EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

My local baker sincerely believes he won't be allowed to sell filo pastry after Brexit. His shop asistant has heard "there won't be no Jagerbombs". They are INCENSED.

Catholics?

And what, exactly, is so wrong with a nice Eccles cake and a pint of mild?

"there won't be no Jagerbombs".

That's just Russians spreading disinformation in a bit to enhance the market share for Vodka and Vodka based shots.

Who eats an Eccles cake and drinks a pint of mild at the same time ?

Tx for the correction.

Labours new immigration policy is closer to Canada's. I think that is a good change.

I still don't get the need for complex systems as the EU one is just "you have a job?" I suppose it is to quell wage undercutting, and perhaps this is rarer in Canada.

Or people just get driven into illegality. See the USA and Mexican workers paying taxes yet not getting a status.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/what-is-labour-policy-on-brexit

So mixed sounds. Either it is strategy or fence sitting, it doesn't matter to me but I'd welcome a position.

Again fighting exploitation is good. But ending FOM can actually make it worse unless labour does implement their easy system.

I just have to hope it turns around, they get a position on a second vote / EU position plan with no unicorns.

Waves 👋

Yep, come the glorious day when we escape the iron rule of the EU, happy farmers in the UK will planting Vostizza grape varieties, so that in the fullness of time, Britains' Eccles cake manufacturers are no longer dependent upon imports of Vostizza currants.
https://www.lancashireecclescakes.co.uk/vostizza.php

Willing to give it a go if you supply the mild & Eccles cakes.

No true Lancashire man would use foreign currants.

A few years into Brexit and we will be cherishing the additional protein content of the dead flies used to simulate currants.

I like an Eccles cake

Especially nice with a cup of treacle when I'm sitting in my gammon dungeon wearing my favourite tricorn whilst nanny does the hoovering

We'd better gear up a traditional industry for the forthcoming glory days;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacle_mining

Haha amazing, Grays is one of those places that makes you so glad to be English. Hooray for Brexit, long live treacle mining...

Sometimes a photograph illustrates a story beautifully.

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Here's a question that I'd be interested in seeing an answer to:

If we follow Labours goal of being outside the single market, what do we make that would pass rules of origin assessment, and would therefore be acceptable for FTA's etc?

Frozen sausages.

Nope - out of the SM our good old English bangers will count as non-UK produce

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2006 though.

Not Eccles cakes ... Eccles cakes do not have Protected Geographical Status, so may be manufactured anywhere and still labelled as "Eccles" cakes

You think in the past few years we have acted decisively to regain our natural pre-eminence in pork production?

Anecdotally, I would say there's a lot more gammon around.

https://youtu.be/r0M1YEf9s0g

https://youtu.be/v7vTdiDlw68

Is that really labours final goal?

I've complained about their fence sitting "strategy" / cakeism several times but you really think they'll not turn around?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_food_and_drink_products_with_protected_status

NI sells Lough Neagh eels and there is Arctic Charr which is found only in this part of Europe in another Lough. Leftovers from ancient times, I guess that may count too as they come only from that lake in the UK.