🚨Recipe🚨 smoked haddock, leek & bacon risotto fakeaway at 560cls:
1 large leek sliced
1tsp chopped garlic
160g risotto rice
350ml fish stock
125ml 2% milk
200g smoked haddock in large chunks
3 tbsp 1/2 fat crème fraîche
100g baby spinach
3 cooked smoked bacon medallions

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*This recipe is for 2 people
STEP 1
Spray 8 sprays of frylight in a large pan over over a medium heat. Cook the leek & chopped garlic for 4-5 mins, stirring regularly, until just tender. For extra sweetness you can add a chopped shallot too

As we begin 2022 there is no more fitting way than to share the epic poem of beginning, of loss and of hope by Brendan Kennelly who passed away in 2021.

May it brightened your day and give you strength if you need it

1/4 Begin again to the summoning birds
to the sight of the light at the window,
begin to the roar of morning traffic
all along Pembroke Road.
Every beginning is a promise
born in light and dying in dark
determination and exaltation of springtime
flowering the way to work.
2/4

☘️ST PATRICK'S DAY ETYMOLOGY THREAD☘️ so far I've been looking at different words across Europe for different things. But given the day that's in it, I thought that I would look at a few words that we get from Gaeilge and one we definitely don't! Soooo.... 1/11 An easy one is galore, as in prizes galore that means loads. It actually comes from the Gaeilge "go leor" meaning enough which often happens when words are loaned to other languages, a slight change in definition 2/11

OK. Let's fact check this. Will tariffs impact on shop prices or not? Well on the the amount we trade now with the EU Supermarkets & their customers face £3.1 billion a year of tariffs on food & drink unless a free trade deal is reached between the UK and the European Union 1/8

https://twitter.com/lisaocarroll/status/1335523497662173184

UK grocery sector is one of the most competitive in the world and operates on tight margins to offer customers the best value possible. Remember up to Q4 2018 there was a record 5 yrs shop price deflation. That means no room to absorb costs 2/8

OK let's look at this for a second. Shall we? In simple terms, well 1st neither of the countries Daniel mentions has a land border with the EU or are in direct competition on fisheries. Neither of those agreements was breaking ties then trying to rebind without standards etc. 1/7

https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1335319715129028610

Secondly we have the whole piece of geography and trade gravity and how EU-UK trades more goods with each other than the other two countries combined do with the EU. So any changes which unduly affect either side are a big game changers. That's why they are both digging in 2/7

🚨BREXIT THREAD🚨 Today the NI Business Brexit Working Group published its response to the UKG Command paper on the NI Protocol called implementing the NI Protocol: What Business in NI needs & why. So let's look at what we have said: 1/11 The overarching finding of the report is that while progress has been made & the ambitions of the UKG are laudable, there is a need for technical detail to allow business to prepare for the changes that will come into force on 1 January 2021 and that detail needs to come now 2/11

1. 🚨THREAD🚨👇👇 Brexit might seem like a distant memory but its still going. Today along with @CBINI @UFUHQ I will be giving evidence to the @CommonsNIAC on the NI Protocol & if there will be Unfettered Access. TL;DR there won't parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/66… So what will I be saying? 2. 1stly retail and consumers in NI don't have room to absorb higher costs if there is friction. Retail is a high vol low profit margin industry c2% for some major retailers so no wiggle room. NI households have half of the discretionary income of GB so they can't absorb rises

Brief thread on the current deal: 👇👇👇Apologies that I am late to the party on this one but I've been helping out HQ & I have been consulting with members & govt & trying to get my head around what new deal actually means as we had no prior notice or consultation soooooo.... 1/ so firstly this deal is better than no deal for our members and it does guarantee access to the Irish and EU markets for NI business which is hugely important...... but and this is a huge but............. 2/

Thread: There is a very real danger that plans will be put forward in the next weeks that will not be alternative arrangements to Backstop but simply alternatives/mitigations to a no-deal #Brexit. That is not enough for NI biz. Our tests haven't changed to protect our economy 1/ We need unfettered access to UK & EU markets, we need no tariffs, no new VAT complications, we need no infrastructure or delays at the border, we need no new sps checks, controls, costs or red tape for biz/ consumers moving products across the border, over to GB into the EU27 2/