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

[OutofEverything]

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.

Are you being deliberately obtuse? I meant that she's a rare state school person in a sea of privilege.
Her partner in crime Kwasi Kwarteng...also privately educated .

I think the pp was responding to the original point that if it was a state educated politician there’d be a public enquiry. And then Liz Truss was mentioned as state educated

That's not what I said at all @Greatly. I referred to 1 school: Eton, and 3 specific men who ruined the country: Cameron, Johnson and Rees-Mogg. Who all attended Eton at the same time.

If the 3 people who wrecked the UK had come from a state school, there would be a public enquiry.

I meant the same state school at the same time.

Wanderingowl
You're an adult, presumably, so surely you can read what those articles are actually about? Each and every one of them has a person representing an organisation that grows or supplies fruit and vegetables and is currently requesting extra government financing to cover increased energy prices. Those are campaigning articles. Irish people in Ireland keep on posting on this thread saying we don't have issues

Yes - I can read perfectly well, although I had to translate the customer notice sign on the empty vegetable crates in the Dutch link. Loosely; Dear Customer. The weather is bad in Spain. There are problems with the supply and the quality of peppers, cauliflower, broccoli, beans and iceberg lettuce...

www.freshplaza.com/europe/article/9503487/no-end-to-cauliflower-shortage-in-sight-yet/

The two articles from Ireland (21 Feb) have been superseded by these (25 Feb):
Doesn't sound like 'no issues' to me:

Cold weather in Spain and Morocco has caused problems with the supply of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers across Europe.
An Irish Independent survey of leading supermarkets this week revealed that a number are currently low on stock or without these items.

Supervalu said it is engaging with suppliers after a “shortfall has emerged in the European grocery market with regard to the supply of strawberries, raspberries, peppers and tomatoes”.

Lidl said: “Like all retailers this week, Lidl are experiencing some availability issues with a small number of fruit and vegetable items due to poor weather conditions in Italy and Spain.
“We are working to secure sufficient quantities of stock at present and hope to have full availability of all product lines in the coming days.”

www.independent.ie/irish-news/tomato-shortage-could-last-until-may-due-to-high-energy-costs-irish-shoppers-warned-42358919.html

Rationing move introduced as tomato shortage impacts Irish supermarkets.
Customers in some stores are limited to just two packs of peppers or tomatoes per person due to a shortage caused by poor weather in Spain.

www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41079614.html

Another poster linked to this article from Denmark;
Rema 1000 customers may currently encounter empty vegetable shelves due to cold weather in the Mediterranean region. Here it is in Bredballe near Vejle on Sunday [photo]
In the meantime, Jonas Schrøder from Rema 1000 encourages customers to find "grandmother's kitchen" and remember the season's Danish ingredients.
-There are lots of root vegetables, potatoes, leeks and the like. You can find the soup pot and get the root vegetables going

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/koldt-vejr-i-sydeuropa-giver-mangel-paa-groentsager-i-supermarkeder

www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41079614.html

Liz Truss went to a Grammar School

Liz Truss attended a comprehensive school.

She went to a good state school

She left the school in 1993 - the only inspection report we know about from that era is a 'satisfactory' rating in 1995.

No there wouldn't 😅

Plenty of fresh produce in the Ukraine

We've seen a couple of photographs from a region "famous for its cultivation of fruits and vegetables..." (Kherson)

"Kherson boasts some 2 million hectares of agricultural land — the most in all of Ukraine, and nearly twice as much as in the Netherlands. It should come as no surprise that the first Ukrainian ketchup manufacturer, Chumak, was founded there in 1993..."
www.dw.com/en/kherson-ukraine-battles-to-reclaim-the-gateway-to-crimea/a-63062473

Although Ukraine obviously imports tomatoes from Turkey in the winter as well;
east-fruit.com/en/news/tomato-prices-rise-in-ukraine-due-to-lack-of-imports-from-turkey/

You know when you've been Claved !

Oh I see. It’s imagination that’s is lacking

Here are some tips from the BBC - during the Great Vegetable Shortage^ of 2017* (when we were still in the EU's single market):

Feb 2017 Vegetable shortage: How to cope as supermarkets ration lettuces.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38852000

Lots of imagination here - some interesting (cough, cough) recipes from the Guardian Feb 2017 - Ride out the crisis with homegrown veg...

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/10/britain-vegetable-crisis-courgette-iceburg-lettuce-shortage-supermarkets-brassicas-leeks-root-veg

Perhaps the Guardian will revive their fun photo request from Jan 2017
As Britain struggles through a debilitating lack of courgettes, we want your photos of the lesser-spotted vegetable.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/17/britains-courgette-shortage-have-you-spotted-any-of-the-elusive-veg

Now I need to catch up on Endeavour ...

Still, every cloud...

The food shortages are a result of government policy.

Trashing our supply chains and taking away both farmers seasonal workers and their EU subsidies can only result in food shortages. It's common sense isn't it?

Nor nurses. What we need is...
...drumroll...
...Bankers.🎉🎉🎉🦸‍♂️

Do we have enough yet?🤞🙏

No, it's load of Left Wing nonsense.

Farmers are being squeezed by supermarkets until the (tomato) pips squeak - all because people want cheap food.

As I've said before, farmers get more money growing solar panels, so who can blame them giving the leeks a miss?

You've got to ask yourself some questions @Alittlebitofbreadandsomecheese

Who wants to ban solar panels in fields?

Do the farmers have the workers? Why not?

Do the farmers have their EU Farming subsidies? Why not?

Who talks about a Singapore On Thames economic model for the U.K.?

Does Singapore have a thriving farming Industry?

What did Patrick Minford say about Britain's farming industry after Brexit?

Are any of those people "left wing" ?

Has any of this been done by "left wing" ?

Are any of this countries economic problems caused by "left wing"?

Well i keep reading about this shortage, but at weekend I went to the open market and the salls were full of produce and then yesterday popped into my local supermarket and stocked up on all the fruit and Veg I could fit in my kitchen.

I noticed zero rationing, makes me wonder if much is localised scare mongering.

It is not scare mongering. It does seem to vary around the country though.

Am I going to the wrong places? No tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers where I live. I'm not some spoiled brat, but I eat salad for lunch every day, so turnip won't do.

This is me.

But it's like doctors appointments.

Some people don't understand why other people can't get one because they could when they needed one.

Where are you going? Round here supermarkets and mini-markets are all out but independent greengrocers have salad/tomatoes.

I have to travel across town to get to an independent greengrocer.

Most independent greengrocers have closed a long time ago.

Blimey, this means for me trip to the town, as my very local shop (within 5 miles) is Asda and Lidl.