Chomper Higgot

Bad weather in Morocco causes shortages in the ‘food market’, therefore suppliers focus on their nearest and lowest cost customers. The UK’s post Brexit trade barriers make supplying the UK the least best option for EU suppliers v supplying within the EU. UK suppliers would like to supply the shortfall, but they don’t have the workers to do so. Oops!

Morocco has a trade agree with the EU facilitating trade between Morocco and the EU. Which is the nearer, easier and faster trade partner for Morocco, the EU or the UK? https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/content/eu-morocco-association-agreement

Yes, so once again for your sake. A food supplier in Europe has a reduced stock of product. Does he ship it to customers within the zero tariff free trade area of the EU, or does he ship it through expensive and time consuming trade barriers to the UK?

Not quite the whole story. Why bother delivering to the UK when there are trade barriers in the way? If a product is in short supply, feed it to the easy access market and disregard the market that has trade barriers.

Enjoy: https://www.nationalworld.com/money/food-shortages-hit-uk-supermarkets-again-as-fears-grow-toilet-paper-shortages-could-follow-in-may-heres-why-4117113

More whataboutary, the subject is not modern slavery. But please do request a thread on the subject.

I’ve just had a reminder of Brexit failure this morning. I went shopping at Tesco, only to find a drastically reduced stock range and some of the items I want not available. I need now to go to an alternative supermarket to hopefully complete my shopping. A reminder millions of shoppers (sometimes known as voters) get to experience every week.

Oddly no refuting any of the statements I made in the post you kind of responded to.

Want to? Still applicable within the EU?

Since you asked: https://www.politico.eu/article/15-things-uk-vote-leave-promised-on-brexit-and-what-it-got/amp/

Complete whataboutary.

You forgot. Brexiteers can have their cake and eat it.

Nobody, the Tories lost control of the borders. Brexit removed the UK from the Dublin agreement and from cross border immigration controls with EU nations.

I’ve just checked the three supermarkets in the town I’m in, Tesco, Morison, Aldi. None have vacancies. The nearest hospital is 27 miles away, there is no public transport between here and walking distance of the hospital that would get anyone to work or home for night and evening shifts. The nearest Amazon warehouse is 55 miles away. There are however hundreds of seasonal jobs in farming, but employment among the young fit people in this area who can do these jobs is near 100%, perhaps you could commute.

Looks like you are trying to avoid points of discussion you can’t deal with.

The current gap between worker incomes and the cost of living has been growing since the Tories took office, exponentially so since Brexit.

But the worker shortage that is driving up food inflation is on farms and in food processing factories, not located in rural areas. Nobody is arguing there aren’t job’s available, the issue is there are job vacancies but nobody to fill those job vacancies, either through a lack of skills, not living in the areas where the jobs are or not fit and able to do the jobs.

The rates of pay were very acceptable to EU workers from eastern EU nations. Until they were no longer welcome to come and do this vital work.

Oddly there wasn’t a plan. Nobody on the Leave side of the argument ever presented any plan. All arguments against Brexit were filed under ‘Project Fear’. And yet here it is, ‘Brexit has failed’.

To quote a lady, ‘we’ll he would say that wouldn’t he’. Tacopina is playing to and audience of one. Well, perhaps two.

Good luck with that.

And now the judge knows too.

It’s not simply ‘fruit’ it’s the far more impactful vegetables and food processing.

There are tapes, I suggest you take time to give them a watch.

And O Lordy, there are tapes, video tapes and millions of witnesses.