Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:18:35 +0000, Marland wrote:

You as an arrogant Englishman probably hold the view that the Irish are
thick but they actually are not,

True, but they're not doing themselves any favours by stirring things up
against us. We can be 'in the way' as it were between them and europe.

She can carry about 850 TEU which is a lot less than the big ones from
the Far East but heck a of a lot more than you fit on the back of
lorries on a ro ro ferry and she shuttles back and forth regularly and
there are lots more doing it.

No good for perishables, I'm afraid. Ireland's chief export is of course
the potato - and an awful lot of Irish spuds are going to go off during a
long and choppy sea crossing, should they be forced to avoid going
through England.




I doubt there are enough Irish on here for it really to be worth trolling
any to get them irritated, but setting that aside why should Irish spuds be
any more delicate than those often seen in UK supermarkets that have been
shipped in from Egypt and other African countries. I thought one of the
advantages of being out of the EU was being able to source food from non EU
markets. Now you are saying perishable foodstuffs go off on long sea
crossings. Better stay in the EU then and keep the crossings short as
possible such as UK -France.
Any how spuds are not difficult to store,kept right they keep for months.
They arent that perishable like a soft fruit would be.

GH