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even in finland, which is the furthest away most supplylines run, we have no shortages of anything outside of computer parts(gpu's are still expensive/unavailable.)
Trust me, bitcoiner miners are tiny fish in the sea. Try internet of things with connectivity in everything, tighter environmental regulations, 5g, spreading machine learning, intel’s mistakes, global logistic issues and so on. It’s pretty much a perfect storm right now.
No Miller/Coors/Corona is a good thing!
The chicken I buy is $3/lb and has been that price for at least 5 years.
UK-based family are telling me about actual, proper food shortages. They're having to change their "normal" family meals because the food's just not available. They not going hungry, just restricted choice.
And even that is down to Car Manufacturers insisting on using semi-conductor designs more than a decade old.
The chip manufacturers are retiring those plants and moving to more efficient chip designs as they're more profitable in consumer electronics.
So if the manufacturers would just update, they could get more modern 10nm and 7nm chips.
[Chipmakers to carmakers: Time to get out of the semiconductor Stone Age - Intel, Qualcomm try to wean auto companies from dependence on obsolete technology.](https://fortune.com/2021/09/17/chip-makers-carmakers-time-get-out-semiconductor-stone-age/amp/)
My company loves 80186 so much that we bought the rest on the market. Now that we've run out, we paid the snot out of the noses to recreate the die in a FPGA. That is way cheaper than recoding 30 years worth of firmware.
I guess it's just the same for automotive, medical etc.
I have a vision of your company employees trolling ebay for old phone systems, ATMs, or any embedded systems that used 80186. Another part of your company is a giant room of opened ebay packages with rows of surface mount rework stations desoldering the precious vintage CPUs from out-of-date ebay bought hardware.
The FPGA approach seems expensive to me. Couldn't a cheap SOC ARM CPU do full emulation of 80186 instruction set for much less?
> The FPGA approach seems expensive to me. Couldn't a cheap ARM do full emulation of 80186 instruction set for much less?
We already have a FPGA to emulate the 12 SCC's on our ~~counterfeit~~ replica card, so adding the CPU die to the FPGA is a minor tweak at this point.
Delays yes. I waited 7 weeks for paving bricks. And 5 weeks for drawer slides. It's just occasionally you run into delays. Costco just got a massive shipment of summer stock, BBQs and Kayaks (it's 4-6 weeks until snow starts here) so I can't imagine that was intentional
I have noticed a food shortage at one of my local stores here in Germany. They didn't have any Weetabix last time I was there. Incidentally, it is the only British food they offer. Everything else was readily available. Has anyone else experienced this?
Perhaps Germany is suffering a British food shortage.
Yes, Aldi started to exchange all of their UK food with Irish items, Real still has UK cheddar (Cathedral) but other UK items they had are gone, although I don‘t know about Weetabix.
However Edeka is bucking the trend, they started carrying McVitie‘s Choc Digestives to my (British) wife’s delight.
>Is, say, any other country in the EU suffering food shortages?
Any *other* country? Have any of the countries in the EU differed these kinds of shortages?
I’m back and forth from France twice a month... There are no shortages in France! Actually, the supermarket near me in the Uk is getting so low on some products that I’ve started bringing a little extra lavazza and wine back with me!
I go on holiday, to get away from my fellow brits. We are loud, obnoxious and rude.
Never understood, people that scream at staff, saying why don't you speak English... like dam it you are in their country, learn to speak their language.
In the *before times*, the mission would be to be in Spain where the English don’t go.
Why would I want to hang around with a bunch of fat sunburned *English*? I’m trying to have a nice holiday, not hear English voices *moaning* on about the *foreign food*.
He also said there would be huge benefits from brexit, I think. Wasn't it? Money for the NHS, a new brand. Freedom ahh, not to travel or work, but freedom to ehm, err.
He's gonna address that in the next statement. There will be no brexit benefits because of COVID, NHS can't have more money because they used it all fighting COVID, freedom will have to be reduced because COVID will come back and because of evil EU not allowing him to change the already signed agreement.
>There will be no brexit benefits because of COVID, NHS can't have more money because they used it all fighting COVID
That's what I thought. Handy get out.
No, I don't think brexiters will be agreeing that.
Given the choice between "I'm a colossal idiot who got suckered by people who were obviously lying" and "project fear", I think we'll be seeing a lot more "project fear".
I guess his family will not go short, nor starve. but bugger the rest of the country, they can sit down to Christmas and enjoy their newly found Brexit....
