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Originally Posted by Carth
Big surprise there . . business leaders ( tesco lol ) asking the Government to remove the 'no deal' option. 
Makes you wonder who does run this Country at times.
Just think about who it is that's crippling farmers with their cheap buying terms .... how many times have we heard about milk farmers being squeezed to death by these people.
oh and talking about farmers . . how on earth can they end up poorer with a no deal brexit? They can get back to actually growing stuff and animal management - which in turn leads to more UK companies processing the stuff instead of everything being produced in Europe and being sold here. |
Most tariffs in developed countries are pretty low but historically food is not one of them. One of the aims bring to encourage self-sufficiency in case of war together with vote-winning in rural US and France.
If the UK left on WTO terms, farmers geared towards exporting to the EU would find their markets severely reduced, as tariffs would not make them competitive. If we then did sign a free trade deal with the US or Australia, our small farm size would render a lot of our agriculture as uncompetitive.
No deal does not poll well so no surprise anyone speaking to the Government will ask that it's ruled out. And, much as some left-wing leavers like Jeremy Corbyn may wish, this is not Venezuela. The Government should listen to wealth-creating companies like Tesco but not be afraid to regulate them.