British cheeses miss out at the World Cheese Awards in Portugal - not because they weren’t worthy of prizes, but because they got stuck in customs. What a metaphor for Brexit www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no... nho - ThreadSky

jamesmchapman.bsky.social • 107 days ago

British cheeses miss out at the World Cheese Awards in Portugal - not because they weren’t worthy of prizes, but because they got stuck in customs. What a metaphor for Brexit https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/16/uk-cheeses-miss-out-on-international-prize-after-getting-stuck-in-customs nho

Comments

roswalford.bsky.social•107 days ago

📌

jamesmchapman.bsky.social•106 days ago

A sample of the hundreds of delightful responses a similar post about this generated in the other place

landofbritain.bsky.social•105 days ago

Wow! Love their calm, reasoned response to your post... 🙂

suesymcox.bsky.social•107 days ago

The turkeys voted for Christmas 🤷‍♀️

panger49.bsky.social•106 days ago

Oh dear!

frangalo25.bsky.social•106 days ago

Hard cheese

stuartstevens.co.uk•106 days ago

So we might have the best cheese in the world. That’s a brexit benefit if ever I’ve heard it.

joseph-t-erber.bsky.social•107 days ago

this.is.a.disgrace.

nowthenthee.bsky.social•107 days ago

Where is the lettuce these days? I thought she was the cheese champion?

bridgewithout.bsky.social•107 days ago

hahahahahaha i was thinking exactly the same thing (and wondering why oh why oh why i still remember the 'speech' about the cheeses)

joseph-t-erber.bsky.social•106 days ago

Saving the west I believe??

mrmicknl.bsky.social•107 days ago

Pork.

tino007.bsky.social•106 days ago

Well done to Nigel & Boris for their support....satire

kcar.me•107 days ago

Glorious Britain 🇬🇧

atomicbetty.bsky.social•107 days ago

What a sad thing. I’m so sorry for the farmers. Do you think the @nfudc.bsky.social can help them reverse Brexit or they’re too busy promoting wealthy landowners’ absurd positions?

wondermutt.bsky.social•107 days ago

They only had two months left on their passport, no doubt.

eyupp.bsky.social•107 days ago

katplum.bsky.social•107 days ago

@mrjamesob.bsky.social one for you

graememcd.bsky.social•107 days ago

Ah but, sovrinty and straight bananas

oxfordforeurope.bsky.social•107 days ago

The Brexit self harm has had so many devastating consequences.

“Cut red tape”, they lied in 2016 .. but instead 8 years later, businesses have become strangled in bureaucracy & burdened with extra cost, delay & hassle. Unforgivable.

hoxtonchic.bsky.social•105 days ago

Ironically they’ll blame Europe for the increase in red tape etc… or am I giving ideas here 🤔

jamesmchapman.bsky.social•105 days ago

I posted about this in the other place and that’s exactly what many of the responses tried to do - blame the EU and claim a conspiracy against British cheese 😂

oxfordforeurope.bsky.social•105 days ago

These ppl aren’t interested in reality.. A third country is a third country. And we haven’t even worked out our own borders yet .. one day history will judge this as a great big self-harming failure. Because it is.

wrimo14.bsky.social•107 days ago

You couldn’t write it could you

beatraxa.bsky.social•107 days ago

That. Is. A. Disgrace.

steveharvey2001.bsky.social•107 days ago

webard1.bsky.social•107 days ago

Hard cheese for the UK (sorry)! 😊

harremanz.bsky.social•107 days ago

Was it Waterloo Cheese? #wildguess

harrychemay.bsky.social•107 days ago

Brexit is the gift that keeps on taking.

An economic own-goal for the ages, and all because xenophobia was so easy for Farage to leverage. Sigh.

kathylove.bsky.social•107 days ago

I abominate Brexit, but some of its alleged effects are just people failing to face reality. The U.K. is now a third country. There are formalities. If you don’t build in enough time to allow for such formalities (+ a cushion), you will miss a deadline. That’s down to you, not Brexit.