My fiancée and I were walking our dog, Hendricks, on the beach when we saw a woman walking along the shoreline. Having suffered from severe depression something about her triggered in me that she wasn’t okay
1/9 After we passed her we turned to see her no longer on the beach but trying to walk across the mud. We went to her to see if she was okay because she had got stuck and caked in mud. She said she was fine and just wanted to get to the water to have a paddle
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So this is a thread about how a new red route in our little coastal village is a perfect metaphor for Brexit: 1/9 Our local mayor has a fan base I can never understand. The community love him like a hero, but he’s a dumb, self-serving moron. I call him ‘Mersea Boris.’
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In my local paper @bernardjenkin recycled the nonsense that the EU is ‘virtually blocking’ British shellfish from entering the bloc. He also parroted the words of Boris Johnson about a marketing push for Brits to eat more fish and shellfish.
1/8 Of course I am all for our domestic market to improve as I love seeing people try oysters for the first time and fall in love with them. I have been eating oysters, mussels and sprats since I was in nappies and still adore them...
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A number of people are suggesting myself and others in the shellfish industry have been lazy, stupid (or both) for not being ‘prepared’ for the carnage Brexit has caused on the shellfish export industry. If we predicted this, why weren’t we ready?
1/9 Many small shellfish businesses don’t have the money needed to build a depuration plant. £100k cost for a small plant wouldn’t provide the depuration capacity some companies need. Add a zero to their costs to reach capacity levels. If they did have the investment...
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George Eustice was being deceptive on TV. I have read the Fisheries section of the TCA and undepurated shellfish export isn’t mentioned. This omission means the UK would abide by current EU regulations if it isn’t in Exit Legislation...
1/6 Eustice claims the EU “said” there wouldn’t be an issue with exports like it was an agreement they had whilst chatting over a pint. And he said they said there are Export Health Certificates which would cover unpurified bivalves...
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The phrase, ‘EU shellfish ban,’ keeps being used by news outlets and it’s important to understand how this language is misleading and how Government is deliberately using misinformation to hide from its own failures...
1/10 As a producer of live animals (oysters) who sells them on for human consumption, there are, quite rightly, rigorous standards we must meet to ensure what we sell is safe for people to eat. One of the most important factors in this process...
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Brexit is impacting every aspect to our business in very significant ways. We usually buy wooden boxes from France (pictured) as they are robust, look good and are the traditional choice for packaging oysters...
1/6 Massive complications have emerged though in trying to import boxes in 2021. The haulier who usually transports them can only get customs clearance in France. We would need to find an agent in the UK to do UK clearance. But...
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