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Home » News » Baldrick Brexit? Top Tory tells us what to eat & to work harder! deep-rooted reactions

Baldrick Brexit? Top Tory tells us what to eat & to work harder! deep-rooted reactions

'If you can't afford food, work harder': said Environment Secretary Therese Coffey.

Joe C by Joe C
February 23, 2023
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Environment secretary Therese Coffey has had a bad day, well that is a HUGE understatement.

Watch this video to kick it off.

It gets worse, you wouldn’t believe it.

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Luck Pollard: It's 2023 & there's crops rotting in the fields.. kids are going hungry in our communities & now we have rationing in supermarkets… unless she wants to go down as the SoS for sewage, food shortages & rural poverty.. what is her plan

Coffey's response was shocking pic.twitter.com/fMqrY6oJsM

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) February 23, 2023

Food shortage

Ms Coffey came under fire for suggesting turnips were an alternative to seasonal vegetables that are running short in shops.

Asda, Morrisons, Aldi and Tesco have limited sales of certain fruit and vegetable items.

During an urgent question on the subject, Conservative MP Selaine Saxby suggested consumers could avoid issues by “eating more seasonally and supporting our own British farmers”.

Ms Coffey replied: “Many people would be eating turnips right now rather than thinking necessarily about lettuce, tomatoes and similar.

“However, I am conscious that consumers want a year-round choice, and that is what our supermarkets, food producers and growers around the world try to satisfy.”

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey summarised the minister’s response as “let them eat turnips.”

Work harder

She also claimed Britons struggling with food bills should ‘work some more hours’.

Coffey added that ‘one of the best ways’ for people to boost their incomes was ‘potentially to work some more hours, to get upskilled, to get a higher income’.

Blackadder

Other people remembered an episode of the legendary comedy Blackadder, and a turnip Baldrick bought for a LOT of money, much to Lord Blackadder’s dismay.

A very strange prediction of the future?!

Reactions

1.

At least when Liz Truss was Prime Minister there were fresh vegetables to measure her time in office.

— Margaret Hodge (@margarethodge) February 23, 2023

2.

Imagine if the Brexit slogan had been 'Let them eat turnips'. Would they have won 52%? https://t.co/bBdv9xfQBh

— Jenni Russell (@jennirsl) February 23, 2023

3.

Baldrick means baldrick pic.twitter.com/QEzOqpQ84h

— thedevilstuna (@thedevilstuna) February 23, 2023

4.

"We asked 100 people to name something you use as a pizza topping.
You said Turnips…" pic.twitter.com/lWc0WzsGVd

— Jon de Plume (@MrJonDePlume) February 23, 2023

5.

Then she said ‘let them eat turnips’ pic.twitter.com/6rvEPvjvHr

— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 3.5% 🇪🇺🐟🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🦠💙 (@g_gosden) February 23, 2023

6.

We’ll be ok Therese Coffey says we can eat turnips. pic.twitter.com/yTyCJr0Mxo

— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 3.5% 🇪🇺🐟🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🦠💙 (@g_gosden) February 23, 2023

7.

Today's House of Commons Menu:
Turnips
No, sorry it's: pic.twitter.com/Q7fk1PXtZO

— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) February 23, 2023

8.

Let them eat turnips. pic.twitter.com/6T03zZqwcc

— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 3.5% 🇪🇺🐟🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🦠💙 (@g_gosden) February 23, 2023

9.

2016 – Take Back Control!
2019 – Get Brexit Done!
2023 – pic.twitter.com/JgocJJ2RRK

— Craig Heritage (@CraigRS82) February 23, 2023

10.

Let them eat turnip. pic.twitter.com/6h7Fgac1HF

— J. O'Riordan (@gaeltwice) February 23, 2023

Or this…

Let them eat turnips?

Goest and fucketh thyself.

— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) February 23, 2023

Related: Watch: Crops ‘rotting in fields’ & ‘children going hungry’ – Tory MP’s shocking response

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Joe C

Joe C

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