I am sure I heard that said sometime ago. This article says different.
www.indy100.com/article/britain-food-imports-brexit-farmers-union-study-9674866
www.indy100.com/article/britain-food-imports-brexit-farmers-union-study-9674866
We import the majority because it is cheaper to grow them in foreign climates, especially in colder parts of the year. We could grow our own if we wanted to but we grow things that is suitable for our climate (and export a lot of it).
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Yep, I reckon it's been a good 100 years since we were self sufficient in feeding ourselves. It would be absolutely impossible now.How could we grow all our own food? It would be physically impossible both in terms of land area needed and climate limitations I think.
Yep, I reckon it's been a good 100 years since we were self sufficient in feeding ourselves. It would be absolutely impossible now.
What a pointless article. Brexit doesn't mean we stop importing food. We import the majority because it is cheaper to grow them in foreign climates, especially in colder parts of the year. We could grow our own if we wanted to but we grow things that is suitable for our climate (and export a lot of it). We get most of our food imports from Europe because we are in the EU but we could easily get a lot of it from other countries. We don't currently because the EU is cheaper and because there are tariffs on non-EU countries which we will no longer have to stick with. After Brexit it may be cheaper to import oranges from South Africa instead of Spain etc.
It's an interesting topic and some in-depth analysis would be good to read but this article is not that. It's just clickbait.
It's going to be a cold, hard shock to the brexiteers who still can't see that it's their lives that will be worse. Their freedom of movement curtailed, their monthly expenditure going up, their job losses as well as the rest of the country. Anyone still believing Brexit is going to be fine has a real, scary, shock coming to themIf you don't think food will be more expensive come January you've got rocks in your head.
It's going to be a cold, hard shock to the brexiteers who still can't see that it's their lives that will be worse. Their freedom of movement curtailed, their monthly expenditure going up, their job losses as well as the rest of the country. Anyone still believing Brexit is going to be fine has a real, scary, shock coming to them
What a pointless article. Brexit doesn't mean we stop importing food. We import the majority because it is cheaper to grow them in foreign climates, especially in colder parts of the year. We could grow our own if we wanted to but we grow things that is suitable for our climate (and export a lot of it). We get most of our food imports from Europe because we are in the EU but we could easily get a lot of it from other countries. We don't currently because the EU is cheaper and because there are tariffs on non-EU countries which we will no longer have to stick with. After Brexit it may be cheaper to import oranges from South Africa instead of Spain etc.
It's an interesting topic and some in-depth analysis would be good to read but this article is not that. It's just clickbait.
Sovereignty, blue passports, unelected bureaucrats running the country!Yeah, but they're getting their country back! Apparently...
So we are going to have tarrif free trade with a none EU country? Wow. When did this happen? South Africa I guess...We are less than 4 months from crashing out the EU, but we *might* get cheaper oranges elsewhere.
Pretty much sums up the farce that is brexit.
Just imagine, falling for the conjob for helping multimillionaires protect the power and wealth of Billionaires? Because of your own xenophobia. Millions of braindead did, mind you, voting tory and being working class is as braindead, because a few Billionaires tell you to in the garbage you read or watch. Its narcissistic to restrict the movements for your children and grandchildren. And what happened to Brexshit years later?I am sure I heard that said sometime ago. This article says different.
www.indy100.com/article/britain-food-imports-brexit-farmers-union-study-9674866
We import nearly all the wheat to make flour, bread is our staff of life.
Or, leave people to what they are good at? We'll lose out on quite a lot of foodstuffs if we try and go self sufficient. We just don't have the varied climate.Personally I hope Brexit and Covid are the kick up the backside we need to become more self sufficient, we should be building, manufacturing and growing more in this country. We should be exporting and not importing. Instead we’ve become the service sector arm of the EU economy and that’s why we will be hit harder economically by Covid. We need a more diversified economy and hopefully our new competitiveness will allow us to do that rather than leaving the manufacturing to Germany and the farming to France because that’s how the EU has decided it will be.