Current Affairs EU In or Out

[Brennan]

fake legumes!

Beggars belief. People will be suggesting we ship cheese from the moon next because there’s no tariffs.

 

[BlueDraka]

Lolling at this. Outstanding logic

So your logic is large container ships should be stopped from places like China. Wow then what the world economy crash.

 

[Brennan]

So your logic is large container ships should be stopped from places like China. Wow then what the world economy crash.

It takes 8 weeks to ship a container from China to the UK.

Unless you’re proposing we have greenhouses in the containers I’m not sure how it’s relevant.

 

[BlueDraka]

To ship a container far exceeds both the cost and carbon of road haulage. A container has to get to and from port as well, plus they hold considerably less. Also factor in that every pallet shipped to or from your mentioned places will need to be on heat treated pallets. Essentially they need to be heated to kill bugs in the wood, adding significant time, cost and carbon.

Food prices are going up, thats not even a debate unfortunately. Deal or no deal, they are going up.

Good prices in the long term will come down that's not even a debate. Food prices are kept high in the EU to protect farmers,. Mainly french farmers. We can source the stuff we need from other countries at a local cost. Meat from Australia and New Zealand. Grain from Australia or Canada. Fruit from South Africa. As for containers we get loads of them from china. Or should we stop ships from there. Prices may go up a bit when we leave but don't believe the remainers they will soon come down

 

[bluejim95]

Good prices in the long term will come down that's not even a debate. Food prices are kept high in the EU to protect farmers,. Mainly french farmers. We can source the stuff we need from other countries at a local cost. Meat from Australia and New Zealand. Grain from Australia or Canada. Fruit from South Africa. As for containers we get loads of them from china. Or should we stop ships from there. Prices may go up a bit when we leave but don't believe the remainers they will soon come down

I dont believe remainers, unfortunately I do the S&OP Financial Planning for one of the worlds biggest suppliers. I can tell you 100%, they are going up.

 

[Barnfred 55]

How will this blockade affect the supply of the vaccine do we think?

RAF on standby

Edit
To airlift the vaccine. Not to bomb the Belgians

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Good prices in the long term will come down that's not even a debate. Food prices are kept high in the EU to protect farmers,. Mainly french farmers. We can source the stuff we need from other countries at a local cost. Meat from Australia and New Zealand. Grain from Australia or Canada. Fruit from South Africa. As for containers we get loads of them from china. Or should we stop ships from there. Prices may go up a bit when we leave but don't believe the remainers they will soon come down

You’re having a bit of a mare here matey

 

[BlueDraka]

It takes 8 weeks to ship a container from China to the UK.

Unless you’re proposing we have greenhouses in the containers I’m not sure how it’s relevant.

In the 70s we got most of the fruit and veg from ships into Liverpool from the canaries. We got our meat from NZ. They were called refrig boats. Technology has vastly improved so it will be fine easily
Most of our fruit and veg is grown artificially in greenhouses in holland. Even now the smart farmers here are copying that. We will be ok. No need for doom and gloom

 

[BlueDraka]

You’re having a bit of a mare here matey

If you say so ha. Peddle yr doom and gloom.

 

[Jebus_lives]

No but they could have like we did

Vaccine approval isn’t quicker because of Brexit – Full Fact

The MHRA could have given the Pfizer vaccine the same emergency approval when the UK was in the EU.

fullfact.org

I don't think Pete understands that Sovereignty means you can do something if you want to, rather than you cannot do something or have to do something, determined by someone else.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Government with their finger on the pulse as always..

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I dont believe remainers, unfortunately I do the S&OP Financial Planning for one of the worlds biggest suppliers. I can tell you 100%, they are going up.

But only for a little bit. Then, and this is non-debatable btw lol They are going to go down and we can all rejoice with our cheap food and less foreign people

 

[BlueDraka]

I dont believe remainers, unfortunately I do the S&OP Financial Planning for one of the worlds biggest suppliers. I can tell you 100%, they are going up.

We will see. In the short term there will probably be price rises. But it will soon sort itself out. Just fed up with the doom and gloom on here.

 

[bluejim95]

But only for a little bit. Then, and this is non-debatable btw lol They are going to go down and we can all rejoice with our cheap food and less foreign people

I would love to think this will happen, experience tells me it will just become the new normal.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

If you say so ha. Peddle yr doom and gloom.

It’s not about doom and gloom though is it. It’s about people proposing genuine concerns, such as the environmental impact of importing all our food from the other side of the country then being told that 1 ship causing less pollution than tonnes of lorries. lol
People are sick of continuously raising valid concerns regarding the implications of Brexit only to be called doom merchants or unpatriotic/undemocratic and that we should all ‘get behind this country to make things work’