Brexit - What are you going to stockpile?

[Damo]

Have you brexiteers ever contemplated the idea that you might be a part of a suicide cult?

I honestly thought you remainers would be a little more rational by now

[bfcjg]

Im going to stockpile underpants. No Johny Foreigner will deny my meat and two veg a comfortable home whilst out foraging for food to stave of the EU port blockade of carbonara.

[Bin Ont Turf]

I'm also going to stockpile LancasterClaret posts.

Just in case the apocalypse doesn't happen.

[Spiral]

I honestly thought you remainers would be a little more rational by now

I can live with May's deal if the alternative is a brief but ultimately irredeemably damaging experiment in North Korean-esque cooperative arrangements; it's the Tailcoat Taliban hell bent on such arrangements who worry me.

[FactualFrank]

I'm also going to stockpile LancasterClaret posts.
Just in case the apocalypse doesn't happen.

Not a fan of his?

[brexit]

Wow a direct question - 70's east german porn on betamax.
another loser thread

[brexit]

The bit about growing crops in warehouses, as reported in Times today, is true, btw.

Futuristic farming finally grows up

Robots will begin the first harvest at the world’s most technically advanced farm under thousands of powerful LED lights this month.
Crops in the indoor “vertical farm” are growing in trays stacked on 17 levels in columns that reach almost to the ceiling of the 12-metre (40ft) tall building.
The experts behind the farm hope to expand to towns and cities across the country. By opening next to supermarkets the farms could ensure freshness and significantly reduce transport costs, they say.
Their first commercial venture has opened inside a converted cold store in Scunthorpe. Inside it looks more like a pharmaceutical laboratory than the traditional farms in the surrounding Lincolnshire fields.
The “high care” farm is obsessive about cleanliness to reduce the “microbiological loading” of organisms that could contaminate its produce.
Paul Challinor, chief technology officer and co-founder of the Jones Farms Group, said: “Unlike a field we can control everything that affects the plants. We can monitor the air quality, the light, the fertiliser levels. There is no winter, we grow all year round.”
Crops are grown using hydroponics — just water and fertilizer — so there is no messy soil. Seeds are treated with ultraviolet light to reduce the microbes on the surface.
Air passes through medical filters and is heated or cooled to the perfect temperature for growing before entering the farm unit. The atmosphere is kept at a higher pressure than outside to prevent insects sneaking in.
Robots and conveyor belts move the growing trays between each stage from planting to germination, growing and harvesting. The crops can be grown and harvested without any human physical involvement, reducing both costs and the chance of contamination. Staff who monitor the farm have to pass through “air showers” to remove any particles on their clothing before entering and wear all-in-one protective suits.
The first harvest, due to be picked on November 26, is of herbs including basil and coriander but in future it will also grow salad leaves and the high-value plants needed by pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies. The owners say they will be able to grow five crops a year, throughout the year. They aim to grow 420 tonnes of produce in the first year and hope to have opened a further two vertical farms within five years.
Although high-care farms are more common in America and Japan, the owners of the Scunthorpe operation believe it is the most advanced in the world, using the best of the latest technologies. The unit contains 7.6 miles of LED lights, mostly red and blue as they are the best colours for growing plants but some white to allow the four staff to monitor the farm. The lights are on for 16 hours a day.
“You may be able to get three crops a year outside but in this process we can get something every five weeks or even each month . . . and there is a continuity of supply throughout the year,” Dr Challinor said.
“We have already looked at other sites in the Midlands and the south and hope to be running a number of units. We have taken the very latest research and have taken it to a commercial scale and proved the concepts work. We believe this is the largest high-care farming facility in the world and really puts Britain on the map. It is really exciting and we are taking British horticulture to another level and we are trying to use as much British equipment as we can find.”
Similar projects are opening across the world and Intelligent Growth Solutions, based at the James Hutton Institute in Perthshire, opened a vertical farming demonstration facility in August to develop new products that it hopes will be sold internationally.
While some environmentalists criticise the indoor facilities because of the energy used for lighting, supporters claim new bulb technology is bringing down energy use and the farms use significantly less water and fertilisers than traditional farms.
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, a statutory levy board funded by British farmers and growers, last year described developments in LED lighting as a “seismic shift that is set to change fundamentally how we grow plants”.
It said the wavelength, pulse duration and spectral output of light can be manipulated to modify the structural and chemical characteristics of plants, with each species requiring its own unique light “recipe”.

