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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
All this will sort itself out.
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The clock is ticking. Business wants an industrial policy, membership of the Single Market whilst a good thing in itself does not an industrial policy make.
I was encouraged by the JLR discussions but we shouldn't really have to wait for the next PM until we get an industrial policy.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
At the same time, we must become self-sufficient for basic foods and be self-sufficient on energy, quickly. We should use our own gas till it’s gone and pour state money into the SMRs that Rolls Royce is developing.
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That's trickier for food as:
a) Rightly or wrongly, energy costs are subsidised less than our competitors' energy costs
b) Farmers have reduced subsidies since we left the EU
As a consequence, farmers are cutting back on their production as more and more of it is sadly loss-making for them.
I suspect many farmers will also be cutting back on their traditional support for the Conservative Party as they find it has become more a party of privilege and privet hedges than corn and cattle.