Brexit Minister, Steve Barclay (me, neither) tweeted that as 99% of wine consumed in the UK is imported, we’ll have ‘a great opportunity’ to help British winemakers to thrive after 31st Jan. Twitter decided that humour was the only way to respond to this sort of tosh:
‘Easy to mock, but bet the French wish they had a Steve Barclay championing their whisky industry’
‘Why stop at wine, surely we can grow our own bananas, oranges, mangoes and pineapples in our famously tropical climate’
‘Don’t we import it because a) wine from other countries is really nice; b) they have a better climate for wine grapes; c) they’re really good at making wine and d) we like drinking it?
‘Great, because wine has become far too confusing. Let’s get back to the pre-EU days when the only choice was between VP, Blue Nun and Mateus Rosé’ (Kids etc.)
