No Broccoli for Brits – UK Has No Deal, And Soon No More Fresh Vegetables



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No Broccoli for Brits – UK Has No Deal, and Soon No More Fresh Vegetables

Monster congestion and spite are clouding the mood in the UK. Only one still believes in a “prosperous future”.

“Why Brexit?” More and more Britons are asking these questions.

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Too bad, Boris Johnson said in his evening press conference, so the situation in the English Channel is not so bad. The British prime minister emphasized that only 20 percent of daily transport volume was affected by the new border blockade. In addition, he had an “excellent conversation” on the phone with French President Emmanuel Macron. A resolution of the gigantic truck traffic jams in South East England is imminent.

The reaction to this: shake your head. The container terminals in the British ports of Felixstowe, Tilbury and Southampton are open. However, fresh food imports, which the British Isles depend on in winter, remain at the closed borders. Brits are expected to run out of lemons and oranges, lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower after Christmas.

He is still sure that the country will have a

He still has the certainty that the country has a “prosperous future”: Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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And no matter how friendly the French President and the Prime Minister of Great Britain had spoken the day before, until the end there were no signs of a solution to the transport problem. The French apparently insisted that all truck drivers entering the country had a negative corona test.

Bottom line: The mutated coronavirus, which has now also been detected in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Australia, is taking a big leap for the British ahead of Brexit at the end of the year. In neighboring countries, the bad news from the island caused a stir and rapid action. All the countries bordering the EU closed their borders to travelers from Great Britain, and even Ireland yesterday extended the harsh measure until the end of the year. And France also closed the bulkheads on Monday night.

50 kilometers of traffic jams: it’s the other person’s fault, of course

Around the important canal ports of Dover and Folkestone, as well as in Calais, a crisis situation that had already developed in the course of December worsened at lightning speed. Yesterday the traffic jam was sometimes 50 kilometers long. According to information from the transport industry, up to 4,000 trucks were stuck. A desperate carrier told the BBC: “We have two battles to fight: Covid and Brexit.” A Polish truck driver told the AP news agency: “We are trapped here and we don’t know how long the situation will last. That really sucks. “

Trucks get stuck for miles in front of the ferry loading stations.

Trucks get stuck for miles in front of the ferry loading stations.

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In any case, Boris Johnson is under a lot of pressure. Rumors that the leaders of Britain and the EU were finally able to reach an agreement on controversial fishing rights amid the new crown crisis were not confirmed yesterday. Stagnation does not only exist on British roads. There is still a deadlock in the Brexit negotiating rooms.

But looking for the error in yourself, Johnson and his followers prefer not to. As Andrew Bridgen, a member of the Conservative Tories: The border blockade was “a massive overreaction from France,” Brexit Ultra said on Twitter: “Various dictators have tried to blackmail the UK. We have defeated them all.”

At least the roast turkey is insured

War rhetoric is unlikely to help the British now, neither in the fight against the mutated virus nor in the final outbreak of Brexit. To avoid panic buying, large supermarket chains such as Tesco, Sainsbury and Lidl highlighted yesterday that the supply to the British of the ingredients for a “typical” Christmas meal such as turkey, potatoes, beets and Brussels sprouts was guaranteed. However, there will be a shortage of fresh fruit and vegetables in the last days of the year.

What to do with all that?  Britain is effectively cut off from the rest of the world.

What to do with all that? Britain is effectively cut off from the rest of the world.

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The fact that the EU asked its member states on Tuesday to lift the UK’s Covid lockdown provided relief to the island. However, the decision in this regard rests with individual countries. And anyway, the current situation is nothing more than a preview of how the British should act after a no-deal Brexit.

Boris Johnson can repeat his mantra about Britain’s “prosperous future” no matter how often. After days like these, hardly anyone will buy it.

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