Jesus how many imbeciles are on this board seriously try to keep up with how fast technology
https://www.zdnet.com/article/harvestin ... ed-it-out/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[CrosspoolClarets]

Gold.

May’s deal will stagnate our economy even more than staying in the EU would continue to (with Germany and Eastern Europe continuing to thrive).

Strikes me that short term no deal (even if long term brilliant) and long term May’s deal are at least 80% if odds are added together likely so swinging my savings into gold (including my pension) may be the safest bet for the next decade or so. I really didn’t want to do it this way but if she forces me, so be it.

Option 2 - Swiss Francs / Canadian Dollars.

[Bin Ont Turf]

Not a fan of his?

Usually I am. He's educated in my favourite subject of history and he seems a decent fella.

The Brexit thing has turned him in to a know it all, crystal ball owning teenager though.

[FactualFrank]

Usually I am. He's educated in my favourite subject of history and he seems a decent fella.
The Brexit thing has turned him in to a know it all, crystal ball owning teenager though.

Go with what you think. Nobody knows everything about Brexit, it's all down to what people forecast. And forecasts are often wrong.

[brexit]

Go with what you think. Nobody knows everything about Brexit, it's all down to what people forecast. And forecasts are often wrong.

circulus in probando

[Tribesmen]

Smugness.

[clarethrough]

Epsom salts.......Gets through my blockades

[claretandy]

Do gammon really need more salt?

"Gammon isn't about skin colour"

From your hero....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDhdlSTQAP8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[RocketLawnChair]

Yeah, okay, mate. Apply that last sentence to food.

Nice of you to tell folk with kids and a mortgage that they ought to endure hardship. **** know why, but here we are. Here I am thinking that as a country we should be striving for prosperity.

Have you brexiteers ever contemplated the idea that you might be a part of a suicide cult?

Point 1, I’m not your mate

Point 2 I have three kids and a mortgage

Point 3. I didn’t vote

Hardship may have been the wrong word. But because everything is so readily and instantly available and well stocked and so much food and packaging goes to waste because of this a slower supply chain would in lots cases help grow an appreciation for what you do have as well as having a positive impact on the environment and obesity. A town the size of Burnley doesn’t need theee Macdonalds but we have them you don’t even have to get out of the car at two of them. Take aways all over the ******* place delivering stuff to your front door so you don’t even get off your fat arses. These clog up supply chains creating untold waste and litter and fat *****. We have become a bunch of lazy greedy demanding little bastards who want for nothing for a single minute including all types of food it is obscene.

[JohnMac]

Bratwurst is about the only European foodstuff I would miss.

Lucky for me they are available from European Supermarkets who will continue to thrive in the UK post Brexit regardless.

[RocketLawnChair]

Bratwurst is about the only European foodstuff I would miss.

Lucky for me they are available from European Supermarkets who will continue to thrive in the UK post Brexit regardless.

Not if the wagon is stuck in the port at Dover behind the van delivering to Abra Kebab Ra

[JohnMac]

Not if the wagon is stuck in the port at Dover behind the van delivering to Abra Kebab Ra

I think being a fellow survivor of times of times gone, this may amuse you, unlike many who would 'simply die' if they were denied any of this lot...


If you love food but were a child of the 60’s you should remember most of this;

