Why is the UK Running out of Food (and is it Brexit)?
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Over the last few weeks, the UK has become accustom to finding empty shelves in supermarkets. The thing is, that unlike during COVID, this is a fairly UK specific phenonium. So why is Britain running out of food, and is Brexit to blame?
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2022: Can this lettuce last longer than Liz Truss? 2023: Who is Liz Truss? What is a lettuce?
very good, 😁
Tories took revenge on lettuces for making them look bad
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In a couple of months we'll regret wasting that lettuce 🤣🤣
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Before Brexit: We're gonna have more money for NHS than we'll know what to do with!
After Brexit: Cucumbers are gone. Have you tried eating a shitload of turnips?
I failed to get turnips in my last food delivery (wanted for a stew) so tried and failed.
They started running out of turnips too.
The NHS is getting more money than ever. Perhaps that's part of the problem.
@@someguy4405 We also have the largest population ever in the UK. Maybe the two are directly related...
I love turnips. I used to get them from Aldi and ate one daily but they no longer sell them. Plenty of carrots, potatoes, swede, cabbage for cheap though.
When the Brexiteers said they wanted to turn back the clock, I never thought they'd turn it back to the 1930s.
or the 1390s !.
Nah the 1930s went hard
The UK were the world superpower
You mean the 1970s
When I looked for "Can the UK feed itself" that was the first hit: The UK is not self-sufficient in food production; it imports 48% of the total food consumed and the proportion is rising. Therefore, as a food-trading nation, the UK relies on both imports and a thriving agricultural sector to feed itself and drive economic growth.
I asume every government in Westminster should know this basic fact but course not the Tories. But hey, thoughts and prayers, right?
You're acting like they'd care. They do know this, but they don't care. Farming policy has been atrocious for decades - it's been treated as a novelty, whilst the Uk has become 4x as reliant on imports as pretty much anywhere else In europe; even countries that don't have some of the geographical advantages the UK does, such as plenty of croppable land.
Using populist sentiment of sovereignty to displace rational thought, the government did as the people demanded of them and created Brexit instead of actually governing.
That's why I was surprised that the guy in this video says "UK probably produces enough food to feed itself"?? Surely not without some totalitarian/military food rationing. I think I read some time ago (well before brexit) that if Britain really committed all the land for food produce it would still be only enough for 70% of needs... I don't know what was the source and was it reliable but it does make sense if currently 48% of the food is imported....
@@mikolaj77edi The UK has never been particularly good at feeding itself. This has nothing to do with quotas. The ones affecting production in the UK were mainly fish (to prevent depletion of stocks) and dairy (for economic reasons, because it kept prices for farmers up and prevented a race to the bottom). Now, the UK could embrace US-style megafarms, but that won't go down well with Conservative voters, many of whom are farmers.
We export a lot of food to the continental Europe as they're prepared to pay more for it. Fish and veal are the obvious.
No other European country is running out of food. But no other European country raised trade barriers against themselves. The wealthy Tories sacrificed the common people to safeguard their wealth and were supported by those very people. British education at its best.
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My European country doesn't have as much rape as England, then again we are 96% homogenous :)
UK isn't running out either, shops are full with food. EU FAKE NEWS
We're not running out of food but if you paid attention to the presentation you find he admits it isn't because we left. He contradicts himself by admitting that growers are cutting back. That is due to droughts across Europe, legacy of Covid lockdown, also the growing anti-outsider sentiment in Europe which dissuades some from seasonal work there.
To be honest we do have some shortage to in the Netherlands not that we have empty shells but 1 or 2 subspecies of tomato's are very difficult to get right now. Ofcoarse plenty of other ones are still around so unless you are exceptionally picky not a real problem.
Not gonna lie, as a Brit living in the EU who got given the finger by Brexiteers, it is funny to see their dream to go back to the glory days come true…. with food rationing.
Edit: this clearly triggered alot of remainers who are annoyed they are also losing out. Welcome to the club, us living in the EU have been saying it for years and ignored by both sides. Don’t expect sympathy from me now when you happily ignored people like me for years.
It's funny until you realise the 50% of those who voted remain also have to deal with this
Seconded. Celebrated 3rd anniversary of leaving little brexitannia this very weekend.
Our party buffet was tomato themed 😂.
Greetings from Bavaria
@@dog811 you’re asking for sympathy from a group that lost the most and basically got ignored by both sides for the last 5 years.
Yeah, sucks for remainers, but oh well, same lip service they paid us.
Breiteers got EXACTLY what they voted for, by a very narrow margin, the trouble is so do the rest of us who had the common sense to think things through.
Its a bit of salad with tasteless tomatoes. I live in Cyprus EU, I can't get turnip or swede that is fit to eat but then we have a labour shortage here too, and nurses ,medicines, lorry drivers.....etc
"Things aren't going well for the UK at the moment" seems to be a common theme recently
I was in a large Tesco last week and there were NO tomatoes and very little salad and bits of veg. There were lots of empty shelves with signs that read ‘due to adverse weather conditions etc shortages etc . . . .’ So I went to find a store manager and asked him what the issue was with the weather. To which he replied ‘it’s brexit, they’re lying to you. It’s nothing to do with the weather it’s all Brexit’
Well it wouldn’t take an expert to figure that out, if a neighbouring country like France has everything but we don’t then it pretty much narrows down the reason for this happening. Brexit.
@@IhaveBigFeet A neighbouring country like France is the largest agriculture produces in Europe, has much better climate conditions for growing vegetables.
When was the UK last self-sustaining in food production?
@@cezar3977 okay then mate there’s no food shortages in Sweden and what can they grow?
Lol. I tell customers the same thing. They'll never say anything that will make them look bad. 😁
@@ladymeldiriel9486 it is true though as it is not a specific store or brand that has the issue. it is spread country wide . And what sets GB appart from other countries in Europe that do not have this issue? *drummroll * BREXIT! Yes in all countries you can see rising prices witch are due to the increase in production costs and bad harvest but you see a lot less empty shelves. There is a more similar situation in the Canary islands btw. who are also not part of the EU economically. There was no brocoly for quite a while ...
