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

But it should be obvious to the densest hair-flicker that this is not legitimised by the leave vote, nor are all leave voters racists. There will be racists who voted remain.

Alas, no. While you're likely to be correct that out of a group of 16 million people, some of them are bound to be racists, the problem the Leave campaign has is that while clearly not all Leave voters are knuckle dragging racists, if you're a knuckle dragging racist you're likely to have voted Leave. Because they were telling you more of what you want to hear than Remain. And if you think there's an explanation for the upsurge in racist incidents this year that isn't the referendum, you're going to need to tell us why. Rather than try and distract from the issue with remarks about hair flicking.

I was on a leave page on FB and they stated that they voted to leave the EU, but they didn't vote to leave the single market... facepalm

See, I actually get that. Wanting to leave the EU but remain in the single market is a common enough view. There were plenty of Leave campaigners and voters who wanted this. Perhaps not a majority of them, but I don't think it's a particularly out there desire. The problem is that they're not making themselves heard now: because if there's one thing that's very clear, it's that there's no majority for hard Brexit.

I remember when France took the euro, and the prices went up by 10% ish, because they could. Not just on food, every business was covertly upping prices hiding behind a new currency.

I remember when the UK currency went decimal. Prices went up by more than 10% because every business was covertly upping prices hiding behind the new denominations of money. The first steps towards introducing decimal currency happened during the 1960s. This was when de Gaulle was saying 'Non' to the UK entry into the EEC.

I work in a pro-Brexit area with a lot of people who voted Leave. They are not stupid, not racist and have clear and well-thought out views of why they voted as they did which they are happy to discuss when asked. They have all been very clear that they expect to have to make some sacrifices in the short or medium term but are prepared to do that because they do think it will be worth it.

I agree that the attitude on MN is not conducive to discussion as any Leavers who have been brave enough to post have had their thoughts pulled apart and rubbished rather than healthily discussed. I don't think any of my colleagues would venture in here!

I'm only just catching up on this thread so apologies if this has been said. Do the Remainers believe the EU will continue as it is without the UK in it even if the right wing parties get in in France/Germany etc?

I agree that the attitude on MN is not conducive to discussion as any Leavers who have been brave enough to post have had their thoughts pulled apart and rubbished rather than healthily discussed. I don't think any of my colleagues would venture in here!

The problem with that perspective is that it seems to blame Remain voters for lack of sensible and constructive discussion, when in fact the standard of posting from our Leave camp has been almost uniformly shit. Not entirely, but mainly. One cannot make a silk purse from a pig's ear.

To my certain knowledge there are at least five very intelligent Leave voters in the country, one quite extraordinarily so in fact. And there are sensible arguments to be made in favour of Leave. We've just not been treated to many on here. The NI thread in the referendum section was, unsurprisingly given that Leave don't give a fuck about NI, a particular lowlight. But we've not had much better elsewhere. Either the MN Leave massive are hiding their collective light under a bushel, or they're not actually capable of producing anything conducive to healthy discussion.

The Leave campaign reminds me of the ad for Fox News in The Simpsons - "Not racist, but No. 1 with racists"

HF - referring to these so-called great reasons for Brexit - so why don't you spit them out here?! Only happy to share them in your pro Brexit vacuum/majority?!
Meanwhile reports in the last couple of days Brirish veg industry and NHS relies on the work of our EU immigrant population, unsustainable without them.

British

Ps maybe the reasons are rubbished and pulled apart because they are...rubbish and easy to pull apart?!

Pro-Brexit vacuum? Have a read of my post again...

Calm down blueink, I get that you're upset but I think you have the wrong end of HF's stick.

Just looping back to where this thread began, to link another that is in 'Active' today:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/craicnet/2755565-Now-its-the-Irish-supermarkets-vs-Unilever

Unilever are seeking a 19% price rise in a country that is continuing in EU and which uses the Euro.

Strikes me that this is an example of 'Brexit' being used as a slogan/excuse/cover story for something they were going to do anyhow, rather than it being a real reason.

Apologies HF my comments were not meant as a response to your post but to Prociverous

Pis not Pos

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2016/jun/22/will-brexit-take-the-nhs-to-breaking-point-cartoon

This has nothing to do with Tesco and Unilever but as this thread has gone a little off track. I am a Scot living in Oxford due to family circumstances and twice I have been told to b / f** off home as I am not welcome in England any more. Nice behaviour from those who voted to leave. Although not all leave voters are ignorant nor racist by voting the way you did you gave a mandate to those who are and effectively told them they can now behave in a certain way to those with a non-English accent. And I don't even have the joy of a marmite sandwich with a cup of PG tips tea to comfort me.