Self sufficiency

[Barleycorn]

Just been watching several news reports about the French blockade, and our self sufficiency in food (or lack of) has been highlighted.
Could be better times ahead if they take this seriously.

 

[devonbeef]

Just been watching several news reports about the French blockade, and our self sufficiency in food (or lack of) has been highlighted.
Could be better times ahead if they take this seriously.

we can live in hope

 

[legin]

Unfortunately they have short memories.

 

[delilah]

Could be better times ahead if they take this seriously.

'they' being who ?
To tie this in to other threads trending on here, one in three of the carrots served with Christmas dinner on Friday will have been purchased from Tesco.
They will be taking it seriously, but don't imagine for a moment that any of their contingency plans will benefit a farmer near you.

 

[serf]

They couldn't give a fork , they not got a scooby when it comes to getting the best out of this country's patch of dirt !
They just want it to go to scrub for some reason

 

[Nithsdale]

They couldn't give a fork , they not got a scooby when it comes to getting the best out of this country's patch of dirt !
They just want it to go to scrub for some reason

Environment. Greening and being seen to be carbon friendly and saving the planet...


Small print actually reads revert our land back to scrub and move all industry and production abroad so that it can be bought and imported cheap (so long as the £ remains strong) and any nasty pollution is not seen or heard in this country - which makes it not our problem

 

[serf]

Environment. Greening and being seen to be carbon friendly and saving the planet...


Small print actually reads revert our land back to scrub and move all industry and production abroad so that it can be bought and imported cheap (so long as the £ remains strong) and any nasty pollution is not seen or heard in this country - which makes it not our problem

Yep just let em get on with it , keep ur patch ready to go n hope theres a bit of a starve in near future , and the folk with trees n crap on will just have to look at the weeds blowing about safe in the knowledge they are saving the planet !

 

[davieh3350]

Yep just let em get on with it , keep ur patch ready to go n hope theres a bit of a starve in near future , and the folk with trees n crap on will just have to look at the weeds blowing about safe in the knowledge they are saving the planet !

There’s room for both in farming, doesn’t have to be one or the other.

 

[Martin Holden]

Just been watching several news reports about the French blockade, and our self sufficiency in food (or lack of) has been highlighted.
Could be better times ahead if they take this seriously.

Correct. Surely to god in this modern world we can be a bit more self sufficient. Trouble is the population has been conditioned into expecting produce all year round in spite of the climate.

 

[bluebell]

brings home the frightening way modern life is ? i dont remember the winter of 1963 that was below freezing for 3 months ? but i remember the one yes one week of no fuel in 2000 ? and how that if that had gone on just a few weeks longer the near anarchey that would have happened to society ?

 

[Chae1]

Be gutted if there's no lettuce leaves or lemons next week.

They seem more concerned about truckers sh!tt!ng on the verge.

 

[Sid]

Be gutted if there's no lettuce leaves or lemons next week.

They seem more concerned about truckers sh!tt!ng on the verge.

Is that why Kent is the garden of England? All that sh1t?

 

[Sid]

Its stated that we are self sufficient until about the middle of July, well by my reckoning we only got 10 days to go and then we will be alright until July again

 

[delilah]

Is that why Kent is the garden of England? All that sh1t?

It's a corruption. The original phrase was 'Guardian of England' on account of Kent being the frontline in keeping foreign invaders out. What goes around....

 

[Happy]

Be gutted if there's no lettuce leaves or lemons next week.

They seem more concerned about truckers sh!tt!ng on the verge.

Will ruin a lot of peoples prawn cocktail or salmon starters for Christmas dinner if they can’t get lettuce and Lemons

 

[Sid]

It's a corruption. The original phrase was 'Guardian of England' on account of Kent being the frontline in keeping foreign invaders out. What goes around....

Nothing to do with the soft fruit or hops grown there then?

 

[delilah]

Nothing to do with the soft fruit or hops grown there then?

now, yes, as said the garden is a corruption of guardian.

 

[delilah]

Just been watching several news reports about the French blockade, and our self sufficiency in food (or lack of) has been highlighted.
Could be better times ahead if they take this seriously.

Look at it this way. Lets say the PM has a series of zooms lined up for today, with the following 10 bodies, to discuss this issue.
NFU. Defra. Small business federation. Tesco. No 11. Kent County Council. Road haulage federation. Friends of the Earth. LGA. France.
There is one, and only one, of those bodies who know before their meeting that they will get everything, absolutely everything, that they want out of it, for today, tomorrow and all days after.

 

[AftonShepherd]

Anybody in the UK make decent red wine. Asking for a friend.

 

[essex man]

Any situation like this that raises the profile of farmers and food security should be good news for British agriculture.
Presumably bodies who purport to represent us are seizing the moment!?
Or maybe not...