Brexit is not the sole cause, but crucially, it makes Britain way more susceptible to any kind of hiccup in the supply chain, and this is a perfect example. Because trading with the UK is now so much more complicated, involves more paperwork, and in general takes a lot longer, Britain is always going to be the first one affected. So a lower crop yield means a price hike on the continent, I saw one report from Germany mocking a cucumber priced at over 3 euros, it means empty shelves in the UK.
When there are low stocks in the EU of items then EU members will get what's available first as it's less work to ship to EU countries.
It's kind of logical if you think about it.
So if its not the "sole cause" can you name any other causes? And dont bring up covid and "the war". We've all had to cope with that, you'd think that only the UK had covid and "the war".
@@batcollins3714 Poor weather and energy prices. It's there in the video.
@@batcollins3714 Britain hasn't really been worse than anywhere else. Most of this anti-Brexit narrative is largely media sensationalism. Most of the issues plaguing europe are linked to COVID, inflation and the instability on the main continent and not Brexit.
@@batcollins3714 That's exactly my point. The rest of Europe has to deal with all of those factors too, causing a rise in prices. But because trade with Britain is now much more difficult than it used to be, that's the first place exporters stop shipping to, which leads to actual empty shelves. There are no empty shelves on the continent, at least not to the extent that you see in Britain.
Remember when Farage told everyone back in 2016 that we as a country will get to embrace traditional British foods. Glad that is playing out
Farage partly to blame for one crisis after another,we should never have left
@@derekbrown7892 agreed. It was a huge mistake
Farage said illegal immigration would be over its much worse now than before Brexit
@@derekbrown7892 sadly a lot of people still love him.
@@derekbrown7892
You still accepting illegal immigrant with or without EU
I'm surprised you didn't mention that farmers spoke out about supermarkets not paying farmers more for their eggs when they increased how much the public were paying.
I have started buying my eggs straight from farmers and it is 25% to 40% cheaper than in the supermarket. Much better eggs too
@Casa Parisiense we dont all live in the countryside
Many farmers had plenty of eggs but they refused to sell them on to supermarkets at the same price after the supermarkets upped the price of eggs, that's why so many local shops were pretty well stocked with eggs but the big supermarkets were not
Seeing this too
Yeah, I figured the rise of egg prices was complete nonsense... Just good ol'e-fashioned profiteering...
so easily fixed then, buy from the small shops & they can buy additional supplies to meet the need, from the stock that would usually go to the supermarkets :)
Local Asian grocery store near me never ran out of toiletpaper all pandemic either, cause the panic buyers were a different demographic, one that would never set foot in an Asian store lol. Same applied to everything else they sold too & still does & they still haven't raised prices :) They used to be more expensive than the big stores, but since covid, they've been cheaper, cause the big stores are profiting more, while the little guys have always just taken what they need to operate. Supporting the little guys is a good thing to do :)
@@mehere8038 LOL, I 100% agree with the asian store thing as I have seen the exact same thing! When there was no pasta, flour or toilet paper in my local Tesco - the asian store RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET had everything stocked as usual! It's ridiculous, since all that divides the two is a minute to cross the road...
@@TheUltimateBlooper lol the road, AND the cultural divide! Was super funny, here in Australia at least, listening to the sky news watchers ranting about how "the Asians are buying all the toiletpaper to send to China, that's why there's none in stores" & all the rest of their racist rants, all while the Asian (and Middle Eastern) stores has zero supply issues & in reality, it was the sky news watching bogans that were the problem lol. Those right wing people would NEVER cross the road to enter the Asian grocery store! Hence why it remained fully stocked :)
& our version of the bbc, btw, had been advising us to buy 2-4 weeks of supplies from when the pandemic first started (January or February, can't remember exactly when now, but way before the panic buying). They'd told us to buy an extra 1-2 cans/packs of a few items each time we did our usual shop, until we had built up the supplies for 2-4 weeks, in case we needed to isolate, or supply chains failed, which I did & everyone else getting news from them did, was actually a really nice vibe, going shopping in the evening, around restock time, stores were full of people buying extra stuff, BUT being really respectful & careful in what we bought, only buying items in ample supply & leaving anything low in stock & it was easy to see who was doing the same thing, due to multiple cans/containers of the same food in trolleys & it became a conversation starter & we were all sharing ideas on what else to buy in things we had each potentially not thought of, powdered milk was one suggested to me, Asian grocery store to buy 10kg bags of rice, so as to not impact supermarket supplies with the little bags was another, I suggested alfalfa & mung beans to sprout to a couple of people, we were just sharing the knowledge & getting ready, so by the time the panic buying started, most people already had what they needed to endure the panic buying faze, but we just had to use our stock up supplies on that, instead of if isolating (then rebuy when stuff came back in stock) & we were the same whites buying from Asian groceries already, so we already had everything we needed from them before the dramas & the Asian people, likewise had either bought early, due to what was happening in China, or they were looking at the 1-2 tonnes of rice in the store, that was still there & so not feeling any need to panic buy, so there was just no reason for any ethnic grocery stores to face shortages, since bogans refused to enter them to panic buy. Not sure how it went there, but I'm guessing probably similar with the demographics doing stuff. I think our panic buying was some of the world's worst too, not sure, but that's the impression I get, probably cause our government released the pandemic response plan in Feb (again, way before the panic buying) & it gave 3 possible scenarios in it that they were expecting/preparing for, the worst one being total supply chain failure, 40% of the workforce off work at any given time, due to illness or caregiving & army needed to guard food & medication supplies & bury bodies, so when sky news & their viewers finally got around to reading that, that kinda started a lot of the panic lol
Was really funny in a lot of ways! I actually went to a supermarket, just to take photos of the shelves & stare, stunned! (and again, I wasn't alone & I got chatting with a few others who were doing the same thing)
bogans here were really upset about it at first, to the rest of us, it was just funny. Later on, I'm sure it just became a game that people played everytime something was announced
It won't be permanent but any time there are low stocks of items in the EU then EU members will get them first, as it's less work for the distributors to ship within the EU.
