Could the UK become an island nation again?

[HertsBiker]

....I'm talking zero imports, zero exports. Independence again. Seems most of our problems (and luxuries ) are from overseas. Could we do it?

[GroundEffect]

Well that's fking stupid.

[uncinquesei]

A bit like North Korea or Bhutan? Great idea....

You're confusing "independence" for "isolation"

[joema]

Do I have to drive a metro?

[Riley Blue]

Where do these wappy ideas come from?

[Frances The Mute]

I know there's a fair share of nonsense in GG but this thread clearly lives elsewhere.

[uncinquesei]

Frances The Mute said:

I know there's a fair share of nonsense in GG but this thread clearly lives elsewhere.

Yup, try Daily Mail online.

[mike9009]

HertsBiker said:

....I'm talking zero imports, zero exports. Independence again. Seems most of our problems (and luxuries ) are from overseas. Could we do it?

Quoted for prosperity...

Yes we could do it .... but why? Our quality of life would nose dive.....

[billywhizzzzzz]

HertsBiker said:

....I'm talking zero imports, zero exports. Independence again. Seems most of our problems (and luxuries ) are from overseas. Could we do it?

Jesus. Petrifying...

[BliarOut]

Gaz. said:

Frances The Mute said:

I know there's a fair share of nonsense in GG but this thread clearly lives elsewhere.

Pick a forum any forum, who wants to choose...

Big Northern Gathering looks promising...

[EDLT]

uncinquesei said:

Frances The Mute said:

I know there's a fair share of nonsense in GG but this thread clearly lives elsewhere.

Yup, try Daily Mail online.

Its called "News, Politics and Economics" actually. They'll love the idea.

[WhereamI]

HertsBiker said:

....I'm talking zero imports, zero exports. Independence again. Seems most of our problems (and luxuries ) are from overseas. Could we do it?

A lot of our food is from overseas.

[Rotary Madness]

I think we can produce enough food to feed approx 8 million people, and that included most people having their own allotment in their back garden.

[ZOLLAR]

Gaz. said:

Pick a forum any forum, who wants to choose...

Send it here, nobody will ever have to see it again.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=...

[davepoth]

Rotary Madness said:

I think we can produce enough food to feed approx 8 million people, and that included most people having their own allotment in their back garden.

20 million was the most recent estimate I saw. Still nowhere near enough.

[wheedler]

Rotary Madness said:

I think we can produce enough food to feed approx 8 million people, and that included most people having their own allotment in their back garden.

Could you imagine only tasteless strawberries from Cheshire. Hard to remember last time I had potato and it didn't come from Egypt or salad stuff from Holland

[davepoth]

wheedler said:

Rotary Madness said:

I think we can produce enough food to feed approx 8 million people, and that included most people having their own allotment in their back garden.

Could you imagine only tasteless strawberries from Cheshire. Hard to remember last time I had potato and it didn't come from Egypt or salad stuff from Holland

First world problem.

The number (8 million or 20 million) is if we plow up the whole country and grow nothing but the most efficient food in terms of calories, which I believe is wheat for bread.

[HertsBiker]

Frances The Mute said:

I know there's a fair share of nonsense in GG but this thread clearly lives elsewhere.

Sorry a question is nonsense? Are you retarded? I was just asking for intelligent discussion.

[Six Fiend]

mike9009 said:

HertsBiker said:

....I'm talking zero imports, zero exports. Independence again. Seems most of our problems (and luxuries ) are from overseas. Could we do it?

Quoted for prosperity...

Yes we could do it .... but why? Our quality of life would nose dive.....

Ooh, is it going to make you rich?

[JimmyTheHand]

HertsBiker said:

....I'm talking zero imports, zero exports. Independence again. Seems most of our problems (and luxuries ) are from overseas. Could we do it?

No - it isn't just luxuries, how much of the technology in the computers, mobile phones, etc. do we have the facilities to make in UK. how much of UK's income comes from doing business outside UK. I am not sure we could even feed ourselves any more (and they'd be an outcry when prices went up and choice drops - e.g. very few fruits like Oranges get grown in UK).