Blackcurrants

[JohntheBike]

Well if you vote to send the fruit pickers home the fruit will just rot on the fields.


Millions of apples left to rot as EU pickers stay away.


Millions of apples left to rot as EU pickers stay away | News | The Times

Well if you vote to send the fruit pickers home the fruit will just rot on the fields

I don't ever remember a prolonged shortage of fruit of any kind prior to the UK joining the EU. So, who was picking it then? There were seasonal shortages as a result of the weather, just as there are now. We did hear much about butter mountains though!

[SimonMac]

Corbyn effect innit

Jeremy Corbyn shared his jam recipe in honour of The Great British Bake Off and fans can'''t cope

[greenlake]

They have been banned as we align ourselves with the stringent US food regulations.

Why Are Black Currants Banned in the USA – Healthy Blog

[WTFH]

I don't ever remember ... prior to the UK joining the EU...

Yup, everything was rosy before we joined the EU. We had centre and left of centre governments We had nationalised everything. We had an NHS.
Then we joined the EU and everything changed.

[GhostofTarbera]

I don't ever remember a prolonged shortage of fruit of any kind prior to the UK joining the EU. So, who was picking it then? There were seasonal shortages as a result of the weather, just as there are now. We did hear much about butter mountains though!

Don’t worry after Brexit the elderly population can change their name from blackcurrents to just currents


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[JohntheBike]

Yup, everything was rosy before we joined the EU. We had centre and left of centre governments We had nationalised everything. We had an NHS.
Then we joined the EU and everything changed.

We had nationalised everything

not so, Labour only nationalised ship building and steel making after 1964. And despite strong opposition from the likes of Bristol Channel Shipbuilders, many of the same ilk were still nationalised. I guess both the steel industry and the ship building industries became decimated and might have survived better if they hadn't been nationalised.

Then we joined the EU and everything changed

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yes, and I still contend that it would have been much more difficult for Ford to export private car production to the EU and for Nestle to buy Rowntree and for HP sauce to be made in NL, if we had not been members of the EU. Komrade Korby was always opposed to the EU, perhaps partly for these reasons.

[northernladuk]

Are you sure they haven't been rebranded `Currants of colour' and moved somewhere else?

[JohntheBike]

Are you sure they haven't been rebranded `Currants of colour' and moved somewhere else?

wouldn't be surprised!

[Old Greg]

Not in Neath he hasn't, the nearest one is 40 miles away.

There was some in Morrisons the other day.

PC could bring him along to check stocks at the food bank.

[Old Greg]

Are you sure they haven't been rebranded `Currants of colour' and moved somewhere else?

The only time I've come across political correctness in the work place was when I was accused by a permie of using racist language by using the word 'blackmail'.