Posted on 08/01/2015 6:13:35 AM PDT by markomalley
Britain could face food shortages this summer thanks to the growing migrant crisis in Calais, hauliers have warned.
Freight trucks have already faced severe delays, with queues now five miles longer than the Channel Tunnel itself, as they try to cross into Europe. Now haulage firms say the delays could cause shortages of key supplies, thus causing food prices to shoot up.
The Daily Mail reports that some truck drivers have been stuck in their cabs for days, requiring emergency food and water supplies as well as chemical toilets. At its peak, the queue reached 36 miles and barely moved 500 yards in two days. It is now expected to reduce in length over the weekend, but many drivers will still be stranded for the next few days.
Jack Semple, director of policy at the Road Haulage Association, said: “It is really disrupting supplies. You can no longer guarantee supplies will be delivered on time.
“Companies importing produce, but also components, are switching to air freight which is more expensive. This will also push up prices.”
It is not just delays that could lead to shortages. Migrants clambering aboard trucks carrying food are contamination supplies, sometimes even urinating on them. All contaminated supplies have to be destroyed.
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Used to be called sabotage.
Amateurs running both countries.
That's back when we had sanity.
And nations.
How many countries did these ‘migrants’ pass through on their way to France so that they could demand access to Britain? Why is Britain such an inviting target that these ‘migrants’ would pass up opportunities to settle in any of these other countries along their way? Why has Britain donned the ‘sucker’ sign?
A European co-worker who is familiar with this sort of thing tells me the “migrants” are mostly Muslims headed to England because they know the UK has the most generous asylum programme and welfare payments in Europe.
I don’t know, but I wonder what they think of the Chunnel now.
Brita7n is not self sustainable in food?
Que the “Let’s go be oppressed” cartoon.. d;^)
And guts.
And leaders.
He could be caustic at times and the Brits couldn't wait to vote him out once the war in Europe was won even though the ashes were still smoldering.
“Migrants”
uh-huh
Better than undocumented immigrants, I suppose.
How about air cargo flights? Of course this would cause the truck drivers to go on strike.
The only way it will stop is if every caught “migrant” is arrested, transported to the coast off North Africa, and dumped there.
Britain has never been self-sustainable in food, going back as long as anyone alive today and probably longer.
Yes, a lot longer. According to this article, not as long as the US has been a country.
Britain has not been fully self-sufficient since the eighteenth century. It imported large quantities of wheat, eggs and sugar during the Victorian era, growing an increasingly small proportion of what it ate until World War II, when millions of consumers followed the plea to “dig for victory”. This self-sufficiency trend was immediately reversed after the war ended, however.
Thanks to improvements in agricultural techniques and generous European Union subsidies, British farmers were able to produce 78 per cent of all the food we ate during the first half of the 1980s. It has been in decline since then.
Rape and pillage?
Ping
Will the Brits rise up and demand that the government implement the right solution? or are they nothing but wimpy sheep who will bow down and take it?
England doesn’t have any coastal freighters anymore apparently.
An island nation without boats,what a concept.
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