Tormented by missing biscuit

  It would seem the recent concerns over a possible global food shortage have already come to fruition in the UK.

Supermarket shelves up and down the Britain are already short of one of my favourite foods stuffs – the fig biscuit.

In fact things are so bad Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Tesco’s are just some of the supermarkets who have been forced over recent days to go as far as remove the fig biscuit label from their shelves.

So empty are the shelves it’s as if the fig roll never existed. But those of us who relish in the simple pleasure of letting the dry outer biscuit crumble into ones mouth to reveal the sticky fig centre are bemused by the loss of such a simple pleasure.

The reason for its absence is due to a poison called aflatoxin which has been found in consignments of Turkish dried figs. It’s a naturally occurring mould found on figs but it’s been linked with cancer, hence the fruits withdrawal.

Fortunately the biscuit’s absences is only temporary and stocks will return to the supermarket shelves once a fresh consignment of the fruit comes to our shores.  

Who are they kidding?

 So Alistair Darling is planning to signal changes to compensate those people hit hardest by the recent tax reforms.

Yet amidst the political furore over the loss of the 10% tax band, something has been missed by everyone. Why hasn’t any politician said it’s reprehensible that any UK family should be attempting to live on an income that doesn’t extend beyond the 10p tax rate?

It is low incomes, not tax bands that trap parents and their children into a life of poverty. Maybe politicians of all persuasions would be better trying to gain political capital out of raising incomes by at least 10% rather than making a virtue out of salvage a meagre £5 a week!