lumps of pork

...and you cant educate pork like Lfc

Polish PM Donald Tusk promises that Poles will be richer than Brits in 2029 as he says 'it's better to be in the EU!'

The promise comes on the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the EU in 2004 as he sets the target date for his promise for 25th anniversary in 2029



One for the diary

'it's better to be in the EU!'

If you are a net recipient of EU largesse like Poland then it's probably true from a purely economic point of view.

We will all be poor in 2029 if we continue with nut zero and the fool Miliband will ensure that we do.

Lorries carrying perishable food and plants from the EU are being held for up to 20 hours at the UK’s busiest Brexit border post as failures with the government’s IT systems delay imports entering Britain.


Businesses have described the government’s new border control checks as a “disaster” after IT outages led to lorries carrying meat, cheese and cut flowers being held for long periods, reducing the shelf life of their goods and prompting retailers to reject some orders.

The worst disruption was last weekend, with dozens of lorries being held at the government’s control post serving Dover and the Channel tunnel for periods of between eight and 20 hours after the IT system that registers goods went down.




Puffins are happy though.

Ha ha ha, selectively thick, feigned or otherwise

Meanwhile...

May 2024
Morrisons has received a backlash from angry farmers as it trials the sale of New Zealand lamb instead of 100% British lamb in 39 of its stores.

The supermarket says the move is due to customer demand for cheaper prices.

"The blunt commercial reality is that New Zealand lamb is cheaper to source", it said in a statement, adding that its butchers' counters will still sell British lamb.

The National Farmers Union (NFU) said it was "disappointing" at a time the British livestock industry was under pressure and that New Zealand lamb is "produced to potentially lower standards".

NFU livestock board chair David Barton said he hoped the supermarket dropping its commitment to sell only British lamb was temporary and that the trial would come to an end.

"Recently, the UK farming unions wrote to the chief executive of Morrisons and other top retailers seeking support for the industry including a steadfast commitment to local sourcing in order to maintain food production across the UK and to safeguard our food security", he said.

Meanwhile, the National Sheep Association (NSA) said it was "dismayed and frustrated" by the decision, which "goes against all the principles on which the supermarket has built its reputation amongst the farming community".

But Morrisons said the trial follows an "extensive exercise" listening to customers who "were very clear" that they wanted the supermarket "to sell lamb at a more accessible price all year round".

It added that New Zealand lamb was cheaper to source than British lamb, although the NFU said the meat from overseas comes with "significant food miles".

Mr Barton said that the "unprecedented wet weather" was an "enormous challenge" for British farmers, urging Morrisons to stick to its 100% British lamb commitment.

Morrisons said: "We do not intend this move to mean a reduction in the overall volumes of lamb that we buy directly from British farmers."

It added that New Zealand lamb will be clearly labelled so customers in the stores participating in the trial can "make a choice".

NSA chief executive Phil Stocker said: "We learnt of this disappointing news whilst returning from the Field to Fork Summit held yesterday with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street."

He described it as an event "that was designed to show support for UK agriculture and where the supermarket itself had a presence promoting its commitment to British farmers."

"So, the timing of this announcement is really quite unbelievable", he added.

Mr Stocker said that UK sheep farmers received "strong prices" because of their high standards, and that the "realistic prices" provided much needed money for re-investment in to their farms in the wake of the Schmallenberg virus causing losses on many farms, and the threat of Bluetongue - an insect-borne viral disease.

Morrisons announced in March that it had made a loss of more than £1bn last year, driven by soaring financing costs as the firm's debt also grew.

The losses come at a time customers' housing budgets are squeezed in the face of the cost of living crisis, which according to major supermarkets has changed shopping habits for good, as people seek out cheaper products.

Jerry Percy, from NUTFA, said about 80% of the UK fleet was small boats but they only had access to about 3% of the fishing quota.

He said he had announced NUTFA's closure because he could not see a future for the industry because of the foreign fleet's ability to catch huge quantities of fish.

"There's no effective catch limits for these boats so you've got this huge bunch of very powerful vessels fishing in uncontrolled ways in our waters to the detriment of our guys who can just stand there when they can't go to sea watching all the foreign vessels scoop up all the fish," he said.

Martin Gilbert, who fishes mainly for shellfish out of Newquay harbour and voted for Brexit but said the current deal had "sold us down the river".

"The French, the Belgians and the Spanish have still got the majority of the quota," he said.

"We have to go past the French to fish in our own waters and it's not right."

British travellers to Europe face “long delays” at “choke points” like Dover and St Pancras due to post-Brexit EU border controls due to come into force in October, Lord Cameron has warned

*lamb ..

The infrastructure at the port of Dover is appalling. It needs completely redesigning but as usual no-one os prepared to pay for it.

Compared to Calais it's embarrassing.

True Enough mate

National Service is required because we don’t have fruit pickers! Due to Brexit which the young overwhelmingly didn’t want.

Boris Johnson's sister

EU Border Control will be causing any problems that do arise, so blame them.

What's the point of the UK investing in infrastructure when the French will have one half asleep Border Guard on duty for the summer season.

If the EU can't (or won't) sort it out then spend your holiday dough somewhere else.

Johnny are you saying the French shouldn't have border controls?

The new system is biometric. Once your mugshot and fingerprints are in the system it shouldn't take more than 20 seconds for a machine to process someone.

The French border controls are of course set by the EU , not the French. The EU can set any rules they like, (as can the UK except we no longer need to get the EU's approval), and if they don't work efficiently then the leisure traveller can chose not to travel there. Presumably the EU want to make them work ?

Why are you proposing we build huge floating ports linked to six lane motorways if they take 20 seconds to process somebody ?

were the delays at borders and the obstructions placed on trade on a bus somewhere during the referendum, or did fkwits say that it was all project fear?

And if your travel time is delayed a little going on holiday
what’s the big deal ? Patience folks , patience -everyone is so uptight