If foo imports were stopped could the uk feed itself??

Absolutely - and some!

Beef, chicken, lamb, pork etc
Tatties, carrots, neeps, cabbage etc.
Salad, no problem.
Milk, dairy etc - plenty.

Cocoa, coffee, tea don't grow in Europe

Well tea does but not much.

Might be worth holding back a tin of peas from the harvest festival collection.

yes but is there enough for everyone?

would the feed for cattle become too expensive?

This is no time for wobbling, man up ffs.

A good fast would improve everyones health. There would be plenty of horse meat available

Depends on one's circumstance

I think single healthy males should be fine imo, they only have themselves to look out for and one mouth to feed so killing rabbits etc would easily be enough?

Its families that would be in danger, more than mouth to feed and more people to protect

Better to send the wimmin hunting, I know one or two who can kill with a look.

invest a few 100 quid in pot noodles

I am ready I have a garage full of cans of beer and bully beef (the cans non of you pu$$ies can't open - I got them from a wwI museum sale) 

and NO  you can't come round - serves you right  - I did warn you

once the tunnel is blocked we won't have much veg or fruit

but use laughed at moi!!!

none of you pu$$ies can open  ho ho

The big concern is, from where would we get the "Foo", for our "Foo Yung"?   

In round numbers for every 77 produced in the UK, 19 gets exported, and 42 gets imported.

So we end up with headlines like we are less than 60% self-sufficient in food, which is bollockios.
Well assuming fungibility, which isn't guaranteed of course, we're about 77% self-sufficient, and can easily go higher if allowed to use GMO and having the economic incentives to put more land under polytunnels. I would quite look forward to eating horses again.

There's a plaque at Bletchley Park which says the UK was 40% self-sufficient at the outbreak of World War 2. We got through that one eating more per person than we do today in terms of Calories.

So to answer Callisto-Moon's question, we could but not really. Because tea and coffee and chocolate are fundamental for our life. And gambling.

so it was a waste of time me buying all the WWI bully beef

I got a few excess pounds to live off........bring it on Europe

Anyway if there's not enough British food I'll go to my local Chinese or Indian restaurant...........see I'm not as thick as you lot think I am

I woz told thousands would die if we left  - it was headlines

no veg and fruit!!!  - that's wot woz said

bluddie sneaky colonialsts

Always got to be one step ahead moisok

ufc have you read any books by Dewey Lambdin  - yo ho ho and a bottle of rum - around the time I was in!!

so other countries would stop importing to us not

we are finnish

Foo Fighters. !! ?

We could not survive without food  unless we resort to cannibalism

We could not in WW1 or WW2, a lot less people to feed then


There are other countries outside the EU which grow food

the good side is obesity will disappear

will the police be looking for him?

If we have to resort to canibalism I'm going to start wearing a big cone shaped straw hat and speaking in a funny accent like Peter Sellers.

Once people realise that you're never full after eating a chinese they'll be the safest people in the country

We wouldn't starve for sure....might miss year round strawberries, grapes, oranges, and some other fruit, but will still have English apples,
pears and tomatoes when in season...

I met a guy on the outskirts of Cottingham, Hull who has acres of green houses.
He grows only tomatoes, for all of the supermarkets.

Do such as Greggs have anything in their repertoire, such as Sausage Rolls, Cheese and Onion Pasties etc that rely on imports from Europe?

As has been said, I don't think there will be much on the menus of Chinese and Indian that are reliant, and we have that good old staple of Fish & Chips!

So Salami, German Sausages, some fruit and Vino could be affected......

I know we import a lot of eggs too

In ww2 with a much smaller population we were putting allotments on cricket pitches etc..
Interesting read here:
https://www.countryfile.com/news/can-the-uk-feed-itself-after-brexit/

Probably cutting calorie intake by 1/3 wouldn't do any harm to the population.

yes the diabetes related medication bill should come down nicely

In ww2 with a much smaller population we were putting allotments on cricket pitches etc..

That wouldn't work today and I would call anyone naive if they got involved with it!

After all of your digging, weeding, planting and weeding. and weeding again, you are looking forward to the harvest
only to go down one morning to find that gypsies, travelers, immigrants, and others got there first!

I'm wondering how the EU are going to prevent us from importing food from the rest of the world. Sink ships bringing bananas into Portsmouth perhaps? Blockade the Atlantic ports? Perhaps they have already stepped up U-boat production in anticipation of a no deal Brexit.

Nearly but not quite foinavon -

they are building invasion barges instead - the U boat story was to deflect you - what do you think herr barnerishtormsfuhrer's Eu army is all about and macron's creeping servility to the fourth reich.  Has this happened before ho ho

dissenters will not be tolerated

It would explain Mrs May's deference to the Barnstormer. I see that the leader of the fourth empire is going to step down soon, who will take her place, I wonder.

I'd imagine Bliar would prefer the top job when Juncker steps down next year.

It was never just us - re this. In ww1 for example, Germany suffered bad starvation as we clobbered their sea lanes, and they weren't self sufficient, I'm guessing the "we know ww1 history from black adder and our generals were posh so it was bad" types don't know that..

We are kind of mypopic about ww1, in some ways it was starvation that made germany truce for a couple decades .... (then screw the entire continent 3 years go.... :P)

With fertiliser etc we can obviously (everyone) improve but also populations have grown. It is an interesting question. No way it was possible back then ... perhaps now it is with maxed out nitrogen in your face!

the fuhrer is not stepping down anytime yet

If you take a look at how the Dutch now farm and the advances in renewable energy then Britaian can produce enough food to be self sufficient.

I haven't read the above but could those foreign food producers survive without our business?
Actually, they probably would but....

LOOK!!!  You load of jokers - I READ THIS IN A NEWSPAPER  and it said if we leave, thousands will die from lack of fruit and veg - so there!!!!

Does this mean I won't be able to get my favourite Bolinger anymore??

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/15/eu-fears-influx-of-british-champagne-once-brexit-ends-food-naming-rules

Leave means leave.
No more StollyBolly, quails eggs, stinky cheese or Gucci handbags for you my friend.
It's drawbridge up and no mistake.

Britain makes stinky cheese. Even I make it, you should have smelled the tub of hairy philadelphia I found hidden behind something in the fridge the other day!

oh foinavon - I definitely voted the wrong way - I better start stocking up

Not to worry Mo, Varadkar has said we can't leave, so that's that.

phew  - so I have just wasted a lot of dosh panic buying champers and  fish eggs!!!!

debenhams is being replace with lidl or aldi

the place is going to rack and ruin

I will have to shop in town now!!!

I do enjoy reading about your rumbustious lifestyle moisok

that is just plain filthy you naughty boy

I understand there will be a panic buy of dior makeup and gucci bags when we leave

needless to say I am stocking up

and on stockings too - had a recent run in with a famous store over the lack of them

ps I have to admit to quaffing 2 bottles of M & S Prosseco  - it really has no comparison to bolly - they were presents so I didn't have to pay - whilst celebrating oldham's crushing of local team richmond

Moisok

Do you need the stockings to cover your head while doing an armed robbery at Harrods Food Hall?

Lovegod - to help you out - you wear them on your legs.

I am not allowed into the food hall as I gorge myself on the see food   - you sure sea a lot of it at the bar

sea what I did their