Where's all the veg.

[Army of stars]

Sitting here watching GMB some supermarkets in the UK are considering rationing vegetables,one of the reasons being "unseasonable weather in Spain and the south of Europe",just wondering why the daily markets here are rammed full of freshly grown produce....are the British public being taken for mugs.

[Vino]

...are the British public being taken for mugs.

We've been taken for mugs for as long as i can remember
Or since they invented the word "Politician".

[paulja]

Sky news said yesterday its only in the UK and gave a couple of reasons.
1. UK supermarkets refusing to pay the increased costs
and
2. Brexit.

They missed yours out. Taken the public for mugs

[Brandyboy]

Maybe because of the supposed weather problems, after looking after it's own people first, there wasn't any left to export to the UK.

Just remember the Blitz and grow your own. I had a big allotment when we lived in Northampton ,although I didn't grow a great deal. It was just and excuse to sit and drink beer with the others ,then shoot down the local greengrocer and buy some Maris Piper potatoes and carrots and stick some earth on them.

[crummy]

Sky news said yesterday its only in the UK and gave a couple of reasons.
1. UK supermarkets refusing to pay the increased costs
and
2. Brexit.

They missed yours out. Taken the public for mugs

The newspapers will tell the UK public anything and they will believe them..

That is why they voted for the golden sunlit uplands of Brexit...

..and strangely, many still believe it..

.

[Bee]

Same problem on Irish news yesterday but there are lots of Irish grown veg so except for things like peppers and aubergines we won't go short.

Bee

[LucindaC]

Didn't see brexit mentioned on the news I saw. Spain got a mention for weather woes as did Africa and then it said that UK crop growers were not producing as much as they couldn't afford to turn the heating on in their agricultural tents. Can't see brexit would be a factor but I suppose some media outlets have their own narrative they try to push on listeners or readers.

[Army of stars]

Didn't see brexit mentioned on the news I Can't see brexit would be a factor but I suppose some media outlets have their own narrative they try to push on listeners or readers.
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Agreed...probably why Farage was on question time over 30 times.

[paulja]

Didn't see brexit mentioned on the news I saw. Spain got a mention for weather woes as did Africa and then it said that UK crop growers were not producing as much as they couldn't afford to turn the heating on in their agricultural tents. Can't see brexit would be a factor but I suppose some media outlets have their own narrative they try to push on listeners or readers.

It stated the more complex supply chains that now exist have also had an effect on imports of said products, that's why there is no significant shortages anywhere else but uk.

And

Independent this morning.

Save British Farming chair Liz Webster said: “The reason that we have food shortages in Britain, and that we don’t have food shortages in Spain – or anywhere else in the European Union – is because of Brexi..

Former Sainsbury’s CEO Justin King also pinned the blame on the UK’s departure from the EU.

“I hate to say it, but it’s a sector that’s been hurt horribly by Brexit,” ” he told LBC.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news ... html%3famp

[Brandyboy]

You couldn't make this stuff up.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ables.html