Have I missed the uproar about a new agricultural bill ?

[Bertoldbrecht]

I've not been on the brexit board for a while but wondered if anyone knew about an agricultural bill that could become law by july.
According to the Mail (I know ! ) Liz Truss has clashed with George Eustice who fears she is preparing to ditch animal welfare and environmental standards in order to strike a deal with the white house post the transition period. An attempt to amend the bill was defeated despite 20 odd tory mps supporting it. With all the cummings stuff going on I haven't heard about this. Just wondered whether anyone else knew about it. Obviously the whole issue about the uk being flooded by cheap american imports has been flagged up many times but I wasn't aware that legislation to enable this was going ahead at full speed and why there wasn't more coverage ?

Farmers have been anti EU for decades

Farmers aren't a homogeneous group of people. Please stop using outdated stereotypes.

For some weird reason I ended up on conservative home website reading about this funnily enough Liam Fox is all for it as are the vast majority of btl posters. Most take the view that the U.K. consumer will just read the packaging and make their own minds up, others were defending the appalling state of animal welfare in the US as just ‘different’ and they’d never had a bad meal in the US. There are some rational thinkers on there but not many. It’s pretty much toe the line what ever their government does. I don’t know whether they were always like this or whether it’s the polarising nature of Brexit that has done it. I watched the Brexit film the other night and I was disgusted by the cynical and dubious methods they used to ensnare the 3 million ( apparently the number of people who never voted and who were politically rich pickings for their campaign ) - Sorry off on a tangent and that’s another story !

This is the first of many 'well, we knew what we voted for' moments. Tragic.

scrowy
I'm not sure which row of seeds you germinated from
but I'd suggest you go back to the spring 2016 threads and see that you are somewhat behind the curve

@ListeningQuietly

scrowy I'm not sure which row of seeds you germinated from but I'd suggest you go back to the spring 2016 threads and see that you are somewhat behind the curve

You are right, I'm completely lost as to why you are blaming farmers for this (it's estimated 54 percent of the UKs 140k farmers voted for Brexit, hardly 'all of them' or in a number that would have made a significant difference to the overall outcome)

I'm also lost what that has to do with the 80s.

What curve am I behind? Your posts make less and less sense each time.

"The people knew what they were voting for"