Be Carefull What You Wish For.

[gulliver1]

In the event of no deal Brexit, which looks like Barmy Boris is going for, the cost of your weekly/monthly trip to the supermarket will probably cost at least 1/3rd more from 1st jan 2021. Will you still be glad you voted out, and you voted for Boris , when you have to find this extra money every week?.

[Peter Pedant]

we will have to wait and find out
people saying they;re glad and people digging into their pockets and paying may be less glad
we will do the experiment

[ummmm]

Yes
Yes
I don't have to find it. We already have it and earn it.

I might cut back on caviar, foie grass, truffles and Champagne.

[Mamyalynne]

I didn't vote out.

The Public didn't vote for Boris Johnson.

What my bills are I will have to cope with or adjust my spending.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Maybe if food is more expensive or rarer people will buy less and throw less away. Win Win.

You can't have it both ways...one minute Brexit is putting the price of food up -the next we are getting inundated with cheap chicken from the USA

Let them eat chicken!

[Zacs-Master]

Gulli, where have you picked this pearl of wisdom from?

[ToraToraTora]

yep I'm looking forward to prices going up, less poor people in the way.

[Mamyalynne]

Zacs, It's less where they are picked up from but to me more about where they are deposited and that is rarely if ever in the right topic.

[andy-hughes]

If the price for losing laws made by unelected foreigners is more on my grocery bill, I am delighted to pay it.

[gulliver1]

If the UK come out without a deal it will cause Chaos and Hardship. Then Boris will do a Cameron and resign. Those pair couldn't give a toss how much they damage the Country , it won't affect them.

[andy-hughes]

gulliver - // If the UK come out without a deal it will cause Chaos and Hardship. //

You post that as if it's a fact - it's not.

[gulliver1]

17.12 how do you know it's not, it hasn't happened yet , you have to wait until next year, to find out.

[youngmafbog]

@17:19 and likewise how do you know it is?

Stop making statements sound like facts then they are at best guesses.

[ichkeria]

I’m wondering what exactly would make Boris Johnson resign given the things he’s already failed to resign over.
I’m damn sure it wouldn’t be the piffling matter of higher supermarket prices ...

[ToraToraTora]

it's almost as if there is a world crisis ich.....hang on!

[bookbinder]

My wife and I have noticed that our weekly trip to the supermarket has already been costing us more since lockdown kicked in. Prices of some items have risen by approx. 30% or 40%, and there are more empty spaces on the shelves, also.

[Mamyalynne]

I shop online and have noticed a distinct reduction in the amount of 'offers' which are listed at the top of each section.

[ichkeria]

I’ve actually noticed lots of special offers, even online

[Sunk]

We haven’t left yet with ‘No Deal’. The Government is posturing and grandstanding to their audience, but big business will not forgive them for a messy conclusion, and I predict they will reach an agreement at the eleventh hour.

1/3 higher prices is a figure you have plucked out of the air, and is almost certainly wrong by a large margin. A little inflation is inevitable.

My main fear is that they have contracted out all the post Brexit running and operations to private companies, with no real experience, and it will end up a shambles like the nHS/covid/Track+Trace fiasco.

[rowanwitch]

Hopefully we can see more local produce, farmers will be able to sell more wonky veg, we will buy British meat, and fish from our own waters. If I wanted something foreign like French cheese, or German sausage I will buy less and probably enjoy it more. Maybe we will learn to treasure out seasons again, looking forward to when things reappear in a shop or market.

[ichkeria]

Amen to the first 7 words.
Not the rest though