The On-going Never-ending Brexit Story Part Four

If people want to kill or put the health of their offspring at risk to own the "left" by buying that stuff, it's their choice to do so, if this regulation is binned.

 

You say that now but it won't be just raw milk. It will be grocery shelves in your country cleared out by hordes of Americans flying over to buy safe food.

 

Yeah, exactly... a load of yanks turning up. NOBODY wants that

 

I doubt there's really enough interest in raw milk to support it being anything more than a fringe product, even if it was legally permitted to sell it.

I don't have an interest in it, but if it's clearly labeled and people want to drink it, so be it.

 

FYP

 

I'm more curious who is going to be liable, if anyone, when the govt. gives raw milk the OK and people start getting sick and dying. If parents give their kids raw milk, and the kids die, will they be prosecuted for child endangerment? Seems kinda like rejecting cancer treatments for homepathic solutions or prayer.

Honestly, I'd rather not find out, and that raw milk still not allowed to be sold commercially.

 

Liability would likely fall on the company that produced the raw milk. It's also likely another reason why there won't be any large scale commercial sales on raw milk.

 

People tend to sue the deepest pockets. Even if it becomes legal, I don't see mainstream grocery stores stocking raw milk. The market is too small, and the potential liability is too high to make it really worth it.

If you really want it, you can buy it fairly easily in a lot of places. A guy was selling it at a farmer's market we were at this weekend near Middleburg, Virginia. Just labelled "not for human consumption."

 

I guess it's not going to be forbidden to sell "left/nannystate" food. So it will be short life for that fad of anti nanny state food.

 

It won't be forbidden to sell it, it just won't exist. It's not that food inspection was going that well here now. A semi-upmarket meat processor with plenty of violations finally closed their plant in Virginia after people got sick (their name doesn't come to mind). The plant was literally filfthy and it showed you can't depend on the magic of the market to prevent producers from going as low as possible.

 

It was a massive Boar’s Head plant.

57 Hospitalizations
9 Deaths
500 lost employment

 

I thought their were deaths but I couldn't imagine for sure. The magic of the market strikes again.

 

The only people who believe in the 'power of the market' are idiots, small children and people with a vested interest in the public being gaslit.

Anyone, like me, who's run businesses of different sizes, (including some quite large ones), for 40+ years, KNOWS that businesses can't be trusted to 'do the right thing'.

 

I don’t think small children would be so gullible but you’re right about the rest.

 

Alastair Campbell may be somewhat divisive (to put it mildly) but he's so much better than most at calling out, rather than pandering to, the likes of Farage. We need more of this from across the political spectrum.
The difference in the arguments put forward here is staggering. Farage just gloats and blusters with pretty much zero substance.

Big takeaway from tonight’s Question Time #bbcqt

Alastair Campbell can single-handedly destroy Farage’s self-serving, divisive, populist rhetoric in a way that appears beyond the entirety of the Labour party. pic.twitter.com/rGRaqMdNRv

— Deirdre Heenan (@deirdreheenan) December 5, 2024

 

Five years ago today: Ludicrous novelty figure takes on me and Elmo. pic.twitter.com/n1tFBHmbcd

— Count Binface (@CountBinface) December 12, 2024

 

Just in case there was still any doubt, Badenoch confirming that she's not all there.

Nothing quite sums up how Kemi Badenoch's leadership is going so far like this interview in which she dismisses sandwiches as being not a "real food" and lunch being "for wimps" pic.twitter.com/jeiIjpDcnV

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) December 12, 2024

 

Who eats steak for lunch while working. Seriously. It's a meal you're meant to savor!

 

Someone should give her a steak sandwich one day, just to mess with her head.

 

Some jury trials may be scrapped in England and Wales as court backlog hits record high

https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...d-and-wales-as-court-backlog-hits-record-high

I don't think it's possible to understate how much damage 14 years of Tory chaos has damaged the fabric of the UK.

 

At the British Journalism Awards the Interviewer of the Year award was given to Laura Kuenssberg, with the judges saying she was “forensic, politely determined and never lets her subject off the hook”

This can only lead to the realisation that there must be two Laura Kuenssbergs, and the one not on the BBC won this award.

 

Crime rate went up, hence the shortage of Juries?

 

Not particularly, no. It's because of cuts to the criminal justice system by the tories.