Brexit will make food imports cheaper, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said.
During an exchange on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Mr Farage claimed food imports will be ‘much cheaper’ as the UK opens itself up to the world.
But Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, who was on the show with Mr Farage, said Brexit was a ‘massive risk for Great Britain’ as the issue of prices of food on the shelves was of a massive significance.
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IIRC, there were quite a few studies that predicted this, some of them by UK government departments, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Basically, the further you diverge from EU regulations, the higher the costs.
Note also that the UK is not yet performing full regulatory and customs checks on EU imports, so it is likely that costs will increase further once this happens. Presumably that is the reason why there is talk of another delay in introducing them, despite the fact that this puts UK based manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage.
And still the B word is never mentioned on BBC/ITV as a reason.
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I mean, obviously. It’s not the sole cause, but we’ve shunned our closest trading partners, to which we had a pretty cushty trading agreement.
We’ve still yet to see any benefit from Brexit, and I’m happy to learn otherwise. Bring this up to anyone defending Brexit, though, and they’ll point to the rest of the world going through a cost of living crisis, as if this is some sort of gotcha.
No, that doesn’t magic away the self-inflicted wound that Brexit has caused lol
Yeah right.
In Portugal food prices are rising 30-50%, its not brexit.
Since January 2021, food prices (as measured by CPI) has risen 5.96%. So is this ‘study’ claiming that all of that was due to Brexit (i.e. UK leaving the single market).
This seems preposterous when you look at food price inflation in Europe over the same period:
I can’t really take seriously any report which implies that the UK would have essentially had no food price inflation were it not for Brexit at a time when food prices have risen pretty much everywhere in Europe.
So nothing to do with the covid and supply chain breakdown?
Can we gather all the clips of Nigel Garage and Borris Johnson lying to the public and bring them to a tribunal. Surely all this damage caused by their Russian funded lies is heresy and should be punished accordingly.
This is great news then as it means the UK has had NO food price inflation at all then.
The price is down just to Brexit so if we had not left we would of avoided the price inflation the rest of the EU and world is having right now.
Still waiting on the promised benefits of brexit… still waiting
Ah yes Brexit, does it take into account places like Tesco making 3 times more profit than 3 years ago?
Yeah it was Brexit. Brexit did it and ran away. Independent says it was Brexit, so it was Brexit. Case open, case closed, it was Brexit. Me? I blame it on Brexit.
I’m pretty sure Brexit has done us no favours regarding prices, but it’s effect is negligible compared to other global effects (fossil fuels, post-pandemic bounce back), which can be seen when you look at food inflation across Europe and America.
The Independent (like every paper) is pushing an agenda to generate clicks. When a centrist leftist like me sees unabashedly pro-Brexit screeds in the Torygraph, or nonsense on Fox News, it’s easy to see their lies and bias, but when papers release headlines like this in order to satiate their readers’ own biases, it’s more difficult to parse.
This headline is Fox News worthy. Beware.
Worth noting food prices outside the EU have increased substantially too.
A lot more going on that just Brexit.
Brexit vote was in 2016, we fully left in January 2020. Had it been Brexit we would have seen this inflation much earlier.
Rising food costs has nothing to do with Brexit, this is just a way to spin a narrative. Brexit has caused many issues, food prices is not one of them.
Food prices are actually more inflated in countries that are in the European Union.
Brexit might be a slight factor but 99% of the inflation is not due to Brexit, it’s due to pandemics, fucking wars, and greedy ceo’s inflating their prices to keep their shareholders happy. What also isn’t helping is the destructions of farms in favour of houses, we are becoming less and less self-sufficient meaning we have to actually pay ridiculous money to import these goods that could be locally grown.
Can we start using real arguments as to why Brexit was bad, this level of clutching at straws to spin a narrative just makes it look like we have no arguments. The fact that this is so highly upvoted shows what kind of delusional people on are this subreddit. Imagine thinking that Brexit is responsible for a 6% rise, christ, how do some of you actually get out of bed in the morning without getting stuck under the sheets?
