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Try to avoid buying any thing made in France

worked for an old boy years ago who absolutely refused to buy anything made in Japan

even fell out with his son who bought a Honda car

he was one of the soldiers who liberated brits from Japanese pow
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Mottie said:
Over half our veg comes from less than a mile away. Greens, potatoes - new, early and late, salad, cauliflowers, courgettes, sprouts, carrots, tomatoes, asparagus, onions, garlic, peas, beetroot, runner and French beans, kale, sweetcorn, apples, pears, leeks, radish, rhubarb, raspberries, strawberries, assorted herbs. All in season and organic too. Tastes better than anything in the shops. No doubt you will either better or rubbish that. :rolleyes:
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And yet you said..

"Maybe, but a quick look in my fridge shows Apricots, grapes and nectarines from South Africa, a net of garlic from China, carrots from Northern Ireland, parsnips from the UK, potatoes from Egypt, strawberry’s and rosemary from Ethiopia, Basil from Kenya, dates from Tunisia, bananas from Columbia, apples from New Zealand, tomatoes from Senegal, oranges from Chile and broccoli from Scotland. There is literally no fresh fruit and veg from the EU in my fridge apart from a pack of lemons. Safe to say I’ll not be lacking in fruit and veg if we have a hard Brexit. Next!"

Well I guess the other half is flown in from all around the world then...

And btw you said, 'There is literally no fresh fruit and veg from the EU in my fridge apart from a pack of lemons ' in 2019...

What about the food in your cupboards?

And wasn't the UK still in the EU back then?

Or were you an early adopter of a boycott of mainland European goods but were a bit too dumb to realise where your food actually came from?

And just out of interest, from where will you be buying your food from when you are able to get back to your European villa?

Edit: Anyone who puts all that fruit from wherever it came from in a fridge (grapes and strawberries excepted) really doesn't have a clue!
 
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This is, predictably, deteriorating into a list of extreme examples.
The facts of the matter are that we, the UK, can be viewed financially as the equivalent of a domestic budget.
Each month we earn some cash from the stuff we sell to Johnny Foreigner (the the whole of Abroadland).
Each month we buy stuff from home and from Abroadland.
If we send more wonga abroad than we receive from abroad, our stash gets smaller, and eventually falls to nil.
If we want to continue to spend more on Foreign goods (and services, etc) we have to top up our stash by borrowing.
If we borrow, and borrow, and borrow more then we will spend more and more each month on interest payments, leaving less for us....

What do we do then? The usual household response is to rein-in the spending ie get the budget under control. Coincidentally this is just what Governments do; they increase taxes to pay the extra interest, and they increase interest rates to make the Pound more valuable (thus using fewer Pounds to pay that darned interest to Johnny Foreigner Bank). Higher interest rates mean we, the populus, pay more of our wonga to the Banks so we have less for ourselves, and we pay that extra tax, so we have less for ourselves....can you see a theme here?
Businesses pay more of their earnings on tax and interest, and have less for investment, and that translates into fewer jobs in Britain.
Fewer jobs means higher unemployment, that is more people drawing from the system and fewer paying into it. The Gov.t raises the extra benefits money by increasing taxes for those still in work (or cutting public spending, or both). Thus we all have less left at the end of the month, ie we're poorer.

The result of having less for ourselves is that we (as a nation) get poorer.
Think about it....spending more on foreign stuff (importing ) than we earn from selling to foreigners (exporting) makes us poorer.:idea:
There are those of us who, individually, make their living encouraging us to buy imported goods and services. They may even get rich doing that. They are not helping; it's equivalent to dipping their hand into someone else's pocket.

For my part, I see the need to spend as much of my individual budget on British stuff as I can, and have done so for the past 40 years, but I'm no extremist, and I'm not perfect. I do this because I know where jobs come from, and I know that the spending decisions we make today will impact on the jobs for tomorrow* - they may even be jobs for my neighbour's kids.

*Note: Jobs for tomorrow means a better pension for me too.(y)
 
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No more omelettes or soufflés for filly. Dour '70's style grub from now on eh fillyboy.(y)
 
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transam said:
Try to avoid buying any thing made in France

worked for an old boy years ago who absolutely refused to buy anything made in Japan

even fell out with his son who bought a Honda car

he was one of the soldiers who liberated brits from Japanese pow
Camps
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My Great Uncle was the same except he was a PoW.
 
fillyboy said:
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Me too. I mean, I've never bought French wine in France - I buy it here so my tax stays at home!


[off-topic]Oh, Day 1 of plastic free life failed, after an argument at home, I walked into town for lunch, headed to my favourite Thai cafe. Had not been there for a couple of years. They used to serve is a dish with a spoon, but now only serve in plastic pots. 2 pots, 2 lids, for curry and rice, and a plastic spoon and fork. In a plastic bag. If I hadn't been thinking about the food for the hour it took me to walk into town, and then queued, I would have got something else, but I caved.

What to do with the pots now, to keep them out of landfill?
 
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