editor's bit

The comeback of the ration book?

While in production of this issue of our magazine, I could believe my ears at the news of vegetable rationing in some supermarkets.

And to add insult to injury, I watched on as we were being told that the UK might have to import around 70% of our veg requirements in the near future!

As you may know, I am no farmer, but what the hell is being done to our farmers by those in power in the ivory towers of ‘that London?’. (To paraphrase my Liverpool friends).

Soon there will be a black market in tumpshies (neeps) for our annual Burns Nights, and before you know it, there will be Veggie Speakeasys you can visit down dark alleyways – “Psst, do you anything locally produced?”….before the Rozzers catch ya!

Even watching Rick Stein on the TV opens ones’ eyes to how farmers are being treated as almost expendable by our UK Government, who do lord it over the devolved nations, despite what they say!

Supporting farmers and Eating Local Food must become a biggest clarion call ever, from our farming industry. Shout loud or die, what a horrendous future that would be.

Finally, I am personally shocked at the prospect of vegetable being rationed, after all, the last time I tuned in to watch PMQ’s in Westminster, there were hundreds of them!

Slàinte, Athole.