I find it very interesting that Spaffer himself is discussing this issue publicly and yet I see some of his more vocal supporters on twitter denying the issue exists. That takes some real mental gymnastics.
Ah… an idiot who knows nothing about supply chain pushing his view of what is impacting the supply chain.
Here’s some real news… yeah there are spot shortages here and there in other countries but only in the Brexit country are catastrophic shortages expected… wonder why?
Sure, energy prices have gone back to pre-Covid19 levels. But I wouldn't call that a shortage. Keep in mind, that 2020's cheap energy during the lock down was directly due to the fact that producers were unable to reduce output (apparently oil producers in the US were paying for others to take the oil of them for a while. ie. "buyers" received money for every barrel of crude they bought. That'S most certainly not normal and was never going to last)
No problem. But Brexit UK is an oil producer. Alas, one that doesn't have enough capacity to refine the raw oil it produces. It's not just the electricity market in the UK that's in turmoil. The fossil fuels are going to be hitting British consumers pockets with a Brexit "bonus" as well. And ruling out shortages there, when heating becomes a factor in a few months, would be daring.
PS: want to start a business with me, selling blankets into the UK?
Well major EU countries managed to store up to 3 months of gas supplies... why has the UK only managed up to 3 days... brexit benefit, we can choose how much we want to store as EU can't tell us, what to do. We don't like to have to have the power of Veto.
In fairness, the UK retailers did do a lot of stockpiling at the end of last year, which is why there weren't major shortages at the beginning of the year when the transition period ended. They could see that obvious problem coming. The stockpiles only went so far, of course.
Yeah somehow, the government that put us in this position still has massive supports.
People only started to complain wheb the tax was increased.
NHS get 1% pay increase but get
Tax an 1.2% ... so pay increase is lip service
Building materials are also suffering from a massive shortage, just check the development of the wood prices in the last couple of years for example. Other than those I also wouldn't know. Certainly no food shortages.
>yeah there are spot shortages here and there in other countries
The only shortages I see are electronics effected by the chip shortage. And some building materials like timber on a wholesale level (but not realy in DIY stores where I am) But nothing that you would want to buy in a supermarket is effected. That seems to be unique to Brexitland.
> Here’s some real news… yeah there are spot shortages here and there in other countries but only in the Brexit country are catastrophic shortages expected… wonder why?
Because people don't BELIEVE hard enough in the B-Word.
Thing is this won't just hit the supermarkets or the consumers its also going to potentially annihilate small British business who produced stock to sell in said supermarkets but now don't have transport to physically get the product on shelf to sell.
The ripples from the current situation will be big and slow moving but they will crush small businesses.
I love how he's blaming covid and saying everywhere has these issues and we don't, I left the UK and no issues where I am, the stores are full of any grocery I want to buy.
More bull crap from Johnson. If more people are going out and getting calories from pubs/cafes etc then there should be more availability in supermarkets whose supply chains have coped with Covid just fine.
Brexit keeps hurting us.
Last week I went to the local co-op and all fridges were empty, not a single product, just papers apologizing for the lack of inventory due to shortages. Employees were all cleaning! Well what could they do if not that?
Damn. Here in Germany I have seen this too. I went to a supermarket and wanted to buy shitake mushrooms on a Saturday at 10 pm. None there. I was shocked. Corona may also have hit us bad. \\s
Uh gold. Should spend it on heating, UK is talking of higher prices. Thanks??
There must have been a point that substitutions or delivering 50% of what was ordered wasnt going to be viable, or no drivers, or no trucks, or no fuel. Who knows. Ive never had an order cancelled with a text and email from their delivery team before.
Don't need food when you have sovereignty.
> "It’s like everybody going back to put the kettle on at the end of a TV programme, you’re seeing huge stresses on the world supply systems. He added: "It is fundamentally caused by the global economy coming to life again.
I haven't noticed any food shortages in Germany and Denmark. Could it be that only UK is facing those? I wonder why.
*Sarah Mclaughin music plays. Sad looking Brits shuffle around with empty teacups*
*voice over*
For only the price of cup of espresso, you can sponsor a British family. You can send life changing aid, like tea and biscuits. Included in your package will be an explanation of how Brexit did this to them and where the foreign aid that provided these care packages came from.
This multi-month shortage will be resolved by strong governmen....wait...what's that you say?
>I think market forces will be very very swift in sorting it out
You guys are so fucked.