* Pasta had not been invented. * "Kebab" was not even a word, never mind a food. * Curry was an unknown entity. Indian restaurants were only found in India. * The only vegetables were spuds, peas, carrots, turnip, cauliflower and cabbage. Mange tout and Pak choi were made up words. Chilli was in South America and scotch bonnets were worn by old ladies in Aberdeen.* A take-away was a mathematical problem. * A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.* Oil was for lubricating your bike chain not for cooking.* Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet.*Spice went in Christmas cakes (and so did peel, Yuk).* Herbs were used to make medicine I think.* All crisps were plain.* All soft drinks were called pop. * Coke was something that we put on the fire, we never drunk it and we certainly didn’t sniff it. * Ginger beer burnt your lips off, when you stopped drinking. * Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner. * A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining. * A microwave was science fiction * Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves. The tea-cosy was the forerunner of all energy saving devices. Tea had only one flavour, it was tea flavoured * Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one ever ate them. * Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town. * Mayonnaise was called Salad cream* Hors d'oeuvre was a spelling mistake. * Dinner consisted of what we were given, and not negotiable. * Only Heinz made baked beans.* Leftovers went in the dog. * Sauce was either brown or red. * Eating raw fish was called madness, not sushi. * The only ready meals came from the fish and chip shop. * Frozen food was called ice cream. * Nothing ever went off in the fridge because we never had one. * None of us had ever heard of yoghurt. * Brunch was not a meal. * Cheese only ever came in a hard lump.
* If we had eaten bacon, lettuce and tomato in the same sandwich we would have been certified insane. * Eating outside was called a picnic not Al Fresco. * Seaweed was not a recognised food. * Eggs were not called ‘free range’ they just were, and the shells were white. * Pancakes were only eaten on Pancake Tuesday - it was compulsory. * The phrase "boil in the bag" would have been beyond our realms of comprehension. * The term "oven chips" would not have made any sense at all. * We bought milk and cream at the same time, in the same bottle, before you gave it a shake.* Prunes were purely medicinal. * Pineapples only came in chunks in a tin.* We didn't eat Croissants because we couldn't pronounce them, we couldn't spell them, and we didn't know what they were. * for Baguettes (see Croissants). * Garlic was used to ward off vampires in films, but never to be eaten. * Water came out of the tap; if someone had suggested bottling it and charging for it they would have been locked up

[RocketLawnChair]

I think being a fellow survivor of times of times gone, this may amuse you, unlike many who would 'simply die' if they were denied any of this lot...


If you love food but were a child of the 60’s you should remember most of this;

* Pasta had not been invented. * "Kebab" was not even a word, never mind a food. * Curry was an unknown entity. Indian restaurants were only found in India. * The only vegetables were spuds, peas, carrots, turnip, cauliflower and cabbage. Mange tout and Pak choi were made up words. Chilli was in South America and scotch bonnets were worn by old ladies in Aberdeen.* A take-away was a mathematical problem. * A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.* Oil was for lubricating your bike chain not for cooking.* Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet.*Spice went in Christmas cakes (and so did peel, Yuk).* Herbs were used to make medicine I think.* All crisps were plain.* All soft drinks were called pop. * Coke was something that we put on the fire, we never drunk it and we certainly didn’t sniff it. * Ginger beer burnt your lips off, when you stopped drinking. * Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner. * A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining. * A microwave was science fiction * Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves. The tea-cosy was the forerunner of all energy saving devices. Tea had only one flavour, it was tea flavoured * Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one ever ate them. * Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town. * Mayonnaise was called Salad cream* Hors d'oeuvre was a spelling mistake. * Dinner consisted of what we were given, and not negotiable. * Only Heinz made baked beans.* Leftovers went in the dog. * Sauce was either brown or red. * Eating raw fish was called madness, not sushi. * The only ready meals came from the fish and chip shop. * Frozen food was called ice cream. * Nothing ever went off in the fridge because we never had one. * None of us had ever heard of yoghurt. * Brunch was not a meal. * Cheese only ever came in a hard lump.
* If we had eaten bacon, lettuce and tomato in the same sandwich we would have been certified insane. * Eating outside was called a picnic not Al Fresco. * Seaweed was not a recognised food. * Eggs were not called ‘free range’ they just were, and the shells were white. * Pancakes were only eaten on Pancake Tuesday - it was compulsory. * The phrase "boil in the bag" would have been beyond our realms of comprehension. * The term "oven chips" would not have made any sense at all. * We bought milk and cream at the same time, in the same bottle, before you gave it a shake.* Prunes were purely medicinal. * Pineapples only came in chunks in a tin.* We didn't eat Croissants because we couldn't pronounce them, we couldn't spell them, and we didn't know what they were. * for Baguettes (see Croissants). * Garlic was used to ward off vampires in films, but never to be eaten. * Water came out of the tap; if someone had suggested bottling it and charging for it they would have been locked up

Can you imagine the outrage if their was a power cut whilst you were ordering your Tropicana Pizza with Cheesy Chips and a can of Red Bull online.

