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Let Them Eat Turnip
Feb. 24th, 2023 02:01 pmThe 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.