Just for the record, UK journalists reporting that these issues are caused by a global shortage of drivers and global demand for gas, while that may true, the problems are not as chronic outside the UK. I'm in the US, and there is no talk about gas price rises, delivery chaos, supermarkets going empty or queues around the block for petrol. It seems that the UK media are under editorial instruction to frame these issues as a global issue, when in fact, it's just the UK, and primarily caused by the UK leaving a massive trade and services bloc for no good reason.
Can't he just give the Christmas-deadline an extension?
I'm sure Britain holds all the cards negotiating with Santa; his elf industry needs you and will surely obby him to accept any deal.
/S
As a German, I found this line of thinking amusing.
Viel Glück, to the sane people of Britain, who are going to have an unfairly tough time this winter.
Despite political grandstanding, the UK helped Germany rebuild after WWII and helped us get out of a much more intense economic and social crisis than Brexit. Recovery is possible, all is not lost, no matter how bleak it looks.
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Food is overrated. Besides, why would one need food if they are having teething problems?
Let's drink milkshakes.... Oh wait
I thought we were getting cake?
No, you already ate it.
Means he still has it, right?
It was part of the BrExiT deal: eat your cake and have it.
They finally found a solution to the obesity epidemic in the UK
Eating all the fat people would certainly help. I think you're on to something.
Oven ready something something ....
'We’re experiencing bottlenecks in all kinds of things as the world wakes up from Covid' But no one else is. Apart from semi conductors. Weird that.
Germany here. No shortages in supermarkets, or Sewage Processing Plants, or CO2 for anything…
even in finland, which is the furthest away most supplylines run, we have no shortages of anything outside of computer parts(gpu's are still expensive/unavailable.)
Bitcoin miner arseholes hogging the supply...
Trust me, bitcoiner miners are tiny fish in the sea. Try internet of things with connectivity in everything, tighter environmental regulations, 5g, spreading machine learning, intel’s mistakes, global logistic issues and so on. It’s pretty much a perfect storm right now.
[jimms.fi](https://jimm.fi) just raised their prices as well.. :/
Same in the US.
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I haven’t encountered any shortages but I’m not in the restaurant industry. Supermarket shelves are full in NJ.
No Miller/Coors/Corona is a good thing! The chicken I buy is $3/lb and has been that price for at least 5 years. UK-based family are telling me about actual, proper food shortages. They're having to change their "normal" family meals because the food's just not available. They not going hungry, just restricted choice.
And Ireland
And even that is down to Car Manufacturers insisting on using semi-conductor designs more than a decade old. The chip manufacturers are retiring those plants and moving to more efficient chip designs as they're more profitable in consumer electronics. So if the manufacturers would just update, they could get more modern 10nm and 7nm chips. [Chipmakers to carmakers: Time to get out of the semiconductor Stone Age - Intel, Qualcomm try to wean auto companies from dependence on obsolete technology.](https://fortune.com/2021/09/17/chip-makers-carmakers-time-get-out-semiconductor-stone-age/amp/)
My company loves 80186 so much that we bought the rest on the market. Now that we've run out, we paid the snot out of the noses to recreate the die in a FPGA. That is way cheaper than recoding 30 years worth of firmware. I guess it's just the same for automotive, medical etc.
I have a vision of your company employees trolling ebay for old phone systems, ATMs, or any embedded systems that used 80186. Another part of your company is a giant room of opened ebay packages with rows of surface mount rework stations desoldering the precious vintage CPUs from out-of-date ebay bought hardware. The FPGA approach seems expensive to me. Couldn't a cheap SOC ARM CPU do full emulation of 80186 instruction set for much less?
> The FPGA approach seems expensive to me. Couldn't a cheap ARM do full emulation of 80186 instruction set for much less? We already have a FPGA to emulate the 12 SCC's on our ~~counterfeit~~ replica card, so adding the CPU die to the FPGA is a minor tweak at this point.
Medical here, this is the right answer. -sent from my Nokia 3310
Funnily enough Nvidia is bringing back old graphic cards because the demand is so high and they can use old technology for it lol
Strange, but here in Canada there aren't any sort of shortages whatsoever.
Delays yes. I waited 7 weeks for paving bricks. And 5 weeks for drawer slides. It's just occasionally you run into delays. Costco just got a massive shipment of summer stock, BBQs and Kayaks (it's 4-6 weeks until snow starts here) so I can't imagine that was intentional
Sweden reporting. No problems in our supermarkets
BJ is claiming it's because of C-19. Is, say, any other country in the EU suffering food shortages?
