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No idea but when you think of all the EU monies we got, nothing proper was ever done with it. Its the same with the vast amount of timber being felled and driven over the border to be processed. I see someone above mis read a previous post.
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I’m convinced most of these shenanigans are to do with backhanders, as in paying extra for a contract👍🏻
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This sort of double journey should never happen. It’s wasteful and polluting in many ways.
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I knew what you meant Nellie, it was just one of those unusual set ups, a tea plantation in Cornwall.
I'm a bit surprised there are no egg packers in Wales Fisherman, surely some producers pack their own? (I've got a vision of eggs being taken to Norfolk wrapped in cotton wool....
)We've strayed a bit from CO2.
Looks like things in general will be going up price wise thanks to all these changes and shortages.
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Just out of interest, which do you think is worse, fake news or conspiracy theories or maybe they’re both “just insidious & malicious to add false plausibility”?
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It doesn’t really matter what I think SB you are the kind of person who doesn’t discuss things rather just tries to lead then ignore others, so please forgive me for not playing your games. . .But thank you for your interest in my posts👍🏻🙂
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Wouldn’t accept that at face value Brue….another example of incomplete information, provided for effect and accepted without question. 2 minutes research confirms there is a big packing station just over the border in Shropshire. It supplies Lidl, Costco and Farm Foods to name but a few. If you buy eggs from those retailers in Wales it’s unlikely to involve Norfolk!
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I didn't accept it at face value, but then like you I found I was looking up egg packing in Wales on a Wednesday evening and maybe I needed to rethink my activities.
However my egg packing knowledge is now up to speed, so nothing is lost in life and learning.
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I'd have thought it was flippin' obvious really to anyone with a bit of common sense🙄
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If my granddaughter ,had not mentioned the hundreds of ,extra miles the "buy local " Essex chickens,(next door county )had done to be processed (via Scotland) then who , apart from Tesco marketing Dept would know ?it was not advertised as such
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I guess as planning permission had to be given for the egg production units our esteemed planners would have sought EU monies ( and it was sloshing around) for a packing unit, But there "heritage centers" were a much more sexy option. The fact most have closed through lack of use never crossed their little minds. Sorry rant at Our rulers.
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When Italy First joined the EU (via a very dodgy finance agreement)we went to Rome ,for OHs sons wedding ,he married a daughter of the Hospitality director of Alitalia Airline (special flights from at back to Stanstead)
Nearly every ancient building bad a huge banner on proclaiming it was being restored/preserved with money from the EU
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I can’t speak for Wales, and their Government, but I do know Yorkshire and further North has benefitted hugely from EU investment, particularly in terms of road infrastructure. A great deal of the money to upgrade the A1, certainly North of Doncaster came via EU funding.
It doesn’t bother me where eggs are packaged, I am more concerned about the animal welfare. If eggs from free range, organic farms have to travel to Norfolk to get shoved in a box, rather that than buy eggs produced from vile farms where the poor creatures never see the light of day. Same with pork, I feel physically sick every time I drive past an intensive pig farm. I eat eggs because I can say hello to each hen that provides my breakfast, knowing it has as good a life as a hen can have.
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“I do know Yorkshire and further North has benefitted hugely from EU investment”
Ditto Cornwall, Eden Project, Newquay Airport, fast broadband and A30 improvements to mention just a few of the projects.
Also, heritage & culture does matter. Those of us who enjoy Baltic Wharf can imagine what it might be like had the City Council got its way in1969 and filled in the floating harbour replacing it with the M42 roundabout!
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Not sure about prominent, but on all the road infrastructure and manufacturing regeneration projects I have seen, the blue logo and circle of stars was on the information.
As SB says, Cornwall is/was another area of UK that benefitted from EU investment. We can recall Cornwall back in the early 1980’s, not that long after UK became part of EU, and it was one of the poorest areas in Europe. Very beautiful, but vastly overlooked by UK Government in terms of investment.0 -
It's probably a much overlooked function of the EU to level up. (now where have I heard that before!) You only have to look at the progress countries like Spain have made in the last 30 years in terms of infrastructure much of it financed by the EU and us of course as we were always a net contributor being one of the richer countries in Europe. I am sure the same is currently happening in the old Eastern Block countries? The spread of EU investment in the UK covers many projects from providing finance for Crossrail to the restoration of the Roman Baths in Buxton I notice when we were last there. I have heard complaints from people in the UK that EU money has been spent of the wrong type of projects but I can't imagine any agreement to what and where to finance was anything other than a local decision? I imagine the EU had many pots of money which could be used, for example transport infrastructure, culture, sports and wellbeing and probably many more. All that will disappear as current projects are completed and it remains to be seen whether the current Government will be disposed to finance similar projects!
David
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As I said-backhanders if you know the right dodgy people who will happily bend the rules for ‘family’
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The most disadvantaged regions of the UK received the biggest share of the EU funding, those very regions also voted to leave the EU, it was dubbed-‘brexiting yourself in the foot’🤷🏻♂️
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No problem, I like all the posts I support without considering a posters politics nor style or subject-I post from the heart. I personally agree with your statement we are slipping into becoming a 3rd World country, care for the disadvantaged, infrastructure, living wage, respect. I watched a Vanlifers video last night traveling over Scandinavia & they pointed out the cleanliness, the attitude of the folk they met, the organisation & had to make unfavourable comparisons with the UK, I agreed with them wholly. This hasn’t happened in the last 10years it’s been going on for centuries, this Country gave the World Technology, Language, Science discoveries & has since been going backwards. No one Party is responsible they are all guilty. They now preside over a broken nation drifting back to the 1800’s in attitudes to its citizens.
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a notice points out who paid for them you guessed it a big blue circle
The notice means only that the EU contributed towards a project. I consider that (in my opinion) attitudes amongst people have deteriorated in the last 30 years since EEC became EU but I do not see a direct connection. Many of our grand parents also starved at times David.
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