As a Tory mp said “get a job” not sure if he meant get a second job as most people have 1 job and are still struggling.
But hey the phantom of labour is worse
This is what THEY wanted. Divide and conquer. Strip away our sense of normality so they can get away with fucking up and raping the country for every single penny they can get. The fact a pandemic arrived, was just a happy coincidence. They want us back to a Victorian workhouse state, everyone working for peanuts with no protection, whilst the rich get richer and richer.
Sadly though, the tories will continue to get back in, because most people are so bored and pissed off with politics, they won’t vote and the tory voters will come out regardless and they’ll win by default.
The fact these cunts are still supported, shows how fucking idiotic some of the British public are.
6% my arse. 6% would be things jumping from £1 to £1.06, not £1.50 or £1.75!
It’s a shame there’s so many pro-eu sheep who follow the first anti-brexit headline they see and think it’s true. The price of living has gone up all over Europe aswell as the UK. Covid being the main factor. But whatever floats the propaganda boat.
6% is also a massive understatment. I’ve seen my weekly shop go up 20% since August for the same items at Tesco, sometimes with a lower quantity in items (i.e 22 instead of 24) and lower quality in terms of chicken breast etc.
Rising costs. National insurance increase. Gas and energy increasing. NHS pay is stagnant….wtf am I doing here.
Brexiters were all liars or lied to. Nothing good has come of it.
6%? Feels like everything in most stores has gone up 50% in price
Is this 6% over and above inflation? Here in Canada inflation has increased food prices roughly 7% over the last year or two.
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[Relevant inflation stats](https://i.imgur.com/achZhji.png)
20 September 2016
Brexit will make food imports cheaper, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said.
During an exchange on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Mr Farage claimed food imports will be ‘much cheaper’ as the UK opens itself up to the world.
But Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, who was on the show with Mr Farage, said Brexit was a ‘massive risk for Great Britain’ as the issue of prices of food on the shelves was of a massive significance.
[deleted]
IIRC, there were quite a few studies that predicted this, some of them by UK government departments, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Basically, the further you diverge from EU regulations, the higher the costs.
Note also that the UK is not yet performing full regulatory and customs checks on EU imports, so it is likely that costs will increase further once this happens. Presumably that is the reason why there is talk of another delay in introducing them, despite the fact that this puts UK based manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage.
And still the B word is never mentioned on BBC/ITV as a reason.
[deleted]
I mean, obviously. It’s not the sole cause, but we’ve shunned our closest trading partners, to which we had a pretty cushty trading agreement.
We’ve still yet to see any benefit from Brexit, and I’m happy to learn otherwise. Bring this up to anyone defending Brexit, though, and they’ll point to the rest of the world going through a cost of living crisis, as if this is some sort of gotcha.
No, that doesn’t magic away the self-inflicted wound that Brexit has caused lol
Yeah right.
In Portugal food prices are rising 30-50%, its not brexit.
Since January 2021, food prices (as measured by CPI) has risen 5.96%. So is this ‘study’ claiming that all of that was due to Brexit (i.e. UK leaving the single market).
This seems preposterous when you look at food price inflation in Europe over the same period:
– Germany: 9.7%
– Netherlands: 5.6%
– Belgium: 5.1%
– Austria: 5.6%
– Italy: 6.5%
– France: 3.5%
I can’t really take seriously any report which implies that the UK would have essentially had no food price inflation were it not for Brexit at a time when food prices have risen pretty much everywhere in Europe.
So nothing to do with the covid and supply chain breakdown?
Can we gather all the clips of Nigel Garage and Borris Johnson lying to the public and bring them to a tribunal. Surely all this damage caused by their Russian funded lies is heresy and should be punished accordingly.
This is great news then as it means the UK has had NO food price inflation at all then.
