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One Brexiter has a bizarre solution to any future banana shortage

Oonagh Keating. Updated February 6th, 2019

LBC gets its fair share of calls from strident Leave voters insisting that Brexit will lead to the Land of Milk and Honey – which is terrible for vegans and people who don’t like being sticky, but whatever – and others who swear the Blitz spirit will be the answer. Presenter Matt Stadlen recently took a call from a man named Craig, who wasn’t cowed by the panic-mongers over potential shortages after Brexit, and this is how the discussion went.

The gist of his argument was this.

Craig: At the end of the day I’m a human being, if I need a banana, I’m gonna get a banana

Matt: Where are you going to get your bananas from if there are shortages?

Craig: I’ll go and get ’em myself, I’ll climb the mountains of, anywhere, and get them.

Matt: We don’t grow bananas in the UK.

Craig: No, we don’t, and neither do many places in Europe. The only place is …Sweden don’t grow any bananas. They’ve got plenty.

We can only assume Sweden has armies of banana-tracking mountaineers bringing back the prize.

Matt then asked another caller, Tim, what he thought of Craig’s point, to which he replied:

“My goodness me, this is why this country’s in a muddle isn’t it? We’ve got someone who thinks they can get a banana anywhere, Iain Duncan Smith who thinks he won’t lose a job”

LBC tweeted the link and got q lot of reactions, including these:

There was also one quite sobering thought.

Source: LBC