Walterp
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- Pembrokeshire
The most notable feature of the British isn't their tolerance, civility or good sense, but their weight - the majority of Brits are overweight or clinically obese. And all those fatties are conditioned to cheap and plentiful grub on demand.
It is why MI5 (motto: 'Regnum Defende') uses the 'four square meals' test to measure the seriousness of security threats to energy installations, fuel deliveries and food supplies - civilisation snaps very quickly when fat people miss several meal-times.
No one has yet explained to the lard-arses that the UK has, gradually, wound down its capacity for food production since the adoption of the CAP, in favour of relying upon other EU farmers to produce it for us - 61% domestically produced, 30% imported from the rest of the EU.
Every so often some UK politician mouths some platitude or other about 'food security' policy but, in truth, what we have been gradually accruing is a 'food insecurity' policy - we have out-sourced food production to other European countries that rate it more highly than we do (and are prepared to subsidise it accordingly).
It is impolite to point out, but incoming food supplies are about to be weaponised by the EU27, who recognise (even if we do not) our strategic weakness in this regard. The Government may, slowly, realise this but it cannot do anything to address it without creating the very panic it seeks to avoid. Rationing is infra dig.
UK food policy is, in reality, just as trapped as its Government - relying on others to produce much of our food is a source of national weakness, and so we should increase domestic production and incentivise farmers accordingly. The need to feed over-rides ideological objections to subsidies, and to a continuation and strengthening of the CAP that is its corollary.
Yet this is an unfashionable message - must we miss a few meals before we come off our high horse?
It is why MI5 (motto: 'Regnum Defende') uses the 'four square meals' test to measure the seriousness of security threats to energy installations, fuel deliveries and food supplies - civilisation snaps very quickly when fat people miss several meal-times.
No one has yet explained to the lard-arses that the UK has, gradually, wound down its capacity for food production since the adoption of the CAP, in favour of relying upon other EU farmers to produce it for us - 61% domestically produced, 30% imported from the rest of the EU.
Every so often some UK politician mouths some platitude or other about 'food security' policy but, in truth, what we have been gradually accruing is a 'food insecurity' policy - we have out-sourced food production to other European countries that rate it more highly than we do (and are prepared to subsidise it accordingly).
It is impolite to point out, but incoming food supplies are about to be weaponised by the EU27, who recognise (even if we do not) our strategic weakness in this regard. The Government may, slowly, realise this but it cannot do anything to address it without creating the very panic it seeks to avoid. Rationing is infra dig.
UK food policy is, in reality, just as trapped as its Government - relying on others to produce much of our food is a source of national weakness, and so we should increase domestic production and incentivise farmers accordingly. The need to feed over-rides ideological objections to subsidies, and to a continuation and strengthening of the CAP that is its corollary.
Yet this is an unfashionable message - must we miss a few meals before we come off our high horse?
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