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Post by captainconfident on Feb 11, 2021 19:48:49 GMT
Just finished a fine repast of fresh langoustines and oysters delivered to East Anglia by courier from the Isle of Skye at a surprisingly good price and arrived with the cooling packs still frozen.
Astounding service, great food, and pleased to support our British fishermen.
If that is a sustainable business model, for a business or for the planet, I'm a Dutchman. Don't you have any sea near East Anglia?
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Post by Greenwood2 on Feb 11, 2021 19:52:02 GMT
Just finished a fine repast of fresh langoustines and oysters delivered to East Anglia by courier from the Isle of Skye at a surprisingly good price and arrived with the cooling packs still frozen.
Astounding service, great food, and pleased to support our British fishermen.
If that is a sustainable business model, for a business or for the planet, I'm a Dutchman. Don't you have any sea near East Anglia? What's so bad about Scotland selling seafood in England?
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Post by jonno on Feb 11, 2021 19:56:56 GMT
Just finished a fine repast of fresh langoustines and oysters delivered to East Anglia by courier from the Isle of Skye at a surprisingly good price and arrived with the cooling packs still frozen.
Astounding service, great food, and pleased to support our British fishermen.
If that is a sustainable business model, for a business or for the planet, I'm a Dutchman. Don't you have any sea near East Anglia? JEEZ!! anymore drivel on this thread and I'm going to lose the will to live. PLEASE STOP.
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Post by dan1 on Feb 11, 2021 20:40:23 GMT
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Post by bernythedolt on Feb 11, 2021 21:25:37 GMT
There are two Cambridge Universities? Are you referring to Anglia Ruskin as one? Otherwise I'm mystified (which is not an unusual state... ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ).
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Post by michaelc on Feb 11, 2021 21:47:49 GMT
I could watch General Melchard all day long.
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Post by jonno on Feb 11, 2021 21:52:40 GMT
Apples in Jan and Feb? Umm, do you have an apple tree in your garden...? They're apples that were picked in autumn and stored... Along with most of the rest of that list. We're on our last couple of last year's squashes. Our leeks are more like spring onions at the moment. The vast majority of European fruit and veg comes from mahoosive greenhouses - mostly in southern Spain and Italy, with a lot of very high-tech ones near Rotterdam. Most other stuff is airfreighted from Africa and South America. We used to have masses of commercial greenhouses in this country, round the Lea Valley, back when anything outside a very short list of produce was dangerously exotic and not to be trusted... They're all suburban sprawl housing now. The very fact that brexiteers are promoting self-sufficiency shows just what an almighty mess we've put ourselves into. The UK built its entire economy, the industrial revolution, the empire (and, yes, for better or worse) on global trading, from the 16th century onwards. And that was centuries after Roman globalism civilised this island, with the Vikings and the Normans bringing trade routes, interspersed with periods in the isolated wilderness... Promoting global isolation as a good thing...? It's no more or less than economic and historical illiteracy fuelled by xenophobia. For once, you've actually said something sensible "The UK built its entire economy...........on GLOBAL trading. Isn't that what we're now trying to maximise?
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Post by bernythedolt on Feb 11, 2021 22:30:51 GMT
There are two Cambridge Universities? Are you referring to Anglia Ruskin as one? Otherwise I'm mystified (which is not an unusual state... ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ). A newish one in Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts. Helped to establish itself by John Harvard and other Emmanuel College, Cambridge graduates. www.emma.cam.ac.uk/about/history/famous/?id=4Newish one - fair enough! My best mate went to Churchill Cambridge and I doubt he'd have made the connection either, so I don't feel too daft.
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Post by shimself on Feb 11, 2021 23:49:25 GMT
There are two Cambridge Universities? Are you referring to Anglia Ruskin as one? Otherwise I'm mystified (which is not an unusual state... ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ). A newish one in Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts. Helped to establish itself by John Harvard and other Emmanuel College, Cambridge graduates. www.emma.cam.ac.uk/about/history/famous/?id=4I went on a tour of the newish one. I was really helpful to the guide pointing out the similarities and differences, but he didn't thank me
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Post by adrianc on Feb 12, 2021 7:46:40 GMT
Apples in Jan and Feb? Umm, do you have an apple tree in your garden...? They're apples that were picked in autumn and stored... Along with most of the rest of that list. We're on our last couple of last year's squashes. Our leeks are more like spring onions at the moment. The vast majority of European fruit and veg comes from mahoosive greenhouses - mostly in southern Spain and Italy, with a lot of very high-tech ones near Rotterdam. Most other stuff is airfreighted from Africa and South America. We used to have masses of commercial greenhouses in this country, round the Lea Valley, back when anything outside a very short list of produce was dangerously exotic and not to be trusted... They're all suburban sprawl housing now. The very fact that brexiteers are promoting self-sufficiency shows just what an almighty mess we've put ourselves into. The UK built its entire economy, the industrial revolution, the empire (and, yes, for better or worse) on global trading, from the 16th century onwards. And that was centuries after Roman globalism civilised this island, with the Vikings and the Normans bringing trade routes, interspersed with periods in the isolated wilderness... Promoting global isolation as a good thing...? It's no more or less than economic and historical illiteracy fuelled by xenophobia. For once, you've actually said something sensible "The UK built its entire economy...........on GLOBAL trading. Isn't that what we're now trying to maximise? Bloody funny way to go about it, cutting off half of our existing international trade (absolute free trade with our nearest neighbours who also happen to be the world's single largest economic bloc) directly, and walking away from the existing deals with most of our other partners globally. Yes, a lot of them have been re-signed, mostly on the same terms, some on worse. None on better... This whole "But the EU stopped us..." thing is self-evident codswallop. Germany's never seemed to have any issues with global exports, has it? It's just the whole exceptionalism thing again - we need special deals because we're special. Umm, no. B'sides, look at the major trade partners we aren't walking away from EU deals with - the US, because nationalist leader killed negotiations; India, because nationalist leader killed negotiations; China, because total lack of respect for IP. Nationalism is simply incompatible with globalism.
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Post by adrianc on Feb 12, 2021 7:47:45 GMT
If that is a sustainable business model, for a business or for the planet, I'm a Dutchman. Don't you have any sea near East Anglia? What's so bad about Scotland selling seafood in England? Let's see how long it lasts post-Scottish Independence and rejoining...
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Post by Greenwood2 on Feb 12, 2021 8:04:31 GMT
What's so bad about Scotland selling seafood in England? Let's see how long it lasts post-Scottish Independence and rejoining... I don't see that happening any time soon. But I have to pay duty if I buy something directly from the US, so if I have to pay a bit more to buy from Scotland I would, if I couldn't get what I wanted or a better deal anywhere else. I also buy seafood directly from Cornwall maybe I would buy it all from there...
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Post by ozboy on Feb 12, 2021 14:49:05 GMT
I would think that Covid is a bit more than a handy "smokescreen" adrianc?
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Post by jonno on Feb 12, 2021 15:00:51 GMT
I would think that Covid is a bit more than a handy "smokescreen" adrianc ? Don't be so sure. It was all a cunning master plan by those pesky Chinese Brexiteers in Wuhan
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Post by adrianc on Feb 12, 2021 15:09:37 GMT
I would think that Covid is a bit more than a handy "smokescreen" adrianc ? You think it won't get used as one when people start suggesting Brexit's not been the massive economic sunlit upland we were promised? "Oh, well, it would have been... but covid..."
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