Got it! We solve the problem of GB food exports to Northern Ireland by not producing any food and importing it all from Australia instead...
My 'solution' makes nearly as much sense as most of the UK government sympathetic commentary on the Northern Ireland protocol or Australia deal...
But that's the thing with a populist simplist government - things are the right thing to do because it says they are the right thing to do. Consequences are for losers.
Talking of losers, never mind the EU or UK farmers I suspect the big losers from the Australia trade deal will be poorer commonwealth countries whose tariff free privileged exports have just been undermined. Certainly the sugar growers.
Meanwhile thinking of real trade issues like supply chains and regulations, what happens to UK processed food exporters if they can no longer source UK sugar for example?
Just a little note - from Australia of all places! - about what might happen if you don't think through the consequences of trade deals. autocar.co.uk/car-news/indus…
Asking serious questions about trade deals is not the last gasp of remainer subversion, but a first real test of what the UK is going to be. As we have already seen for the Northern Ireland protocol, treaties have rather deeper implications that 7 pence off a bottle of wine. /end
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