Us Trade Deals and Boris Johnson

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Boris Johnson's US trade deal will make Britain a paradise for disaster capitalists | George Monbiot

Chlorinated chicken is just the start. The government intends to rip down food standards, public services and public protections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

 

[7610 super q]

Our high standards haven't got us anywhere lately have they ?
Just have to bulldoze some more wilded areas and plant them with GM crops to compensate.
Not so funny now is it Monbiot ?

 

[Bald Rick]

Of course farming will be sacrificed for trade deals. We are unimportant politically so long as there is cheap food on the shelves of the supermarkets

Can we adapt and survive? Possibly but not with ever greater restrictions that would appear to be coming down the line.

Living with it is going to be my son’s and grandsons problem and I wish them good luck

 

[czechmate]

Do they still use bst (do I remember that correct) in milk production?

 

[DanniAgro]

Oh dear, politicians eh; just when you think it's possible you might trust them, along they come and show you why a polecat looks good next to them.

 

[rusty]

Do they still use bst (do I remember that correct) in milk production?

No where near as much as they did. A lot of contracts now ban it.

 

[neilo]

Oh dear, politicians eh; just when you think it's possible you might trust them, along they come and show you why a polecat looks good next to them.

I’m shocked to hear this. At what point, in the last few decades, did you start to think it possible that any one of them might be trustworthy?

The simple truth is that only a very small minority of the electorate are involved in the agricultural industry, so what they do to ‘us’ really doesn’t bother those who’s only interest is clinging on to the trappings of power. Far more important to seem like they are looking after the urban majority.

 

[DanniAgro]

Well, you know, Boris Johnson gets elected and you think, at least we've got someone who will actually lead, and then it all falls apart, and the country is like rudderless, like the Marie Celeste.

 

[le bon paysan]

Do they still use bst (do I remember that correct) in milk production?

Yes

Bovine somatotropin - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[le bon paysan]

No where near as much as they did. A lot of contracts now ban it.

But it is still used legally in the US.

 

[le bon paysan]

Have a read, any comments ?

Boris Johnson's US trade deal will make Britain a paradise for disaster capitalists | George Monbiot

Chlorinated chicken is just the start. The government intends to rip down food standards, public services and public protections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

He's just found out that he hates American farmers slightly more than EU farmers. Almost ironic.

 

[Lowland1]

Because Boris Johnson was born in America we all know where his allegiance is. He just cares about the country of his birth not the country he leads. He's just like that half American quisling Winston Churchill and look how he sold us down the river.

 

[Happy]

Surprised anyone is surprised by this.
Been clear this was the way it was headed very early in the Liam Fox at trade and Michael Gove at Defra days

 

[ewald]

This was obvious to anyone the day the brexit result was announced - it wouldn’t have made any difference who was in power, we were always going to be used as a bargaining chip to try and help financial services. And subsidies were always going when we left the pro-ag EU.

 

[neilo]

Well, you know, Boris Johnson gets elected and you think, at least we've got someone who will actually lead, and then it all falls apart, and the country is like rudderless, like the Marie Celeste.

Did you really see Boris like that? I certainly didn’t, I saw him as a self publicist who just repeated the snappy soundbites fed to him by his puppet masters. A man who likes the sound of his own voice far too much and revels in the attention this gives him. He, and his political style, is the reason I didn’t vote for the a Conservatives for the first time in my life.
The current shambles, and the headlong rush to a no-deal Brexit, comes as no surprise to me.

 

[ewald]

Because Boris Johnson was born in America we all know where his allegiance is. He just cares about the country of his birth not the country he leads. He's just like that half American quisling Winston Churchill and look how he sold us down the river.

Curious to know how Churchill 'sold us down the river'?

 

[Lowland1]

Curious to know how Churchill 'sold us down the river'?

Sarcasm. I have no issues with Boris Johnson either.

 

[ewald]

Sarcasm. I have no issues with Boris Johnson either.

Ok, thought there was an aspect of Churchill I wasn’t aware of!

 

[DanniAgro]

Did you really see Boris like that? I certainly didn’t, I saw him as a self publicist who just repeated the snappy soundbites fed to him by his puppet masters. A man who likes the sound of his own voice far too much and revels in the attention this gives him. He, and his political style, is the reason I didn’t vote for the a Conservatives for the first time in my life.
The current shambles, and the headlong rush to a no-deal Brexit, comes as no surprise to me.

True, and I feel roughly about Johnson the same as you, but I feel that having a leader who could do a bit of leading for a change would be good for the country. Johnson may have many poor qualities but it seemed that about a year ago he might be able to deliver, but I now feel that he has no idea what to do with the power he's been given, and no agenda.

 

[DeeGee]

True, and I feel roughly about Johnson the same as you, but I feel that having a leader who could do a bit of leading for a change would be good for the country. Johnson may have many poor qualities but it seemed that about a year ago he might be able to deliver, but I now feel that he has no idea what to do with the power he's been given, and no agenda.

Johnson has no power, nor has he a clue what to do with it if he did he did have any. Weirdo Cummings runs this wretched government.