[brexit]

Point 3. I didn’t vote

Even the remainders had the balls to follow their conscience so really your options carry no convictions.
As for the three macdonalds blame the council
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/ ... as-england" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[RocketLawnChair]

Even the remainders had the balls to follow their conscience so really your options carry no convictions.
As for the three macdonalds blame the council
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/ ... as-england" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Somebody who finally gets Brexit. Options carried no convictions. Never has a misprint carried so much relevance.

[Bfcboyo]

There's only a certain point up to which you can blame politicians for Brexit. Folk voted for this. Agriculturally, the UK isn't self-sustainable. There isn't enough arable land to feed a population of 66m for a sustained period of time without malnutrition, so the reality is that we're reliant on food imports. That's not an opinion, it's a stone cold fact. The slightest disruption to supply chains has tangible knock on effects. Any chaos can obviously be resolved by 11th hour (and beyond) diplomatic scrambling, but by so casually and wilfully putting ourselves into a situation whereby our supply chains are, in effect, under the same kind of stress brought upon by wartime siege tactics (read, battle of the Atlantic), you'd need to be a special kind of optimist to believe such conditions would represent an advantageous position from which to bargain.

Brexiteers, don't blame anyone but yourself when the Tailcoat Taliban you empower ruin this country. No deal* will be more damaging than Suez
*'No deal' in the current phase of negotiations is a misnomer. 'No deal', in fact, means no legal framework for political and economic disentanglement, and no framework for future cooperation.

It is a bit barmy to compare to a war time siege. Nonsensical drivel in fact.

[Lancasterclaret]

I'm also going to stockpile LancasterClaret posts.

Just in case the apocalypse doesn't happen.

Hey, I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not, you will of course still share them yeah?*

*assuming the country doesn'tgol all Mad Max**

**not a serious post so you can't use that***

***have to point that out cos some of the Brexiteers on here ideas are actually above Mad Max level in their unlikeliness.

[RocketLawnChair]

***have to point that out cos some of the Brexiteers on here ideas are actually above Mad Max level in their unlikeliness.

Unlike the remain supporter who is predicting World War type rationing. All as bad each other LC

[Lancasterclaret]

Got to go to watch my kids football, but lets hope we never find out!

[The Enclosure]

Brilliant post John Mac...... we did have boil in the rag but not boil in the bag.

[Paul Waine]

Got to go to watch my kids football, but lets hope we never find out!

Hope you kids enjoy their football, Lancs. But, what is wrong with you watching? why should know one find out?

[Imploding Turtle]

Got to go to watch my kids football, but lets hope we never find out!

iF YoUr kIdS SiDe lOsEs aRe yOu gOiNg tO DeMaNd a rEmAtCh?

[Paul Waine]

iF YoUr kIdS SiDe lOsEs aRe yOu gOiNg tO DeMaNd a rEmAtCh?

I like that, IT. A reply with humour - and the "right tone."


Made me laugh.

[Foulthrow]

Sweets and prostitutes.

[Bosscat]

iF YoUr kIdS SiDe lOsEs aRe yOu gOiNg tO DeMaNd a rEmAtCh?

Too many Capital letters and thats scary...

"University lecturers told don't use caps" says the Sunday Express.

It reports that lecturers have been asked not to use capital letters when setting assignments because it might make students anxious.

The instructions to staff at Leeds Trinity School are given in a memo on "enhancing student engagement and achievement", setting out the dos and don'ts.

The paper points out the words 'do' and 'don't' are also discouraged!

What is the bloody world coming to

[cricketfieldclarets]

I think being a fellow survivor of times of times gone, this may amuse you, unlike many who would 'simply die' if they were denied any of this lot...


If you love food but were a child of the 60’s you should remember most of this;

