Ben Act Letwin Amendment Palava..

[fender62]

this is seriously getting on my nerves, this whole brexit thwarting tactics....errr
i just want to see an end to it, leave obviously..how long can this go on, court cases to stop it
were all going to die, were doomed etc etc.

[jim360]

At the risk of being accused of spreading BBC's propaganda, the three-part series "What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day" out to be compulsory viewing. Also, many of the Brexit features on Countryfile, etc. The information is out there, you just have to look for it, and be willing to take seriously what you hear.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0008zkk/what-britain-buys-and-sells-in-a-day

[fender62]

jim360, if rice wine fruit etc come into the uk cheaper, im all for it
let alone other produce from around the world...i didnt know italians grew rice...and if they can grow that, they can grow just about anything then...

[jim360]

At the cost of local farmers? And we shouldn't really be encouraging a growth in international food markets anyway, they're not exactly brilliant for carbon emissions.

[fender62]

jim360, i dont know about hat jim, we hear african markets cannot get enough of there stuff into the eu, yet we give them aide, maybe give them a fair crack at the whip for a change, a lot of the produce from africa, we cannot grow here anyway...we cannot live on apples..

[drmorgans]

Would it not be better for African countries to grow food for their own inhabitants rather than flowers for us? The beneficiaries currently are businesses (profits) and us (low prices) rather than the countries inhabitants.

[ichkeria]

One very worrying thing is the fact that US food production allows the use of antibiotics, something the EU banned in 1999. You’d hope the UK would maintain that, but ...

[Old_Geezer]

Folk who will be given extra to do may well preach how terrible that is for them. But it's their professional responsibility to cope with change. It's no excuse to never better one's nation state.

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe ask the candidates in the next GE how big a priority they see no unnecessary use of antibiotics is for them. (And poor husbandry relying on chlorine washes at the end, come to that. Any trade agreement should honour the standards of both nations or groups.)