howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I was listening to a Government chap earlier that thought it was up to the food industry to stockpile thus keeping the shops going. If he had actually worked in industry he would have known that the turnover from ingredients coming in and the finished product going out is so fast that they don't need much storage space.
Button- Location: Dover
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Sort of reminds me of my childhood (during which Mum stockpiled not only sugar but, thinking ahead, jam too, alas - the rafters never actually recovered) when Dad got home:
"What would you like for dinner - I can do you a nice fry-up?"
"Sounds lovely thanks!"
"Or there's a salad..."
"No, the fry-up sounds good."
"Or chops and veg?"
"No, still the fry-up please!"
"Tripe?"
"No, I really, really meant it!"
...and so on until dusk fell. And that was way before the Spice Girls' gramophone record.
(Not my real name.)
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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John Buckley wrote:Well, why is the legislation still ineffective then in a case like this?
I’m anything but an expert on these matters, but from my simple perspective, if we’ve supposedly been busy with creating “more anti-terrorist legislation on its statute books than almost any other developed democracy”, then it doesn’t say much about the effectiveness of the legislation currently in operation which would now seem to be in need of being urgently updated.
In addition, it doesn’t alter the fact that it’s a disgrace that we can’t apparently prosecute these two ba*#*@ds ourselves and yet the USA can? How come?
Rendition in all but name.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
John Buckley- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
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You may well be right Bish, others may call it something different of course, like common sense and the right thing to do?
In the case of this particular pair though and to prove what a nasty misguided person I am, I hope that our American cousins do end up deciding their fate. It’s what they deserve!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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he may dream on, but the realalaty is that all major supermarkets have lots of empty shelves, dover morrisons is one of them, but it eouldnt surprise me that dovers asda and tescos are the same
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon wrote:he may dream on, but the realalaty is that all major supermarkets have lots of empty shelves, dover morrisons is one of them, but it eouldnt surprise me that dovers asda and tescos are the same
So you're blaming a few empty supermarket shelves on brexit, you need to up your meds Brian
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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reg,not blaming it all on Brexit, stockpiling is all so a factor.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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The reason supermarket shelves are empty it is because the greedy bosses will not take on extra staff to cover holidays and sickness so there is nobody available to re-stock, my daughter's fairly small counter are missing five people at the moment.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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Indeed Jan That and the additional demand for certain foodstuffs due to the heatwave, absolutely nothing to do with brexit.
Next March if supermarket shelves are empty I'll let you have brexit as a factor.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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mind you is was in morrisons last Friday, all the butchers had phoned in sick.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I don't know about other grocer shops but Morrison's has a nationwide problem with empty shelves, I was in our local one this morning and certain areas did look a bit unloved.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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its all over the shop howard, asda, tescos the coop are all suffering.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Morrisons 7am this morning: salad veg sparse, 'exotic' fruits too, and some gaps in seafood. All other shelves looked ok. Reassuringly, beer, wines and spirits are well-stocked. Come the end of the world, I'd take a single malt over a spring onion any day.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The PM and some of her Ministers are travelling around the member states trying to convince various leaders that her Customs plan is the way forward which is rather pointless as the EU have stated clearly that it is unworkable.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:Morrisons 7am this morning: salad veg sparse, 'exotic' fruits too, and some gaps in seafood. All other shelves looked ok. Reassuringly, beer, wines and spirits are well-stocked. Come the end of the world, I'd take a single malt over a spring onion any day.
Still very sparse at just before 8am but they were beginning to stock them, loads of bread rolls but no croissants, fresh or prepacked typical as I fancied one as a treat for breakfast.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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I might put a quid on it at 2/1.