Boris Johnson's spokesman refuses to rule out accepting hormone-injected beef as part of a UK-Australia trade deal.
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If this is agreed then allother countries will be able to claim this as precedent.
This will have many subsidary effects.
a) UK farmers will have a legalised incentive to use hormones on their animals
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Also:
b) Countries which are able to keep non hormone & hormone food seperate will thus export non-hormone meat to places like Europe with stronger regulations & dump the hormone meat in the UK.
c) UK food will be harder to export to the EU as our food chain compromised
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d) Northern Irish situation gets more complex as markets become rapidly diverged on the all important SPS/agricultural systems. Northern Ireland east-west borders with GB will have to be tougher.
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UK civil servants have been tasked with costing a massive multi million farmer support program which will pay British farmers to switch out of farming and/or retire as ministers prepare for possible trade deal with Australia & New Zealand.
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For smaller family farms the govt has indicated it is considering going above “the £100 000 cap” on payments floated in 2020 as ministers concede a significant number of sheep/cattle farms’ business models will simply be wiped out if UK adopts zero tariffs/quotas as new base.
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The problem civil servants has raised with ministers is that if UK concedes a no tariff/quotas deal with 🇦🇺 & 🇳🇿 then other large countries with significant food exporting sectors like Brazil are likely to insist on this model as a precedent trade model with UK.
Report that "Over 100 direct flights from India have arrived in UK" since Boris Johnson placed India on the Red List on 23rd April.
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This would suggest thousands of people came from India at the high point of the variant outbreak.
And that contrary to govt communication no flight ban actually occured, but rather that talk of one accelerated people moving forward their plans to travel to the UK from India.
Michael Gove "walking back" some arguments of harder versions of Brexit in discussions both within Govt & with MPs.
Gove, one of the Leave vote architects, is now thought to favour closer strategegic cooperation with EU & less emphasis on global free trade solutions.
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In this context its interesting to see this week's reporting on the trade deals with Australia & NZ:
“There is an absolutely ferocious row going on in Whitehall over the Australia deal...with Gove & Eustice on one side, Truss & Frost on the other.”
Truss is adamant UK should trade with Australia on similar “zero tariff, zero quota” terms to deal UK struck with EU.
“..We’re talking about signing off the slow death of British farming so Liz Truss can score a quick political point,” said one insider opposed to the deal.
Conservative MPs, ministers & Lords have received financial contibutions/assistance from a US organisation that drew up the voting suppression laws expressly aimed at reducing ethnic minority votes in southern US states.
Voting suppression is now coming to the UK.
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The "Heritage Action" group has been exposed in leaked videos/doccuments to have drawn up voting suppression laws expressly aimed at reducing certain demographic group votes.
HA is a part of the Koch funded Heritage group which finances Conservative MPs, Ministers & Lords.
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So deep is the Heritage/Koch funding of Conservative MPs it will take a very large thread to build it out.
One of the biggest beneficiaries is the corrupt blackmail-vulnerable MP Liam Fox who twice stood for leadership of the Tory party & was Johnson's candidate for the WTO.
Evidence emerging that highly placed members of the UK govt coordinated attacks on Keir Starmer & the Labour Party in the autumn on 2020 with members of senior BBC management & senior BBC journalists as criticism of PPE corruption & COVID deaths mounted.
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While it’s already well documented that Laura Kuenssberg had many private meetings Dominic Cummings what’s new about the latest information is the number of discreet meetings senior BBC management had with the govt - a sometimes together with BBC journalists.
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Of these the BBC executives who were helping to coordinate with the govt were 2 of the leading forces at the BBC:
Tim Davie &
Fran Unsworth
Davie in particular with Kuenssberg is understood to have had a numb er of meetings with Cummings last autumn.
This is possibly the most disgusting article I’ve ever seen in a British mainstream newspaper. But if you just read it without context you might not realize it
Because everyone, Tom Newton Dunn regular BBC guest is glorifying...
The whole article lauds Sun journalist John Kaye as a legend of Fleet Street.
Nowhere mentioned is that Kaye killed his 1st wife. Under normal legal process he’d have got life. But the Sun paid for best legal defence & got it reduced to manslaughter.
It doesn’t end there..
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A few months after a spell in psychiatric care he was taken back by ...the Sun.