You'll also notice fresh produce from the EU isn't as fresh anymore, shorter shelf life due to longer shipping times.
Welcome to the Brexit sir !!
Seriously it's at times like this I'm glad to live in Northern Ireland when I moved here as a kid I hated it but now twenty years later as a grown man I'm so damn happy I'm living here and not in GB.
We've been protected from one of the most destructive aspects of Brexit and at the same time proving how stupid it was and the best part of Brexit is it has hastened Irish re unification what would have taken decades will now take years and personally I can't wait I'd much rather take my chances with the Irish government than the British one.
Why are the brits complaining ? Because this is what they vote for
Most of our foodstuffs don't come from Europe, Spain aside. For example - tinned fruit - Australia, S Africa. Bananas - Caribbean. Presenter contradicts himself - European growers cutting back but then says the problem is worse here. Employers have become lazy, accustomed to exploiting Romanians & Bulgarians - 3rd class Europeans.
@@NIGHTSTALKER973 Irish Times and Irish Examiner reported food shortages until May in Ireland, which is part of EU so Northern Ireland shelves are full ok, but are Irish shelves empty as well? We have full shelves here in Cambs.
@@deidresable Shelves are full.....stop believing all you hear, most is propaganda as usual.
5:30 It is funny how Brits wanted independence from EU influence, but a country outside striking (French and Spain here) still can cause Brits to have supply disruption.
BRITS wanted independence.
NOT the british government.
key difference
@@stanisawzokiewski3308All sold on lies.
The supply chain for pretty much everything is still global, this will probably never change now, we all have to cooperate to a certain degree. A country the size of the UK can not produce enough food (or varied foods to be more accurate) to sustain it’s population, especially when nobody wants to be a farmer anymore.
Globalised supply chains cause this. Leaving the EU isn't going to change this.
Funnily, the turnip advice is actually the kinda advice that anti-globalists should be following. Eat what your nation can produce, problem solved. Issue is, the UK public has an entitled attitude to everything.
@@stanisawzokiewski3308 the referendum was called by the prime minister on a gamble thinking he would win and then brush aside his rivals in the UKIP party. He never thought about what would happen if leave won.
They've gone from bad food to having no food at all
Germany also imports tons of food from Morocco and Spain, but I can't say I have experienced any shortages here. And energy costs is having its impact, too. But we definitely see quite a price spike on many produce.
I voted to remain in the EU, I even left the EU and worked in the Netherlands. But my grandfather was dying and I went back to say my goodbyes. At the exact same time, within days of him dying and 2 days before I was flying back home lockdown happened and I couldn’t leave the UK. Effectively was trapped in the UK. Now it’s falling apart, it low-key pisses me off that I’m forced into something I never wanted to be a part of
Try again now. You will be welcomed.
Democracy means people can make mistakes. That is why - at least from time to time - we need to engage other people and explain our point of view. And as often as we can we should fight propaganda (e.g. by sharing our point of view on top of a propaganda lie) and not let it free flow in the people's minds.
I'm so sorry. I was just about to move to Germany when Brexit hit, and then again just before the pandemic- now I'm trapped in England and I hate it here.
@@Maazzzo How is Germany at the moment?
@@gnrseanra9070 cold
I had a salad joke, but I tossed it.
Har har har 😑
Lucky you didn't make it or you'd risk a public dressing-down
To bad you have a Rim Shot.
Given that the rest of the EU doesn't have that issue, if it isn't Brexit, it certainly is a UK specific issue.
Maybe you should try actually looking at European fuel prices over the last 2 years.
@@fredbloggs5902 I know them well, since I have a petrol engine car. They're below the pre war level again. Have been for a few months now. At their height they were about 30 cents per liter more expensive than now, maybe 40, if you really couldn't wait for the right day of the week to fill up. But they were never rationed or non-available.
Also not what the video was about. It was about vegetable supply in supermarkets, and guess what, not an issue in the EU. I could have bought all the cucumbers or tomatoes I wanted earlier today when I happen to quickly head out, because I was missing something important. Not a single type of vegetable was sold out, and virtually all had full stocks. Sure there are things like asparagus that isn't carried out of season, but that isn't news. There is no food shortage, or even really a difference in food stock in Europe. Even the availability of cooking oil, one of the few things actually majorly impacted by the Ukraine war, is back to normal now. If the UK has issues right now, they are not the same issues the EU had.
Picking fruit and vegetables was a pretty awesome summer job. I understand it won't fill the entire schedule of farmers... but maybe its a nice addition for the UK youth over the summer holiday? Its hard work, but you're out in the sun and, at least the farmers I worked for, are provided with plenty of food during the day.
I could never quite keep up with the seasonal workers from eastern Europe though.
British ppl arent keen on physical labour
iNdEpeNdanS... while relying on food imports to survive.
there were more remainers in england than scotland wales and northern ireland's whole population combined
not everyone here wanted to leave
47% out of about 30m englishmen is alot (13m)
@@QuandaleDingle-ji2tj we know the brits who have basic economic education can predict the disaster comming and voted against brexit
You rely on at least 50% imports of food or you will have a famine coming, if not solved quickly.
What about a short trip across the ponds to Australia getting your beef and fresh produce there, which was one of the big talking points of Brexiteers, wasn't it?
Or the U.S. where everything cost triple what we Europeans pay. Order there.
Your old new best friends.
Exactly. The Brexiteers' vision of independence is grounded in a vision of the world that no longer exists. You're always depending on somebody else unless you're China or the USA (and even they do).
@Paul Hitchens Classic sanctimonious, condescending & supercilious Brit from 1850...It's 2023, in case you haven't noticed and there is no British Empire!
