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The piggies are missing their blankets.

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    The piggies are missing their blankets.

    And so it came to pass.

    In October, the British Meat Association (BMA) warned that pigs in blankets may be in short supply this year due to a lack of seasonal EU workers across UK meat plants.
    Wetherspoons hit by 'temporary' pigs in blankets shortage - BBC News
    "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

    #2
    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    Project Fear!!!! Or something like that Can't possibly be due to Brexit, we haven't left yet
    I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter man

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      #3
      BMA chief executive Nick Allen told the BBC then that wrapping cocktail sausages in bacon is done by hand.
      "Pigs and blankets are a very labour intensive thing to make and we're short of labour," he said.
      Probably some sort of technical automated machinery needs to be invented to solve this problem.

      Who wrapped the pigs in blankets before we joined the EU? Can we force the students to do it like we did in the old days?

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        #4
        trust our teutonic chums

        Two Metre Long Pig in Blanket - ALDI UK

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          #5
          Let them eat gammon.

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            #6
            Originally posted by meridian View Post
            Probably some sort of technical automated machinery needs to be invented to solve this problem.

            Who wrapped the pigs in blankets before we joined the EU? Can we force the students to do it like we did in the old days?

            It's just a temporary hiccup. Plenty skilled hands from all the soon-to-be-shut car plants will be available next year.

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              #7
              Originally posted by PCTNN View Post
              It's just a temporary hiccup. Plenty skilled hands from all the soon-to-be-shut car plants will be available next year.
              Indeed 20 years ago they came from the shutdown steel works and mines.
              I'm alright Jack

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                #8
                Wetherspoons to create 10,000 new jobs over four years in huge GBP200m expansion - Mirror Online

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                  #9
                  Bloke is a nutter...https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/~/media/files/pdf-documents/investors/2019/q1-trading-update-13-november-2019.pdf

                  November 2019

                  Property
                  The Company has opened one new pub since the start of the financial year and has disposed of four.
                  We intend to open between 10 and 15 pubs in the current financial year.
                  Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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