It Will Be Interesting.

[teacake44]

If this blockade continues how Aldi get their supplies through, I cant see them letting the French disrupt their business.

[Mamyalynne]

Beats playing board games and watching telly, monitoring Aldi deliveries instead.

[dannyk13]

TC
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/23/lufthansa-fly-fresh-food-uk-shortage-fears-fruit-vegetables-border-french-blockade

[Sunk]

The majority of Aldi products are sourced in the UK.
Their supply chain is long establish, so switching some items to air freight will be very easy. Aldi are huge, so the have the advantage of scale in moving stuff about.

I would be more worried for British made produce getting to the continent. Our meat, fish, seafood, cheeses vegetables and alcohol, that go to shops and restaurants in Europe.

[teacake44]

Board games M? please X box it is now, not seen snakes and ladders for years.

[Mamyalynne]

Surprisingly there are new board games brought out all the time.

[teacake44]

I'd rather pay a few bob extra for my supplies rather than see the French dictate, and always have the upper hand.

[ichkeria]

“ Our meat, fish, seafood, cheeses vegetables and alcohol, that go to shops and restaurants in Europe.”

Which is one reason people fuming about the vengeful French should think again.

[Sunk]

Teacake44,

The lorries are Going to Europe with British produce for the French market. Lorries coming from the Continent are not subject to the mutant covid ban.
If we get shortages of some food items here, it will be because of stupid panic buying.

[teacake44]

^^ I understand that, but either way = traffic chaos at an already busy time.

[Sunk]

If there was a mutant froggy strain of Covid which no amount of garlic could cure, do you think we would be throwing our border gates open, and letting infected french drivers into Kent?
No, we would bar everyone from any country with a new strain.

I think the Government have made this worse. There are over a thousand variants of Covid which is only one year old. A different variant has now emerged in the south east and some parts of London. Those areas remained in Tier 2 when most of the rest of the UK were put into Tier 3 seven weeks ago.
The result was Manchester, Liverpool, and other areas, the number of covid cases was drastically reduced. In the Tier 2 areas, it has drastically increased. Rather than admit to a mistake, the Government mad up this mutant killer strain as an excuse to bump London into tier 3 and 4.

[teacake44]

Made it up? now you are being silly, very silly.

[Sunk]

teacake44

The didn’t make up the strain, it is one of over a thousand that are all equally as deadly. It has peaked in London because someone has spread it there. With London being in the wrong tier for 7 weeks, this variant spread more quickly, not because it is more contagious and deadly, but because the rules were lax.

[Paigntonian]

I suspect we will survive. There won't be piles of starved dead bodies on the streets. People need to get a grip.