Wow.
We’ve already seen the misguided claims made by Nigel Farage on Claire Byrne Live on Monday night, where he said that Ireland will follow Britain out of the EU.
But we’re not sure that Farage’s claim is as bizarre as this man on a BBC News report on Monday evening.
The report was discussing the potential for Britain to be left without food on their supermarket shelves in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
The open letter from the British Retail Consortium stated that a chaotic exit from the EU under WTO terms would cause major disruption and increased food prices.
A no-deal Brexit could result in empty shelves, according to the letter, that was also signed by some of the UK’s biggest food retailers.
BBC News at Six used this as their main story on Monday evening and asked members of the public what they thought of the report, and the reactions were something else.
Wait until you hear the last man…
Welcome to the latest Brexit hot take:
“It would do the country good to go without food” pic.twitter.com/U2vT1SENvz— James Felton (@JimMFelton) January 28, 2019
“It’s purely scaremongering,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned it would do the country good to go without for a little while. Make them appreciate what they’ve had.”
So while we don’t know for sure which side of the debate this guy falls on, the fact that we’re even discussing a food shortage in Britain following Brexit shows how much of a mess this all is.
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