Brexiter: "In 1800 we survived without all these stupid vegetables and who wants these pesky EU vegetables when you can have UK turnips while hating the EU at the same time. Win win situation...."
that's because in the 1800's brits stole the food from the Irish. and in the 1900's brits stole food from India. Who knew a net importer leaving the single market would end up bad for the importer.
@jamesp4132
Stealing implies the crops were grown by the farmer and taken by the British, it wasn't. It's purpose was for the British originally.
@@reheyesd8666 yes the land stolen by the Brits.
@@reheyesd8666 The food was grow by Irish farmers but taken as rent by the English for the land that was stolen from them so yes it literally was.
When a potato disease in Ireland disrupted this and caused widespread starvation importation of cheap corn from the USA was proposed but rejected by the English aristocracy as it would cut the price of wheat produced on their farms in England, these were called The Corn Laws, this caused millions of deaths and forced emigration and this was also replicated in India when food needed by locals was taken to Britain during the wars.
I'm informing you of this so you understand the hatred of England and the British empire that endures this day.
Num num
Of course the massive irony of Theresa Coffeys comment at 2:50 is that turnips are a summer vegetable 🙄
This should really be a wake up call to everyone that shipping food unneccessarily around the world is a lousy use of oil and transport resources. Food always used to be seasonal and was better for it. Tomatoes, strawberries and a host of other foods grown naturally in-season (without energy guzzing heated greenhouses) used to taste better and the natural changing of food with the seasons created excitement, anticipation and variety. Is it really worth burning fuel that we aren't getting back to have watery, tasteless strawberries on the shelves at Christmas?
The best comment under this video!!!
Please pin it at the top in enlarged bold font type.
I am from a country where we still consume fruits and vegetables when these are in season. The greed and lust of Europeans for tropical fruits at any time of the year is quite shocking and damaging as well.
@@cezar3977 Thank you! 😊
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia And it's relatively recent too. I grew up in the 1970s in the UK and I can remember strawberries only being available in-season. A small number of supermarkets have too much power over both the supply chain and customer expectations, at least in this country.
I live in a part of north-Spain, that is basically desertic (apart from the mountains and the Ebro-river zone). We spend an awfull amount of water and energy to produce RICE......... it is even a trademark "Rice from Aragon"........wonder how long we are going to be able to do this.........
We should definitively aim to eat as much local food as posible, but local food, produced in concordance to the weather and soil conditions of our nearest enviroment.........
Government sources now say “one fruit or veg, every other day is probably enough”
It's important to get your five a fortnight!
Well its enough not to give you scurvy
I bet, they are not reducing vegs and fruit in Westminster.
Strong "They should eat cake" vibes from Therese Coffee
Now there's a woman who clearly hasn't had to miss a meal for a while.
Yeah cofey looks like shes been eating plenty of cakes
She will be the first to be eaten if the famine is here
Imagine a first world country that used to rule most of the world 100 years ago and are struggling with high cost, food shortages
Well let's asusme what you say is true, it wouldn't be the first time in the last hundred years would it? Unless you're a child and can only remember the naughties.
@J J Are you trying to remind me of the great depression, recession and word war 2?
Lol that’s the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen typed. Ever had a look at Russia, Mongolia, or hell, even Spain and Portugal? All very powerful countries at their pique, and are now irrelevant internationally. Ever big empires falls, and the aftershock usually hits hard.
It's ridiculous that the UK government has excluded agricultural farmers for financial support for the energy price rises. They were warned ages ago about this, and now this mess is happening. We'd still have shortages, but they would have been ameliorated.
You can add Lidl to the list. Just this weekend I saw a notice in a Lidl store in Beckton saying: "Tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are limited to 3 units per customer". Regardless the reason, this is really sad for a country pretending to be part of the developed world. It reminds me of the 80's in my home country, before the fall of the iron curtain, with empty shelves and almost everything being rationed...
Legit, I feel like I’m living in the Soviet Union
you eat more than 3 cucumbers a day?
@@yourealittlebitfat4344 You go shopping every day? I go shopping once ever 7-14 days so yes being only able to buy 3 cucumbers means I have to continuously return to the store more than I have to. Use some logic.
@@yourealittlebitfat4344 No, I don't, but that's not the point. If I really want to eat 4, I actually can, I can just buy from 2 different places. Back in the 80's, I could literally buy e.g. only 1Kg of sugar in a month (we had ration books), and guess what, it was more than enough; even today, I think I don't consume more than 2Kg of sugar in a whole year. It's not about the constraint itself, it's about the principle.
No you don't feel like you are living in the soviet union. I wouldn't even joke about that. More dead there than during the holocaust.
The nation as a whole might be experiencing a shortage of vegetables but the Palace of Westminster is packed full of them, especially in the ranks of the CON gang.
Although probably an insult to vegetables 😆😆😆
I travel back and forth to different EU countries weekly … British super markets look like charity shops compared to them 😢
Let’s be honest, England looks like a huge decaying slag heap compared with most European countries in general
Those that voted for Brexit can fix this problem relatively quickly. They can go to the field and pick the crops! You're welcome, Britan.
On the morning the result of the referendum was announced I thought 'Alright, get on with it,' not realising that there was no plan as the leave campaign didn't think they would win. The level of incompetence on display has been almost impressive.
So true, regardless of which way anyone voted in don't think many could argue that this has gone well. The problem, as I see it, is that politicians from all parties seem to have a huge problem listening to anyone but themselves, a point which was proven this morning, this country has a wealth of brilliant businessmen from hundreds of different industries who could've acted as consultants and made this painless. Have they been asked? Of course not and the reason why, again just my opinion, is because parliament has more remainers than brexiteers and they are determined to make it fail.
part of the leave camp had no plan. Another part wanted to cause as much chaos as possible because they were betting money on the UK economy tanking and were looking forward to making big bucks out of it
@@sambrooks7862 I think it more likely they weren't consulted because they disagreed, I don't see how remain voters have had any influence since the result, haven't been in power.
