15-02-2024, 09:09
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Re: Britain outside the EU
Interesting report from Farmers Weekly who had a lot of members that were very keen on Brexit from what I remember:
Analysis: 7 years after Brexit, farmers count the cost
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Increased red tape, a worsening economic situation, damaging free-trade deals, a trail of broken promises – it seems that farmers and those working in the ancillary industries are far from satisfied with Brexit.
That is the inevitable conclusion from a new survey by Farmers Weekly into how the agricultural sector now perceives Brexit, seven years on from the historic referendum of 23 June, 2016.
Conducted in late May and early June, the survey attracted more than 900 responses, covering all sectors and including those who work on farms, as well as those from elsewhere in the industry.
Asked whether they believed Brexit had had a positive or negative effect on the UK economy, the overriding sentiment was negative, with about three quarters of all respondents feeling that way.
And asked about the state of their own businesses due to Brexit, a similar picture emerged, with 69% saying it had been either “fairly negative” or “very negative”.
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These figures are pretty brutal:
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According to the survey, some 70% of the farmers who grow cereals said Brexit had been negative for their businesses, while 76% of oilseed rape growers felt that way.
Similarly, 68% of farmers with beef cattle, dairy cows or sheep had a negative perception.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the two sectors that were even more negative were those growing vegetables (81%) and those keeping pigs (79%).
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