LIKE turkeys voting for Christmas, a section of the farming community has voted for cheap lamb and beef to flood supermarket shelves. The big story, which has been largely unreported, of a trade deal with Australia and New Zealand has turned up in the Financial Times.
A spat between Michael Gove and Liz Truss about whether there should be a tariff or no-tariff trade deal will be decided by Boris Johnson. If Truss gets her way a number of irate farmers will be tearing up their Tory membership cards. It didn’t seem that long ago that farmers were growing billboards in their fields promoting Tory candidates.
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In addition to all of this, Gove has committed to ending the Common Agricultural Policy and redirecting the money to farmers for environmental projects as part of a green Brexit. That can only lead to trouble ahead and less money for farmers.
The media understands the implication of all of this on Scotland and Wales and so the censorship continues. What a country we live in when all politics and news is predicated on how it impinges on Unionism.
Mike Herd
Highland
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