I cannot understand why people express surprise that UKG will agree a FTA which will damage the farmers & create a damaging precedent for FTAs with Brazil etc. This was completely predicted and wanted by Brexiters like Patrick Minford.
He advocated 0 tarrifs/quotas with the rest of the world; acknowledged it would destroy farming & manufacturing which would have to be progressively "phased out like coal & steel". Land will be bought cheaply by Tory farmers like Dyson who will live off government subsidies
& genome edited plants (controlling this key technology) while the population will be fed on food from developing countries (with a small profitable organic farming for the wealthy & healthy). Manufacturing will be destroyed by competition with India and so on. All the wealth in
The UK will be controlled by a small tory elite investors in bio-tech, life-science and promising technologies of the future. They will lock up the patents in their hands. Where will the jobs be? Mostly in badly paid precarious services & services for the wealthy.
What an unpleasant country we will become. A sort of Victorian era with tight control on all the levers of power & technology in very few hands. A mix between Orban corrupt illiberal "democracy" & the oligarchy of Republicans America.
This is a plan. This is not accidental. UKG wants to cut us from Europe economically& culturally & completely abandon the "soft European model" of social democracy. Very few will be winners at this game but they will win big. Very big.
Those people are not so much "free traders". They know trade with developing countries will bring small economic benefits. Trade is merely an instrument to remodel the UK completely (& largely sneakily, with a gradual erosion as these would be unpopular policies) into a country
run by a clique for its benefits. The massive societal issues will not be openly discussed. When/if finally the Tories lose an election, it will be too late to reverse course. #ProgressiveAlliance is the last hope to defeat this.Labour would be criminal & suicidal not to seize it
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