EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

^ took on the Greenpeace anti palm oil campaign as their Xmas ad a few years ago and it got banned for being too uncomfortably true (cited as 'political' by those with vested interests). Think I might be correct saying they also don't have palm oil in their (edit) own-brand products too?

Elliot is a long standing brexiteer. Fairly conventional lefty view. Not sure why his column is a surprise.

price hiking on baby foods.

Learnt recently that it’s illegal to discount baby formula in the UK (and in the EU). Originally intended as a measure to protect children by encouraging breastfeeding, nowadays it ensures families that can’t breastfeed have to shoulder the additional burden of full-RRP formula.

http://www.babymilkaction.org/ukrules-pt2c

That sounds like a law that now no longer serves a purpose.

I imagine with the whole Nestle pushing baby formula scandal and other marketing tricks in the past that law was necessary, but I assume that babymilk marketing is now tightly controlled.

I think they're also not allowed to advertise it to new babies - they can only do so as 'follow on' milk for when they're a bit older. I wonder if they're not allowed to discount as it acts as 'promotion' of it.

If you did cut the price on it, it's not like you'd be able to promote that price cut so maybe they don't bother

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/19/modern-slavery-care-sector-england-brexit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/jobs/18-jobs-to-be-axed-as-invest-ni-company-to-close-in-march/a949383345.html

More benefits....and all "project fear" but now what for the care sector workers?

Hasn't power sharing talks pretty much ground to a halt as well now?

It seems so, but any excuse will do for the DUP.

Brexit has not helped for sure. But they can't stand being second to SF even though the wau Stormont is setup both ministers have the same power and "Orange Vs Green" is baked in.

But their vote share has gone up so it's working ...while the NI NHS, schools etc are all going downhill. I don't understand people sometimes... 😐

Those darn scheming EU countries
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1849136/eu-countries-britain-transport

The only thing that'll give you more brain damage than reading the article is reading the comments.

Pints of wine in the sunlit uplands. https://twitter.com/biztradegovuk/status/1739935401668694407

Big Sam waiting for the phone to ring to suggest he is the 'face' of the advertising campaign.

I can't see a. Single wine producer signing up to this. Even UK producers will just export rather in introducing an entirely new bottling line

But Churchill liked it

I don't know how many moulds a modern glass bottle line has, I estimate it must be hundreds.
I guess one of those hedge fund owners who backed the Brexit campaign/Ukip/Reform could afford it.
I can't see an entrepreneur like James Dyson passing up this guaranteed money-spinner.

M&S will stock it.

Churchill liked magnums of Pol Roger.

1/2 a bottle of wine is too little to drink on your own, but a full bottle is too much. 2/3 of a bottle - 500ml - is just right, and a pint is 568ml. Churchill was right (urgghh, second time this week I've come out in favour of Churchill).

The EU never stopped anyone selling wine buy the 568 ml measure, nor by the 500 ml measure though. Three years since the withdrawal agreement finished, seven years since we gave notice to leave, and the Government is still grasping at straws about the way wine is sold. Pathetic.

The EU never stopped anyone selling wine buy the 568 ml measure,

There are directives on wine sales and 568ml isn't allowed (it's something like 125, 187, 250, 375, 500, 750 although sparkling wine can't be sold in 500ml for whatever reason).

Dammit, I've been fact-checked and found wanting!!

Three years since the withdrawal agreement finished, seven years since we gave notice to leave, and the Government is still grasping at straws... Pathetic.

This bit is spot on though

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs

" Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll "

well we tried telling them but they wouldn't listen, how do we go about getting back in ?

It's not all bad.

“They’re coming in from France, Spain, Belgium, Holland – it’s great to see,” he said. “Brexit has made an awful difference to here. Boris Johnson did Rosslare a favour.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/25/ports-france-ireland-brexit-cherbourg-rosslare

We’d need a political consensus from all major parties, including the Tories, so it is some way off.

And when did Tories/Brexists in general give a shit about consensus?

If consensus ever mattered, then the 48/52% split was a mandate for only the softest of soft Br*xits, so why should anyone give a shit about what some swivel-eyed boomers think when we go back in?