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Russell England 💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻Mar 1, 2023

"The UK market isn’t so attractive"

Spanish farmers blame Brexit red tape, bureaucracy costs, border queues and HGV driver shortages in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/23/uk--fresh-food-shortages-rationing-spanish-farmers-blame-brexit-import-rules?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1677154391

Spanish growers say weather, rising costs and Brexit caused UK salad shortages

Some producers point the finger at temperature shifts and others at bureaucracy and logistics

The Guardian

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Russell England 💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻Mar 1, 2023

@ChrisShaw

"before Brexit we didn’t used to source anything, or very little, from Morocco but we’ve been forced to go further afield"

Ben Bradshaw, Deputy President of the NFU

#BrexitReality #TomatoShortages

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/25/vegetable-shortages-in-uk-could-be-tip-of-iceberg-says-farming-union?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1677336358

Vegetable shortages in UK could be ‘tip of iceberg’, says farming union

Energy prices, Brexit and climate crisis mean growers lack confidence to plant crops, says NFU deputy

The Guardian

Richard Feb 25, 2023

Just back from food shopping at the supermarket. No tomatoes again. Came back and unloaded the food and found this little baby tomato sitting all alone in the bottom of the salad drawer
#TomatoShortages

Alister W McClure Feb 24, 2023

Eat rutabaga or navete,
Neep or swede, but don't forget,
However great your turnips are,
Though versatile, they're quite bizarre;
In salads they can be quite scary;
Don't put them in a Bloody Mary

#ThereseCoffey
#ThereseTurnip #TomatoShortages #BrexitReality
#BrexitDisaster

SimonPotts Feb 24, 2023

so how come there's no tomatoes in the shops? #tomatoshortages 😋

Greenbirder Feb 23, 2023

Hard to make this stuff up ... come on Britain, get a grip.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/23/food-shortages-environment-secretary-urges-britons-cherish-turnips

#Turnips #TomatoShortages #Britain #Coffey

Environment secretary urges Britons to ‘cherish’ turnips amid food shortages

Thérèse Coffey’s championing of UK ‘specialisms’ causes one Labour MP to retort: ‘Let them eat turnips!’

The Guardian

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Olly Womump Feb 23, 2023

…and one for the album. There ain’t no #TomatoShortages here. #Caen #Normandie #France

Julie Ward Labour MEP 2014-20🇺Feb 23, 2023

#Tomatoes #TomatoShortages #Ukraine #Brexit #BrexitFoodRationing
RT @lindseyhilsum: No tomato shortage here - but I’m in Kherson, a frontline Ukrainian city that gets shelled by the Russians daily, not a British supermarket.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/julie4north/status/1628776917443702784