Let Them Eat Turnip

[davidgillon]

The UK is currently experiencing a salad veg shortage, a combination of weather issues on the Continent and in North Africa, and the fact none of the growers here can afford to heat their greenhouses so haven't planted anything. Most of the major supermarkets have imposed rationing in the past few days, typically three items per customer.

Therese Coffey MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (and previously Deputy PM under her mate Liz Truss*), was summoned to the Commons to answer an Urgent Question on the shortages.

Her advice, everyone should eat turnip.**

We're being governed by Baldrick, who appears not to have a cunning and devious plan.

* Which means amongst other things that she's an extreme libertarian

** This is doubly worrying when you bear in mind that DEFRA has responsibility for Food Security, and the sole extent of their contingency planning is let them eat turnip. 

Comments

[redbird]

I realize this isn't the main issue, but given that it's DEFRA, did anyone ask her about the size of the current turnip stock, either in tonnes or in turnips/person?

If everyone ate three more turnips a week, how soon would the UK run out of turnips? (If a lorry carrying a ton of tomatoes leaves Morocco on February 24th, when will it reach Kent, and what color shirt is the driver wearing?)

[davidgillon]

There are already reports of turnip shortages!

[madgastronomer]

I hear that part of the problem is also that truck drivers are refusing to take loads of veg from Spain, etc, to Great Britain because of customs delay due to Brexit.

[davidgillon]

To be honest, the customs delays haven't been nearly as bad as expected!

[nanila]

Please can she just retire to her turnip in the countryside. 🤦🏽‍♀️