We need to stop exaggerating this stuff.

There have been serious calls for a food tax as a means of reducing obesity. Easy access to cheap food can have downsides as well as upsides.

Now of course such proposals are only serious when they're joined with stipulations to increase benefits to ensure that the poorest don't go hungry. Personally, I'm fond of the American system of food stamps, which we used to look down our noses at but which seems more humane than post-Cameron welfare in the UK (which has been condemned by the U.N. multiple times).

So once again we should be talking about welfare benefits, not monetary theory and free trade. We should not be assuming tacitly that the poorest are hostages to the whims of the free market, because it's just not true. We developed the welfare state precisely for that reason: To allow people to cope when the economy took a nosedive.

And you'll find that food was far more expensive in the 1940s than it's going to be today under any version of Brexit.