@@mrmr446 ok, Tony Blair hasn't been in power since 2008 but he still has influence so I don't get your point, there are people from both camps on both sides of the house and since the referendum they have done their best to scupper brexit, in what world was putting the ardent remainer Teresa may in number 10 anything other than trying to make the process as difficult as possible and her efforts as PM proved it.
@@sambrooks7862 Blair has influence but not over the negotiations, it was the Tories who put May in power and her efforts as PM were essentially to tell both sides of the party, those who wanted a hard brexit and those who took a more nuanced view, what they wanted to hear. Leaving an organisation like the EU was never going to be simple but having a unified approach to negotiations would have been sensible from the start and that wasn't possible with Tory infighting.
Every single economic institution, news outlet, and politically engaged talk show host was saying this in 2016. "Food shortages will happen" "Drums of preserved foods will be on the menu" "Mummified chicken for dinner", and so on and so forth. Frankly I am not even the slightest bit surprised about this. And I can't really feel bad for them, since they did all of this to themselves.
Yeah, forget bad weather, the after-effects of the pandemic, and war!
@@adarkimpurity The UK, the only nation on Earth to be hit by bad weather, the pandemic, and war!
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia There are shortages in the EU from the bad weather in Spain and N. Africa and the war on their border.
People posting pics from two summers ago does not negate that.
Why is Ireland rationing veg then too?
Oh, and the fact tomatoes etc are still in our stores!
So many lies, exaggerations, and hypocrisy.
@@adarkimpurity the same that affects ALL COUNTRIES IN EUROPE? That one?
@@adarkimpurity mmm no one living in mainland Europe experiences empty supermarket shelfs or other shortages that UK is now periodically experiencing
But guess Brexiteers are not the sharpest tool on the box are they?
I'd like to thank the UK for singlehandedly raising the approval rating of the EU. Brexit was such a fundamentally horrible idea, & I have no idea how anybody fell for it.
racists
Another factor that seems to have been missed by much of the media is that due to the supermarket price war that has been ongoing for many years since Aldi and Lidl moved into the UK market - UK supermarket pricing for these items is significantly lower than many other European nations. Social media was flooded last week with images of fully stocked supermarket shelves in France for example, but when you zoom in and look at the prices they were over double what people in the UK are used to paying for the same goods. The shortages are all at the lowest cost retailers due to agricultural issues from the lowest cost suppliers. The resistance of the UK market to outbidding other markets and passing the cost on to the consumer is a very relevant part of this story.
Indeed it is, but it’s much easier to blame it all on Brexit
Or on German owned retailers, it's always the others, never Brexit. Exiting the single market and self-sanctioning has nothing do with it. Never. Lalalala...
I'm waiting for conservatives to give "Venezuela" as an example, so I can respond with "UK".
overregulating farmers isnt capitalism
>When you ban badger culling in areas where badgers have lots of TB so you have all your cattle getting TB so you have to cull your cattle so farmers have to spend lots more money on getting more cattle so farming becomes too expensive so people give up so you have to import food.
Bruh.
@@stanisawzokiewski3308
Regulation of lack thereof isn’t the definition of capitalism
@@stanisawzokiewski3308 how is capitalism relevant here?
Venezuela is permanent shortage
I couldn’t even get turnips in my last online shop. Therese Coffey clearly has no idea that we import turnips just as often as apples and tomatoes
Therese Coffey clearly has no idea.
About anything.
Even with things we grow lot of here. We grow enough to supply the usual demand, expecting that people will also be eating a bunch of other stuff. If the supply of that other stuff is reduced and people start buying turnips instead then there aren't going to be enough of them to go round either. It's almost like these people in charge of our economy dont understand the concept of supply and demand.
I don't believe you. Nobody called Tyler ever ate turnips.
@@WhichDoctor1 Don't forget also that we have grown less the usual this winter due to a combination of rising energy prices to heat the greenhouses and the government's failure to replace the lost EU farming subsidies. Farmers literally couldn't afford to grow their usual crops.
There are tomatoes and turnips
Hailing from The Netherlands: We don't have a great shortage of fruits and vegtables but there do seem to be some supply chain and staffing problems, resulting in empty shelves. On top of that prices are rising steadily by the week. It's very worrying. We don't know when it will end. And furthermore, will they ever go down now that they have risen? So maybe it's not as dramatic as in the UK, but we're feeling it too! My hearts go out to you..
What the Brits call cooking is cruelty against food
I was in London during the weekend and couldn’t find eggs in any grocery store… there’s always some lame excuse going on for food shortages (avian flu, floods in Morocco, weather issues in south of Spain). I live in switzerland, we import massively, and you don’t see any empty shelf like you do in the UK. Brexit or not, I feel sorry for you
Us, in London, feel more than sorry but enraged that we let this happen and people keep quiet.
Some of you. Others, a lot of others still love brexit, they believe the lies they were told for about a decade. Even with reams of evidence to the contrary.
People also love Boris Johnson. Fact of the matter is the majority of the British public don't know when they are being played.
Remember MPs struggling not to call the majority of the public fools? Cos they are right. Democracy only works with a well informed people. Wish our country was full of informed people instead of idiots who believe what they want to believe whether or not it is true.
Priti Patel thought she would leverage food supplies against Ireland. Made veiled threats about it in the news.
(she didn't check first, as if she had she would have seen Ireland is a net food exporter).
Bring her to me.
Tbh this has been the worst winter for a long time for eggs because of the highly pathogenic avian influenza and that isn't down to brexit, that's happening worldwide in areas where migratory birds bring the flu down from the northernmost areas. Everything else like fruit and veg definitely is brexit though.
Not Brexit i can assure you. Europe are not exporting those foods to us as they need them themselves, Spain having had freezing weather for days effecting tomato growth, Holland who are not heating green houses earlier due to energy prices effecting many vegetables.
The government that argued "Everything will be better with Brexit" can't really blame people for seeing Brexit as the cause when things go badly (even if it isn't entirely fair).
It might not be "entirely fair" but its entirely true.
we never left the eu they have been lying
brexit killed your markets agility, making it less able to adjust to things like this. Brexit didn't cause it, but seems to stop you from fixing it.
