Fair enough?
Dunnomuch Hollywood will make a movie about this, set in a supermarket and starring Liam Neeson as “The Consumer”.
High Dudgeon Apparently the Yanks are already tooling up to produce tons of counterfeit Bovril and mushy peas.
Berlin Calling America First, remember. Stuff the rest of you! Fat
Peter Cornish style pasties – made in the USA – I see no problem. More so, however, with our “Scatch”. Hands off.
Derrick Cowan Well, we managed OK here without these protections and in fact only needed them after the mad EU ideas first came in. Yes, there may still be a need to identify country of origin and a few other things, like making it clear the products are lookalikes, but I doubt there would be any disadvantage for the UK in going along with this. Indeed we could do very well from the reciprocal deals.
Corrigenda2 So you would be happy to have our food standards, environmental standards and employment laws lowered to those in the USA?
Colin Macfarlane A “Fair Work” charter will be devised in a bid to stop staff being forced to travel to work in severe weather, Nicola Sturgeon said. Just let the private sector get on with making money. We had a foot of snow and the cold snap lasted a matter of days. It was not the end of days!
Sparts Is there a single thing on this planet that the cult won’t turn into a petty anti-westminster “we don’t have the powers” grievance?
Common Sensei Grandstanding yet again by the SNP – wouldn’t it be funny if the upshot was that gritter drivers couldn’t be forced to work in extreme conditions – or the police. The list goes on.
Road to Perdition These are British companies and if they want to use British branding to avoid being associated with a toxic flag thanks to a racist nationalist ideology to sell goods that is their decision.
Mike Lowery Having just had a look at the Walker’s website they have a couple of limited edition tins of shortbread that have the Union Flag and St George’s Cross on them. They do a Saltire one too.there are also some Royal “specials” but the majority of the 108 shortbread products play heavily on their Scottish roots with the distinctive tartan to the fore. Walkers knows which side its bread is buttered on.
Gnu Club Same Nedz What sort of person would be offended or angered by a shortbread packet with a Union Jack on it? The mind of the person angered by packaging, is a mind to be afraid of. The sheer senselessness of the anger is a reminder of just how divisive some Scots have become.
Mediaone Nationalists would do well to keep their noses out of the business of successful Scottish companies. The workers at these companies rely on their success for their jobs and livelihoods and the companies themselves contribute high amounts of tax to our economy.
Uncle Monty When I moved from Wales to Scotland I was struck by the amount of Union flags up here. You don’t get that in Wales. It feels like the Scots are told what they are. Britishness is pushed onto them.
Frommetoyou AWA AND TAKE A LEEK!
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