Save British Farming 🇬🇧
@SaveBritishFood
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Activists against decimation of British food by opening floodgates to lower regulated food. Farms will go bust. Consumers get less choice and higher prices
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The reason we have
#foodshortages
in Britain is because of this
@Conservatives
govt and their
#Brexit
and it’s not because of Spanish weather!
Our chair
@LizWebsterLD
explains what’s happening and how there is a a quick fix which will solve most of the issues.
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Imports must be to our standards? Absolutely, said
@michaelgove
*TWICE*. He guaranteed it. Yesterday he voted against. Watch. 👇😠
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Listen to how
@BorisJohnson
blames British farming for holding Britain and the economy back
@bbclaurak
The
@Conservatives
are no longer the party of the countryside.
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Eustice wrote to the EU about 'surprise' over shellfish.
EU wrote back showing him his own letter to stakeholders on Dec 10 detailing the position - the one he was claiming surprised him. 🤦♂️
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Here’s Boris Johnson in 2016 promising to continue to support farming at same levels.
Now our support is being withdrawn and they’re subsidising car manufacturing instead.
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⚠️ Bad language warning ⚠️
Jeremy Clarkson gives his views on this Govt and what they’re doing to farming 🚜
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The UK’s erosion of food standards continues as DEFRA ends additional inspections of meat products imported from Brazil.
Meat products shipped into 🏴 🏴 🏴 no longer face Salmonella testing prior to leaving Brazil and after arrival in Britain.
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Exactly this. *Exactly* this. 👇😠🇬🇧🚜
In April, Liz Truss said she would show her ‘inexperienced’ Australian counterpart ‘how to play at this level.’ In response, he secured the best deal in his country's history at the expense of Britain's farmers. I told her today she's the one who's proved she’s not up to the job.
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No it’s not the English Channel causing the Great British 🇬🇧
#foodshortages
…it’s
#Brexit
which has ensured Britain suffers more than other EU countries in an increasingly serious global food crisis.
Our chair
@LizWebsterLD
explains why and what govt must do to limit the damage.
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...And we’re off! As promised, we’ve taken our tractor demonstration to London just in time for the
#AgricultureBill
’s return to the commons today. We’re asking MPs to
#SaveBritishFarming
🚜
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I hate to break it to you but, it's all just a joke to the PM.
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Great to see the
#fishingindustry
holding a big demo in
#Westminster
today to protest the government’s betrayal in the new trading arrangements.
Save British Farming stands in solidarity with 🇬🇧 fishermen.
#BrexitCarnage
#NotTeethingProblems
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Well this didn't age well, as Gove along with all but a handful of Tory MPs voted down an amendment that would have preserved UK standards for food, animal welfare and environmental protections on imports. This government has shown, time and again, that it can't keep its word.
Can
@michaelgove
guarantee future food imports will have to meet UK welfare standards?
@tomheapmedia
investigates the future of farming on tonight's
@BBCCountryfile
#countryfile
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The House of Lords just voted to uphold our standards for imported products.
By a large majority of 100! 👏👏👏
#AgricultureBill
#farminguk
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Our tractors are crossing Westminster Bridge!
Heading down Embankment and up Whitehall next Congress before ending at Parliament Square! 🚜🚜🚜
#SaveBritishFarming
#agriculture
#agriculturalbill
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Govt is controlling output of information so that British people are kept in the dark about the reality of what Brexit is doing to businesses.
Our food system has been severely kneecapped by Brexit/Covid, leaving us in worst of health to withstand looming gas/fertiliser crisis.
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The number of lies and size of the betrayal of
@BorisJohnson
and his Vote Leave govt ought to be in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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🇬🇧 farmers thrown under the Brexit bus.
🇬🇧 people’s health sold down the river with low standard food.
🇬🇧 NHS and BBC lined up to be sacrificed next on the Brexit altar.
👋 🇬🇧
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In truth, the shocking and ignorant
#marr
performance of George Eustice should have ensured his resignation.
Our industry - businesses which feed the nation - is being disrespected by this Govt which is only focussed on destructive populism.
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The EU continue to show Britain that al member states control their borders.
Now as third country British people and goods face even more delay and fresh food exports will become unviable.
#Brexit
needs to be improved - we need to join the SM and CU!
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Europeans reject Brexit Britain.
“It’s just insolence to think that migrants are like a tap which you can open and close when needed.“
HGV driver Tomasz Orynski, originally from Poland, explains why the British job market just isn’t attractive to Europeans anymore.
