UK votes for #BrExit from the EU. 52% Leave - 48% Stay.

[Alice Purjorick]

I have eaten the Vietnamese version, pollock, many a time, and I can safely say it is tasty.  When U cook like wot I do.

But surely EU regulations would prevent pollock from being passed off as cod?

And I have to agree.  At £2 for fish 'n' chips, I'd be looking at something else.  Just not sure what you get from a take-away for £2 anymore.  Chips?

In the UK in Cornwall in particular Atlantic Pollock is sold as Pollock and has been for 40 odd years as I know to. Dunno about Pacific Pollock.

[Angelo222]

The farmers I know, just love the EU subsidies.

Next.

You obviously don't realise that the UK pays for them and has always done so.  If you knew anything about the subject you would know that the subdidies which you refer to are intended to keep the cost of farm produce down to you and other consumers.

[Angelo222]

In the UK in Cornwall in particular Atlantic Pollock is sold as Pollock and has been for 40 odd years as I know to. Dunno about Pacific Pollock.

Patagonia Tooth Fish (Chilean Sea Bass) was routinely sold as a replacement for scarce cod but even that is protected these days.

[Wonderfulspam]

[Alice Purjorick]

Not that long ago the Patagonia Dog Fish was being sold as a replacement for cod.

It should have been passed off as Patagonian Rock Salmon 

[Alice Purjorick]

Is that PdL ?
All sorts of possibilities open up there.

[Myster]

I have eaten the Vietnamese version, pollock, many a time, and I can safely say it is tasty.  When U cook like wot I do.

But surely EU regulations would prevent pollock from being passed off as cod?

And I have to agree.  At £2 for fish 'n' chips, I'd be looking at something else.  Just not sure what you get from a take-away for £2 anymore.  Chips?

In the UK in Cornwall in particular Atlantic Pollock is sold as Pollock and has been for 40 odd years as I know to. Dunno about Pacific Pollock.

Vietnamese!?     Pollock is native to and fished in the North Atlantic and substituted for cod in dodgy Fish & Chip shops. There was a brouhaha about in the past, if I remember correctly.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock

[stephen25000]

You obviously don't realise that the UK pays for them and has always done so.  If you knew anything about the subject you would know that the subdidies which you refer to are intended to keep the cost down to you and other consumers.

For goodness sake Angelo, it isn't  just the UK paying for subsidies.

It's all about preventing over production after the food mountains, and farmers in the UK getting subsidies to leave their fields fallow, and not just for crop rotation.

Likewise, smaller farmers have been kept in business, in France, who would have gone out of business.

Then we also have the large supermarket chains in this country and elsewhere giving the squeeze on prices paid to farmers, and that is why many have gone to the wall, nothing to do with the EU. More, consumer demand for cheap food.

I could go even further.

So I do know a bit about economics.

It seems the same is not true for others.

[Angelo222]

According to Stephen 

At least Charlton Heston got the girl.

[Alice Purjorick]

Vietnamese!?     Pollock is native to and fished in the North Atlantic and substituted for cod in dodgy Fish & Chip shops. There was a brouhaha about in the past, if I remember correctly.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock

Well with all this EU regulation crap out the way we can look forward to Cumberland Sausage from Essex; Melton Mowbray Pork Pies from Cleckheaton, Stilton Cheese from Fakenham and genuine English Toulouse Snorkers...Champagne from the Moorlands sounds a good idea too.

[Angelo222]

For goodness sake Angelo, it isn't  just the UK paying for subsidies.

It's all about preventing over production after the food mountains, and farmers in the UK getting subsidies to leave their fields fallow, and not just for crop rotation.

Likewise, smaller farmers have been kept in business, in France, who would have gone out of business.

Then we also have the large supermarket chains in this country and elsewhere giving the squeeze on prices paid to farmers, and that is why many have gone to the wall, nothing to do with the EU. More, consumer demand for cheap food.

I could go even further.

So I do know a bit about economics.

It seems the same is not true for others.

You really must keep up Stephen.  My cousin farms and he told me all about these schemes.  There is no set aside any more, another EU scheme which went belly up.

The reason so many farmers have gone bust is because the EU allows heavily subsidised French beef, milk and butter to be dumped on the UK market.

The EU changed the rules and created so much red tape that small farmers just can't cope with the nonsense.

[Angelo222]

Well with all this EU regulation crap out the way we can look forward to Cumberland Sausage from Essex; Melton Mowbray Pork Pies from Cleckheaton, Stilton Cheese from Fakenham and genuine English Toulouse Snorkers...Champagne from the Moorlands sounds a good idea too.

Suppliers on the European mainland will be crapping themselves in case UK government bring in our own controls.  Time we started eating our own fish, lamb, beef, pork, chicken etc..  We don't need Turkeys from God knows where in eastern Europe.

Must go and enjoy my genuine 100% Chinese curry.

[stephen25000]

You really must keep up Stephen.  My cousin farms and he told me all about these schemes.  There is no set aside any more, another EU scheme which went belly up.

...and the rest ?

and have we been the only country paying subsidies to farms ?

I presume your cousin knows about this...

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/505559/BPS_2016_scheme_rules_FINAL__DS_.pdf

[Wonderfulspam]

A pyrrhic victory? Boris Johnson wakes up to the costs of Brexit

Vote Leave’s poster boy should have been crowing, so why was his post-referendum press conference so subdued?




“If we are victorious in one more battle … we shall be utterly ruined.”


http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/a-pyrrhic-victory-boris-johnson-wakes-up-to-the-costs-of-brexit

[Mr Gray]

A pyrrhic victory? Boris Johnson wakes up to the costs of Brexit

Vote Leave’s poster boy should have been crowing, so why was his post-referendum press conference so subdued?



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/a-pyrrhic-victory-boris-johnson-wakes-up-to-the-costs-of-brexit

So Boris seemed subdued
He'd probably been up all night