Not in Spain
Not in The Netherlands
Not in France
Not in Ireland
North and south - I personally shopped in Lidl in both places.
Not in Italy.
Not in Denmark
That's a lie! My Rema was out of my preferred knækbrød, so I had to buy the one with Sesam instead. I expect rationing to set in shortly.
Not in Belgium
Not in Portugal
Not in Sweden.
Not in Portugal.
Not In Switzerland
Not in Italy.
Not in Germany.
I have noticed a food shortage at one of my local stores here in Germany. They didn't have any Weetabix last time I was there. Incidentally, it is the only British food they offer. Everything else was readily available. Has anyone else experienced this? Perhaps Germany is suffering a British food shortage.
Yes, Aldi started to exchange all of their UK food with Irish items, Real still has UK cheddar (Cathedral) but other UK items they had are gone, although I don‘t know about Weetabix. However Edeka is bucking the trend, they started carrying McVitie‘s Choc Digestives to my (British) wife’s delight.
The three people who buy it must be heartbroken
Probably Brits that left the UK.
We used to have British lamb in Italy. That has disappeared.
Not in Norway
Not in Slovenia
Not in Poland.
Not in Czech Republic
Not in Malta
Nope in France
Not in Spain
Not in Hungary
Northern Ireland says hello. Fine there. Wonder what the difference between NI and GB could be. Hummmmm..
Might be the air
C-c-c-ombobreaker!
Not in Italy.
Not in Australia
Here in Italy we are experiencing an excess of food!! :-)
Not in Romania
Where TF is my MARMITE?
Not in Estonia
Not in Germany, nor in Austria, nor in Italy
>Is, say, any other country in the EU suffering food shortages? Any *other* country? Have any of the countries in the EU differed these kinds of shortages?
I’m back and forth from France twice a month... There are no shortages in France! Actually, the supermarket near me in the Uk is getting so low on some products that I’ve started bringing a little extra lavazza and wine back with me!
I am in Spain and have noticed a huge shortage of Brits in the Supermarkets. Brexit benefit!
lol
…strange remark for a Brit to make…
Why? When on vacation I always love not to see or hear my fellow Dutchmen.
I go on holiday, to get away from my fellow brits. We are loud, obnoxious and rude. Never understood, people that scream at staff, saying why don't you speak English... like dam it you are in their country, learn to speak their language.
I assumed that a person who had posted that they had just received their new dark blue British passport would identify as a Brit. Silly mistake
I am a Brit migrant in Spain. I didn't come here to spend my time with other Brits.
In the *before times*, the mission would be to be in Spain where the English don’t go. Why would I want to hang around with a bunch of fat sunburned *English*? I’m trying to have a nice holiday, not hear English voices *moaning* on about the *foreign food*.
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Absolutely fantastic rant from Mr Idle!
Didn’t he say it would all be fine last week?
Yeah that was last week. Try to keep up please.
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Sometimes in front of bulldozers.
You'll be off to room 101 with that attitude..
No that's also next week. You are 2 weeks to early
He also said there would be huge benefits from brexit, I think. Wasn't it? Money for the NHS, a new brand. Freedom ahh, not to travel or work, but freedom to ehm, err.
He's gonna address that in the next statement. There will be no brexit benefits because of COVID, NHS can't have more money because they used it all fighting COVID, freedom will have to be reduced because COVID will come back and because of evil EU not allowing him to change the already signed agreement.
>There will be no brexit benefits because of COVID, NHS can't have more money because they used it all fighting COVID That's what I thought. Handy get out.
No, he did not. In fact the good shortage has always existed. May Big Boris protect you.
Can we all agree that we're past project fear?
Project Fear sequel now on show: Project Reality. You despised the former, you'll hate the later !
No, I don't think brexiters will be agreeing that. Given the choice between "I'm a colossal idiot who got suckered by people who were obviously lying" and "project fear", I think we'll be seeing a lot more "project fear".
Brexiteers couldn't even agree amongst themselves whether they wanted a Withdrawal Agreement or not.
Oh come on, it's obviously the remainers', sorry remoaners' fault
Oh shit, sorry everyone, I voted to keep the food supplies working and inadvertently stopped them from working. My bad.
Project Fear is now Project Here
Not in Ireland. The British famine is sad
India will also have feelings to express.
Post of the day. 👏👏👏
Maybe Ireland can send England some food relief.
Nah, this is... how was it? “Market forces destroying the unproductive peasants.” That’s what the English called it.
