This ‘shortage’ of certain foodstuffs..

One of the main reasons that the UK is last in line for supplies is Cabotage. This is where a truck picks up a load from one place, drops some or all of it in another place whilst picking up something else and so on. This means that the truck is never empty. Brexit means that cabotage is no longer possible in the UK as the paperwork means only full loads from a single supplier make economic sense.

 

Another Brexit bonus.

 

No shortage at all in Sainsbury's SW London this morning.

Shelves rammed full of any fruit or veg you'd want.

 

I’ve been in the big Sainsbury’s at Edenthorpe and the Asda at Carcroft in Donny today.

Neither had any tomatoes or peppers whatsoever. Asda had a few cucumbers, Sainsbury’s not. No lettuces or salad bags (apart from Asda had a couple of bags of watercress).

I wasn’t actually shopping for any of those, but bizarrely, neither had any red potatoes. Sunday roasties don’t taste right from white spuds so hopefully one of the several Aldi’s between home and Oakwell have some tomorrow!

 

Not really. In Richmond there are no peppers or tomatoes anywhere. Zero salad in Waitrose. Tried to check in Tesco but caught up in a fight between the security guards and two druggies who were battering them with with them yellow plastic signs that warn you the floors a bit wet.

 

Loads of red spuds in the big Lidl in Nottingham last week, although driving there from Yorkshire just for one bag would be a touch extreme.

 

Nailed on. I've already set up the RAPB - 'Richmond Avocado Protection Brigade'

 

Out of touch?? Really,?
We live in rural Italy. Surrounded by vineyards olive groves and fields. I know a number of farmers and the local and National media were constantly on about drought and Crisis in farming were down by about at third overall and some areas even worse. Prices have shot up in the supermarkets here. Really. https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&s...UQFnoECAwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2xTIJlNRXsw4qYATdm_19_
There was a state of Emergency in many regions of Italy due to drought so don't tell me I am out of touch.

 

And yet your shelves are full and ours are empty. Why? Brexit

 

Change the record. Obviously there is less available After the drought last Summer so less surplus available for export. No shortages but prices locally reflect the relative lack of surpluses.

 

Yes less available for the nation's who don't have a collective trade agreement. I think that's called brexit

 

Collective trade agreements only work when a country had suficient quantities available to export. Britain Is an island nation in Northern Europe where in Winter months crops are mainly root vegetables. Also the very fact that some areas and retailers in the UK seem to have shortages whilst others do not suggests a National logistics problem rather than import constraints on some items. High wholesale prices may also deter some supermarket chains buying in. A few.months ago some products disappeared from shelves in Tesco since they were in dispute with the manufacturers over price hikes.
Of course it is easier to blame Brexit for everything rather than seeking solutions

 

The supermarket chains have contract prices actually so no it's not that. Nor is it a logistics chain issue. It's a brexit issue just like everything else you've spent the last couple of years on here denying

 

There's a very simple solution, but Labour are too chickenshit to even consider it at the minute, despite it being very obviously the best course of action.

 

What we need is a referendum to decide whether we need a referendum....

 

I don't completely blame Brexit but you have to admit, any problems we have in the UK are made worse by Brexit.
It's always a negative factor, there have been no positives yet, but hey, we're only 3 years in....

 

Tell me one thing Brexit has improved.

 

There is a solution MT and we all know it. The problem is that if they suggest it it would likely lose them the election and that would be an even bigger disaster.
I'm hoping that once they're in though that they can start to edge us towards some common sense measures like rejoining the single market to get us on the path back.
Fingers crossed.