Stop putting British farmers and food standards at risk – Yorkshire Post Letters

I HAVE written to my MP, Jason McCartney, about the Agricultural Bill which is going through Parliament (The Yorkshire Post, October 7).

I am very worried this will undermine the UK food producers/farmers of this country if inferior food products are allowed to be imported into this country e.g. hormone implanted beef which was banned from usage on EEC farms in the early 1980s.

By allowing these cheap substandard products into this country, this could possibly put at risk the health of our nation at the same time as leading to our farms and farmers with the high health and welfare of their stock becoming uneconomical 
to produce as, at present under the current EU rules and regulations.

The powers that be currently running our country in the future seem to want to prioritise the countryside (the farmer’s workplace) to producing bees, butterflies and wild flowers rather than producing food to feed our nation.

In my opinion, these sort of decisions are totally wrong for the following reason. The Government in power at the present time need to realise we are an island, and after Brexit we will be standing independently in the world.

At the present time, we are only 60 per cent self-sufficient in food if the worst comes to the worst, this has gone from being 85 per cent self-sufficient in the 1980s.

As a retired farmer, I ask MPs to remember you have an obligation to make sure we can at least be able to feed our own nation and it is for this reason I urge you to reject this Bill.

From: Terry Wright, Bempton Lane, Flamborough.

HOW can John Turley (The Yorkshire Post, October 2), regarding referendums in other EU member states, state no other country desires one?

What information does he base this assertion on? I am aware of at least two countries who would like one whatever the outcome. The EU is anti-democratic and corrupt.

If they are put off from having one because of the British experience then that is entirely due to the anti-democratic MPs, Remainers and the EU who could not accept that they lost the 2016 referendum and did all they could to thwart the will of the people.

If it had not been for such, we could have been out within two years.

From: Jas Olak, Press Officer, Leeds for Europe, Riverside Way, Leeds.

ACCORDING to a contract awarded by the Government in May, we should now be in the middle of the “shock and awe” phase of its Brexit readiness advertising campaign.

No-one should feel bad if it 
has not had the desired impact on them. “Shockingly awful” better describes what I have seen.

To be fair to the advertising agency, it has a client telling everyone else to prepare but, even four years after the referendum and eight months since we left the European Union, it looks hopelessly unready for transition ending in December.

The Government has reportedly granted itself a further month to keep talking to Brussels. But not given a single minute more to firms struggling with post-Brexit preparations and Covid-19.

The best thing for British business now is the only real “oven-ready” deal – rejoin the EU.

From: Henry Cobden, Ilkley.

COULD Boris Johnson be persuaded to publish the original version of his ‘oven-ready’ Brexit deal so we can see whether it intended to uphold food and farming standards or, as I suspect, not? Thank you.

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