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.

Also despising Brexit voters is so narrow minded, makes you not a very nice person so I'm glad you cant get your certain foods!

I am not saying which way I voted but I respect everyone's personal choice!

@Creamsoda77 can you share what is the approved list of foods that we are allowed to be pissed off are not available then please?

Would you like us to send you down food parcels from up north OP? No shortages here (NW).

When and where I grew up salmon was indeed something only rich people ate! That was a very long time ago. (Earl Grey tea was also seen as the height of indulgence). not the point of any of this

What are you putting in the lunch box instead?

[quote checkedcloth]@Creamsoda77 can you share what is the approved list of foods that we are allowed to be pissed off are not available then please?[/quote]
I dont know but nothing surely is that desperate that someone has to be all upset and 'despise' people. I have had no issues with my Lidl shops!

(Earl Grey tea was also seen as the height of indulgence). not the point of any of this

I was looking at the M&S specialist tea the other day to see what was so great about it. It seemed like it was similar to Earl Grey just packaged in a nice red box.

@GlobalForce

What are you putting in the lunch box instead?

Sandwich, fruit, yogurt.

Stop trying to make out I’m some sort of entitled monster for wanting some fucking cocktail sausages

Loads of cocktail sausages in Morrisons

I voted for Brexit.

Yes there are shortages but where I live it's not so bad that we can't cobble a meal together.

Despise me all you wish

I was asking a genuine question.

@checkedcloth
"Stuff for daughters packed lunch
Salmon
Sparkling water
Some ready meals
Tonic water"
Obviously a joke?! Please tell me you're being ironic?!!

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

I voted remain but YABVU to despise 51% of the population. Some of them might actually be nicer, better people than you.

*51% of those who voted.

They may well be better and nicer than me. I just think that is probably pretty unlikely given all I have heard and seen over the past decade.

Directly after the leave vote many EU friends of mine (I was working at a university at the time and so new a lot of foreign nationals) suffered a wide range of abuse by those who claimed to have voted leave. This ranged from simple verbal abuse when on the streets and in shops all the way to criminal damage (smashed windows) and in one case attempted arson (this family, like many others I know have now left the UK after a typically poor police response to these incidents. I have noted a significant rise in the open expression of direct racism since 2016 both in the working class northern community I grew up in and the former coal mining community in the Midlands I now live in (both heavily leave voting areas). These areas both also suffered with a lot of anti-covid issues (such as businesses directly disobeying COVID rules, antivax social media propaganda on local forums) including one very near me involving someone heavily involved in the leave campaign that led to police action.

@FatAnkles

I voted for Brexit.

Yes there are shortages but where I live it's not so bad that we can't cobble a meal together.

Despise me all you wish

And it's that'll 'I'm alright, jack' mentality that pervades this country now. Vile.

Nope not at all. Why would I be? Those are items that pre Brexit I could purchase simply.

It’s pain in the arse that I can’t now.

im intriguded what meals people are planning that they cant get the ingredients for?? Salmon and caviar??

Hello, 'developing world' here.

I'm an expat doing a rather well paid professional job, so very cushioned & in a position to buy whatever I like. Sometimes we can't buy stuff, especially imported stuff, because there are mysterious supply issues.

But generally, if you earn more than 95% of the population, sure, you can have tonic water or heinz beans, but you'll pay 3 times what you would in Europe.

If you can't or don't want to shell out, you'll certainly not go hungry, because the country I live in is self supporting in terms of agriculture. No problems with vegetables, or meat if you know what to do with a scrawny boiling fowl or a chunk of goat.

The uk is not self supporting. It relies in imports of, well, almost everything.

So you guys have a double whammy - shortages of the luxury imported 'nice to have' stuff, which you've come to rely on, & bugger all infrastructure to feed the country on home grown food.

This was not a brilliant move.

@GlobalForce

I was asking a genuine question.

I gave you a genuine answer

And it's that'll 'I'm alright, jack' mentality that pervades this country now. Vile.

Well, tbf, it sounds like the op will muddle through.

@Itinerary

Despise and hate. Because you can't get salmon and sparkling water. Staff shortages I do understand and think much more should be done by the government to sort that out.^ ^ Most people who supported Brexit did so because they genuinely believed it was best for the country's long term future to be independent. There's no point repeating all the extensive arguments yet again, but it was nothing to do with 'passport colours' FGS so let's stop such patronising comments.

Independent? Seriously? Leaving the single market has nothing to do with independence.

There are not too many bare shelves here, it's more the price hikes when I get to the supermarket till

But yeah, freedom.... or whatever.

I haven't really noticed any issues.we are in Sussex and if I can't find something in one shop I usually find it elsewhere or in another branch I visit on my travels.
We are fairly basic though, don't buy ready meals/biscuits/cereal etc. Not noticed any lack of basic ingredients which is the majority of my shopping.

"im intriguded what meals people are planning that they cant get the ingredients for?? Salmon and caviar?"

Humble pie?

Or, she could be sat with her arms folded at the table with just potatoes and green beans crying into the empty space that would have been the salmon?