SHUTTING THE GATE AFTER THE HORSE HAS BOLTED

The great horsemeat scandal continues to cause havoc throughout the food retail industry across much of Europe, but the biggest question is not where the meat came from or who first labelled it ‘beef’ but why has this outrage not attracted a ‘gate’ suffix like 'Watergate', ‘bloodgate’ or ‘plebgate’.   Here’s a few to be going on with: Starting gate,  Stable gate, Burger gate, Surrogate