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Save British Farming and Fairness For Farmers

is a farming lobby group that strives to keep European foodstuff out of the UK.  Their goal is to keep British food prices high to support British farmers.  They are being honest and I wish them the best of luck because if they think it's bad now, imagine when the flood of US imports finally arrives on our shores.

The UK's largest trading partners are the US, Germany and the Netherlands (2nd and 3rd).  Europe will remain an important trading partner, but the reality is that when Europe has to choose between member states and Great Britain it will choose member states.  Great Britain needs a friend, and the only reasonable friend available is the United States of America.  Keir Starmer's most important job as the prime minister will be to get a trade deal negotiated with the Americans.  Nothing else matters, and he might as well get it done early in his new administration because we are going to hate it!  

The UK is in desperate need of a friend, and if we delay too much there will be no deal on the table.  However, the impact on farmers will be brutal.  European imports will be a thing of the past when US foodstuff invades our shore.  

It is not a good or bad thing, for most Britons it will be a good thing, but in any deal, there are winners and losers, and this time around the losers will be farmers.  Of course, it will impact our farm, no doubt about it, but imagine when Tesco starts selling broiler chickens for less than half of what consumers pay right now.  Or when the milk price drops by 50%.  There are a lot more consumers than there are farmers.   

Protest if you want, but Save British Farming and Fairness For Farmers are wasting their energy and should help their members do what needs to be done...

Note:  Yes I am speaking against my own best interests, but "talking your book" is always delusional and will fail every time.  We have a population of 70 million less than 300,000 farms.  Whose vote will be the loudest?

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