Wetherspoon have said they're only going to use Fairtrade sugar, which is produced by Tate & Lyle. But as always seems to be the case, there's a lot more to the story than meets the eye... T&L's competitor grows sugar in Norfolk. T&L does so overseas.
theguardian.com/business/2020/…
theguardian.com/business/2020/…
T&L are super pro Brexit because they saw an opportunity to bypass the EU's tariffs on the sugar T&L imports. (Assuming the UK plays ball and sets a lower tariff or no tariff on cane sugar). In doing so they're taking trade away from UK-based beet farmers.
vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com/2019/09/23/day…
vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com/2019/09/23/day…
And T&L are an American firm, and there's a whole dodgy connection to David Davis, and yada yada yada. The whole sorry tale is laid out in the story at the previous tweet.
So "Fairtrade" sounds good... until you know the details. After that, in this particular case, it's 🤮
So "Fairtrade" sounds good... until you know the details. After that, in this particular case, it's 🤮
Here's more on the background to T&L's pro-Brexit stance. Entirely self-serving, of course. All they want to do is get their foreign sugar into the UK cheaply, domestic producers be damned.
theguardian.com/business/2017/…
theguardian.com/business/2017/…
