It seems the prime minister wasn't telling porkies after all. We do export pork pies to Iceland and Thailand, though only in small quantities.
But if Boris Johnson thinks he will be able to put pressure on the US to relax its trade rules after Brexit he is in for a big disappointment. Then again, I am sure he know that.
Later:
For more on the realities of the pork pie industry, see this Twitter thread from Spartacus Mills - Walkers owns the Dickinson & Morris brand:
Hello. I live in Melton Mowbray. Let me give you the lowdown on all this pork pie bollocks.— Spartacus Mills, Crisis Correspondent (@CrisisMills) August 26, 2019
The vast majority of authentic Melton Mowbray #porkpies are produced by a company called Dickinson & Morris. They own the quaint little Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe that you may have seen
Even later:Pork pie 🐽🥧 And another twist in the mix as Walker & Son - which says it makes and bakes 80% of all of the UK's Melton Mowbray pork pies - tells the BBC it no longer exports pork pies. Backs up @MeltonMatthew and means @10DowningStreet is using dated webpage. #piegate https://t.co/lFbW3jySyb— Tony Roe 👓 (@tonyroe) August 26, 2019
From the Guardian:
It is understood that a small number of pies were sent to Iceland and Thailand as part of a trial in 2015, but Walker and Son have not exported pies to either country for at least a couple of years.
3 comments:
Does this mean that TTIP is still in business ,I thought it had been dropped?
1% exports. ! His company might get a good deal from the US after all the paperwork but what about other countries? One deal at a time will take a lot of paperwork and man hours. What will the US want in return?
Johnson if he refuses to give the EU the 39 million ,renages on a deal which other countries will be interested in dealing with us if we do not fill our obligations.
Mistrust, suspicion will hold countries back from making deals. They will be slower on the uptake when we wil be needing deals. That leaves us with the Trump Johnson axis what sort of hard deal wil the US push forward knowing we will be desperate for a deal as the economy slides?
The country may not be devastated in the 1st year after Brexit but it will be a slow decline that people willl not notice as we get slowly poorer.
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