Oh no!! Brexit not going quite as well as hoped

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Ian H

Ian H

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the snail said:
Perhaps they'll bring back Babycham, that would be in tune with the back-to-the-seventies theme?
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It hasn't gone away. Brothers Cider, around the corner from the original Showerings factory and run by the grandsons of the inventor of Babycham, have managed to buy the brand back.
 
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mudsticks

mudsticks

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mjr said:
I think that blame is misplaced. In most products, there is practically no choice of provenance. Yesterday in Morrison's (tempted back through the door after nearly 2 years by a big discount voucher), the choice of honey was between 4 or 5 brands of "blend of non-EU honey" and one NZ manuka. Nothing even UK, let alone local. Flour? French or Canadian.

The Lowest Common Denominator approach of chain store buyers means consumers aren't being given much choice on provenance unless they're willing to become hippie quaxers trundling around the farms, windmills and small local produce shops, and that doesn't really fit with many 9-5er lifestyles. Working from home hasn't yet brought sufficient flexitime to allow weekday daytime shopping.

I feel the best chance of breaking this choice-of-no-choice oligopoly of the big chains is probably the 20-minute neighbourhood concept but Brexit moved us away from that with the funds replacing the Regional Development Fund being smaller and aimed at more stabilisation/rearguard action and less social change.
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Adjusting the food system to make it fairer, healthier, more nutritious, secure, socially equitable, and environmentally benign is very complicated

There is no one solution

Many organisations, local, regional, national, and global are working on it.

But greater consumer awareness, and use of purchasing power where possible, is one part of a very big puzzle.

It's heartening to see so many more consumers waking up to the significance of all this, after it being sidelined for so long.
 
Fab Foodie

Fab Foodie

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From the gruans comments section....

Natalie Elphicke is, indeed, catatonically stupid. But, to be fair, let’s not forget that she is also narrow-minded, mean and nasty.

To paraphrase her famous tweet to Marcus Rashford, “Would it be ungenerous to say Natalie should have spent more time perfecting her knowledge of the implications of the Brexit agreement and less time playing petty politics.”
 
Unkraut

Unkraut

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Fab Foodie said:
Natalie Elphicke is, indeed, catatonically stupid. But, to be fair, let’s not forget that she is also narrow-minded, mean and nasty.
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I find her blaming the EU for the consequences of leaving the block more than a bit frightening. What dire policy decisions could be made based on living in such a make-believe world. If you take back control you take back responsibility.

The news tonight had a short piece on how Brexit has not yet worked out as its promoters promised, with pictures of long queues of lorries at Dover. It then had a short bit on Boris who is threatening to trigger Article 16 if things don't improve. That strikes me as beyond folly. I wonder if he and his supporters are still actually angling for the whole deal to be made void, and have the 'freedom' of a no deal Brexit.
 
Xipe Totec

Xipe Totec

Something nasty in the woodshed
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Fab Foodie

Fab Foodie

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Xipe Totec said:
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JET would be better at helping with the current state of Con-fusion...
 
Unkraut

Unkraut

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For any Michael Dougan fans he has recently done another discussion on how Brexit is working out. For someone who actually reads all the legislation his input is always worth listening to.

I know none of us is getting younger, but I can't help but notice Dougan has aged over the last few years. It must be a strain and galling to be confronted daily with so much inexcusable ignorance as displayed by Johnson and his government.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMTwho-AW9Y
 
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