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"You're not backing down on offending every pig farmer in the country then?"
@tnewtondunn
asks Johnson who goes on to offend all British people who enjoy eating food produced by British farmers.
The ripple effect of hurting pig industry will perpetuate to all rural economies.
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Simon Spurrell of Cheshire Cheese Co is angry.
“We got shipment through to Europe which took 6 days instead of 1. Rejected bc no longer fresh. We’ve paid to send it out and we had to pay to ship it back. We have to bin the cheese and refund the customer.
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Hmmm... what would you rather save?
A. The British farming industry, local food supply, local rural communities, small farms, high quality food and higher animal welfare standards.
or
B. "Up to" £1.22 a year.
Australia trade deal to save each UK household 'up to' £1.22 a year on imported goods
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Just a reminder about that leaked memo which confirms why this Govt is collapsing British food and farming as Thatcher did the coal and steel industry.
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We have been warning a
#FoodCrisis
was inevitable thanks to
#Brexit
That
#UkraineRussiaWar
#ClimateEmergency
and
#Covid
have expedited and exacerbated this looming catastrophe is certain.
To protect food supply 🇬🇧 needs to be in the EU SM/CU.
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And against the will of the people.
95% reject lower food standards.
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Lord Deben, “This govt has set a bad example on trade. You really cannot sign up with Australia and NZ unless those countries agree to the same standards as we are placing on our farmers. I think this govt has to go back and renegotiate these deals ….”
#cop26
#SaveBritishFarming
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All the
#Brexit
false promises and lies are now becoming apparent.
For farming and fishing Brexit is disastrous. We really need to work together to force policy changes. Joining the single market would eliminate many problems very quickly.
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The EU is a free trade zone for those within it but a protectionist zone from outside.
This *protects* its own farmers and produce from cheaper, low quality, dangerous products.
🇬🇧 is now outside that zone thanks to Boris Johnson’s Brexit and our farms face decimation.
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URGENT! UK farmers: WE NEED YOU! If you can get a farm vehicle to London on Oct 12th, it's vital you join us in our battle for UK farming standards. This demo will get national coverage.
Sign up here today!
With thanks to
@Anthony_M_Kelly
for the video
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@BorisJohnson
@ScottMorrisonMP
@tradegovuk
@trussliz
@DanTehanWannon
You just screwed British farmers. And animal welfare. And the British public's overwhelming wishes on animal welfare.
A 15 year "transition" doesn't matter. "Transition" to what, exactly? "Transition" to competing on lower standards that we - and the British public- do NOT want.
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Fantastic to see so many tractors in
#Northallerton
today campaigning with
#SaveBritishFarming
to back the Lords Amendment on
#FoodStandards
.
Write to your MP telling them to back the amendment using our template:
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“Brexit is mess and it’s one of the factors why the economy is not working. As result of
#Brexit
farmers have lost 20% of turnover. Not only are we missing out on trade with Europe, we are also losing out on trading with RoW by not being part of the EU.”
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Watch how
@NewshubNZ
report the truth about the
#NewZealandDeal
that only benefits Nz
British farmers throw under the
#Brexit
bus.
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Deregulating British farming ensures we lose our biggest export market, so how does this help British farming?
Big producers like Australia, Nz, Brazil won’t buy our beef and lamb.
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Thanks to
#Brexit
huge areas of one of Britain’s biggest salad growing hubs will be replaced with housing estates, as growers give up in despair.
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We are delighted that our campaign is being heard across 🇬🇧 and now 57% understand why
#Brexit
is to blame for the decimation of 🇬🇧 food.
We’ll continue to give the truth as the
#foodshortages
intensify.
We have to
#UnbrexitBritain
to
#SaveBritishFood
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Who signs up to a deal which gives the other side ALL the advantage?
🇬🇧 export to go 🆙 only 7.3%
🇦🇺 exports to go 🆙🆙🆙 83.2%
🆙 food miles
🆙 animal cruelty
🆙 climate damage
🆙 disease/deaths
This is a terrible deal for 🇬🇧
@Conservatives
working against British people
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Govt expects its New Zealand trade deal to damage UK's farming industry, according to its own impact assessment.
Figures released show officials expect agriculture and other food related sectors to take roughly £150 million hit from the new agreement.
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Leaving a trade block on our doorstep to join one in Asia to demolish our high British standards is about to happen.
