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Our MP must be bored if they focus on bio security

Channel crossing has gone on for a long long time, and European imports for nearly as long.  More than 30 years ago the Channel Tunnel was finally completed.  Now our MPs are concerned with biosecurity!

Don't believe a word of it.  This is, the usual con job that is further trying to restrain imports from the continent.  By having a parliamentary committee, they are trial ballooning further rules and tests for the imports of foodstuff from the continent.

Farmers take two views; those who export can see future evident problems, where in a tit-for-tat war, the people who lose the most are UK farmers.  Farmers who operate only domestically, and they are a small minority are ecstatic because constrained demand will lead to higher prices.  In my opinion, those who will be the happiest are faux farmers who have a few organic cows that are just about breaking even.  Also, the likes of the morons that came to our farm, killed two goats and then brought a rather viral disease.  

Politicians are like magicians, they want you to look right when their real target is on the left.  The UK government continues to use "health" as a reason to slow or halt the import of foodstuff, and transport and duty expenses have risen dramatically since Brexit.   Let me give you a clue, it's not the European exporters who absorb the cost of these new regulations... it's the consumers.

Whenever I hear these consumer protection groups "screaming" about the abuse of the food industry, and require more supervision, more intrusion always seems to forget.  Some always pays the bill, and that someone is never the producer, it's always the consumers.

Granted most people don't understand that, even the President of the United States.  About 5 years ago, the US president introduced 10% duties and surcharges on imported washing machines.  Price to retail consumers rose by 30%. 



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