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Graeme Wall · August 31st 11, 12:49 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 31/08/2011 12:33, d wrote:
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:54:31 +0100
Graeme wrote:
You were claiming that British farmers could set up a cartel and cause
the supermarkets, such as Tesco, to panic about their suppies. I merely
pointed out that given the world wide supply chains that supermarkets,
such as Tesco, have already set up, then said supermarkets, such as
Tesco, were unlikely to be that worried.

On the contrary , I think they'd be very worried. As I said , if they started
sourcing ALL their goods from abroad the price would go up steeply.

They source much of their produce from abroad already. If British
farmers put their prices up above what they can buy and transport from
abroad then the supermarkets (Tesco et al if you wish) will easily
change. After all they regularly change suppliers as prices change with
the seasons.

You then introduced the standard right-wing bogie man of the EU which
has nothing to do with the issue.

Umm hello? Farming subsidies?

That wasn't the context in which you introduced the bogie man and
British farmers get them as well so that playing field is fairly flat.

As for your obsession with mung beans, do British farmers actually
produce such things on any great scale?

You're the one who keeps mentioning them, not me. I've never eaten them,
know nothing about them and nor do I care to.

You are the one that brought them up, to coin a phrase. apparently they
are another right-wing bogie, er, veg...

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Graeme Wall
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