Who are you referring too? We haven't had a pro independence government yet
@@theantagonist2147 “insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein
Basically Brexit:
1: something + Brexit
2: other thing + Brexit
3: Brexit
This government need gone ASAP.
So it’s the old ‘We can’t have cheap slave labour’ argument from farmers.
As a french I've noticed that bell peppers have like tripled in price but that's about it
Edit : I've checked today and they went down to "just" double the normal price lol
Same! Tho I have noticed a slight increase in prices across the board (due to inflation). Now there are reports that some outlets like carrefour will freeze prices to brace further inflation
The prices are lower in the UK.
@@davidthompson4383 Examples, please ?
@@fromkethertomalkuth-qg9pj He means the rotten ones.
Prices in Germany have gone up too, but the shelves are fully stocked.
Living in Canada (hello UK!) I’ve also noticed higher cost of living.
But now I feel better because having slightly most expensive stuff at our shops is better than nothing at all.
And even then we got 15 lovely tomatoes yesterday for just a few dollars.
The UK has some of the most pasturable and arable land in the world. The reason the UK is struggling with food is because it has betrayed and belittled it’s own farmers.
Worrying that you missed one of the biggest, if not the biggest contributing factor which is the bizarre supply chain rules supermarkets have chosen to enforce on limiting price variance from farmers. When the cost to produce goes up (e.g. because of fertiliser price increases) supermarkets prevent growers from increasing pricing. So they ship to EU supermarkets that dont enforce this rule (sensibly). This has nothing to do with Brexit and is down to the anomoly of the UK supply chain that needs to be corrected as does fixing the replacement for the common agricultural policy which is shameful it has been fixed for farmers. Brexit has its part to play, but the terrible follow up implementation has a major factor too.
There was no plan for Brexit, except "Get Brexit Done". What an omnishambles.
We 'll we don't enforce that rule but the supermarkets try to do it themselves over here.
You shouldn't be worried. This channel is student-tier half-baked incomplete nonsense most of the time.
another comment is mentioning their local store has ample eggs, despite the major chains being out, exactly because of this, so there's the solution for you, if everyone boycotts the big stores who are doing the wrong thing, eventually they will have to do the right thing. We did something similar in Australia, kicked up such a fuss over unfair milk payments to farmers, that supermarkets were forced to add an additional range that cost 10cents more, with that 10 cents going fully to farmers - their way of proving they couldn't do as consumers wanted & increase prices without a huge backlash & problem. They expected that plan would end the whold discussion, they'd sell the more expsneive milk for a few months, then pull it, saying such & such number had expired unbought, so it wasn't viable to continue. What actually happened was the exact opposite, consumers refused to buy the cheaper milk, buying only the one that resulted in proper payments to farmers, so they had to dump their original & commit to a long term agreement to increase what they were paying farmers. That was back before covid, would be questionable if people would be willing to pay more like that now, but they got the message clearly enough that they're not trying to rip off farmers again on any produce! If a community works together, it IS possible to take down the big supermarkets on stuff like this!
@@mehere8038Morrisons supermarket in England has 'farmers milk' that you pay extra for but unfortunately most people still buy the cheaper version.
Tories will still blame covid
partial truth
@@memorymeme51 it's not though is it. Because in Ireland I can go to my supermarket and throw a vegetable parade for 10 euro whenever I want.
@@aightm8 How does that disprove Brexit is at fault? I mean, if anything, Ireland, which is still tied to the EU, would be spared from the issue if it was Brexit-related
@@mariomario-dy1kc I think you've lost track of the conversation. Read from the start
@@aightm8 Explanations fails to explain anything. Explain from the start
Large numbers of tomatoes in Almeria are produced under plastic or synthetic glass so the role of weather is not as marked as all that. There are kilometres on kilometres of these eyesore facilities in southern Spain. I live in France where there are absolutely no shortages of veg from Spain and Morocco. KJT.
This is the same in Europe, so not sure if it's the fault of Brexit.
"Let them eat turnips" 🤣🤣🤣
While Therese Coffey scoffs down another Battenberg cake, washed down with a malt Scotch and a big expensive cigar to end with
As someone who would have voted remain (I was too young to vote at the time), I hate it when people mock the British public for voting for brexit...
The vote was 51.9% in favour of brexit and there were 33.5 million votes in total. This means that nearly half of the people that voted didn't want brexit to happen! From conversations I had with my friends in 2016, if the voting age was reduced, the scales could have tipped into remaining being in favour and we could have avoided so much hassle!
The only upside to Brexit from my point of view is that the EU seems stronger and more united now that at least 16 million morons were removed...
Brexit was purely based on ideology, fear mongering and disinformation
So true , i feel sorry for you .
Cool story bro
If it wasn't for the drip, drip stories from the right wing press over the 10 years prior to brexit, it would not have happened. It has happened because a handful of billionaires wanted it to happen for them to get greater access to the American market. Hence many laws and protections getting ditched and workers rights and Unions being dumbed down. The people thought Corbyn was the enemy and gave full access to the actual enemy, the Tory party and the people that pay them.
I would have voted remain if I was 16, or 18, I wasn't i was 26 and voted brexit.
Kids with no life experience shouldn't get to vote.
People get more conservative as they age and experience life
Our supermarkets were out of tomatoes and peppers, but I found some in our local farm shop. Sadly, it turned out to be £3.50 for four tomatoes, so I left them at the checkout.
That's what a superiority complex gets you.
Good luck UK!
To see the state of the UK is heartbreaking
Don't worry about us, we are fine. The media enjoys sensationalising and causing hysteria. The reality is, life hasn't really changed at all. The main issue is inflation and that's affecting everyone else in Europe just as much as it's affecting us.
To be honest, I find it ironic and amusing. I sympathise with all the people that voted to stay or that where dupped by false promises of prosperity and independence but the simple fact Brexit happened makes me bitter about Britain, and seeing it backfire so spectacularly in the last few years has given me a twisted sense of joy. I have no sympathy for the Tories and seeing them in such a chaotic state makes me smile, even though I know I probably shouldn't.
