Pedro just has to look a cross the straights of Gibraltar and the south side of the greater Mediterranean to see where we can get what they produce. Thirdly, do you really think an economy fucked over by the EU and the € with unemployment as bad as it is is going to try and screw us over? Fourthly, suppose they tried to and our importers went elsewhere, who is going to pick up their slack? Fifthly, agri produce outside the EU is some 20-30% cheaper because of import tariffs and the CAP and lest you missed the general thread of leaving the EU, we can get what the fuck we like from wherever we like. Think Pedro and his chums had better wise up. Posturing Spaniards, tried it once before and well, let’s just say that didn’t turn out well for the armada did it. 🤣🤣

[Bob's Orange]

But isn’t the point of Brexit that we can do Trade deals with other countries now? Spain isn’t the only place that grows fruit and veg on the planet. Surely the advantage we have is that we can do deals with say Israel (maybe a bad example but!) or South Africa? That can be used as a bargaining chip against Spain that they either get something from us or we go elsewhere?

It’s probably nowhere near that straightforward mind you!

[Legends-Lounge]

But isn’t the point of Brexit that we can do Trade deals with other countries now? Spain isn’t the only place that grows fruit and veg on the planet. Surely the advantage we have is that we can do deals with say Israel (maybe a bad example but!) or South Africa? That can be used as a bargaining chip against Spain that they either get something from us or we go elsewhere?

It’s probably nowhere near that straightforward mind you!

With advancements in production, storage and transportation of fresh goods (after all those lovely grapes from Chile didn’t taste to bad did they?) the world has become a smaller place. Back in the day all lamb from NZ for example was frozen. Now it is slaughtered, butchered, vac packed and deep chilled Loaded onto containers and arrives a few weeks later in your local supermarket. pedro’s tomato’s stand no chance. Still the birds, insects and other wildlife will enjoy them rotting in the field. TBF it is not going to get like that, the great and the good now know they are up against it with Boris, as they should have been under May, except she did what she could to fuck us over while still trying to sell us a leaving deal with more holes than a sieve.

[Exiled Bob]

With advancements in production, storage and transportation of fresh goods (after all those lovely grapes from Chile didn’t taste to bad did they?) the world has become a smaller place. Back in the day all lamb from NZ for example was frozen. Now it is slaughtered, butchered, vac packed and deep chilled Loaded onto containers and arrives a few weeks later in your local supermarket. pedro’s tomato’s stand no chance. Still the birds, insects and other wildlife will enjoy them rotting in the field. TBF it is not going to get like that, the great and the good now know they are up against it with Boris, as they should have been under May, except she did what she could to fuck us over while still trying to sell us a leaving deal with more holes than a sieve.

Are you frothing at the mouth yet?

[Reg Smeeton]

With advancements in production, storage and transportation of fresh goods (after all those lovely grapes from Chile didn’t taste to bad did they?) the world has become a smaller place. 

The world is a smaller place in the grip of climate change... although you seeem to deny it. How this pans out will decide about the future of food supplies etc in or out the EU neither here or there.

[StfcRusty]

Interesting to see LL's wife and daughter son interviewed on TV about Brexit:

https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1223376616090415104

[Exiled Bob]

And I'm guessing Hobodan is "Wayne"....

https://twitter.com/g_gosden/status/1223299431497445377?s=20

[Legends-Lounge]

Are you frothing at the mouth yet?

Only from my toothpaste. You should try using it.

[Legends-Lounge]

Interesting to see LL's wife and daughter interviewed on TV about Brexit:

https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1223376616090415104

I don’t have a daughter and I have not clicked your posted either, grow up.