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This despite a different reason being offered in every tv and web report over it over the past 2-3 days? The BBC anchor even asked flat out if this was a Brexit issue last night and their correspondent said no - the shortages are due to weather and energy prices and the patchy supplies are affected by the prices retailers had previously agreed to pay suppliers. Two of these three reasons are even given in the link you provided. Brexit, conspicuously, is not.

But hey, don’t let the facts get in the way of prejudice ;)

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Which had no effect in the whole of EU or Spain. They all have tomatoes.

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Most British supermarkets also had them, until two of them said they were having trouble and started rationing. Then everyone piled in to their competitors who had stated they had no shortages. And now everybody has shortages and idiots up and down the land will by this time next week have bowls full of rotting salad items in their kitchens.

As reported on the Beeb last night however, supplies in continental Europe have more to do with lower energy prices, proximity to producers and higher negotiated prices with their retail partners.

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But something to do with how Spain used to be able to export things here as easily as they would to Germany and now they can't :rolleyes:

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Everything is the fault of Brexit, at least for remoaners remainers, you should know that by now. :)

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Clearly, the UK is not known for its tomato-growing facilities in February!

But there is clearly a link between Brexit and the UK's reduced self-sufficiency in food through a reduction in available labour and farming subsidies. A viewing of Series 2 of Clarkson's Farm demonstrates the subsidy issues post-EU.

Regarding the supply issues from the EU
https://www.ft.com/content/434b13b1-...1-6bbe8a728870

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Yeah I haven't thought it through :rolleyes: :nutter:

Get used to it, we are more expensive and there's more red tape than there used to be so whenever there is a shortage of anything we will be at the back of the queue because it's easier and cheaper to export to others first

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Clearly, about 60 seconds research would saved you making a false statement …

We produce 100,000 tonnes annually, across 20 nurseries, all of them using indoor facilities. These do not operate seasonally - they’re in heated greenhouses, negating the whole concept of seasonal production.

https://www.fruitnet.com/fresh-produ...246409.article

The UK consumes 500,000 tonnes of tomatoes per year, so domestic production covers 20% of that, which is none too shabby considering we don’t have a tomato-growing climate.

https://www.britishtomatoes.co.uk/ne...it-for-a-queen

Even without Googling, this should have been fairly obvious. Greg Wallace seems to visit these sorts of places on a near weekly basis for one BBC programme or another.

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A few more seconds' Googling will have informed you about growing seasons.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/news/na...f-march-81726/

This should have been fairly obvious to most tomato shoppers in the UK.

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I should have said "February is not known for its tomato harvest", not "February is not known for its tomato facilities" which is a bit daft. Apologies.

There will obviously be some exceptions to this rule but the British tomato season is from March to November so February is not known for its tomato harvest. https://guernseypress.com/news/uk-ne...-end-of-march/

I agree with the BTGA, the current situation is largely due to lack of imports.

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