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Another Brexit fiasco.... British cheeses failed to get to the World Cheese Awards in Portugal as they failed to clear customs in time (now being from a non-EU country).

In the scale of the disasters of Brexit its not going to to be a big thing (although it will be for the frustrated cheese makers), but is emblematic of how myopic the Brexiters were about the impact of their successful plan to leave Europe....

#brexit #cheese #food

theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/…

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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Brexit was incited by Russian disinformation & right wing elites weaponizing anti-migrant bigotry.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…

vox.com/2016/6/25/12029786/bre…

tmg-uk.org/news/brexit-anti-im…

bbc.com/news/uk-37193140

As Heather McGhee's book "The Sum of Us" describes, bigots are willing to give up a lot to keep something as useful as bigotry alive.

Give up the bigotry & Russia's "divide & conquer" lies loses its efficacy.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia…
csis.org/blogs/brexit-bits-bob…

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in reply to Nicole Parsons

@Npars01 Quite likely. But the seeds of Brexit were planted much earlier and drip-fed for decades. "Straight Cucumbers" and the rest. Constant demonising with a back story of Xenophobia.
in reply to TerryB

@TerryBTwo @Npars01

Yup, I'd agree; the EU had been a useful scapegoat & target for years, often by people/politicians who then moaned about the vote to leave....