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

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OutofEverything · 23/02/2023 00:51

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.

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Alittlebitofbreadandsomecheese · 05/03/2023 14:16

verdantverdure · 04/03/2023 20:31

Probably @TooBigForMyBoots

I know people who have applied for a passport or kept up their driving licence in order to be able to vote for the Tories who are the very people who took their vote away from them unless they had an approved form of photo ID.

Don't these people have a bus pass? It's far cheaper.

All the rest of the EU requires voter identification at the polls. NI has had it for years.

I thought the Labour Luvvies wanted to be more aligned with the EU, or is that only when it suits ?

verdantverdure · 05/03/2023 14:23

MarshaBradyo · 05/03/2023 12:15

Some seem to think Labour will just u turn on it.

But I doubt it.

The country is doing a U turn on Brexit.

Soon you won't be able to get elected unless you plan to reverse Brexit.

Jellycatspyjamas · 05/03/2023 14:34

Why should people have to give up a normal British way of life and just make do with whatever is available instead.

It wasn’t always a normal British way of life though, people used to eat seasonally - salads in summer and soups in winter. It’s a fairly privileged way of life to have access to any fruit or vegetable all year round, flown in from whatever country it’s growing in. There’s no real deprivation in adjusting your diet to suit what’s available year round instead of relying on mass grown, forced produce.

verdantverdure · 05/03/2023 14:52

Jellycatspyjamas · 05/03/2023 14:34

Why should people have to give up a normal British way of life and just make do with whatever is available instead.

It wasn’t always a normal British way of life though, people used to eat seasonally - salads in summer and soups in winter. It’s a fairly privileged way of life to have access to any fruit or vegetable all year round, flown in from whatever country it’s growing in. There’s no real deprivation in adjusting your diet to suit what’s available year round instead of relying on mass grown, forced produce.

I've never known any other way of life.

It's not privileged. It's normal.

Why shouldn't British people be able to have the same as any other G20 country? Or European country?

If Ukraine and Bosnia ad Herzegovina can, why not Britain?

TooBigForMyBoots · 05/03/2023 16:26

verdantverdure · 05/03/2023 14:23

The country is doing a U turn on Brexit.

Soon you won't be able to get elected unless you plan to reverse Brexit.

And that's what needs to happen. Brexit was not just damaging to our economy, it was toxic to British society.

Alittlebitofbreadandsomecheese · 05/03/2023 16:27

verdantverdure · 05/03/2023 14:52

I've never known any other way of life.

It's not privileged. It's normal.

Why shouldn't British people be able to have the same as any other G20 country? Or European country?

If Ukraine and Bosnia ad Herzegovina can, why not Britain?

The supermarkets are squeezing the farmers.

inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/mounting-crisis-facing-farmers-make-food-shortages-worse-2089481

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