Lapsed rural New Zealander. Other lapses available. London for a long time. If not NZ or adopted home, then Ibiza/Italy/Ireland. Quite like rugby & cricket.
Dec 17, 2018 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
GOOD LORD! The penny has dropped.
Why does the PM insist her decisions are all based on avoiding 'betrayal of what people voted for?
Because 10 Downing St has a TV screen playing live online sentiment - which is (as we know) wildly toxic
Robbie Gibb's office takes the temperature of the country 'live' from online comments - from Twitter, Facebook, the D.Mail comments section ('Whackjob Central') and all the other toxified online platforms.
I'm gonna put this a little more succinctly. Post-Brexit, UK farming is utterly fucked.
You already had competitor agric giants (Canada, Australia, Brazil, US, Ukraine, NZ etc) Now you've made the giant farming industry of the EU your COMPETITOR.
You (the UK public) are either gonna be trapped in an ever deeper cycle of massive government subsidies to the farming community, or you are going to see unsubsidised, uneconomic farms go to the wall in droves.
