WELL, FARMERS, HERE’S YOUR TORY BREXIT

I remember when Liz Truss told us (on Social Media) that she would sit the Australian Trade Minister on a hard chair in her office and not let him get up until he signed the deal she wanted.

So, presumably, this was the deal she wanted. (Either that or he was threatening to wet himself, and she had to let him go!)

Seriously, talk about diplomatic skills? She obviously forgot that Australian Trade Ministers almost undoubtedly read English and probably have Twitter.

What was he going to do? Fold his tent?

Really!

#BrexitReality #BrexitTradeDeals#BrexitFarming
Meanwhile, Australia and New Zealand are happy but genuinely perplexed. You can't blame them. pic.twitter.com/GWoVXYrtbY

— Cromwell (@Cromwell606) July 20, 2022

Little wonder they are perplexed. Truss folded on most everything and the deal British, including Scottish, farmers got was a bag of bulls**t.

I guess that from now on many of us will check the labelling on our meat to ensure we are buying Scottish product, but with the inflationary pressure that’s going on in food right now, we shouldn’t be surprised if people end up opting for the cheaper antipodean items.

Of course, we will have no idea what we are eating if we eat in restaurants or fast food outlets.

Also, to con us, I’ve heard that the UK government may remove the requirement for food to be labelled with “country of origin”, so we will be dependent on Scottish and British farmers to continue to label their food voluntarily.

This was, of course, an entirely predicable result of Brexit.

People said that other countries, particularly our dear friends in the USA and Commonwealth countries, would rush to do trade deals with Britain because of special relationships both past and present.

And they were right, at least with some of them. But for all the wrong reasons.

Not the rosy glow of the “Old Country” for them.They did it because it was a brilliant trade opportunity to do a deal with a struggling new entity in the world of trade…Britain.

They could see that the UK was desperate, cut off as it was from all existing trade deals through the EU.

After all, now, instead of negotiating as part of a very rich and very large trading block, the UK was obliged to start over, this time negotiating as a medium sized, middle income economy, with no other deals.

Far from what we were promised – they hold most of the cards, and the ones held by the UK include Mr Bun the Baker and Mr Gove, the sacked Joker.