Shortages and rationing coming our way.....panic buy now ! ..... this time we need to ...... I've done mine freezers are full ..... this is the big one.....
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Shortages and rationing
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3 years ago
Sunlit uplands!
There?s definitely some kind of cosmic justice going on here, that a pandemic is running wild on us just as we?re severing the secure links we spent decades building with our neighbours. Still, blue passports, eh?
Looking forward to seeing Kent gridlocked from about this afternoon when people start hitting the supermarkets in a panic for Christmas food and bog roll.
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I read a few warnings to the farming communities about not taking certain livestock to market today because it was likely that there would be very low prices because exporters wouldn't be buying. It was expected that the rest of Europe may impose travel and trucking bans and to/from the UK in an effort to stop the spread of the new variant of the virus.
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Must admit to wondering how political this is. Is this 'new' version of Covid really just in the UK - or have we just noticed it before others?
But of course limiting movement of anything and everything is likely to help contain the virus.
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It's very unusual to stop freight. I do wonder if this is further punishment for daring to leave the EU. The French are especially pissed off but truck drivers were never seen as a vector spreading disease.
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Not quite sure why El Salvador has also banned travel from UK then. Did we miss their accession to the EU ?
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brian is about to get a preview of a no deal brexit...tee hee
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Apparently, our ability in genomic science is one of the very best so we've found it before others.
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Perhaps if we'd just left the EU that would be true.
But in case it's escaped your notice, we've spent years trying to negotiate effectively retaining EU 'membership' for the bits of it we like.
Why does it come as a surprise that other EU members aren't having this?
Try looking at it from their point of view.
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Well considering *I* was talking about mutations in June, I'd hope someone was watching out for them.
The trick is, when you are planning things, to ask yourself "What, based on history and science, is most likely to f*ck things up ?" and the factor that into your plans.
If the UK government didn't do that, then what's the point of them ? Seriously ? I have a whole load of statements from them as to what they are *not* about (for example, ensuring food, water and medicines for the population).
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Not remotely accurate the EU want us to sign up for more than we want to. We want limited trade deals no free movement etc and not handing over control of things. If we gave in to your version the deal would have been done under May. The EU need money and are worried if we leave others will follow.
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Can you explain what the difference is?
The EU aren't accepting that. I suppose that they are just exercising their sovereignty. Now, who'd have expected that, eh?
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Given we have left, then the rest of your drivel is similarly accurate.
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You be lucky to find bog roll on the shelves - if you do grab whilst you can.
Also, in some areas supermarket home deliveries are already rationing bulky items (presumably so they can get the orders for a greater number of customers in the same van delivery)
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Or all the animals stuck in lorries queuing at Dover. Maybe it doesn't matter as they were going to 'die anyway'. ;-(
Cheers, T i m
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FWIW I think "Cancel Christmas" was just another government panic recognising that there would be a post holiday spike so that now they can say "we did something, it would have been worse".
More intriguing is whether the French 48 hour ban is actually just a Brexit curve-ball, "See what no-deal will be like" to encourage a U turn on fish. Not from the EU, just the French being typically bloody minded. (And I like the French).
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The problem with a ban now is that the transport of goods is already in somewhat of a mess because of the worldwide effects of Covid. There seems that a large percentage of the worlds transport containers are currently in the wrong places.
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as my Rev daughter sausy "Christmas hasn't been cancelled - the parties that often go with it have been."
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Saw a very brief mention that this "new variant" is very similar if not the same as the one found in Mink in the Netherlands. We slammed the door on them at break neck speed compared to HMG's normal (lack of) speed in reacting to the science.
Political? I think there is some element of that.
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What's shutting the door for 48 hours going to do in regards the spread? SFA.
Are there any? Live export mainly goes through Ramsgate and not all live exports are for slaughter, some are for fattening. Everything living dies, it's one of the very few absolute guarantees of life.
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Indeed. Covid 19 along with third world immigration issues is a greater de globalisation tool than all the nationalist politicians put together
When the ship is sailing merrily along, open the watertight doors, but close them quick when it's holed below the waterline