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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46217 Location: yes
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 23 11:56 am Post subject: |
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some relevant btl thoughts
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CaressOfSteel
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20 minutes ago
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Running out of salad is inconvenient and embarrassing for Brexit Britain, but it should be ringing food security alarm bells with everyone.
In the event of shortages, domestic supply will always be met before food is exported. Governments will not allow food to be exported while their own people go hungry.
Now imagine a simultaneous failure of the cereal crops in Europe, North America and Australia. With repeated droughts and other climate-related disasters this is actually quite likely to happen in the next 20 years.
Britain barely produces 50% of the food required to feed its population in a good year. It hasn't produced enough food to actually feed all of its citizens since the mid-1800s.
The EU has an annual agricultural surplus of €347 billion, the USA and Canada have a surplus of $20 billion and Australia produces nearly three times as much food as it consumes. Because of Brexit, the UK is uniquely exposed to this potentially catastrophic risk.
Awang86
Awang86
CaressOfSteel
18 minutes ago
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I completely agree with you. Seems like the UK is going to experience what it did to Ireland, India and a plethora of other countries on this planet
blutgraetsche
blutgraetsche
CaressOfSteel
16 minutes ago
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The EU's CAP exists for that very reason first and foremost - food security, which is much easier to achieve in cooperation with others, especially when you're an island that can not feed itself for hundreds of years.
But the whining and bickering about CAP was nowhere louder than in the UK.
Enjoy the Brexit, Sir. |
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Mistress Rose
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Ty Gwyn
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dpack
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dpack
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gz
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 23 10:19 am Post subject: |
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dont be too harsh on thatcher, she was a puppet, she did not even know she was until maurice explained it to her with 7 bullet points , handwritten on one sheet of foolscap, during a near silent 45 minute one to one and the walls meeting
parts of that covered why somebody like her was picked as a potential mp, how she got the opportunity* to be nominated/elected as a mp, why she was fast tracked to leadership and what she was fronting and for who once in power
she thought she was a patriot, nah, she and her handlers were angleton's puppets in the strategy of domestic tensions to ensure airstrip one was subservient and willing to be a primary nuke target
*that bit is pretty funny unless you were the incumbent mp that courtney entrapped with a gay hussar
a distraction from the food issues, but in some ways relevant, if only as an example of looking behind the curtain providing a different perspective
back to food, the supply chain does need to allow for a sustainable farm gate price as well as logistics/retail costs and punters who can afford the products
i notice lord sainsbury of the aisles has decided to pony up £2 mil to the labour party |
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