I've written before that Ireland essentially manufactures a huge part of the Cheddar consumed in the UK - some 81,000 tonnes a year. Now I'm stunned to find that the UK manufactures, as the Telegraph tells us, "mozzarella for approximately half of all pizzas eaten in Europe" - and actually that's just one UK mozzarella manufacturer, Glanbia in Wales.
We face the prospect, with 40% cheese tariffs, that Europe will run out of pizza and Britain will run out of Cheddar. In place of mozzarella, they'll be flooded with EU-made cheddar, and we with Welsh-made mozzarella to grate on our baked spuds.
Of course none of this will happen because people and firms aren't quite as stupid as politicians and newspapers. Whatever happens from November 1st, Europe will get its pizzas.
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Whatever happened to Lymeswold then?
It was a great cheese, well on a par with many soft French and Italian cheeses, and I think was just suffocated by the 'elfunsafeti' faces because it was still alive when sold.
If that wasn't the case, then a bit of fake news is good for the soul anyway...
It rhymed with "slimesmould" 🤢
I'm sure that nice Mr Salvini will find a way to ensure that Welsh Mozzeralla continues to find its way to Italy.... whether the Kommissars like it or not.
@Michael: Lymeswold was helped on its way out by Private Eye, I think; as the Reliant Robin was by Top Gear.
Raedwald, this is yet more along the lines of the "ninety percent of the people of Europe did not die in WWII, therefore wars are not serious" fallacy, or "more people choke to death on carrots in the UK than are eaten by lions, so carrots are more dangerous than lions" silliness.
Isn't it?
I'm sure that the workers about to be laid off in Bridgend or in Port Talbot and Corbridge are delighted that they will still be able to get pizza, if they can afford it.
I loved Lymeswold cheese, but it is no more. I loved M&S curried picnic eggs, but they are no more. BHS used to make chicken cutlets and excellent hard wearing cotton twill shirts, but they are no more.
Everything is ephemeral. Why should our membership of the EU be any different? It wasn't very good in the first place.
Michael, H&S were nothing to do with it.
Curmudgeon is right. It was a marketing failure.
My friends at Neil's Yard will supply you with a wide range of brilliant British cheeses, which equal some of the best from the Continent, however.
Yes, they have live cultures.
https://www.nealsyardcreamery.co.uk
@JPM
...this is yet more along the lines of the "ninety percent of the people of Europe did not die in WWII, therefore wars are not serious" fallacy...
or the "the UK's economy will fall off a cliff if we leave with no deal..." ad infinitum.
I see you now understand what the word 'scaremongering' means???? I hope?
Port Talbot, Bridgend, Corbridge etc are more symptoms of the Global Warming fallacy (exporting energy-intensive industries overseas) or the Government led (i.e. lies) about the usefulness/practicalities of EV's or simply Global economic downturn.
Don't cloud your judgement by the use of scaremongering eh?
Why doesn't somebody tell car manufacturers in Britain that if the EU tries to punish the UK with tariffs on cars, there will be a market here when BMW, Audi, VW, Mercedes, Renault, Skoda, Seat, Fiat, Porsche, Ferrari et al all get tariffs whacked on. And why doesn't someone tell the EU if they piss off UK folk over there, we'll do the same here - I for one would welcome the deportation of Irish Traveller, Graham Norton, Roma thieves and whores, and the like. Then, tell Varadkar that he'd better not piss off his nuclear armed neighbour.
Dave, the bipartisan Friends Of Ireland Committee have said that they will block any US - UK deal if exit from the European Union endangers the GFA.
No deal shreds it.
It would only replace a fraction of present UK - EU commerce (20% of GDP) anyway, but even that cannot now be trumpeted.
I'm with Dominic Cummings.
Keep your Project Fear crap JPM. Any laid off workers--likely none --should be re-employed constructing scaffolds for the EU's friends over here. Such as you.
Also needed is a 99% treason tax on the income and capital of sell outs like you. To knock you to the underclass in one go and re-distribute your nice middle class income to more deserving folk.
It's not me, Mr. Ecks, its Al Johnson and the Daily Mail.
I think that we might just be hearing those words "obiter dicta" in relation towards that no deal threat yet again.
Don't you?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7303103/Boris-Johnson-hints-UK-remain-EU-single-market-customs-union-2021.html
I'd say that the deserving folk are those who didn't waste their teachers' time and disrupt the learning of others at school too.
Not those who grew into TBP/Ukip-voting football hooligans.
Given the GFA was just a sop to the (various and manifest) Irish Mafia and a means to prevent them throwiing their toys out of their pram it has the same level of respect that I hold for the EU and their response to the UK wanting to leave.
Screw 'em both.
Things that never happen.
Immigration being below emmigration. Last time was 1977. And the socialist paradise did that.
More housing being built in the UK than number of new families entering the UK.
Remoaners using a genuine statistic within its proper context.
"Bipartisan friends of Ireland committee"
I doubt if they even know where Ireland is.
Ted Kennedy a founder member? Says it all really.
Maybe the arse bandit umpa lumpa thinks he has friends in the US. He hasn't got any in the EU!
We're not talking about a "hard" border as far as I'm aware. The EU are.
We'll find out.
Won't we, Mark?
The WTO implicitly require a hard border too.
Al's guru understands this.
We will indeed Cheerful
But it depends what is meant by "hard". Given that the border already separates two currency zones, differing tax and VAT rates etc.
The EU could erect border posts if they wish I suppose, but again, I don't think we are planning to. There would need to be quite a few to cover 300 miles or so and dozens of rural lanes.
Anyway, there is no need as all the requisite checks do not need to be done physically at a physical border.
I wouldn't start frothing at the gusset too much over the yank plastic paddies. Ireland's problems with a "hard" brexit will have little to do with a lone on a map on the island of Ireland.
Besides, the US has some rather more pressing concerns with their own borders. Not sure they would necessarily want to make our border too big an issue given that.
Too far JPM
@Cheerful
So you would actually want the IRA to start murdering?
You're a European alright!
Not a bit of it Mark.
I'm calling out the stupid, reckless people who apparently don't care if they did.
Some of those posting here would seemingly like that, because it would give their side an excuse to start murdering too.
But back on topic, I'm surprised that pizza made with ersatz mozzarella is legit. I suppose that if it declares it on the package its OK. Not that the restaurants will tell their customers, mind you.
Many British cheeses are excellent these days, but rien ne remplace le Roquefort.
Yes, the EU and Varadker. Not forgetting the yank plastic paddies.
Neither the IRA or the protestant thugs are "my" side thank you very much and I don't believe anybody else posting here cares for them either.
OK...but what is actually on that pizza? presumably leek, welsh cheese, welsh grown tom-toms...but also looks like sliced olives and carrot sticks!
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