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.

[quote rollonmatrix]@WoozySnoozy oh god not the fizzy water! How ever will we live. [/quote]
You dont get it, do you.

The fizz in the water is a biproduct of meat packaging

There is now no spare bioproduct

What does that tell you about meat packaging?

[quote vera99]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!).

[/quote] None of them will watch that though. Because if it doesn’t suit their only fall back of calling anyone who thinks Brexit is absurd ‘spoilt’. As if that’s some sort of argument.

Head in the sand, backside in the air spewing forth their ‘opinions’ so loudly that they never have to deal with the catastrophic mess they’ve been a willing part of

I like that he called it a ‘covid recover visa’. Because all the fruit pickers left because of covid. It would be funny if it wasn’t all so sad.

The age of political satire is dead because no one could write anything more far fetched than this absurdity we are all living

OP have you tried telling your daughter she has got her sovereignty back instead of her packed lunch?

@seaandsandcastles

Despise me all you want It’s the best outcome for our country and you’ll see that eventually.

Can you explain exactly how it’ll deliver a great outcome for the country? Greater than not doing it, please. And ideally without making sections of society live in absolute hardship for 50 years (Rees-Mogg’s estimate)

@GlobalForce - Brexit has definitely compounded global issues with regards to shortages in the construction industry.
There is high global demand and disruption from Covid & suez, if you add more barriers to that (the customs issues and lack of drivers) then we won't be at the front of the queue when international companies come to fulfil orders, they can't be bothered with the hassle when they have demand elsewhere. Construction is particularly reliant on international trade and it's causing real pain. We've been told some of the products we used to specify are no longer going to be shipped to the U.K. due to the brexit issues and that we will need to look for alternatives. They don't make alternatives in the U.K. so those products are no longer available to us.

I don’t despise those that voted for Brexit. We had a referendum and there was a result whether you agree with it or not (I don’t btw).
I do despise the politicians who persuaded people to vote for Brexit, I despise those politicians who buggered off leaving this mess (looking at you Cameron and Osborne) but mostly I despise the politicians who could not negotiate a Brexit deal and have left us in this mess; May, Davies, Gove, Johnson at al.

YABU - I had my shopping delivered on Friday, all there including, sparkling water, brocolli, corn on the cob, carrots, plus all the fruit I ordered. The only thing they didn't have was diced root vegetables.

I expect it's regional.

@Yondergoat

Yes totally agree

It was ok to sell out our young people, have crap wages and expensive housing which is partly due to excessive immigration not necessarily from the EU since the 90s

Shortages in the area of the North West I'm in too, lots of gaps and other areas where products have been spread out. I'm not going to starve but I wasn't able get what I wanted this week, or the last few.

It doesn't matter whether the shortages are someone else's ides of a luxury item, an essential or tinned curried unicorn. Millions of people voted for something that has made this country a far worse place for some undefinable bollocks about being great again.

@SilverGlitterBaubles

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

Yes, as an EU member, we could have--just as France, Italy, Germany and The Netherlands intended to do (but as a foursome). But then the EU Commission pressured them not to as it would have been a threat to the Euro Commissions own vaccine programme.

www.politico.eu/article/europe-coronavirus-vaccine-struggle-pfizer-biontech-astrazeneca/

So in theory any EU country could have arranged own vaccines (and subsequently did much later after the Commission's programme failed to deliver) but in practice, at least initially, it was a bit of a no-no.

@RIPIgglePiggle next time I get some quality time with her I’ll be sure to tell her that

Who knows when that will be given our staffing issues…which have been made worse by…..

@rollonmatrix

Oh and another reason why gas prices are rising. The fuel pipe from France to the U.K. had a massive fire... do you think that's down to Brexit? Maybe the French did it on purpose.... 🙃

and pre-brexit the new components needed would already be here, the repairs would have been carried out and the network up and running in one tenth of the time

So yes, very much down to Brexit

@mustlovegin

Salmon Sparkling water Some ready meals Tonic water

If you can afford salmon, sparkling water and ready meals, you are hardly struggling OP. You have a job, you have a lot to be grateful for, actually

Utterly irrelevant that she has a job and likes salmon. We are worse off which is the opposite of what was promised.

Where is her 350 million a week for the NHS she works in?

I think it’s great that truck drivers are being paid more. They shouldn’t be treated as cheap labour.

It’s fucking Salmon - not caviar

It feels like we're going back to the 70s. Things are pretty grim, not only on the food front. I think, with food, you just have to take what's there and try to work round it. We're having to choose alternatives when we visit. I suppose at least it isn't as bad as Soviet Russia. Not yet anyway.

@Alwaystheplusone

Brexit was always going to be a disaster for this country. However, the fire of our anger should be turned on the liars and charlatans who persuaded people to vote for it.

I think this is a cop out. All of the information was out there. If people chose to dismiss the facts, or cba doing any research at all, then it's on them.

And yes @RIPIgglePiggle we could do with that £350 mill a week - would make life ever so slightly easier. Then I’d really get some quality salmon eating time back. Spoilt, entitled, bratty madam that I am.

Never works with those limited to "you lost get over it argument". If they had the critical thinking skills to follow a reasoned logic path like that they would have voted remain. Think of them as a friend who fell in love with a bad person you can't reason them out of it.

Agree with this. We all had access to exactly the same information.

YANBU. Every time I go into the supermarket there is an issue with stock availability on certain things.

I do despise the politicians who persuaded people to vote for Brexit

Voters have eyes to see and assess for themselves what's going on. They were not manipulated or persuaded

@FourTeaFallOut

But the UK has it worse, and everything is exacerbated, by Brexit.

Has it worse than what? Than before? Granted. Than the food prices in other eu countries? Not in my experience.

When there are articles in the foreign press about food shortages in the uk, but no articles about food shortages in other EU countries, then we are probably doing worse irrespective of anecdotal experiences.

@DamnUserName21 Not sure what your point is. Brexit made zero legal difference to the UK vaccination programme, apart from perhaps making a toxic political environment such that:
a) BoJo was keen to make some/any sort of political capital out of Brexit
b) The EU was also keen to show solidarity after Brexit