* Pasta had not been invented. * "Kebab" was not even a word, never mind a food. * Curry was an unknown entity. Indian restaurants were only found in India. * The only vegetables were spuds, peas, carrots, turnip, cauliflower and cabbage. Mange tout and Pak choi were made up words. Chilli was in South America and scotch bonnets were worn by old ladies in Aberdeen.* A take-away was a mathematical problem. * A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.* Oil was for lubricating your bike chain not for cooking.* Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet.*Spice went in Christmas cakes (and so did peel, Yuk).* Herbs were used to make medicine I think.* All crisps were plain.* All soft drinks were called pop. * Coke was something that we put on the fire, we never drunk it and we certainly didn’t sniff it. * Ginger beer burnt your lips off, when you stopped drinking. * Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner. * A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining. * A microwave was science fiction * Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves. The tea-cosy was the forerunner of all energy saving devices. Tea had only one flavour, it was tea flavoured * Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one ever ate them. * Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town. * Mayonnaise was called Salad cream* Hors d'oeuvre was a spelling mistake. * Dinner consisted of what we were given, and not negotiable. * Only Heinz made baked beans.* Leftovers went in the dog. * Sauce was either brown or red. * Eating raw fish was called madness, not sushi. * The only ready meals came from the fish and chip shop. * Frozen food was called ice cream. * Nothing ever went off in the fridge because we never had one. * None of us had ever heard of yoghurt. * Brunch was not a meal. * Cheese only ever came in a hard lump.
* If we had eaten bacon, lettuce and tomato in the same sandwich we would have been certified insane. * Eating outside was called a picnic not Al Fresco. * Seaweed was not a recognised food. * Eggs were not called ‘free range’ they just were, and the shells were white. * Pancakes were only eaten on Pancake Tuesday - it was compulsory. * The phrase "boil in the bag" would have been beyond our realms of comprehension. * The term "oven chips" would not have made any sense at all. * We bought milk and cream at the same time, in the same bottle, before you gave it a shake.* Prunes were purely medicinal. * Pineapples only came in chunks in a tin.* We didn't eat Croissants because we couldn't pronounce them, we couldn't spell them, and we didn't know what they were. * for Baguettes (see Croissants). * Garlic was used to ward off vampires in films, but never to be eaten. * Water came out of the tap; if someone had suggested bottling it and charging for it they would have been locked up

outstanding. Please tell me you didnt pinch that.

[RocketLawnChair]

iF YoUr kIdS SiDe lOsEs aRe yOu gOiNg tO DeMaNd a rEmAtCh?

No. He will accept the result like a grown up should.

[Cubanclaret]

Go with what you think. Nobody knows everything about Brexit, it's all down to what people forecast. And forecasts are often wrong.

Nobody knows anything about Brexit. Never mind everything.

[Spiral]

It is a bit barmy to compare to a war time siege. Nonsensical drivel in fact.

If you didn't read the rest of my post I can understand how you'd feel that way, but ports blocking up absolutely does put similar kind of stress on supply chains as a siege, however brief it may be. It doesn't require a wild imagination to envisage how. Whether it's through war or a diplomatic black hole, a delay is delayed. I noticed you didn't care to challenge the rest of my post.

[South West Claret.]

Not worried about anything as the pressure is growing from a number of interested groups for the "First Informed Referendum" so stockpiling will not be required IMHO.

[Spiral]

It wouldn't be required with a deal, either, but there are people hell bent on leaving without one.

[Ooogeorgeorgeoghani]

Blonde witch

[Stayingup]

We can get food, cheaper as well, from outside the EU WITHOUT their protective tarrifs.
Question might well be, in case we suddenly act as irresponsible as they have, what will they miss from us. A lot and we'll be far more competitive but not under this nonesensensical brainless deal May wants us to accept.

[Stayingup]

It wouldn't be required with a deal, either, but there are people hell bent on leaving without one.

It's a last resort. What people want is a fair deal but the EU won't give one for the simple reason of deterring others from leaving. That is others who are net contributors like us.

[box_of_frogs]

Germany’s finest grumble flicks.

[Bosscat]

Doom Bar

[kentonclaret]

Haemorrhoids cream and Vaseline (or is it vassalage?).


Could well be some problems with the backstop.

[JohnMac]

outstanding. Please tell me you didnt pinch that.

Of course I nicked it


But I do remember all of it being true

[RingoMcCartney]

Given there's clearly an over supply of it, regards what is going to happen after we leave the EU. Nobody needs to worry about running out of 8ullsh1tt......

[evensteadiereddie]

Irony ?

[LoveCurryPies]

Watching the European leaders on the news, it struck me that France & Germany are growing ever closer. Maybe Europe might become a tighter, closer unit. We will be the outsiders...the country that was frequently a pain in their side.

[Imploding Turtle]

I honestly thought you remainers would be a little more rational by now

We never really expected any kind of rationality from you.

[moaninclaret]

Burnley season tickets

[k90bfc]

Haffners Claret n Steak pies!