Buying British

[securespark]

Would now be a good time to rethink our purchases?

Primarily, I'm thinking about food here. We should start promoting British food, locally grown or produced. We should also continue to promote ''wonky'' veg. This would reduce obscene waste in the food industry. If more food was grown or produced here, that would reduce the food miles. Make the local produce much cheaper to buy to encourage sales and put punitive taxes on imported stuff. If people really want the expensive food, they pay a premium for it.

Farmers who have dormant land due to being paid by the EU not to use it could start growing crops thus keeping people in employment and/ or reducing the dole queue.

It makes sense to source as much food as we can from our own country, surely?

 

[Notch7]

We should start promoting British food

Well, greenhouse tomatoes dont need to come from Holland anymore

The latest technology of mass scale greenhouse production is in Kent:

Thanet Earth

 

[securespark]

Sure, this is what we need to do!

 

[jasonzyx]

I thought our major supplier of tomatoes was the Channel Isles.

But where can we grow oranges, lemons, bananas, etc?

 

[JohnD]

It's great to know that retired Brexers will be queuing up to do the picking and packing work that seasonal workers from the EU formerly did.

 

[wobs]

Carbon footprint would be lower if we imported tomatoes from Spain.

 

[sodthisforfun]

Would now be a good time to rethink our purchases?

Primarily, I'm thinking about food here. We should start promoting British food, locally grown or produced. We should also continue to promote ''wonky'' veg. This would reduce obscene waste in the food industry. If more food was grown or produced here, that would reduce the food miles. Make the local produce much cheaper to buy to encourage sales and put punitive taxes on imported stuff. If people really want the expensive food, they pay a premium for it.

Farmers who have dormant land due to being paid by the EU not to use it could start growing crops thus keeping people in employment and/ or reducing the dole queue.

It makes sense to source as much food as we can from our own country, surely?

We should always have promoted British food, and made local veg cheaper. But it will be seasonal, not much grows in winter so would mean that everyone pays tons more with your punitive taxes in imported stuff in the winter and those on low incomes will struggle to eat.

 

[sodthisforfun]

It's great to know that retired Brexers will be queuing up to do the picking and packing work that seasonal workers from the EU formerly did.

We used to pick it, great student job in my day. Would it be impossible to go back to that?

 

[JohnD]

You must ask them why they haven't done it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=seasonal+picker+vacancies&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-44884882

 

[sodthisforfun]

You must ask them why they haven't done it.

Because farmers want cheaper labour?

 

[JohnD]

Surely we live in a country that has Minimum Wage controls?



"She says the rare British workers who give the fruit and vegetable harvest a try, “literally don't last a week”.



Hughes and three other university students are the only Brits harvesting berries at the Snell family farm this summer, out of a workforce of 300.


“That's quite something, isn't it?” says Christine Snell who owns the award-winning, environmentally sensitive farm with her husband, Anthony. “We want to get the message across: If we could recruit British workers, we would, but we cannot.”"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...migrant-workers-labour-shortage-a8469806.html

 

[durhamplumber]

It's great to know that retired Brexers will be queuing up to do the picking and packing work that seasonal workers from the EU formerly did.

Will you fekoff twisting every post to brexit

 

[motorbiking]

Actually we could learn a thing from the French. They grow a lot more of their own veg in the garden, meals are planned to consume left overs without compromising quality. Granted its a 50% bigger country with more sunshine etc. They are also culturally obsessed with buying French first and even shun their supermarkets in support for example of locally overpriced bread sold with poor hygiene.

 

[SammyInnit]

Surely we live in a country that has Minimum Wage controls?

Completely ignores the cost of living for different people.

The same minimum wage will provide a lot more for someone sharing accommodation with other seasonal workers than it would someone trying to pay for a mortgage and feed your average family of four.

The minimum wage in Poland is €480 a month.
The minimum wage in the UK is €1463 a month.
The average cost of living in Warsaw is 60% less than it is in London.

 

[JohnD]

so a retired British plumber, or a redundant middle-aged car factory worker, mortgage paid off, no young family to support, is willing to work for the minimum wage?


Where are they then?