If freight isn't allowed in from France

[justgeton]

What does this mean for our food chain?!

Bunny and then where does the plane go?

Dig for sovereignty?

@BunnyBoilerRhian

Surely they'll just fly it in. All UK airports are operating with much lower traffic than usual. Might take a day or 2 to reorganise but simpler than in normal times because of reduce passenger traffic. Lots 9f stand space, available for freight.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Ring Boris and tell him your great idea.

A full lockdown now surely. We have to get this under control as soon as we can. In the absence of any other ideas surely there's no choice

Tier 4 plus schools closed for holidays is pretty close to a full lockdown isnt it? What else should close?

@chomalungma

Yes, that will be massive problem. There is nowhere in the U K that fresh vegetables can be grown. There are no fields or land that can sustain any vegetables at all. It's going to be a complete disaster

Maybe we need some kind of a campaign to get people to dig their gardens and public parks to grow vegetables? What could we call it?

Dig for your life.

we have our own vegetables,

Good luck with that. Turnips anyone?

*we have our own vegetables,

Ultimately we could grow our own if we’re ok with cabbages and root veg, but not in time for Christmas.*

I think at this time of year the UK is providing a lot, but possibly not all, of its own cauliflowers, cabbages, parsnips, swedes and leeks. Still a lot of apples, and some carrots I think.

Wave goodbye to the Christmas satsumas, and if you sow some lettuce seeds in compost and grow them on a sunny windowsill, you might be enjoying salad by as early as March

@crackofdoom

48 hours may not sound a lot of time but that could be a number of days of food for certain areas of the country.

I imagine that the knock on effect will last much longer, especially as freight traffic into Dover has been backed up for miles over the last few days anyway.

On a related note, what happens to the poor lorry drivers stuck in Kent? In tier 4. I'm just imagining them all parked up and hungry and not able to go home.

Many people grow veg successfully but myself and many others didn't do so well in march. I ploughed quite a bit of money into tomato stuff and got a small crop, very late September, yielding about 10 tomatoes.

Many other 1st time growers also struggled.

Xmas 😂🎄.

@CoronaIsWatching

We will just have to model our society on the post-war years and look to the 50s for inspiration. Rationing, buying British, good quality clothes made to last, back yard allotments, sensible and functional clothes and hairstyles

😂😂 I've lost the plot so badly I can't even tell anymore what's serious and what isn't. Sensible hairstyles?!

@BunnyBoilerRhian

Surely they'll just fly it in. All UK airports are operating with much lower traffic than usual. Might take a day or 2 to reorganise but simpler than in normal times because of reduce passenger traffic. Lots 9f stand space, available for freight.

Literally thousands of trucks pass through Dover in a day. Replace these with flights? Really?

Maybe we need some kind of a campaign to get people to dig their gardens and public parks to grow vegetables? What could we call it?

Well, the diggers should only be Brexit voters. It would be their patriotic duty.

• On a related note, what happens to the poor lorry drivers stuck in Kent? In tier 4. I'm just imagining them all parked up and hungry and not able to go home. *

This sounds bad, I hope some thought is being given to this.

@RedToothBrush

The UK shouting MUTANT VIRUS in a pandemic is akin to shouting FIRE and pushing the fire alarm and expecting no one to run screaming.

Alex Macheras @AlexInAir
Breaking: Morocco, El Salvador, Romania, join France, Germany, Italy & a long list of countries banning all travel to/from the UK

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has closed its borders to ALL, ending intl travel “due to the #COVID19 mutation found in UK, S Africa & Denmark”

Finland join the long list of countries (including Italy, Germany, France, Kuwait, Turkey, Morocco, Austria & many others in banning all travel to/from the UK because of a new strain of #COVID19 spreading across Britain

emily m @maitlis
“Banned from El Salvador ..”

Damn that EU conspiracy is contagious.

“due to the #COVID19 mutation found in UK, S Africa & Denmark”

Is this the same strain as caused the rising zombie mink dead? I thought it wasn’t

If so we’re fucked, that affects the spike protein.

Jesus, talk about making yourself persona non grata.

Hope you all like kale.

@forwardsbackwardsrebound

Sensible hairstyles has made me laugh.

Thank you.

Fuckingcrustybread- if you know of any good vegetable varieties that can go from sowing to harvest in a couple of days in midwinter please tell me because I hate having to wait for six months!

Erm...cress?

@PicsInRed

Road freight from the UK into France is prohibited due to the person accompanying it. It seems that the issue for the UK is that EU truckies could technically drive freight to the UK, but then would not be allowed back again and therefore road freight into the UK is effectively also prohibited. Therefore, no freight will enter the UK by road for 48 hours.

What strain does Macron have?

I don’t get this. It is perfectly normal for trailers to be dropped at a port by one lorry, shipped unaccompanied, and picked up by a lorry the other side.

That’s what happened in the horrific case where 39 Vietnamese migrants died.

I am not sure whether Dover has the facilities for unaccompanied trailers to be picked up, but Purfleet from Zeebrugge does.

@xmasfairybuns Thank you for making me laugh in a very bleak moment.

On a related note, what happens to the poor lorry drivers stuck in Kent? In tier 4.
I'm just imagining them all parked up and hungry and not able to go home.
That's what I was wondering and well as where do they go to the loo

@Haffiana

Maybe we need some kind of a campaign to get people to dig their gardens and public parks to grow vegetables? What could we call it?

Well, the diggers should only be Brexit voters. It would be their patriotic duty.

The Khmer Rouge called it Year Zero iirc.

Serfs, back to the land to grub for turnips.

Does anyone else feel like they are starring in a low budget zombie apocalypse movie? It’s all very surreal.

I’m freaking out a little bit

Erm...cress?

I'm just imagining excited kids hands discovering a handful of cress at the bottom of stocking 😂