Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/01/31/brexit-finally-hits-uk-food-imports.html
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(while we wait for the next general election)
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They have a whole lot of free seaweed around them they can eat
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Well hello Consequences-for-my-own-actions, I certainly didn’t expect to see you here.
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Has anyone coined a catchy “Iron/Bamboo” Curtain description for Brexit UK isolationism?
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Tea curtain? Offal curtain?
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No. It’s just curtains.
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Tugs collar nervously. Oh boy!
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Nnnnnnnngh. 
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Good thing I had relatives in the GDR back then, perfect training for having relatives in the UK now.
Applying for visa to get in, enduring the border guards, sending packages with luxury foods like chocolate and coffee…
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It does feel very 80s. Fortunately, it’s all Cold and no War, so far.
If you shop at Aldi you can find shoddy low-cocoa “chocolate”, just like the old days!
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And what about the 48% of us who knew it was a catastrophically bad idea but are also trapped in this slow march towards Hell?
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These are not the consequences of my actions. I voted “remain” and tried to sway the votes of those around me. Honestly, how could anyone think some positive could come from a referendum fronted by Farage and Gove?
Welcome aboard, comrade 
The Lace Curtain.
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It is the most twitchy of all international dividers.
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Turnips are awesome!
As well as the inflation and the empty shelves of greengrocery, I can look forwards to a healthier diet thanks to reduced imports of cheese and delicatessen good slike salume.
On top of all that, I now have to buy a UK sticker for my car if I go to Eire or France.
So proud! Such sovereignty!
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Welcome to BoingBoing
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It’s everything about my home country that makes it what it is.
Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, shooting ourselves in the foot, again!
The endless drone of discontent, not enough to do anything about it, except the pleasure of whinging and whining about some “other” thats spoiling everything.
We, as a nation, get Everything, we, deserve.
Drink up, it’s time at the bar!!
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I can’t think of an appropriate compliment to this apart from, ‘Ouch, nice!’
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Ah yes… and all those people who get hurt because they can’t afford to move deserve what they get… /s
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