A not so secret meeting...

[ellal]

Meanwhile...

"Britain is in danger of a “disastrous” food scandal, owing to lax post-Brexit border controls on agricultural imports, the leader of the UK’s biggest farming organisation has warned.

Minette Batters, the president of the National Farmers’ Union, accused ministers of a “dereliction of duty” in failing to ensure food and other agricultural imports were safe"

Linky Linky

Didn't brexiteers promise us better food safety regulations after leaving the EU?

 

[transam]

Yep dodgy grub coming into the UK from EU countries

Blimey I recall the horse meat caper horse meat being palmed off as beef

Jeez us wept some of these EU countries can’t be trusted imo

( scoundrels)

 

[noseall]

Didn't brexiteers promise us better food safety regulations after leaving the EU?

Smogg wants to take UK regulations down the third world route. Let the serfs eat rubbish.

 

[Mottie]

Meanwhile...

"Britain is in danger of a “disastrous” food scandal, owing to lax post-Brexit border controls on agricultural imports, the leader of the UK’s biggest farming organisation has warned.

Minette Batters, the president of the National Farmers’ Union, accused ministers of a “dereliction of duty” in failing to ensure food and other agricultural imports were safe"

Linky Linky

Didn't brexiteers promise us better food safety regulations after leaving the EU?

I think the safety regulations promised were about U.K. food safety regulations on U.K. produced food being higher than the EU's

From the same Linky Linky

"We are seeing little to no checks on imports that are coming in from the EU,” she said. “We have the massive risk of African swine fever in Europe, and to not be investing in our defences for keeping our biosecurity and animal and plant health safe, I think is just a dereliction of duty".

Let me get this straight, having left the EU, you are saying that the U.K. has let it's guard down on dodgy meat and plants coming from the EU?

Hey, numbskull. Do you realise just exactly what you are saying about the standards of meat and plants coming from the EU? And you're proud of that? I think it’s right what some are saying - you just can’t trust those EU scoundrels.

 

[Mottie]

Smogg wants to take UK regulations down the third world route. Let the serfs eat rubbish.

You mean let the serfs eat unchecked imported EU rubbish surely?

 

[fillyboy]

nowt wrong with EU beef.

 

[ellal]

Hey, numbskull. Do you realise just exactly what you are saying about the standards of meat and plants coming from the EU? And you're proud of that? I think it’s right what some are saying - you just can’t trust those EU scoundrels.

The EU hater gets it all wrong again...

And could it tell us how UK farmers will be able to survive when they are receiving a tiny fraction of the EU money they used to get due to the UK's lack of investment?

Mind you, we won't be able to afford much imported food soon...

"Estimates about the cost of Brexit vary - according to a report by Bloomberg it is costing the UK economy roughly £100bn a year, and the economy is 4% smaller than it might have been if the UK had stayed in the EU.
"The EU is a very rich part of the world," says Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an independent think tank. "And we've chosen, for better or worse, to make trade with that grouping of countries a lot more difficult, so it's clearly going to be something that makes it harder for the UK economy to grow."

"Business investment has stagnated since the referendum vote in 2016 too, he says - another "drag on growth". A Bank of England policymaker has said that Brexit hit UK investment to the tune of £29bn.
EU workers used to come freely to work in the UK but can no longer do so, making it hard for the hospitality, agriculture, and care sectors to find enough staff."

And just to think, we were only paying in £8bn a year...

The UK has sunk so low that it will never get back to the levels it once enjoyed...

It is in a death spiral !

Of course if any brexiteer can prove this not to be the case (with hard facts), then they are free to do so.
(ideology doesn't cut the dijon mustard )

We can therefore of course only expect to hear the sound of tumbleweed!

 

[noseall]

You mean let the serfs eat unchecked imported EU rubbish surely?

Nonsense.

 

[Notch7]

I think the safety regulations promised were about U.K. food safety regulations on U.K. produced food being higher than the EU's

From the same Linky Linky

"We are seeing little to no checks on imports that are coming in from the EU,” she said. “We have the massive risk of African swine fever in Europe, and to not be investing in our defences for keeping our biosecurity and animal and plant health safe, I think is just a dereliction of duty".

Let me get this straight, having left the EU, you are saying that the U.K. has let it's guard down on dodgy meat and plants coming from the EU?

Hey, numbskull. Do you realise just exactly what you are saying about the standards of meat and plants coming from the EU? And you're proud of that? I think it’s right what some are saying - you just can’t trust those EU scoundrels.

We are talking about produced in the EU which can’t be sold in the EU because it fails standards being exported to UK because Brexit Britain doesn’t do any checks.

 

[Mottie]

We are talking about produced in the EU which can’t be sold in the EU because it fails standards

So you are saying that some meat produced in the EU doesn't meet EU standards? Riiiiight….

 

[JohnD]

As expected, the Tory Brextremists are doing their best to sabotage Sunak's attempts to improve relations with EU.

 

[ellal]

As expected, the Tory Brextremists are doing their best to sabotage Sunak's attempts to improve relations with EU.

Actually all brexiteers are extremists and also proven UK haters...

But you know what they say about what the only good brexiteer is

Thankfully plenty have gone that way and voter replacement is on track

 

[fillyboy]

As expected, the Tory Brextremists are doing their best to sabotage Sunak's attempts to improve relations with EU.

Actually all brexiteers are extremists and also proven UK haters...

But you know what they say about what the only good brexiteer is

Thankfully plenty have gone that way and voter replacement is on track

 

[ellal]

So you are saying that some meat produced in the EU doesn't meet EU standards? Riiiiight….

Funnily enough the EU is allowed to export food that they don't want to third countries who haven't signed up to their standards...

The UK is of course now a third country as far as the EU is concerned, and a third country has the right to allow/deny imports of said foodstuffs...

Most third countries you would think would have a way of working out what they believe is acceptable or not...

So maybe you could tell us why the testing situation in the UK is unacceptable?

"Portsmouth’s £25m border post stands empty after minister’s imports U-turn

At least £450m of taxpayers’ money has been spent on facilities to handle post-Brexit checks, now delayed"

"The government is now working on a new operating model for imports – due to be published in the autumn and come into effect at the end of 2023"

Anyone think that it will happen by the end of this year?

 

[JohnD]

"Portsmouth’s £25m border post stands empty after minister’s imports U-turn

Who paid for it?