Wer die geplante Kürzung von Sozialleistungen mit "Demographie und Mathematik" rechtfertigt, während er Abermilliarden an fremde Länder verschenkt und Hunderttausende ins Sozialsystem einwandern lässt, die noch nie einen Cent einbezahlt haben, der verachtet sein eigenes Volk.
In 1902, the town of Windsor had 26 bakers, 22 butchers, 14 dairymen, 10 fishmongers, 27 greengrocers, and 33 grocers on a single high street.
A total of 132 food shops. Most of them owner-operated. Most of them selling produce, meat, fish, and dairy that had been grown, raised, caught, or milked within fifteen miles of the shop door.
In 1950, independent grocers still sold 54% of all food in Britain. Alfred Roberts, father of Margaret Thatcher, ran one of them in Grantham.
Resale Price Maintenance, the legal arrangement that had protected small shops from being undercut by large ones, was abolished in 1964. By 1969, there were 3,400 supermarkets in Britain. By 1990, the butcher, the baker, the greengrocer, and the fishmonger had been shut down on roughly every high street in the country.
Windsor in 2006 had one butcher, zero dairymen, zero fishmongers, and a Waitrose.
The food did not become unavailable. The food became centralised.
The butcher who hung beef for 28 days was replaced by a plastic tray in refrigerated aisle 7, containing beef vacuum-packed on the day of slaughter and driven 400 miles to the distribution centre.
The fishmonger who told you what had come in on the morning boat was replaced by a frozen fillet from a factory in Vietnam reassembling fish caught by a Chinese trawler off the coast of Namibia.
The baker who made bread with three ingredients was replaced by a "bake-off" counter where frozen dough is warmed at 6am to smell vaguely like a bakery.
The food is cheaper now. The food is also worse.
We are being told the first fact as though it cancels out the second.
@MatthiasHartel Ich selber bin zwar seit meiner Geburt Nichtraucher. Aber bei meinen Kollegen habe ich hauptsächlich Club, Cabinet, Juwel 72 und F6 gesehen.