This govt have no mandate to join CPTPP. No one voted to join another trade black and this govt is betraying Britain.
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A good film on what
#Brexit
meant for Boston, Lincs who voted overwhelmingly for it.
Fishermen have been thrown under the Brexit bus, but farmers and anyone who exports to the EU have been too. This will soon apply for those who rely on EU imports too.
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🚨 Brexit, honey, and how the quality we took as standard has vanished
In 2015-17, 14% honey didn’t meet EU requirements.
This year, 46% honey suspected of being adulterated – and shocking 100% of honey tested from 🇬🇧 failed to meet requirements.
🧵
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MPs urged to block Australia trade deal after ministers break pledge to reveal details
Govt are ramming Australian trade deal, knowing that 🇬🇧 farmers will suffer and the climate crisis sacrificed, only adding just 0.08% to economy and not until 2035.
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Lots of people believe they can escape the toxicity of lowering food standards by going vegetarian.
Sadly there is no escaping it as pesticides that are currently banned here will flood in. Doing away with standards has consequences.
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If you care about maintaining our world beating 🇬🇧 standards for food and animal welfare
🚜 listen to
@EmmaKennedy
🚜 support our campaign to save British
#farming
and
#agriculture
#AgricultureBill
#FarmersProtest
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Furious farmers’ tractor protest near MPs offices.
This govt is betraying the country as it promised to uphold our standards and protect us from dumping.
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This govt promised in its manifesto to hold up our world beating food and animal welfare standards.
Now they’re selling farmers down the river and forcing the people to eat substandard food.
80% of British don’t want lower food standards.
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Brexit 🇬🇧🏴 👏👏👏
“England has become a country where the pubs have no 🍺 farmers don't have anyone to pick their 🍎 🥬 🥕 and, even if they did, there aren't enough lorry drivers to get it to the shops."
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So who took back control of our trade policies now that we are out of the EU 🤔
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Govt are betraying 🇬🇧 by reneging on promises that 🇬🇧 would lead the world in animal and food standards. In desperate bid for 🇺🇸 FTA, govt is conceding to 🇺🇸 insistence that our existing food origin labelling is banned.
You won’t be able to work out what you’re buying/eating.
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Farmer Edwin is already on his way to London for our demo tomorrow in his vintage 🚜
Join us tomorrow by registering here
#farminguk
#FarmersProtest
#FarmersDay
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The Conservative manifesto was clear on maintaining existing standards and that greenlights a rebellion by peers.
Agriculture Bill is creating rebellion and dissent on a large scale within the ranks of Tory peers.
Tories have abandoned rural voters.
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The double edged sword of Brexit dilemma of the EU import checks. Damned by illegal imports and bio security risk if you delay, damned by inflation and food shortages if you go ahead.
Only way out is dynamic alignment with EU regs and begin journey back as EU members.
😐 Vast quantities of illegally imported meat are being seized at Dover port, amid fears this could be just the “tip of the iceberg”.
Full story:
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The solution to all Brexit difficulties can begin by aligning to EU regs.
Then it will ought to become clear that joining the single market and customs union removes the red tape which is blocking trade and solves Brexit labour shortages.
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🚜 Conservative Govt was elected with pledge to uphold our standards but agrees to
#AustraliaTradeDeal
🚜 10-15 years phase in so 🇬🇧farmers time to wind down/retire and 🇦🇺 ramp up.
🚜 No big cuts on meat tariffs before 2024 election expected.
🚜 🇬🇧 farmers betrayed.
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A show jumping trainer has said that Brexit has stopped her taking horses to Europe to compete in events.
"We haven't had a good
#Brexit
deal at all, in fact we've had no deal."
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Tariffs axed immediately on 🇦🇺beef and lamb triggering fears that farmers will be sent to the wall
More betrayal by 🇬🇧Govt👇
Small print – revealed by Canberra🇦🇺but suppressed in 🇬🇧 – reveals pledge to protect farmers for 15 years has been dropped 🚜
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Our
#SaveBritishFarming
tractor demo in
#Northallerton
, North Yorkshire is preparing to kick off. We’re campaigning to keep 🇬🇧
#FoodStandards
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Prue Leith said, “British farmers are the best in the world – let's support them this week. Everybody who cares about British high food standards should back our farmers. After all, we are what we eat.'
