This is scandalous. I was in a branch of Morrison yesterday and they were selling bunches of five bananas for 99 pence. In France, probably alll through the EU, this is standard practice and must, therefore, be the result on an EU directive.
I can only conclude that this is a sign of the Labour Party secretly realigning the UK with the EU in total disregard of the wishes of the vast majority of British voters.
Do I smell treason?
Gus
99p - you mean 19 shillings and 9 pence surely. Sounds expensive for bananas 
If they were 99c you can start worrying. Or rejoicing depending on your POV.
Interesting. I’m impressed with the influence of the Labour party if they can get Europe to adopt the penny as part of their default currency, and before we’ve even given any concessions!
Or, perhaps this is a typically English joke.
Well I laughed anyway. 
I buy a sealed bunch every week, partly because it saves me weighing them and partly because I prefer, for digestion as well as taste, reasons, the well ripened black skinned ones commonly sold like that.
Just checked and last week 5 in a bunch cost €0.99 but a couple of weeks before that they were only €0.78. 
When out for a walk years ago we passed our Maire’s house and discovered his new, clean rubbish bins, mounted on a brand new concrete base. We took a photo of the state of our damaged and wonky bins, no concrete base, lying on mud and grass, and sent it to him. He was at our door almost immediately, with the comment "Is this is a typically English joke? " Our new bins turned up very soon after !
I have seen adverts of UK TV advertising certain amounts of fruit and veg and salad in UK supermarkets for a fixed price of 99p. To me its just selling stuff that has a limited lifespan that nobody has been buying enough of, to get rid of at a cheaper price. Even Lidl locally do that sometimes when they have a glut of stock but I stopped buying nanas anyway because they go off so quickly and I hate ripe ones.
I’m the opposite, indigestible, and even the black ones I won’t eat after midday. Too close to bedtime. 
Aha, you have discovered the MBE (Montagne de Bananes Européenne), which is normally a state secret.
Starmer’s government has agreed to accept surplus EU bananas in exchange for Montenegro accepting an influx of retired Conservative ex-MPs. 
The vast majority of British voters who voted to leave the EU? Brexit? I thought those who voted to leave was 51.9% of British voters. Correct me if I’m wrong…
He’s using Reform UK / UKIP polling measurements.
Did you know that Reform UK now officially have more members than the National Flood Prevention Party?
I freeze bananas, usually cut in half with skin removed and wrapped in foil. We often sit and suck on them as they become like an icecream and are very more-ish to eat.
51.9% of those who voted wanted to leave, rather than 51.9% of those able to vote.
And 38.7% (1) of those have now changed their mind.
(1) a guesstimate.
I’ve developed a new daily banana eating habit, which I must give up – putting on too much weight. Sliced banana, whether white or going brown, with sliced kiwifruit, sloshed with cream and honey, late in the evening as a lux supper. Sleep and digestion not adversely affected.
I always put a kiwi in my salad, love the juicy sweet against lettuce and cucumber etc and balsamic vinegar.
From Brexit to rugby via bananas and kiwi salad !!! This thread is heading for the thread drift of the year and its only Jan 3rd
I’m doing my best… 
