Brexit now affecting supermarkets?

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Tesco has dropped all 200 of Unilever's brands from store shelves, over a dispute over pricing.

Unilever is blaming Brexit as the reason for wanting a 10% price increase for supply of it's products.

Whereas, MPs are saying Unilever are just using Brexit as a smokescreen to raise prices.

Unilever own some of the biggest brands in the UK - Persil, PG Tips, Dove, Hellmans etc.

And with Tesco's being the UKs biggest supermarket chain, this can't be good (other supermarkets have also said they would drop the brands as opposed to absorbing a price hike).

Do you think Brexit is really now affecting our supermarket shelves?

Sorry for the source (but would imagine it's in others too as heard it on the radio) HERE

I'm glad, we are over reliant on imported food and thus will force us to be more efficient and buy British. With the current global situation I can't believe you're whining about marmite. I don't care if prices go up I believe out of the EU is safer and economically wiser in the long run.

Do you think Britain produces enough for us all to buy British infinitesheldon? I'd be happy to see more of it but am concerned about practicalities.

I believe that we can defeat the old folk on this.

Bollocks to them.

And raid the pensions.

That will sort out Brexit.

They shouldn't have money spent on them anyway.

Leave them to die on trolleys in the car park of the hospital, never mind the beds they block inside.

Bloody nuisance the lot of them.

If they want a peaceful death they can always go to Switzerland!

How's that Infinite? Oh and in case you don't get it I'm being sarcastic.

Off to buy some Marmite whilst I still can!

I live in Scotland. We have another sodding Referendum to look forward to. With all the lies / spin and arguing from all sides that that entails. :(

Hey, Elendon not all of us pensioners voted Leave!
They go on about pensions, but some pensioners are quite wealthy, and I don't think stopping the 'triple lock' would be quite such a vote loser as the politicians think. Especially if this were coupled with increased support for the disabled, I think many pensioners would think that was fair.

Infinatesheldon, read back through the thread, buying British isn't feasible this was pretty much the only point everyone agreed on!
Elendon I thought we agreed poor children and pensioners were to be put to work in the fields?

I'm prepared to throw my elderly mother who voted to remain under a bus. or pay for her ticket to Switerland

That's the stuff! Got three little savages here for the dig for dinner campaign

Pensioners to the fields.

Children up the chimneys.

Just think of all that land surrounding primary schools and private care homes! Get them out to work on the land now! They are after all feeding the nation in a time of great distress and possible nuclear attack.

My dm is getting on a bit,and she voted brexit, where do I apply for her patriot card, she's gonna need those points!

Elenor, we may have hit on a plan to take control of our green and pleasant land!

No way will Europe welcome an independent Scotland as they have already said before the last vote it's too small. if. They were ever accepted they would have to accept the euro. Scotland would sink.

Scottish independence is only high on the agenda in Scotland. Honestly no one else, apart from the queen, cares really.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_statistics

Regarding population, I think you will find that Scotland is not the smallest.

At this point if they want outgo ahead, feel sorry for them having to go through another referendum. But I have to put ns on mute her voice affects me like nails on a blackboard...

'Food prices soaring and the economy tanking but it's all fine and dandy because we can all just gets jobs picking fruit and veg and living off the land. '

Yes, because that worked so well in the past for Britain. Failed harvests = famine.

In no particular order,

Today Waitrose has Helman's mayo on offer, £3 for 800g.

In 2015 I got €1.22 Euros to the £1, for a trip that never happened. Fortunately I was able to use them for a Portugal trip a couple of weeks ago – everyone else was complaining about how expensive everything was.

Did anyone see the report that petrol will soon be £1.20 again?

I voted Remain and just love being able to ask Leavers – did you actually vote for this?

Don't accept the demographic statements of pollsters about the referendum – no evidence, but I know plenty of my age group (free TV licence) who voted Remain and lots of youngsters who voted Leave. Not scientific, but as the 'proper' Pollsters got the last election and the Referendum results wrong, don't see how they can be trusted.

Of six grandchildren in education of appropriate age, five do part time jobs, not sure about the sixth.

Re Scotland being independent - if they left, the United Kingdom would actually cease to exist. Its the United Kingdom which is a member of the EU. I think it would be entirely plausible for Scotland (and maybe Northern Ireland) to seize the 'uk's' membership of the EU.

Could Northern Ireland & Scotland not actually throw England & Wales out? Isn't that equally plausible?

I think the EU will resist Scotland because of other nations' issues with their own separatists, not size.

Spain and France will not want to have to deal with Basques/Catalans etc following in Scotland's footsteps. It's why they were so cold about the last referendum. Hollande and Merkel may back Scotland out of spite, but they won't be around by the time any referendum is held.

Germany must be really gutted. Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal are all iffy economies and the UK was the best ally for free trade and reform.

'Pensioners to the fields.'

Now, now, Andrew, you know they all went through WWII and toiled from toddlerhood all the hours the gods sent for decade upon decade.

My personal favourite is 'They were in the war!' You'd have to be about 90 to have served in WWII. How many are that old? Seriously. My dad is 80 and was only 9 when the war ended.

Re Scotland being independent - if they left, the United Kingdom would actually cease to exist. Its the United Kingdom which is a member of the EU. I think it would be entirely plausible for Scotland (and maybe Northern Ireland) to seize the 'uk's' membership of the EU.

Could Northern Ireland & Scotland not actually throw England & Wales out? Isn't that equally plausible?

No and No.

There is too much of a political problem in that for other EU countries who have separatist movements. They will also certainly block Scotland's entry to the EU at least in the short term.

I live in Scotland. We have another sodding Referendum to look forward to

No you don't. This one has to be approved by Westminster, Sturgeon is throwing her hardliners a bone.

Haha that's the same as my dad Expatinscotland. He was 13 when the war ended. He was in the Korean war doing national service though. Although he spent most of that getting drunk and dating Korean women. As we say to him, "Dad, it's not dating if you're an occupying force!"

But yeah, I'm sick of that argument. Very few people fought in the war for this country and, let's be honest, most pensioners had it good. There's a huge swathe of female pensioners who only worked a couple of years, had kids and then never went back. Why do they get to have a nice big cushy pension? It boils my blood.

I think May is a more sophisticated political operator than Sturgeon anyway. She's already wrapping her up like a kipper.

Fucking referendums who would have them aye.

"I think the EU will resist Scotland because of other nations' issues with their own separatists, not size."
But this is a unique scenario, other countries did not have Brexit.