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Given the fact that around 80-90% of British people agree with our campaign to uphold British standards for food and animal welfare, any amendment offering protection to 🇬🇧 farmers should fly through the commons.
It’s the will of the people!
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Heavy defeat for Govt in Lords as cross-party move to guarantee high food standards post-Brexit.
Peers back 🇬🇧 with a change to the Agriculture Bill aimed at blocking the import of foodstuffs produced abroad at lower animal welfare standards.
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This is sure to be very bad news for British farming, British public health and food supply.
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The truth about
#foodshortages
and
#Brexit
is finally coming out.
Thanks to great work by
@BylineTV
getting real life stories from real people.
Brexit is breaking Britain.
'The market is all going back to Europe.'
Turkey farmer Paul Kelly tells James O'Brien how post-Brexit labour shortages are impacting his industry as Christmas nears.
@mrjamesob
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Angry farmers have taken their
#tractors
to
#Marlborough
today. Local MP
@danny__kruger
voted against keeping our
#foodstandards
which even his own mother
@PrueLeith
thinks is wrong.
#MamaKnowsBest
#GreatBritishTractorOff
#SaveBritishFood
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The EU is to introduce sweeping reforms of farming subsidies this week to try to halt the decline of small farms and protect them from the intensification of agriculture fostered by decades of previous policies.
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We have until Autumn to let Tory MPs know that people see the destruction of farming as a betrayal of their manifesto pledges.
Otherwise
#AustraliaTradeDeal
will be signed in Autumn.
Johnson acted to save football, so we have to mobilise to
#SaveBritishFarming
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New report, The Hidden Damage to Public Health, says lowering food standards increases likelihood of antibiotic resistance in humans bc of overuse in intensive animal production and cancer rates could rise if more processed food is allowed to flood market.
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Rural uprising: How Britain’s farmers fell out of love with the Conservative Party
Mutiny in the countryside as farmers turn on Tory govt
“I think they could lose 20-25% of the farming vote,” predicted former Tory MP Neil Parish, and Somerset farmer.
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So having been doggedly determined that the new EU import checks won’t be delayed, this govt have announced they’ve been delayed again.
Why?
Because they’re inflationary!
So govt admits Brexit causes inflation!
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How many time can this ping pong? The government is voting against not only its own manifesto pledge, but against an unprecedented 94% of the public who want to keep our current food standards.
BREAKING:Agriculture Bill in
@UKHouseofLords
-Govt defeat as peers insist by 282 to 244 to strengthen food standards for imported food to ensure they are the same, or higher, as relevant domestic standards after the transition period ends. So the issue goes back to the Commons!
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Brexit is destroying the country’s food system. When we fall to rely on imports we will be at the mercy of foreign powers.
Why is Britain doing this?
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Yup - that's us in the BBC online. Our rural revolt is just warming up. 🚜🇬🇧
Maybe coming to a town near you. We won't compromise on British food and neither should the public. Tell your MP.
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And so it begins ...
British Sugar MD Paul Kenward has criticised labelling rules which allow imported sugar to be sold with a Made in 🇬🇧 logo.
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Last week 🏴 seafood co that usually sells £1M/week of seafood into 🇪🇺was only able to sell £12,000.
Asked what govt is doing Jacob Rees-Mogg told MPs: "The key is we've got our fish back. They're now 🇬🇧 fish. They're better and happier fish for it.”
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Farmers are sending out a distress signal on
#BackBritishFarmingDay
to alert the British people that Gov are throwing agriculture under the bus.
Food prices will hike, and only the wealthy will be able to afford the quality food that we all currently enjoy.
#SaveBritishFarming
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#BrexitBritain
has seen our fishing decimated.
But the impact on farming is also evident 👇
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We used to be awash with British strawberries before
#Brexit
.
Now they’re only going to be enjoyed by those of us who can grow them in gardens and allotments.
Who is going to feed the British people as more and more British farms give up farming food?
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To destroy the food production in Britain is the most irresponsible act of any Govt in recent times.
It leaves us wide open to being controlled by hostile foreign power.
It leaves us at the mercy of climate events when they hit global food stocks.
All for no advantage.
The Australian Trade Deal is a disaster for UK farming.
Boris Johnson guaranteed that Brexit trade deals wouldn’t undercut British farmers, yet that’s exactly what this deal does.
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We took our 🚜🚜🚜 to Marlborough to urge
@danny__kruger
to listen to his mama.
People cheered us on, some called out, “Bloody right, good on you!”