Also, with all the bad things happening everywhere, it kind of reassure me to think that at least I'm not in Britain.
I think it is England; as the rest will be leaving shortly!
@@paocut9018 the rest of europe is next.
@@paocut9018 I never voted, I was young during Brexit. But your point stands
6:22 I'm not about other countries, but in Poland, the rising cost of vegetables was in the news, so there's that, though we probably don't have it as bad as the Brits
You don't have it as bad.
Rising costs are one thing but empty shelves are on a different scale. Stop trying to compare other countries to the UK. No other country decided to isolate themselves from the trading world like the UK did with their crazy brexit.
@@batcollins3714 We don't have empty shelves in Britain lol there's literally no food shortage here.
Because the media reports a shortage in the UK but ignores corresponding shortages outside the UK, large sections of the public blame every economic downturn on brexit.
This is, of course, exactly what the media wants.
It's not just the cost of heating greenhouses, which is driving up prices. It's the cost of fertiliser which is in shortage because of Ukraine and China. You'll probably find that the price of all food will go up just for those reasons.
Yay food rationing! we’re going back to the glory days. Bravo brits! 👏 🇬🇧
The Star demanding Vegetables with a man dressed like a fruit is perhaps their most on-brand moment ever
Weather: out of our control
Shortage of seasonal workers and Brexit:: that's on us
If you remove the safety net and try to balance on a string, the smallest wind can make you fall to the pavement head first.
Leaders are meant to be the ones makign sure this doesn't happen, not the ones pushing you to it.
Also, brexit made it more difficult and more expensive for people to export to the UK, so when demand exceeds supply we will be the first people they stop selling to.
Investment into better energy infrastructure would make heating greenhouses less costly.
Better implementation of temporary visas would make farming easier.
Removal of restrictive farming regulations and relieving local councils of unnecessary oversight would make farming easier.
Most the things people blame on Brexit are predominantly to blame on the government's complete ineptitude in doing anything required to allow the UK to transition towards a more self-sustaining ecosystem. Absolute omnishambles.
@@Bushflare "Most the things people blame on Brexit are predominantly to blame on the government's complete ineptitude "
Yes, including the hard, ideological brexit that they chose. Brexit was never going to be a good idea, but it didn't have to be as bad as they chose to make it.
@@Bushflare But that is also on you.
You can wait all you want, but Brexit was years ago. Enough time to improve things for farmers if you would want it...
Our farmer got addidional 120 milions from our own government and 60 milions of EU to help in the energy crisis....
EU was never a safety net but a straitjacket. Also it simply meant we paid billions to sponsor competitor nations in taking jobs off us. I've seen it first hand in Czech Republic, call centres relocated over there. Like paying someone to mug you.
Might need those farming subsidies...
Can't believe I'm aligning with Clarkson.
it gets scary when the "right" wing starts making sense, we know we are really screwed then
He'd actually prefer no subsidies but less Gov interference if you listened to him.
@@adarkimpurity I think he wants the government to follow what they said of "farmers need to diversify" without hindering farmers trying to diversify. it must be terrifying being in the agricultural sector, so unstable and so vulnerable.
@@TedJM He has more problems from local councils than Westminster.
Farmers are strong and resilient though.
So long as Boris Johnson is alive there will always be at least one vegetable in the UK !!
I don't feel sorry for anyone who voted for Brexit. You got exactly what you voted for. For the rest: I'm very sorry how this turned out for you.
💀Karma for the Irish Famine coming back damn
Great hunger not famine
Funny that - Ireland still relies on the UK Power Network. Be careful who you wish your demise on
@@tomaslane6018
What’s the difference?
@@Gudha_Ismintis more the Scottish and there always up to a practical prank against Brits
@@makuru.42 No, it's definitely not Scottish. Even in Scotland, the sector is fully privatised. The decisions are made largely by private companies. Even so-called Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish parent company.
Tip of the iceberg lettuce indeed
Have you considered Truss lettuce?
Since 1700 England has been dependent on food imports
Brexit actually harmed the UK more than when it was in the European union. Why will any investor or businessman invest only in the UK when they can invest in any European country and can get access to rest of EU and it's resources as well.
Wow, so the UK is a 3rd world country now? Great job conservatives 🤣🤣
@test acc No way. Puerto Rico is 51st state. The UK would be like 61st, after Mexico and Canada :D
@@TheCentristChad Great counting skills! 😂
Thanks for making me laugh.
Higher food prices but no egg shortages here in Belgium, EU.
Yea I haven't noticed an egg shortage here at all (O_o)
We're facing rising egg prices and the occasional shortage here in the USA. Can't blame that on Brexit.
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.
Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country
They are blaming, Brexit, Covid, cost of living crisis and war in Ukraine. Meanwhile the UK has this last 20 years taken in the world's population overflow without end, while proclaiming that it was nothing but positive. That is what has led to this crisis, too many people and a government that has done nothing to stop or at least provide the infrastructure to support these extra people. Not enough food as too many mouths need feed.
I love how Jack has fun with the news he delivers
This is a bit of a personal grudge, but I applied a month ago to multiple farms for seasonal work before I start university next year.
I never heard back from any of them. I find it hard to sympathise with their labour shortage if they don’t respond to people who want their work.
The farmers want you to live in their accomodation on site and to work very long days starting maybe when it's still dark. They found that British people can't do it, or won't.
"Communism is when no food"
Capitalism:
Lack of food - "Feature of British shopping experience". 😂
Here in Canada 🇨🇦 the price of meat and vegetables have gone thru the roof also. So what I’ve done is built myself a small greenhouse in the backyard and planted my own vegetables to help ease the grocery bill.
Smart thinking...
