KingOfTheTribes
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Bloody hell! I think we've managed outraged remainer Bingo on this thread. They're all here and frankly, it shows why having any sort of discussion with them is fruitless, pun intended. It is fine to be anti-Brexit and still agree that the article the OP posted is trash, because it is. I am confident very few of you have even read it and instead jumped at a chance to ridicule Brexit and the astronomical price rises which are on the way. We've even managed to get some of the usual slogans about blue passports and a mention of Cummings. It's quite impressive how every thread is so easily derailed for some pats on the back from the usual self-congratulators.
How many of you will actually be grown-up enough to admit that the OP, the article and the point it is trying to make is pure clickbait trash? I will happily admit that a lot of pro-Brexit articles are dire (e.g. anything the Daily Express has ever printed) but some of you are evidently too afraid to be honest and criticise something anti-Brexit because you'd far prefer to circlejerk.
Look back at my previous post. I didn't mention things being more expensive, I explained why our current import/export profile is the way it is. We could produce far more of our own food if we wanted to but it's not the best thing to do economically when we can export a load of stuff and import others. If we wanted to be self-sufficient we'd use greenhouses for the things that our climate doesn't allow but we couldn't replicate our current consumption to be self-sufficient, we'd have to change our diet. it'd also cost a lot more than importing but the cost isn't what I was talking about anyway.
The gist of the article is that we need the EU or we'll starve which isn't true. We import from the EU because it is currently the easiest and cheapest. There is nothing in my post about food prices but that's what everyone is talking about. It's about whether we will have enough to not run out of food, which we will. My point about South African Oranges was that there are other markets which we currently don't access, not can't, because EU import tariffs make it cheaper to import from Spain than South Africa.
And if we are talking about food prices then we've had threads of people bemoaning that we might get cheaper food from the USA but in that discussion chlorinated chicken is the story instead of cheaper prices so evidently cheaper prices outside the EU are possible and not everything requires a drop in standards like the US chicken.
The gist of the article is that the UK can't support itself without importing food, and we have cut off our closest trading partner with no deals to obtain that food cheaper or for the same price elsewhere. It implies that we'll either run out of food or our food bill will increase. Obviously we won't run out of food, so our bills will go up. Thanks Brexit