UK worker shortage threatens Christmas turkey supply

Both turkey and bacon, worst meat ever.

Turkey on table is special for westeners whereas pig head on table in Chinese New Year is gross for them.

So far from the outside looking in Brexit seems like the greatest failure possible for the British economy. Could someone tell me what positive effect Brexit has had for the U.K.

The Brits need to stop eating so much meat and eat more veg-positive for health.

Both turkey and bacon, worst meat ever.

??? Bacon, yeah, salty and fatty but turkey is low fat and among the healthiest of meats. It's nowhere near as fatty and greasy as duck or goose. Those are gross.

What surprises me is that the Brits or any Europeans eat much turkey. Turkeys are native to North America and are imports to anywhere else. Turkey figures in the American Thanksgiving holiday and is a popular Christmas food alongside ham but I'm genuinely surprised to see it popular in UK.

The US has the same problem. Is this due to Brexit too?

No, Brexit has nothing to do with this situation, although remoaners don't want to acknowledge that of course.

"The Brits need to stop eating so much meat and eat more veg-positive for health."

There's no one to pick them!

Much maligned Eastern Euros left, moaning Brits refuse to pick up the slack!

"Farmers hit by a shortage of seasonal workers have resorted to giving produce away for free rather than seeing it left to rot."

"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-58410363"

All those happy Brexiteers hiding in Japan and claiming "it's got nothing to do with Brexit because there are shortages in Tonga" should be forcefully repatriated.

Made to come over and enjoy the Brexit benefits.

The Brits need to stop eating so much meat and eat more veg-positive for health.

The Brits will eat what they choose.

Zichi,American do turkey on Thanksgiving ,with dressing ,on Christmas it usually a feast of American , favorite foods,such as Gumbo, Spanish usually make tamales,are even BBQ

Look at the face of the turkey staring right at the camera and realize you are looking at a direct ancestor of some dinosaur o_O

The Brits eat Turkey for Christmas?

Is Turkey widely popular among n the UK, like KFC in Japan popular, or just a bit of doom porn news?

-Could someone tell me what positive effect Brexit has had for the U.K.

There are none.

Johnson, the liar-in-chief of Brexit, stole our right to travel, live and work across the EU, undermined the status, economy and unity of the UK, deprived the nation of access to a labour pool that optimised its economy, isolated the UK from the sweet spot it occupied in the Commonwealth and EU, blocked UK universities from talent, funding and research projects, pulled the rug from under the City of London and deprived a generation of Britons of opportunities they would otherwise have had. Looking ahead, tax revenues will decline, debt will increase, prices will shoot up, there will be shortages and increased poverty.

It doesn't feel like home any more. It feels like the UK has been occupied by a foreign Imperial power. Some irony there, eh?

Like many people, I'll obey the law and pay the taxes, but I won't do anything for an occupier. Whatever Johnson asks us to do, for the nation, for the economy, for anything, he can go whistle. My country has been stolen from me. What remains, Johnson's Brexit Britain - less if Scotland escape - can rot. I will be celebrating when he finally leaves office, although the damage that has been done will not be fixable. The UK is heading back to the 1970s and will decline going forward.

My country has been stolen from me. 

By a majority of the voters. LOL.