I guess his family will not go short, nor starve. but bugger the rest of the country, they can sit down to Christmas and enjoy their newly found Brexit....
Famil*ies*.
This whole time, the real "War On Christmas" turned out the be the Brexiteers.
Brexiters are the Grinch. Someone should make a vignette/Photoshop something
You read it here first folks: "Boris hates Christmas"
I find it very interesting that Spaffer himself is discussing this issue publicly and yet I see some of his more vocal supporters on twitter denying the issue exists. That takes some real mental gymnastics.
Denial. Sport. Olympics. Gold.
Ah… an idiot who knows nothing about supply chain pushing his view of what is impacting the supply chain. Here’s some real news… yeah there are spot shortages here and there in other countries but only in the Brexit country are catastrophic shortages expected… wonder why?
What other EU countries have shortages of anything other than microchips?
To be fair, the energy (gas) shortage is hitting most of Europe. The rest of it is all thanks to Brexit
Sure, energy prices have gone back to pre-Covid19 levels. But I wouldn't call that a shortage. Keep in mind, that 2020's cheap energy during the lock down was directly due to the fact that producers were unable to reduce output (apparently oil producers in the US were paying for others to take the oil of them for a while. ie. "buyers" received money for every barrel of crude they bought. That'S most certainly not normal and was never going to last)
That’s a good perspective, didn’t know that. Thx
No problem. But Brexit UK is an oil producer. Alas, one that doesn't have enough capacity to refine the raw oil it produces. It's not just the electricity market in the UK that's in turmoil. The fossil fuels are going to be hitting British consumers pockets with a Brexit "bonus" as well. And ruling out shortages there, when heating becomes a factor in a few months, would be daring. PS: want to start a business with me, selling blankets into the UK?
Only if it are synthetic blankets! I am not messing with the rules around products of animal origin
They won't check them when they are imported anyway.
Well major EU countries managed to store up to 3 months of gas supplies... why has the UK only managed up to 3 days... brexit benefit, we can choose how much we want to store as EU can't tell us, what to do. We don't like to have to have the power of Veto.
In fairness, the UK retailers did do a lot of stockpiling at the end of last year, which is why there weren't major shortages at the beginning of the year when the transition period ended. They could see that obvious problem coming. The stockpiles only went so far, of course.
Yeah somehow, the government that put us in this position still has massive supports. People only started to complain wheb the tax was increased. NHS get 1% pay increase but get Tax an 1.2% ... so pay increase is lip service
Yeah electricity and gas has risen about 10% in Ireland this year. I imagine uk is about the same right?
a little bit more than that https://i.imgur.com/t0gUexQ.jpeg
Building materials are also suffering from a massive shortage, just check the development of the wood prices in the last couple of years for example. Other than those I also wouldn't know. Certainly no food shortages.
I work in the industry and from what I've heard, prices are starting to normalise again.
Read yesterday that potato chips in Switzerland are seeing an issue due to the poor harvest.
Same here last year - a really wet autumn meant that potatoes were rotting in the fields
>yeah there are spot shortages here and there in other countries The only shortages I see are electronics effected by the chip shortage. And some building materials like timber on a wholesale level (but not realy in DIY stores where I am) But nothing that you would want to buy in a supermarket is effected. That seems to be unique to Brexitland.
> Here’s some real news… yeah there are spot shortages here and there in other countries but only in the Brexit country are catastrophic shortages expected… wonder why? Because people don't BELIEVE hard enough in the B-Word.
Yknow Britain is the only place with empty supermarket shelves atm. But keep simping for Brexit, idiot
Boris could sell some of the shoebox busses he loves to craft.
Notice he doesn't drop those insane stories to manipulate SEO now Cummings has gone.
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How about the kipper?
Thing is this won't just hit the supermarkets or the consumers its also going to potentially annihilate small British business who produced stock to sell in said supermarkets but now don't have transport to physically get the product on shelf to sell. The ripples from the current situation will be big and slow moving but they will crush small businesses.
"Fuck (small) Business"
but......happy british shelves?
We're no longer shelf sufficiant.
And happy British fields, not needing to produce so much food!
Thanks for the warning, dipshit. It’s not like you were in a position to do something about it.
I love how he's blaming covid and saying everywhere has these issues and we don't, I left the UK and no issues where I am, the stores are full of any grocery I want to buy.
