Bendy bananas

[Clive Arthur]

And it's a blend, mostly Indian with some Cornish. They do a 'Single Estate' tea which is all Cornish at £43 for 11g (yes, £111 per ounce!). Don't spill it.

[Rod Speed]

whisky-dave [e-mail] wrote

That's the variety, not the country, stupid.

[Rod Speed]

That is completely dishonest. The UK is now free to subsidise anything it likes.

[Rod Speed]

But there are different varietys.

[alan_m]

SO why not follow the USA standards as they probably import more bananas than the EU?

[Bob Henson]

A good point - but we don't need to follow anyone - we just set our own standards as we always did in our more prosperous days before the EU.

[Tim Streater]

And such bananas, straight or gay, were subject to import tariffs. Unlike the Canary Isles ones. Just as, we could always buy NZ lamb or butter, but at a premium.

[Joe]

"What causes poverty?" Wrong question. Poverty is our primordial state. The real question is, "What causes wealth?"

Hint: it ain't Socialism.

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as 'bad luck'.”

R A Heinlein

[S Viemeister]

Back in the 60s in Edinburgh, I found that NZ butter was much cheaper than locally produced butter...

Times (and prices) change.

[Fredxx]

You may be correct but I am pretty certain that de minimis rules still apply. Feel free to provide evidence your claims are true.

Otherwise no one will believe you.

[Ian Jackson]

The best tea (of its kind) is Taylors Yorkshire Tea (but I have a sneaking feeling that it isn't really grown in Yorkshire).

[Rod Speed]

No maybe about it.

No such rule as far as what parliament is free to do now.

You are the one that needs to prove that there is any such rule that applys to the UK parliament now.

[Brian Gaff]

It depends on whether bendy ones are the only game in town by then. If a large number of countries want them, then somebody will, no doubt, grow them, otherwise not. I understand there are problems with many of the varieties of bananas, as being more or less clones of each other, any disease will have the potential to wipe out the lot as there are no genetic outlyers. Brian

[Jeff Gaines]

We are subject to the rules of any trade agreements we have entered and/or WTO terms. We are also free to renegotiate now of course if the other party is willing.

[The Natural Philosopher]

And ultimately another example of 'regulation, for it's own sake'.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Er no dear.

Who do you think for example framed the 'Renewable Obligation' directive which plastered our nation with pointless expensive and environmentally destructive mediaeval wind mills.

You refusal to accept what is easily confirmed marks you out not as a credible EU supporter but as a mindless bigot.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Bit like British Wine. As bad as German mostly, and expensive

[Bob Henson]

I was at a wine tasting in Germany some years back where the "expert" told us that if the average temperature in England rose by only 1°C we could make wines a good as theirs. I was a guest in his country so, with admirable self restraint , I didn't ask how much it would have to warm up to make *real* wine.

[Theo]

At the time (~10 years ago) there was a blended version and a version that was 100% Cornish, and you could buy packets of 10 tea bags for £4 in Waitrose. It seems like they've renamed the Cornish version 'single estate' and put up the price.

Theo

[Bob Martin]

Do you mean when we were "the poor man of Europe"?