I've started growing potatoes in my back garden - I hope to make them into chips when they're ready
To be honest, I find this situation ironic and amusing. I sympathise with all the people that voted to stay or that where dupped by false promises of prosperity and independence but the simple fact Brexit happened makes me bitter about Britain, and seeing it backfire so spectacularly in the last few years has given me a twisted sense of joy. I have no sympathy for the Tories and seeing them in such a chaotic state makes me smile, even though I know I probably shouldn't.
Also, with all the bad things happening everywhere, it kind of reassure me to think that at least it's not as bad as in Britain.
£60,000,000 food wasted last year …. I feel sick 🤢🤮. All that food could be in my stomach 😂
No. We are not running out of food, there are shortages of some items, there is plenty of food. Bit irresponsible to claim that.
There is no shortage on Tomatoes Apples and so on in Germany b u t there is less variety , only 2 or 3 types of salad or Tomatoes instead of 6 or 7 . Its noticeable that in the netherlands partly some greenhouses were not heated because the Energy costs were to high . But empty shelves , no ... , only less variety .
Love your channel. I've noticed a few times that your graphs can be misleading in their representation of data. For example on this video:
Showing an increase of 18% and 30% as the same bar length isn't great! It's less about one graph but more that some graphs are correct and others aren't, so we need consistency in data representation.
nothing to do with brexit.
3:55 - Oh, no it doesn't! The UK is heavily dependent on imported calories. The UK can, on a good day, feed half its population. And this isn't just a matter of the mix of crops and livestock.
self propagated sanction and its consequence
Tomatos were brought to the Old World from America in the XVI century. It's a mystery how the people in Europe have managed to survive prior to this without ketchup. What did they put on their chips, in particular given that even potatoes were not available in Europe at that time.
It would be turnips in lemon juice or something
Turnips and oat.
The common man in these times had a life expectancy of 40 years, if lucky. Higher classes fared not much better. They ate lots of meat and they had no proteins enough to compensate. Yes, you can live without tomatoes and all the other vegetables that came from America. But a very short life. That considering that after so many centuries our bodies have become accustomed to another diet.
@@serenafoglietti1455Do you really understand what life expectancy means?
The rest of the comment is hardly comprehensible. You say: "They ate lots of meat and they had no proteins enought to compensate."
What do you mean by that? Meat is very protein rich food, one that is perfectly suitable for humans. Humans don't need tomatoes or so called vegetables for a healthy and long life.
@@cezar3977 The meaning of life expectancy should be self evident.
But I'll explain. Life expectancy depends from many factors. Diet, the development of medicine and the access to health care ( if it exists) , general life conditions ( hygiene, good housing) etc.
No problems with meat but not too much and it must be alternated with proteins that exists in vegetables.
Gout was the most widespread disease among kings and nobility because it was praticcally the only kind of food they ate.
So beans , pumpkins, mais with tomatoes have improved our life expectancy for the better.
Potatoes are rich of proteins and they have been the only food affordable in times of famine ( as it has unfortunately happened in the last century in Ireland).
We could do without cocoa . We could do without everything we'll simply have an awful and short life.
Finally, discoveries , new kinds of food affordable to all humanity are proof that no country can afford to stay alone.
All those still in the EU have no shortages, the one country that left has shortages, hmmm I wonder what it could be.
Three issues : 1) no foreign labour to pick the crop , 2) growers cutting back on output due to high energy costs, 3) avian flu and the mass culling of birds so no egg laying .
Brexit means lower imports of food. Combine that with no drivers shortages are the outcome.
4) the sheer extent of reliance on imports. I guess if farming did expand in the UK, there would be an even greater reliance on labour from abroad to pick crop. But this has persistently been warned about when it came to UK food security. We're the only country in Western Europe with this sheer dependence on imports. The floating average in WE for food imports seems to be roughly 10-15%. The UK is at 48%, and might only rise as the tories are letting farming die from the loss of subsidies and extortionate energy costs, as well as the cornered market for purchasing their goods that supermarkets exploit.
I own a retailer in denmark. And we have also had shortages of tomatos and cucumbers
My local street market and the small greengrocers still have plenty of veg, it seems to be only the big supermarket chains that don't want to pay the going rate to the farmers who, unsurprisingly, find themselves with shortages.
Running out of food? Nonsense. Shortage of some fresh vegetables? Yes.
Just bought some turnip ketchup to replace my tomato ketchup. No idea what the fuss is all about.
@@ianwaghorne5327 Just bought some tomato ketchup. No idea what the fuss is all about either!
@@markaxworthy2508 Just bought some ketchup - it's pretty rad stuff
"Is it Brexit" - point to one country in the EU that ran out of eggs or vegetables and you have the answer.
I still remember when the government kept making vote poles for Brexit and people kept saying no but then they would just say, "Let's try the pole again because it's not the result we wanted.."
..... This whole Brexit thing always felt like a joke parliment took too far.
Around Wigan, fresh orange juice and mineral water are being rationed at Lidl! Orange juice I can understand as it is imported from Eire but mineral water from the UK?????? I wonder if that's due to the sewage they are releasing?
oranges can’t grow in Ireland you donut. they come from California and Florida.
@@covfefe1787 Who's the donut? The juice is packaged in Ireland. The oranges are most likely imported from Spain or Israel. Europe imports very little fruit from USA.
😂 Ah yes, storms have damaged the orange groves of old Ireland.
What UK has in abundance are excuses....
£60 million of food wasted just so the Tories could save face. That's good policy.
That's a great, "Let them eat cake," moment.
I pitty the people but nothing can make me smile more than when I hear of yet another failure of brexit and Tories
It isn’t, the whole world has been affected, especially Europe.
@@fredbloggs5902 Yes however due to Brexit UK was affected much more then rest of developed nations
@@Protont simply not true
@@fredbloggs5902 Then why is UK affected way more then EU?
@@fredbloggs5902 ahahahahahahahahaha oh dear
Supermarkets would rather let the shelves go empty than pay more than certain price points on their fixed price contracts. It's a con.
Well... when your Prime Minister is defeated by a lettuce, the rest of the vegetables are gonna revolt