Former British minister proposes implementing food shortages for Ireland

Captain Obvious

The Brits are at it again. Want to starve us into submission.

AS UK PRIME Minister Theresa May has just five days to try to rally support for her Brexit deal, a Tory MP has suggested using the possibility of food shortages to Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit to encourage the EU to drop the backstop.

https://www.thejournal.ie/brexit-threat-food-shortages-ireland-4381228-Dec2018/



How are you going to prepare for the next famine?

A priti outlandish threat.

Mickeroo

Isn't "Tory MP" a synonym for "knows absolutely nothing about Ireland"?

DrumSteve

Good thing we're not fussy eaters anymore

Deebles McBeebles

Captain Obvious wrote: »

How are you going to prepare for the next famine?

Figure out how to can breakfast rolls.

For Forks Sake

Mickeroo wrote: »

Isn't "Tory MP" a synonym for "knows absolutely nothing about Ireland"?

...or anything else for that matter

buried

Don't eat bovril, HP sauce or Ready Brexit myself so should be grand.

biko

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche

Quick, rush out and buy 87 loaves of Brennan’s bread before it’s too late.

FrancieBrady

How proud her Indian ancestors must be of her success in the British Tory party of Winston Churchill. Many Indians remember auld Winston with fondness no doubt.
https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/

riffmongous

Probably a trick she picked up from her Israeli buddies

circadian

This idea sums up Brexit nicely.

BeerWolf

Keep ye ol' blight off me taters!

wakka12

Bad out

TheValeyard

Sycamore Tree

Those blighters!

SEPT 23 1989

Perfect solution to the obesity problem

sjb25

Oh hey MP Priti Patel let me speak for the nation here actually Europe we have had a think about your leverage and we have made a decision as we are concerned

Please find attached our answer to reconsider our position

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Potatoes. Be fine. As long as they don't stop the salt and vinegar. Or the batter burgers.

buried

Doing us a favour anyways. English cuisine dont look all that healthy

Deebles McBeebles

^^^ Belgium and Denmark will not be happy with you for that one.

Amirani

FrancieBrady wrote: »

How proud her Indian ancestors must be of her success in the British Tory party of Winston Churchill. Many Indians remember auld Winston with fondness no doubt.
https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/

Lots of Indians did very well out of British rule (similar to how many Irish did well when they were here). Happy to be proven wrong, but I dare say her Indian ancestors weren't sitting at the bottom of the caste system.

On her point in general, she doesn't have a clue.

FrancieBrady

Amirani wrote: »

Lots of Indians did very well out of British rule (similar to how many Irish did well when they were here). Happy to be proven wrong, but I dare say her Indian ancestors weren't sitting at the bottom of the caste system.

On her point in general, she doesn't have a clue.

Lots of Irish did well out of the British too. Would you excuse their offspring for making a tasteless, insulting comment like Pritti's?

Britain is currently losing the plot never mind credibility.

Grayson

Mickeroo wrote: »

Isn't "Tory MP" a synonym for "knows absolutely nothing about Ireland"?

We had one that thought any english person could pop over here and get an Irish passport. And an NI secretary who knew absolutely nothing about the politics of the north.

klaaaz

She should be arrested for racism, conspiracy to use genocide against another nation. Just shows that some English Tory extremists are willing to commit mass murder in order to get their own way. Thankfully a good many English people see them for what they are and condemn their racism.

Skelet0n

Amirani wrote: »

FrancieBrady wrote: »

How proud her Indian ancestors must be of her success in the British Tory party of Winston Churchill. Many Indians remember auld Winston with fondness no doubt.
https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/

Lots of Indians did very well out of British rule (similar to how many Irish did well when they were here). Happy to be proven wrong, but I dare say her Indian ancestors weren't sitting at the bottom of the caste system.

On her point in general, she doesn't have a clue.

Her family worked for HMG in Uganda.

Agricola

If we weren't so closely affected by it, Brexit would be wonderful entertainment.

Gotta love watching these Tory cúnts tear each other apart as the irresistible force that is nostalgic imperialism meets the immovable object of hard reality.

Yikes!

Not bothered. We always have the spuds to fall back on.

Odhinn

Skelet0n wrote: »

Her family worked for HMG in Uganda.

Using native Africans to run the place meant that a section of population would have to be given privileges, access to education and so on, with a risk that -despite their well off status - they might make common cause with their country men and rise against british rule. Bringing in subjects from other colonies to act as a governing class lessened the risk. Divide and conquer writ bold and clear.

Red_Wake

I was going on a diet anyway.