Danny told
@BBCWiltshire
we can’t legislate to stop low standards.
Prue Leith quits
@Conservatives
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We have been warning of inevitable food crisis for years.
Brexit is mostly to blame for alarming reality of 🇬🇧 food system.
Ukraine war and climate events were all realities we warned could happen in advent of leaving the EU.
Govt have ignored warnings and food is in crisis.
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"Brexit is a disaster" says British farmer "and what will happen is the UK growing businesses will cease"
- Brexit has screwed his Eastern European workforce.
Watch & share this brilliant piece by
@BylineTV
(follow them). 👇
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“I’ve said, of course, in any trade deal we strike we will taking into account our high standards to make sure our farmers are undermined.”
@trussliz
subconscious got the better of her prefrontal cortex today in Parliament.
#FarmingTwitter
#farminguk
take note!
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There is no ambiguity.
🇬🇧 does not want to lower food standards.
Join our demo on 8th July to send a loud message to Parliament.
#farming
An overwhelming majority of Britons say we should not accept lower-quality food imports as part of a US trade deal.
% who say it would be unacceptable to allow the import of...
Chlorine washed 🐔 80%
Hormone fed 🐔: 80%
🥦 grown with pesticides: 79%
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Shocking to hear our PM broadcast that the slaughter of pigs happens anyway so it doesn’t matter if farmers have to kill their own stock due to the fact his hard Brexit has caused a supply chain shock.
He clearly has no intention of even looking at ways to solve this nightmare.
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As feared, newly signed Australia deal - which Parliament hasn’t had a say on - spell curtains for 🇬🇧 agriculture and rural communities.
@timfarron
is right, now we know the impact of the deal, it’s imperative that Parliament gets a vote on this deal.
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#Brexit
trade deals deliver only harm Britain!
One analysis found that all the trade deals signed so far since Brexit were worth 178 times less than the expect hit from leaving the EU single market.
178 times less!
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To be clear,
#NoDealBrexit
for 🇬🇧farming is cataclysmic.
After one week of intense negotiations in London, together with
@DavidGHFrost
, we agreed today that the conditions for an agreement are not met, due to significant divergences on level playing field, governance and fisheries.
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Jeremy Clarkson has urged people worried about future of British food production post-Brexit to 'contact the government immediately'.
@JeremyClarkson
raised concerns that producers will soon be forced to compete with countries who farm to lower-standards.
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Indian news channel reports British Govt is choosing to put up food prices, warns:
⚠️ 🇬🇧 walking into huge
#FoodSecurity
and energy crises
⚠️ 🇬🇧 has higher inflation than rest of Europe due to
#Brexit
⚠️ biggest drop in living standards since 1950s
Why no U.K. reporting?
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Low-welfare eggs flooding into 🇬🇧
#Brexit
will see even more imported.
😯 B’tween 2021 & Aug 2023 egg imports from Poland rose by 2,000%, from 46 consignments to 1,095.
😯 Italian imports also 🆙 by almost 300% 2022 - 2023 from 72 consignments to 279
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And the white flag emerges ….
Brexit-backing newspaper the Express has sent a plea to Lord Frost and Ursula von der Leyen to reopen the Brexit deal after it was revealed UK exporters are getting caught up in a litany of red tape.
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@BorisJohnson
@Minette_Batters
@NFUtweets
If you really support British farmers, you’d jump hoops to ensure our Great British standards are enshrined in law.
Instead you say what we want to hear and then vote to see us sold down the river.
However farmers are now totally awake to your shallow and empty promises.
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Great video from
@Jon_Danzig
to mark the 50th anniversary of our accession to the European Community, now called the EU.
#BrexitHasFailed
and it’s time to
#GetBrexitUndone
to save our farming, NHS and public services.
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Govt promised milk and honey and to take back control, but it is bamboozling British people 🇬🇧
Boris Johnson is betraying farmers and rural communities but all British people will suffer if agriculture is decimated by a damaging Brexit.
#BackBritishFarming
#SaveBritishFarming
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May 2021 this Govt are planning to do a quick trade deal with 🇦🇺 which does exactly what Gove said he’d guarantee they wouldn’t.
#AustraliaTradeDeal
#BorisHasFailedTheNation
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It’s always been the case that
@waitrose
has championed high quality British farmers and food.
Now
@Telegraph
is pouring scorn on Waitrose for not abandoning British food and stocking imported lower standard foods.
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