Brexit for Flowers

May 4th 2024 The Guardian

UK flower industry thrown into chaos by new Brexit border checks

As we all know, the shelf life of cut flowers is not very long, so, of course, the new Brexit border checks that started on April 30th, resulted in lorries waiting for hours, and missing their deliveries.

“Don’t worry dear, your wedding looks just as good without the flowers. And you can throw this Brexit rule book to the Bridesmaids.”

Apart from a new computer system missing names of some flowers, one of the reasons for the delays is that the names have to be in Latin. I did not know you had to be Oxbridge educated to work in customs.

I guess, Brexit does not work in Latin either. Maybe we need to reclassify Brexit Officinalis to Brexit Vulgare.

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Or, maybe I got this all wrong, maybe this is a Brexit Opportunity? A golden opportunity to return education to the glory days of the Empire, and bring back the Classics and Latin to primary schools?