Oh look, someone has noticed

A food crisis is highly likely in the UK, with price and availability becoming issues that swing the outcome of future elections, according to a report from the thinktank Chatham House. Grauniad

Following on from Gordon Brown’s sudden insight that we had “fuel security” problems, now someone has noticed that we also have a “food security” problem. Makes me think of those people you seeing pottering along the motorway until they are three feet from the back bumper of a slower moving car, at which point they slam their brakes on… “WTF did that come from???”

This entry was written by Tim, posted on Tue Oct 7 2008 at 15:16, filed under It's where it is, political stuff. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

4 Comments

  1. Merry
    Posted Tue Oct 7 2008 at 16:10 | Permalink

    “Makes me think of those people you seeing pottering along the motorway until they are three feet from the back bumper of a slower moving car, at which point they slam their brakes on… “WTF did that come from???””

    OI!!!!!! ;)

  2. Tim
    Posted Tue Oct 7 2008 at 16:12 | Permalink

    Oops. :)

    Mind you, if the cap fits….

  3. tbird
    Posted Tue Oct 7 2008 at 19:35 | Permalink

    ah well, as a nation we need to go on a diet don’t we? maybe a bit of rationing will do us all some good! Would save me a fortune if sweeties were rationed again (although I don’t want to be in teh same country as Duke if it happens….)

  4. Merry
    Posted Tue Oct 7 2008 at 21:16 | Permalink

    Cheeky ;)

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