Three minutes after ten is the time. Would you spare a moment? Do you have a moat? Good morning, by the way. I hope you're well. Have you got a moment to have a little look beneath the bonnet of what I believe is currently the most popular speech radio program on the whole of commercial radio in the United Kingdom? Make the most of it while it lasts. These things never last. Would you like... So today I want to talk about food and farming, right, because it's crucial.

It's important.

It's hard to think of anything more important, really, than food on our table and the supply

of food into the shops from which we buy the food, what goes on our table.

But I'm conscious that we had a little chat about it on Tuesday.

I am conscious because I am built that way of the fact that although, as with every problem pretty much, that this country faces Brexit is a party, indeed probably a large part of the problem.

It's not the only part of the problem.

And I think we all struggle to walk the tightrope away from binary analysis.

For example, Ireland is probably out of all other European countries, the one that is

closest to suffering shortages comparable to ours at the moment.

And yet, you start waving that little flag around to claim that it's nothing to do with Brexit

in the UK.

You're completely ignoring the fact that the UK has for decades been a land corridor through which food would pass on its way to Ireland.

So erecting barriers or red tape or just new restrictions on those journeys of trucks coming from France to the UK to Britain and from Britain to

Northern Ireland, that's the fault of Brexit as well. So even Ireland could probably chalk up

Brexit as a large part of its food shortages, but it would be ridiculous to ignore energy prices

and the weather. And it doesn't matter how many pictures you send me of supermarkets in France and Spain and Germany and the Netherlands and Italy and everywhere else in the European Union.

Someone suggested to me on Twitter with photographic evidence that there are supermarkets in Ukraine with fewer empty shelves

and supermarkets in the United Kingdom at the moment.

That's anecdotal, obviously, but not beyond the realms of possibility, depending upon which

part of Ukraine you're in.

So, you know, I say to you, if you're a member of the Gammon and Pineapple Party, I say to you, Brexit's a pretty big part of this, lads, you must be feeling pretty stupid again, or at least you must be getting used to feeling pretty stupid by now, and you scream back with all those sort of little fleckles of flecks of spittle coming out the side of your mouth,

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