Gimme A Pound

Amirani wrote: »

Lots of Indians did very well out of British rule (similar to how many Irish did well when they were here). Happy to be proven wrong, but I dare say her Indian ancestors weren't sitting at the bottom of the caste system.

On her point in general, she doesn't have a clue.

Yeah a British guy I work with is half Indian - says that side of his family are well into all the lickspittling of the royals and waxing lyrical about the greatness of the empire etc.

You see Irish people here going on with that toadying sh1t too.

Amirani

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Lots of Irish did well out of the British too. Would you excuse their offspring for making a tasteless, insulting comment like Pritti's?

Where did I excuse her? Just saying that she's not necessarily too unhappy about the actions of the British in India, same way that many in East Belfast might not be too unhappy about the actions of the British in Ireland.

Humphrey BoaGart

She is kinda hot though....;)

Franz Von Peppercorn

Ireland obviously las a food surplus, and probably with the UK too. Was surprised to learn that we depend on them for much, maybe its all the M&S stuff. Given we are in the EU though, import substitutions should be easy enough.

edit:

Ireland is in fact the world's most food secure nation.

https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/ireland-named-nation-best-able-to-feed-itself-36172429.html

steddyeddy

Amirani wrote: »

Lots of Indians did very well out of British rule (similar to how many Irish did well when they were here). Happy to be proven wrong, but I dare say her Indian ancestors weren't sitting at the bottom of the caste system.

On her point in general, she doesn't have a clue.

The caste system was also re-enforced by the British to benefit people like her.

ChikiChiki

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Ireland obviously las a food surplus, and probably with the UK too. Was surprised to learn that we depend on them for much, maybe its all the M&S stuff. Given we are in the EU though, import substitutions should be easy enough.

Yeah I think if they did start holding back on food we would just be resupplied in much bigger volume by the EU thus further damage will be done to British food industry. The Brexiteers really are clutching at straws on this one and they should think wisely!

Buford T. Justice XIX

Considering Ireland is a massive net exporter of food and the UK is some 63% self sufficient in food, I really hope they are stupid enough to try it:D

RobertKK

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-ireland-food-shortages-threat-risk-priti-patel-negotiate-better-deal-a8672326.html?

I am not one to be easily surprised or shocked, but for a disgraced former minister in the British government to suggest that stopping imports of food from the UK into Ireland should have been used as a tactic in Brexit negotiations.

I suspect most Irish people are like me in this regard, they don't belittle the suffering and hell our ancestors went through when the famine happened, and to see someone who was a former minister in the British government to use food supply to us Irish as a weapon as being deeply insensitive.

Of course we produce enough food to feed over 36 million people or so, but we don't produce all the different varieties of food we consume. A lot comes through the UK.

She is a small minority of people in the UK who hold such extremist views, From what I see, there has been little to no support for what she said her fellow Tories should have done in Brexit divorce deal.

Did anyone think that in 2018, 170 years after the famine, that we would have a person who is an MP in Westminster would be advocating food shortages for Ireland?

RobertKK

Sorry I see now there is another thread, but on a different page.
Close/delete.

Yer Da sells Avon

You'd nearly miss the IRA sometimes.

Arghus

She's not propsing implementing food shortages, she's saying that the threat of potential food shortages as a result of Brexit should be used to leverage a better deal for Britain in negotiations. Every side is fighting to get what they want in Brexit talks at the moment, this is just one side trying to get the brst possible deal for them.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Her name doesn't sound very British :pac:

The Satanist

Yes, the shortage of shity Walkers crips will finish us off. Gway ta fook.

Fann Linn

Milf.

whisky_galore

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

You'd nearly miss the IRA sometimes.

Not really, no.

It's wonderfully brazen of a former British government mininister in 2018 to suggest that the Brits should implement a "let's starve the Paddys" policy, God bless her.

I await a former German minister in 2018 suggesting Germany should implement a "send all Jews to concentration camps" policy.

suicide_circus

Fann Linn wrote: »

Milf.

Minimise Ireland's Legitimate Food?

Infini

RobertKK wrote: »

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-ireland-food-shortages-threat-risk-priti-patel-negotiate-better-deal-a8672326.html?

And like that the price for a post car crash brexit deal from the EU just escalated!

Franz Von Peppercorn

Im not seeing a let’s starve policy here. Of course her idea that there would be shortages here is ludicrous.

James Brown

Amusing to see Phil Hogan kick off. Mister 'water down to a trickle' getting upset someones else is using his own tactics of spin.

KathleenGrant

Fann Linn wrote: »

Milf.

Well, with a name like Priti, what else did you expect.