Empty shelves in the North are because of Covid, not Brexit, says Lewis

However, on Monday the North’s Minister for Agriculture warned that numerous products will be unavailable and there will be a “far greater proportion of empty shelves” when the Brexit grace period for supermarkets in Northern Ireland ends on March 31st.

While the North produced plenty of meat and potatoes, the DUP MLA Edwin Poots told the North’s Assembly on Monday, “you can have your roast beef dinner but you might not have any Bisto on it . . . you mightn’t have a nice bit of trifle after it either because you don’t have any jelly”. Mr Poots also stood by his claim last week that there would be a disruption in the supply of food to schools, hospitals and prisons, telling the Stormont Assembly that this was backed up by the official minutes of the meeting with suppliers.

Industry bodies in the North are among those who have called for an extension to the grace periods and certainty over what will happen when the initial light-touch approach comes to an end. The North’s parties continue to be at odds over where the responsibility for the disruption lies, with the DUP blaming the Northern Ireland protocol and Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Alliance Party saying responsibility lies with Brexit and with the DUP, who supported it.

And I dont bend it like Beckham because of the football 🤡🤡🤡

Meanwhile the shelves in the republic are overflowing.

A well they left the eu

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