"Spiv" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Spiv" wrote in message
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No, yet again you fail. When importing
large qualities of grain, etc from
north America, It meant the UK could
concentrate on war production. Simple
when you know how.

It meant nothing of the sort.

It did.

Women were conscipted to work
on to the land to increase food production.

That is true, yet they didn't need to go 100% self sufficiency in food, as
they could import it when the U boast were suppressed.

By 1940 every plot of land that could
grow food including school playing fields
had been ploughed up and planted.

That was mainly for morale purposes, as was build Anderson air raid
shelters, which the government knew were pretty useless in a direct, or
near
direct hit.

It still wasnt enough.

In 1940 you are probably correct. However food production was far higher
in
subsequent years.

By the end of the war, Britain used virtually all of its arable land and
still failed to produce more than an average of 900 calories of food per
person or 30% to 51% of the food it consumed. without the imported food,
famine would have been starving people to death in Britain as it did so in
the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe.