I am so fed up of a lack of food in shops.

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This has been going on for a few years but is only getting worse. I had to go to 3 supermarkets before I found some eggs. No lettuce at all, a few packs of salad tomatoes available in one supermarket, loads of empty spaces in the fruit and veg section, and in ASDA even the freezers had loads of empty spaces.

Before anyone says yes I know we will not starve, there is enough actual food. But a visit to a supermarket now is a lottery about what will be available and what is missing. And more and more I am having to visit multiple shops to get absolute basics.

Petition and avoid the supermarkets and buy from independent greengrocers, it's really straightforward.

Amen sister, and their ERG headbanger cronies are still running the country.
It boggles the mind how Therese Coffey gets a senior job anywhere let alone at the highest level of government. They are laughing at us and not even bothering to hide it now.
The level of ignorance, apathy and incompetence is staggering.

This obsession with WW2 is incredible. In a country where almost no one alive actually remembers it.
The xenophobic flag-shagging whenever there's a football match against Germany. It's infantile and as a country we need to grow up.

I saw this yesterday on FB from a local independent grocer.

Another good reason to support independent shops if you can.

You are obviously no true Englishwoman! The match against Germany is a tradition, a bit of friendly rivalry. They love it just as much as us 😂

@beguilingeyes I do find the obsession with WW2 pretty staggering. My hope is that there is a whole new generation of voters who are more politically aware and less influenced by the obsessions of their grandparents and our mainstream media.

The days of the one-stop shop seem to be over, as you need to trawl around a succession of shops and supermarkets to find even staples: Tesco has no bread, Morrisons has no milk, etc. It reminds me of my mother's tales of shopping in the days of rationing.

Brexit

Around here our locals shops and Waitrose of plenty of food. Salad crops, tomatoes have suffered in the extreme cold in the whole of Europe as well as the UK and UK glass house growers can’t afford to heat glasshouses due to the Ukraine war pushing up fuel costs. All my plants in my small veg patch died due to cold.

All the people going ‘we have no shortage in London so it’s ok’ or ‘I don’t eat salad so it’s ok’ or ‘I get my eggs from my free roaming chickens so it’s ok’ are massively missing the point of the post. There are shortages of common fruit and veg that many many people eat and which are out of season in the uk but have been readily available for decades. Perhaps the fact that this appears not to be a problem in London is another issue in itself? Why not? Why just a problem in the ‘provinces’ where there was not a single tomato or cucumber in my local supermarkets this week from Aldi to Waitrose?

I didn't mean the supporters so much as the Tabloid Press who get unpleasantly jingoistic at any excuse.

The weather, war, bird-flu, Brexit, etc. are all transient conditions. Even with all of them coming together they are not enough to cause the persistent issues we have seen around us for several years now. There are issues not just in food, but in all sorts of difficulties and problems throughout the economies of most countries around the world.

What we are being told is partial truth; we are not being told everything in order to "mange public reaction" or some such reason.

The root cause is the underlying energy crisis. Google "peak oil" and start studying.

These food shortages are not transient but are here to stay.

71% of UK land area is used for agricultural production. The problem is the majority of this being grassland for grazing rather than crops. With concerns for the availability for labour for harvests, agricultural land is moving to grassland resulting in a decreasing supply of fruit and vegetables.

Just been shopping in sainsburys in North West London and all the shelves are completely full of fruit/veg/eggs etc, not a single empty space 🤔

YAWWNNNNN. How do you explain the food shortages in loads of other countries then? Is that Brexit too? You lost. Deal with it. You can't be butthurt til the end of time ya know.

They dont,not even ukraine?

Whether it's actually a result of brexit or not barely matters at this point. It's all part of the post-brexit landscape and bby simple osmosis will make the enterprise even more unpopular.

True re the mentality

I’m in London and haven’t come across it, which I think is particularly worrying tbh - that there’s so much difference across different parts of the country.

I do also think it’s very weird and concerning when some people are gleeful about it.

What I think is disturbing is why this has come about - the harm we’ve inflicted on ourselves by Brexit.

Im a bit relaxed about not getting the exact things I need personally- and as we never had decent tomatoes readily available here anyway, I’m not very worried about those - but it’s the reasons why it’s happening that really bother me.

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No, YOU lost. Has the penny really not dropped yet?

There's 60million people (approximately) in this country - there shouldn't be labour shortages! What there is, is lack of decent wages, investment in training etc.

Then you have people like Therese Coffey banging on that people should just work harder or eat cake turnips - some Tories won't be happy until workhouses are back! The truth is, they've mismanaged the country and failed to prepare for entirely predictable situations or have any contingency plans for those situations which were not.
Our government are probably the most expensively educated people in the country, yet they have been completely incompetent at their jobs.

Stop spreading misinformation. The colder weather hasnt affected salad crops in any country in Europe…never mind EU….we are the only country. Ireland has full supplies…delivered on ships and planes…how come? Our suppliers in the EU are no longer willing to put their lorry drivers through 78 hours of waiting at ports for endless paper work. Most of our tomatoes came from Holland…they have a huge excess…the ones we used to have….but their drivers get paid per job…not per hour…so they wont drive to the UK. BREXIT is the reason. Every single supermarket boss bears this out.

@Solonge

WRONG ^ As you were....

Also @sixfoot WRONG! As you were...