[soulboy]

UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs

At the World Cheese Awards in Portugal, British entries were conspicuous by their absence after failing to clear import controls

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/n ... in-customs

That. Is. A. Disgrace.

[kreuzberger]

It really is a disgrace and I feel desperately sorry for both the producers and for other cheese mongers who might have picked up extra business, should these cheeses to have won official recognition.

The report doesn't finger the customs issue but the root cause is evident. Fucking stupidity on a national scale.

More broadly, I miss English and Scots cheeses, which can no longer be had for love nor money on the mainland. Kerrygold cheddar just ain't the same.

[Abernathy]

That. Is. A. Disgrace.

[Yug]

David Frost sPeKeS hIs BrAnEs in the Torygraph.

Brexit has been a success. Labour are slowly killing it


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/0 ... illing-it/

I managed to get through the first paragraph before the pay-wall bollocks popped up. It's about as unhinged as you'd expect.

[mattomac]

I read someone on blue sky talking about UK media targeting US clicks and this seems perfect.

[Youngian]

As usual Carswell gets the wrong end of the stick. What Mertz is outlining is that the global free trade mercentile model Brexiters cream themselves about is reaching its limit. Germany excelled at this model over most European countries but is now a drag on the economy. The country is still a huge growing high end services economy and the future growth will come from further Single Market integration. Which was cross party British policy in the 90s. Legarde has also outlined this strategy and this is give a good outline of some of the issues.

[Boiler]

I expect Dacre et al have shot their loads over this.

[Spoonman]

In the latest round of "No shit Sherlock"...

Large majority in NI see Brexit as failure, poll suggests

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0515/15734 ... n-ireland/

More than 70% of people, including a majority of Leave voters, agree that Brexit has been more of a failure than a success in Northern Ireland, an opinion poll has suggested.

The results of the research from Queen's University Belfast also indicate two-thirds of people in the region believe Brexit has made the break-up of the UK more likely.

The polling, carried out for Queen's by LucidTalk, suggests that close to half of voters (48%) do not agree that the 2016 Brexit referendum was based on a "fair democratic process", while 40% agree.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Would some of that among Leave voters be that they haven't actually stuck up a wall with Ireland?

[Youngian]

Reform's leading intellectual just making up shite again. I don’t recall: 'Vote Brexit as it will be good for some future stuff that hasn’t been invented yet.'

[Killer Whale]

Pole position in the race to the bottom. We already knew that was what Brexit was about.

[Andy McDandy]

He's right, in the sense that a few people were told "We'll tear up the regulations and give free rein to you making money without any safeguards".