To despise those that voted for Brexit when I’m doing my weekly shop

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So little stock on the shelves. Makes the weekly shop a complete nightmare as you just cannot meal plan anymore.

I didn’t vote for this absolute shit storm.

@MrsFin

I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with Brexit. Other European countries are having similar problems.

which countries?? please back up your statement with a source

My local supermarket was out of croissants when I did my last order. Quelle horreur, I had toast instead.

Just look at the front benches faces when one of their own calls out food rotting in the fields. I wouldn't pee on Jonson if he was on fire, in fact, I would try and find petrol (but that's probably going to run out next!).

Brexit has ruined this country but its a 2 pronged attack, it wouldn't have been so bad if Corbyn got in to steer us through it and the pandemic

Bollocks to that nonsense though.

[quote checkedcloth]@Booknooks are you suggesting I am lying then?[/quote]
No, I just find it odd that on so many threads it's the only job ever brought up as a gotcha see my opinion is more important, which is statistically fairly unlikely if you view MN as a snapshot of society.

So you're going to hate 52% of the population because you can't get the particular food you want in the shop you usually go to. Despite the fact that the 52% are just as entitled to their opinion as you and I.

I did my weekly shop yesterday and couldn't get bath bubbles in Tesco. I strolled across the road to Wilko and bought them there instead. It's hardly difficult. I could have gone to the £ shop or boots or Superdrug.

You don't think democracy is a bit more important than that? You don't think you might be a little bit of a bad loser?

No shortages in my local supermarkets near Edinburgh. I'm also a nurse in the NHS and can't see any difference to staffing levels pre and post Brexit. None whatsoever. I realise that this may be different in other parts of the country though.

Have there been any positives to Brexit yet? I’ll wait.

Maybe you don't care though, as long as it's cheap
@Notthemessiah

Nope I can afford price rises, unfortunately many others can't. Doesn't make anything any better though does it, earn more but have to spend more...so what is the point of Brexit?

Wages have risen slightly, unfortunately there just isn't the willing workforce.
Schools with no cleaners (my last school cleaners were from Poland), care homes closing their doors, as are cafes and pubs. I've not ever seen so many school,care and hospitality jobs advertised.

So..come on Britain, get applying!
Long distance HGV, gritter drivers (split shift 4.00am - 8.00am and 18.00 until 22.00), care homes, bin wagons, school cleaners (again split shift), hotels, cafes and pubs.
My county will grind to a halt this winter, just without gritter drivers.

Brexit has ruined this country but its a 2 pronged attack, it wouldn't have been so bad if Corbyn got in to steer us through it and the pandemic.

Jeremy Corbyn actually has one supporter then. Who would ever have believed that.

I was looking for some tinned vegetables. What I wanted was not on the shelves, but I noticed the Baked Beans had expanded their area so there were not many gaps in the aisle.

Same in the bakery area. Some Viennoisere missing but gaps filled with extra loaves.

No Blue Cheese dressing, but no space for them.

So remind us please, what are the exact economic benefits of Brexit? www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/trader-blames-brexit-for-soaring-price-of-fish-but-bbc-edits-it-out-290736/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sfeu
Hospitality, drivers, agricultural workers, gone. "red tape" and "unelected bureaucrats" still here, more than ever.

It literally mentions Brexit in the title of that article.

The mental gymnastics that are performed to defend Brexit are mind boggling to the point of impressive. I’d love to see Brexit defending played as a competitive sport

All the people coming on to say 'what about all of these other reasons' - yes, we know, there is a perfect storm of reasons and the whole world is experiencing them. But the UK has it worse, and everything is exacerbated, by Brexit. The rest of the world is reporting on it and we look like idiots, even more so when trying to deny it.

People were happy about brexit when it came to us being able to get the population vaccinated quickly and not having to share.

That would have also been possible within the EU, we could still have made our own decisions and arrangements for vaccines. So if that's the only benefit you are clinging to you are mistaken. Aside from this many EU countries have overtaken the UK with their vaccine rollout.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/55163730.amp

Evidence please

A few posters here have tried to point out how important certain foods and medicines are to people with medical conditions - but people seem to be obsessed with bickering over salmon.
5-8% of children are affected by allergy for example ( this figure excludes intolerance btw, so we are talking fully essential resources for families ) if choice is limited, it can be a very big deal for these people as in bread ( any bloody kind safe, not what shape !) simply not being available at all at any shop.
Medicines even more vital - if you are prescribed medicines and the pharmacies near you can’t fill them - do you know what happens when you ask your GP practice what to do ? For those who don’t know yet, they tell you it’s your problem, keep trying there is nothing they can do.
Even if your child has no medical issues ( I’m pleased for you ) what is going to happen if they get a fairly trivial treatable problem but a few days later you are still phoning round and waiting in line at local pharmacies while it’s getting worse.
The. “ I’m alright Jack pull up the ladder “ view of life might not seem so sweet.

Nappies and sanitary protection were really low in local supermarket this morning. I only went into those two aisles.

@Gwenhwyfar

"I think its lorry drivers and covid rather than brexit."

the lorry driver shortage is because of Brexit.

Really? The issue with lorry drivers has been brewing for some years...all brexit has done is help expose the issue not create them.....its hard work , conditions are shit, and the pay doesnt make up for this.

Why oh why, after 5 years of failure to get any sensible argument for leaving out of a leave voter, do I continue to get involved in these threads.

I need to go back to rolling my eyes and moving on.

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

I've never heard anything so disgusting and utterly entitled in my life. I've just been to Lidl and done a big weekly possibly 2 weekly shop for £22. I bought everything I needed all of the basics. So a few shelves were empty but Im not sleeping on the street or starving like so many people in the world.

What on Earth did you buy? I can’t imagine what could feed even one person for s possibly 2 weeks for £22. Assuming 10 days that’s 73p per meal… And I’m fucking fed up of this ‘you aren’t starving and you have a roof over your head so stop moaning’ excuse. That’s not the fucking point, is it? We are worse off than before brexit. As we said we would be.

Brexit has ruined this country but its a 2 pronged attack, it wouldn't have been so bad if Corbyn got in to steer us through it and the pandemic.

I'm going to be generous and assume this was a tongue-in-cheek, lighthearted comment?

@Mintjulia

So you're going to hate 52% of the population because you can't get the particular food you want in the shop you usually go to. Despite the fact that the 52% are just as entitled to their opinion as you and I.

I did my weekly shop yesterday and couldn't get bath bubbles in Tesco. I strolled across the road to Wilko and bought them there instead. It's hardly difficult. I could have gone to the £ shop or boots or Superdrug.

You don't think democracy is a bit more important than that? You don't think you might be a little bit of a bad loser?

Steady on, 52% of those who voted. Who were told a pile of inaccurate jingoistic nonsense to further the careers of right wing politicians.

You are resentful because the referendum didn't go as you expected OP. Inciting others to 'despise' the majority of the population is spiteful. It's time to exercise some acceptance of others' opinions

BTW, I see no issues with meal planning at all. YABVVU