UK shoppers could face tea shortages due to trade route disruptions | Business

by _triperman_

30 comments
  1. Mods, important public service announcement.
    Possibly needs to be stickied.

  2. Now wait for the panic buying.

    People will buy 10,000 tea bags at a time.

  3. Cost of living, A&E wait times and WW3 are one thing but you dare stop us getting our tea and it’ll be the last straw!

  4. They didn’t let this happen in WW2. I reckon we’ll be ok.

  5. This is worse than that biscuit factory closing due to flooding.

  6. At this point I feel like the British might go back to the 50s style rationing.

  7. I don’t know what will happen if I can’t get my Yorkshire Gold Lose Leaf.

  8. One lesson  I learned from covid.

    Buy tea, coffee, sugar, powdered milk, and flour in bulk. Store them in airtight barrels.

    Deal the various leaves and powders to your friend’s.

  9. Shelves will be plundered, despite the fact that supply will probably not be significantly affected unless people actually start to panic buy. It will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  10. Gotta love a Grauniad “could” headline. Has one ever come to pass?

  11. Tea arrives days later makes for a boring headline doesn’t it

  12. The country will grind to a halt. Refuse collection will stop, fires will remain on fire and crime will be everywhere. Need an ambulance? Tough, the drivers are on strike due to lack of tea. We’re all fucked.

  13. Maybe call for a ceasefire? I know that sounds like mad crazy rather than sending the military in but it might just work. The Saudis have been fighting them for years with our weapons it’s not like we are going to do any better.

  14. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pause for breath oooooooooooooooooooooooo

  15. A shortage of tea in the North Sea will do more to stop production than any of the antics of Just Stop oil!

  16. Breaking news, Mass Exodus of Brits Heading to China, India and Vietnam…

  17. Oh no. We’re going to end up invading Yemen over this aren’t we?

  18. Oh snap, this might be the straw that breaks the camels back and triggers ww3

  19. Oh my god if I don’t get my Yorkshire teas in I will go fucking spare.

  20. I swear to god if they take my tea away I’m gonna riot on the streets with everyone else

  21. Good job I’ve got an extra pack the cupboard then.

    Itll be like the turkey and chocolate shortages thst never happened with shops having pallets of the stuff at the doors.

  22. They are just taking the piss now… maybe it’s time for Royal Britannia to rule the waves again…

  23. We have limitless supply of Sovereing Tea so there is no issue is there?

  24. Not my tea. My tea is from Yorkshire.. Try blocking the M1..

  25. Right that’s to far.
    Inflation, Brexit, lizz truss, NHS struggling is all stiff upper lip territory.
    BUT OUR TEA!!!!
    Can we swap Taiwan for tea from China?

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