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Yep, entirely agree.
I guess if the EU are short of chicken, pork etc they can produce more themselves . . . the place is big enough ;)

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If there is a domestic market for all these foods, you have to wonder why food producers are (or were) exporting? Surely in transport costs alone, selling domestically is a no brainer?

Is it;

• The food produced is not generally consumed in the UK so manufacturers will need to make new products, or UK consumers change their tastes?
• The price the products can be sold at in the EU are higher than in the UK, making the food less profitable going forward if sold in the UK so manufacturers will either need to raise prices or take the drop in income?

I always remember a while back when it turned out that the UK import AND export huge amounts of lamb. UK consumers like legs which we import while the rest of Europe prefer other cuts which we export once we have taken the legs off

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Exporting to the EU was probably written into the rules somewhere, all in the interests of keeping a level playing field for all meat/dairy producers within the EU . . you know how it goes :p: ;)

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I wonder how much of the exported milk went into French cheese production imports of which have allegedly dropped?

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Are you talking about imports of French cheeses to the UK? That would be people on here boycotting EU goods...

It doesn't break down what dairy products specifically - just milk or intermediate products like skimmed milk and milk powders or finished products like butter, cheese and yoghurts

However, just to show that there is a website for everything, I found this site - https://www.clal.it/en/index.php?sec...opa&country=FR which breaks down imports and exports of dairy. France seems pretty self sufficient.

There's also a map - https://www.clal.it/en/index.php?sec..._map&year=2021 showing who are net importers and exporters

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Yes I was referring to imports of cheese. The UK is not the only reduction.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...8&d=1619627466

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They're saints compared to BoJo who gave the address details of an investigative journalist so he could be beaten up.

Thank goodness a Remainer came to the country's aid to lead the vaccine procurement or we'd still be in full lockdown.

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The first sentence in the op ed piece is incorrect apart from the approach to AstraZeneca. This ground has been covered before and the errors in such pieces highlighted many times before, such that it becomes a tad repetitive.

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Ooh, that guy is angry!

I think he may have forgotten that we have left the EU. He also seems confused that the EU is set up to benefit EU nations, not third countries unless it is in the member states interests

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It's not analysis it's just the outpourings of a shock jock who doesn't understand the implications of leaving the EU who's now throwing his toys out of the pram.

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Other articles by this chap...

Joe Biden’s woke Left-wing agenda is a catastrophe for the free world

The Tories have abandoned Sadiq Khan's London to a doom-spiral of permanent decline

f you are a Tory voter in London, tough luck. You now live in a one party city-state, controlled forever more by a Labour administration committed to grinding you down.

We have one last chance to stop Britain's descent into a post-Covid socialist nightmare

The Tories have trashed Thatcherism and embraced Europe’s politics of decline

It's like Richard Littlejohn has been cloned and worn a suit... :D

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