The price is down just to Brexit so if we had not left we would of avoided the price inflation the rest of the EU and world is having right now.
Still waiting on the promised benefits of brexit… still waiting
Ah yes Brexit, does it take into account places like Tesco making 3 times more profit than 3 years ago?
Yeah it was Brexit. Brexit did it and ran away. Independent says it was Brexit, so it was Brexit. Case open, case closed, it was Brexit. Me? I blame it on Brexit.
All figures for March 2022
U.K. food inflation = 5.9% https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/food-inflation
EU food inflation = 6.7% https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/food-inflation
Eurozone food inflation = 5.7% https://tradingeconomics.com/euro-area/food-inflation
US food inflation = 8.8% https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/food-inflation
I’m pretty sure Brexit has done us no favours regarding prices, but it’s effect is negligible compared to other global effects (fossil fuels, post-pandemic bounce back), which can be seen when you look at food inflation across Europe and America.
The Independent (like every paper) is pushing an agenda to generate clicks. When a centrist leftist like me sees unabashedly pro-Brexit screeds in the Torygraph, or nonsense on Fox News, it’s easy to see their lies and bias, but when papers release headlines like this in order to satiate their readers’ own biases, it’s more difficult to parse.
This headline is Fox News worthy. Beware.
Worth noting food prices outside the EU have increased substantially too.
A lot more going on that just Brexit.
Brexit vote was in 2016, we fully left in January 2020. Had it been Brexit we would have seen this inflation much earlier.
Rising food costs has nothing to do with Brexit, this is just a way to spin a narrative. Brexit has caused many issues, food prices is not one of them.
Food prices are actually more inflated in countries that are in the European Union.
Brexit might be a slight factor but 99% of the inflation is not due to Brexit, it’s due to pandemics, fucking wars, and greedy ceo’s inflating their prices to keep their shareholders happy. What also isn’t helping is the destructions of farms in favour of houses, we are becoming less and less self-sufficient meaning we have to actually pay ridiculous money to import these goods that could be locally grown.
Can we start using real arguments as to why Brexit was bad, this level of clutching at straws to spin a narrative just makes it look like we have no arguments. The fact that this is so highly upvoted shows what kind of delusional people on are this subreddit. Imagine thinking that Brexit is responsible for a 6% rise, christ, how do some of you actually get out of bed in the morning without getting stuck under the sheets?
As a Tory mp said “get a job” not sure if he meant get a second job as most people have 1 job and are still struggling.
But hey the phantom of labour is worse
This is what THEY wanted. Divide and conquer. Strip away our sense of normality so they can get away with fucking up and raping the country for every single penny they can get. The fact a pandemic arrived, was just a happy coincidence. They want us back to a Victorian workhouse state, everyone working for peanuts with no protection, whilst the rich get richer and richer.
Sadly though, the tories will continue to get back in, because most people are so bored and pissed off with politics, they won’t vote and the tory voters will come out regardless and they’ll win by default.
The fact these cunts are still supported, shows how fucking idiotic some of the British public are.
6% my arse. 6% would be things jumping from £1 to £1.06, not £1.50 or £1.75!
It’s a shame there’s so many pro-eu sheep who follow the first anti-brexit headline they see and think it’s true. The price of living has gone up all over Europe aswell as the UK. Covid being the main factor. But whatever floats the propaganda boat.
6% is also a massive understatment. I’ve seen my weekly shop go up 20% since August for the same items at Tesco, sometimes with a lower quantity in items (i.e 22 instead of 24) and lower quality in terms of chicken breast etc.
Rising costs. National insurance increase. Gas and energy increasing. NHS pay is stagnant….wtf am I doing here.
Brexiters were all liars or lied to. Nothing good has come of it.
6%? Feels like everything in most stores has gone up 50% in price
Is this 6% over and above inflation? Here in Canada inflation has increased food prices roughly 7% over the last year or two.