British Carrots

I can't help noticing the shortage of certain foodstuffs in supermarkets this year, normally the shelves are heaving with a surplus of unnecessary calorific excess at this time of the year! However, this year, I can't seem to find any Brussel Sprouts for love nor money! Of course the situation should be the opposite of this, i.e. since "Big Christmas" has been cancelled for most of us now, logic would suggest that food consumption should also be less? However, we seem to have conjured up the perfect storm of irrationality and Brexit bollocks just in time for the festive period. 

Not only are people seemingly buying stuff they can't actually need, but there's also a panic going on over the closure of the French border because of Covid. It's enough to make us all spontaneously perform Gallic shrugs in abject surrender. I do wonder why so many people in our country refuse to acknowledge how interdependent and linked we are to other nations and economies these days, not only does much of our food come from abroad (45%), also power (25%) and quite a lot of our labour does too (20%), disrupt that lot and it's inevitable a rather abrupt (and unwelcome) adjustment is coming, and coming rather soon! 

Of course we keep calm and carry on, it's the English way, alternatively, you could see this as taking great delight in fooling ourselves! As the picture above shows, the label says "British Carrots" but the subtitle reveals that they were in fact grown in Spain! Counterintuitively, our Government seems complicit in this modern fad for mass delusion in fact they seem to be fueled by it! Ironically one of the things I'm struggling to buy this year (for the first time ever) is a simple Gammon joint for New Years day; it would seem that since things have been getting worse and worse since 2016 the Gammons have made themselves scarce, who'd have thought it..