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Originally Posted by ianch99
I think you have completely failed to understand the point that when in the EU, the products sold into the Single Market have to conform to predefined food quality standards and that, when having left as a third country, that requirement lapses and the third country in question, the UK, has the ability to diverge from the previously mandated standards & safeguards.
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Given that our ability to set our own standards was one of the benefits of Brexit for many of us who voted for it, I think it’s fair to say this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
The whole point of repatriating these powers is that we can decide what works for us and our producers and consumers, rather than the lobbying of major corporate interests that often lurk behind the ‘safety’ decisions taken by the EU. And if we decide HMG has got it wrong, we can vote accordingly. Any vote for an MEP is so hopelessly diluted by the sheer size of the Strasbourg assembly it was never more than a fig leaf for the undemocratic nature of the beast.