Long-ish read following several chats with Tory backbenchers this week. Increasing numbers numbers are considering a no-deal Brexit as a viable 'plan B'.https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/increasing-number-of-tory-mps-considering-no-deal-brexit-as-a-viable-plan-b_uk_5c2f6bbce4b0407e908ad874?3k …
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Serving minister says he would “probably agree” that more Tory MPs are beginning to consider no deal as an option, but cautioned: “It’s whether MPs as a whole would ever allow that to happen.”
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@sarahwollaston is clear: “No deal doesn’t have majority support in Parliament. “If it became the main government policy objective for Brexit then I and many colleagues would resign the party whip.”Show this thread
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I don't remember seeing say goodbye to bananas and tomatoes on the side of a bus
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And the rest of the time we'll live off turnips?
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Don't forget the beautiful British cabbage - watch out for my forthcoming bestseller, "101 exciting things to do with turnips and cabbage"
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I'm sure that Chris Grayling will be happy to pay you a substantial advance
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It's not though. I voted Remain. Everyone who voted Remain shares ABSOLUTELY NO responsibility for what Leave are doing. Quite the contrary, we're the ones who will have to fix it. Because anyone who voted Leave should never have any position of responsibility ever again after.
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I thought you folks were all about taking personal responsibility? How am I being sanctimonious? Odious, sure. C**t, sure. But sanctimonious? Words have meanings, Charles.
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We’re going to need a bigger bus!
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We certainly are. £39 billion. March 29th 2019 to December 31st 2020 is 21 months or about £465 million a week

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Cost to the economy of no deal £140bn - after saving costs of transition! We can all bandy numbers about James but you have to give both sides of the ledger! We’ll have shortages of foods like tomatoes & bananas but instead we will get.....help me out here
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At least the bananas we won’t have will still be bendy?
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And blue passports, and the 50p Brexit coin. Don’t forget them.
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Except that following no deal, 50p will have about the purchasing power that 3p has now.
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If you’re lucky...!!!
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The period between March and May is known in the trade as the Hungry Gap. It’s called that because we’ve exhausted the stored veg and there is little that grows to maturity. So Brexit coincides nicely when we get the bulk of fresh produce from Spain and the Netherlands.
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Absolutely correct David . Carrots, for example come from Spain during April & May . Mid - end of May onwards they are sourced from France. Home grown is not available until June/ July depending on weather .
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Ever heard of cold storage, UK is 97% self sufficient in carrots
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Do tell, Joanne of your vast experience of keeping the nation supplied with fruit and veg on an industrial scale. There’s plenty from those that do in Select Committee evidence if you can be bothered to read it. It is Spanish Dan’s day job. You?
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There’s a reason why people for whom this is a day job called maintaining the supply in a “very vulnerable” food chain supply is a national security issue. Hence me having zero time for lightweights referring to carrots.
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fresh produce is reliant on JIT. Cauliflowers for example are loaded in the afternoon in Brittany on day1 and need to be in Northern markets by 0300hrs on day 3. Any delays and the whole food chain is screwed.
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This is right. I do IT for a supermarket so I’m not an expert but I know the basics. Produce is is not stocked. It arrives in distribution depots in the evening to be in store the following morning.
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