RE: Brexit or Breaksit?
12-23-2018, 09:42 AM (This post was last modified: 12-23-2018, 01:56 PM by Dartz.)
12-23-2018, 09:42 AM (This post was last modified: 12-23-2018, 01:56 PM by Dartz.)
Tory MP suggests using food shortages in Ireland as leverage
Irish food self-sufficiency is nearly 700% for beef, around 300% for mutton, about 200% for pork, and probably perfectly fucking fine for everything else - I think the worst is cereal, at 70% due to last year's weather. As of 2017, Ireland is the most food-secure country in the world. It is theoretically impossible to starve in Ireland - the only reason anyone does is because it's government policy to starve a few to keep the rest working for little or nothing.
Getting everything to one hundred involves a lot less cows and sheep, and a little more wheat. Rock and roll.
Fucking hell. We could feed the population of Ireland - and more - without any modern agrochemicals, plant and machinery - it was done in the early nineteenth century. We fed Ireland, and most of the rest of the UK. Handtools and sheer bloody labour could do it. Even during the blackest years of the famine, sufficient food was being produced in Ireland to keep its people fed - it's just somebody decided to sell it on instead.
It's noted however, that that someone is only 60% self-sufficient. And that a large amount of irish agro-exports go towards bridging that gap.
It's not so much that we'll have a food surplus - quite the opposite in fact. And we - as part of the EU and with a minister on the negotiating team - have been negotiating trade deals (good deals, fantastic deals, your gonna love the trade deals) with places like Japan to sell all the stuff the UK might not be buying anymore.
I know! Why don't we buy up all their food supplies and drive the price up and make 'em watch at the ports while the great hand of the market takes all their food away. Then we'll just add it to the food mountains because we can and since the UK is in famine, surely the EU will need to prepare.
Just in case.
Or how about this:
https://streamable.com/3g8m8
Professor on constitutional and European law lays it out in plain and simple terms. It's Pointless
"All Brexit has done is vote to deprive the UK of its right to vote on the rules it follows. So that is pointless. But it's probably better than the economically catastrophic other option which is loosing access to the single market."
"A cherrypicking deal is much more of a threat to the EU than No Deal."
"The EU is less desperate for a deal than the UK is. The EU can afford a No Deal...." ".... But Britain can't afford a No Deal" ..... ".... Britain will talk and the EU will talk was replaced by nogiation on the EU's terms because, not because the EU's bad, because when something's six times the simes of something else go into discussions then the bigger party gets their way. That's the nature of negotiations, and Brexit was always going to be like that."
How does this still have to be explained to them Now and not three years ago.
Irish food self-sufficiency is nearly 700% for beef, around 300% for mutton, about 200% for pork, and probably perfectly fucking fine for everything else - I think the worst is cereal, at 70% due to last year's weather. As of 2017, Ireland is the most food-secure country in the world. It is theoretically impossible to starve in Ireland - the only reason anyone does is because it's government policy to starve a few to keep the rest working for little or nothing.
Getting everything to one hundred involves a lot less cows and sheep, and a little more wheat. Rock and roll.
Fucking hell. We could feed the population of Ireland - and more - without any modern agrochemicals, plant and machinery - it was done in the early nineteenth century. We fed Ireland, and most of the rest of the UK. Handtools and sheer bloody labour could do it. Even during the blackest years of the famine, sufficient food was being produced in Ireland to keep its people fed - it's just somebody decided to sell it on instead.
It's noted however, that that someone is only 60% self-sufficient. And that a large amount of irish agro-exports go towards bridging that gap.
It's not so much that we'll have a food surplus - quite the opposite in fact. And we - as part of the EU and with a minister on the negotiating team - have been negotiating trade deals (good deals, fantastic deals, your gonna love the trade deals) with places like Japan to sell all the stuff the UK might not be buying anymore.
I know! Why don't we buy up all their food supplies and drive the price up and make 'em watch at the ports while the great hand of the market takes all their food away. Then we'll just add it to the food mountains because we can and since the UK is in famine, surely the EU will need to prepare.
Just in case.
Or how about this:
https://streamable.com/3g8m8
Professor on constitutional and European law lays it out in plain and simple terms. It's Pointless
"All Brexit has done is vote to deprive the UK of its right to vote on the rules it follows. So that is pointless. But it's probably better than the economically catastrophic other option which is loosing access to the single market."
"A cherrypicking deal is much more of a threat to the EU than No Deal."
"The EU is less desperate for a deal than the UK is. The EU can afford a No Deal...." ".... But Britain can't afford a No Deal" ..... ".... Britain will talk and the EU will talk was replaced by nogiation on the EU's terms because, not because the EU's bad, because when something's six times the simes of something else go into discussions then the bigger party gets their way. That's the nature of negotiations, and Brexit was always going to be like that."
How does this still have to be explained to them Now and not three years ago.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.