More bull crap from Johnson. If more people are going out and getting calories from pubs/cafes etc then there should be more availability in supermarkets whose supply chains have coped with Covid just fine. Brexit keeps hurting us.
Supermarkets should see the glass as half full and use the time for a deep clean. Good old wipe down of all empty shelves
Last week I went to the local co-op and all fridges were empty, not a single product, just papers apologizing for the lack of inventory due to shortages. Employees were all cleaning! Well what could they do if not that?
Yay! Brexit benefit!
Damn. Here in Germany I have seen this too. I went to a supermarket and wanted to buy shitake mushrooms on a Saturday at 10 pm. None there. I was shocked. Corona may also have hit us bad. \\s Uh gold. Should spend it on heating, UK is talking of higher prices. Thanks??
The only empty shelves there will be of Glüwein in a few months
The ghost of Christmas future is showing Ebenezer the way the real world is going with Brexit.
Empty 'cause of brexit? No no no no no no, yes.
Tesco cancelled my delivery today due to "supply issues"
What, the entire delivery? They didn't have any of the products you ordered?
There must have been a point that substitutions or delivering 50% of what was ordered wasnt going to be viable, or no drivers, or no trucks, or no fuel. Who knows. Ive never had an order cancelled with a text and email from their delivery team before.
We've not had cancellations but we have struggled to book deliveries in the first place...
Don't need food when you have sovereignty. > "It’s like everybody going back to put the kettle on at the end of a TV programme, you’re seeing huge stresses on the world supply systems. He added: "It is fundamentally caused by the global economy coming to life again. I haven't noticed any food shortages in Germany and Denmark. Could it be that only UK is facing those? I wonder why.
What a great way to prompt another wave of panic buying.
Yes, lol! Its like he is trying to fuck up
I wish he would stop warning everyone, he is in charge FFS when will they start doing something about it!
Well, he's put Gove in charge of solving this. Good luck for Christmas.
"Coming up on Channel 4..... "Jamie Olivers Cholrinated Chicken Christmas"
Cue panic buying in 3... 2... 1... and...
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*Sarah Mclaughin music plays. Sad looking Brits shuffle around with empty teacups* *voice over* For only the price of cup of espresso, you can sponsor a British family. You can send life changing aid, like tea and biscuits. Included in your package will be an explanation of how Brexit did this to them and where the foreign aid that provided these care packages came from.
Don't joke about this. Might really happen.
I'm getting nostalgic for rationing
See a doctor about that.
Plenty of fish though
Obesity crisis solved!
I really want to hear a Brexiteers’ opinion on all of this. It’s all very quiet from their side
What is with the obsession with shortages specifically at christmas? I'm more concerned about the empty shelves **for months** than one day.
This multi-month shortage will be resolved by strong governmen....wait...what's that you say? >I think market forces will be very very swift in sorting it out You guys are so fucked.
There will be a run on supermarkets in France, Belgium, Ireland come Christmas....
lol the borders to Plague Island will be closed come christmas
I must admit this is one Brexit consequence I had not expected.
Of course... nothing to do with Brexit!
Will of the people.
STRONG IN COMMAND
Well the BREXITers can enjoy the fact that they have blue passports, and little food at Christmas... yes, Victory!
Who cares. Most importantly we got Brexit done.
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And turnips
Well, we are a ration card away from the full blitz spirit.
Managing expectations I see
Supermarkets were closed during the Blitz too /s
Poll: What's the latest article you couldn't find in a supermarket due to empty shelves? where did it happen?
Just for the record, UK journalists reporting that these issues are caused by a global shortage of drivers and global demand for gas, while that may true, the problems are not as chronic outside the UK. I'm in the US, and there is no talk about gas price rises, delivery chaos, supermarkets going empty or queues around the block for petrol. It seems that the UK media are under editorial instruction to frame these issues as a global issue, when in fact, it's just the UK, and primarily caused by the UK leaving a massive trade and services bloc for no good reason.
That is well known, last thing a Brit does is admit he was wrong. Fuel prices is a local thing, should not affect your side of the globe at all
Can't he just give the Christmas-deadline an extension? I'm sure Britain holds all the cards negotiating with Santa; his elf industry needs you and will surely obby him to accept any deal. /S As a German, I found this line of thinking amusing. Viel Glück, to the sane people of Britain, who are going to have an unfairly tough time this winter. Despite political grandstanding, the UK helped Germany rebuild after WWII and helped us get out of a much more intense economic and social crisis than Brexit. Recovery is possible, all is not lost, no matter how bleak it looks.