Chinese Invasion of Britain Forces Government to Tell People Not to Eat Daffodils

The New Observer
February 9, 2015

The mass invasion of Britain by hundreds of thousands of Chinese people has forced the government’s head of health services for England to write an official warning to supermarkets asking them to separate daffodils flowers from food aisles—so as to prevent the Asiatics from eating them and poisoning themselves.

The controlled media, which has given considerable coverage to the letter by Professor Paul Cosford, head of Health Protection at Public Health England (PHE), have almost all deliberately ignored and obscured the fact that the warning is aimed specifically at Chinese people “whose first language is not English,” which was part of Professor Cosford’s letter.

Traditionally, supermarkets in Britain have had a spring tradition of stocking daffodils at the front of stores. However, the mass influx of invaders from China, as revealed in the International Passenger Survey for 2013 which showed that the top country of immigrant origin into Britain was China, producing 46,000 or 9 percent of all immigrants to the UK, has forced the latest warning from PHE.

All the major controlled news outlets quoted from one part of the letter, entitled “Steps to avoid daffodil poisonings this spring”, in which Professor Cosford said:

“Each spring stores such as yours provide a wide selection of flowers, particularly cut daffodils and daffodil bulbs.

“We can’t hope to stop every possible incident but I would hope that by ensuring that daffodils are not displayed alongside fruit and vegetables, we can reduce the number of people accidentally buying them as food.”

“Each spring stores such as yours provide a wide selection of flowers, particularly cut daffodils and daffodil bulbs.

“Unfortunately there are rare occasions when the bulbs are mistaken for onions, and the stems or leaves are mistaken for a type of vegetable popular in China.

“As I’m sure you are aware, daffodils are dangerous if eaten and poisoning can occur as a result.”

However, only the industry-specific trade journal, The Grocer, dared carry a fuller version of Professor Cosford’s letter which revealed the facts behind the warning:

“In a circular to all major retailers, Public Health England urged stores to remove daffodils from areas close to fruit & veg,” The Grocer informed its readers.

“The letter warned that with large numbers of customers for whom English is not their first language, the flowers risked being mistaken for vegetables popular in China, or spring onions.

“Daffodils are dangerous if eaten and poisoning can occur as a result. We are aware of an incident in Bristol a few years ago in which some shoppers, for whom English was not their first language, bought daffodils and cooked the plants believing them to be something else. Several required hospital treatment.”

Professor Cosford was referring to an incident in 2012 when the government’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) had to issue an official warning to “Bristol’s Chinese community” not to eat daffodils after several people were treated in hospital for poisoning.

The HPA report said ten people who had eaten daffodil stalks and leaves were treated in hospital for severe vomiting, and said that it seemed they had mistaken the green parts of the flower for a chive used in Chinese cooking.

Notices were delivered to supermarkets in the city by officers from environmental health and trading standards, in which they were asked to ensure that daffodil stalks and leaves should be displayed away from food produce and clearly labelled.

An HPA statement said that: “Any supermarket identified has been approached and agreed to immediately install point of sale signage and product labels in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, stating that these flowers are not edible” and that an “information leaflet warning about the dangers of eating daffodils will also be distributed to the local Chinese community.”

* The extent of the Chinese invasion of Britain came to the fore in October 2013, when London’s Chinatown “went on strike” over the fact that nearly one-third of all illegal invaders arrested by the United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) in the catering industry were Chinese.

During the demonstration, hundreds of Chinese people crowded under the overhanging lanterns in Gerrard Street off Leicester Square blowing whistles and chanting “UKBA go away. Chinese community here to stay.”