Just watched the BBC news Oh no, no more lettuce from Spain after brexit how will we survive
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Maybe those supermarkets moaning about the lack of fresh produce coming in from Europe will now look closer to home and buy British produce thus helping our own growers and farmers. Just a thought.
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Oh Cliff... British farming has been integrated with Europe over decades. It will take a long time & a LOT of money to get the UK anywhere close to self-sufficient. That's for the things we CAN grow of course. Thankfully Brexit has all been carefully planned hasn't it?
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In Ipswich we’re getting up and running with tomato production. 50,000 vine tomatoes a week. Farming feature: Giant new glasshouse operation at Ipswich gets ready for arrival of first tomato plants https://www.eadt.co.uk//business/farming/blakenham-nursery-prepares-for-first-tomato-plants-1-5804483?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social_Icon&utm_campaign=in_article_social_icons …
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Excellent, well done, but 50,000 = less than one tomato a week for one in a thousand people in the UK. Still a bit of a shortfall, no?
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Yes, but this is the future of growing tomatoes in the UK and hopefully other hydroponic systems will emerge. However, I’m not sure why anyone thinks that Spain are going to stop selling their tomatoes to UK customers - that’s a lot of fruit to be stuck with.
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The Spanish have plenty of other buyers for their food. In Brexit Britain the prices will rise and the supply will be limited. I'm sure you voted for this.
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I dislike many of the tomatoes that come in from abroad. Many are grown for their ability to travel i.e. hard and tasteless - probably picked months before consumption. Not eating a tomato in the winter isn’t on my list of ‘how to recognise Armageddon when it arrives’.


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What are you most looking forward too?
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Making loads of cash hedging the pound, becoming a tax haven and eating plastic cheese
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Taking back control of our laws, our borders and our money
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Rationing, Dunkirk spirit, rat kebabs
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i didn't fight in two world wars to have oiks like you telling me i'm not allowed to properly taste my brexit.
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The greatest irritation about all this two world wars bollocks is that anyone with any semblance of knowledge understands that The Allies won those wars, not Britain. Groups of countries working together for a common goal. Imagine...
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Please send an updated one of those on Friday, Julia. It will look even better then.
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Who employs this person? What exactly is her job description?
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She’s someone who speaks up for Leave voters. You know the same people in your constituency who voted overwhelmingly to Leave but who’s views you have totally disregarded She’s that person
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All the remoaners wishing for our country to fail once we leave - saying what may go wrong, but if things do go wrong it’ll likely be because they decided to divide the UK and not stand with the majority! And they have the audacity to tell leave voters that it’ll be our fault!
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Nonsense. We’ll be blaming you because you cheer-led for this catastrophe.
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Exactly my point! You’re already labelling it a catastrophe! Successful outcomes didn’t become successful because the creator sat back & let it just happen! You have to work hard for great things, but when people like you give up then you help it fail - just to say I told you so!
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Why should those who wish to remain work hard to sort out the mess those who wanted to leave created? The country is divided, noone has a clue what's going on and from the promises of 2 years ago martial law is now 'possible'. You wanted it, you asked for it, you deal with it.
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We asked to leave! This is the mess of May (a remainer) and the remoaners who don’t believe in democracy dragging their heels! We haven’t even left yet so which mess is it you feel the need to sort out?
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Davis (a leaver) was brexit secretary for two years and managed to come up with f**k all, May's deal is bad but at least she managed to come up with one.
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