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Boris Johnson s Brexit farming deal likened to Highland Clearances
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Boris Johnson s Brexit farming deal likened to Highland Clearances
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Despite previous promises, Douglas Ross has been silent on the Australian trade deal which potentially threatens the survival of Scottish beef and lamb farms DOUGLAS Ross has been urged to break his silence and come good on a promise he made to Scotland’s farmers to always be “on the frontline” defending their interests. The SNP called for the Scottish Conservative leader to speak out on the controversial Australian trade deal, which Downing Street last week repeatedly refused to say would not introduce hormone-injected beef to the UK. Writing in the Scottish Farmer in October 2020, Ross promised to be “out there on the frontline with farmers saying no, never” should such a situation ever arise.
Australian feedlot style beef production is of a scale and intensity unimaginable for Scottish extensive producers (Pic: Sydney Morning Herald) SCOTTISH FARMERS and crofters will be put out of business if an Australian Free Trade agreement, with no tariffs or quotas on sensitive products - particularly beef and lamb - is agreed by the UK government. As concern escalates over Boris Johnson s apparently headlong rush to strike post-Brexit trade deals with Australia and New Zealand, farmers leaders have warned that, however it is dressed up, fully opening the UK market to the agricultural powerhouses of the Antipodes will doom farm businesses closer to home – and set an awful precedent for future trade deals with North and South America.
NFU president Minette Batters added that removing tariffs “would make life unbearable for small British family farms”. The SNP’s shadow Defra spokesperson, Deidre Brock, said: The Tory government s post-Brexit plans have been one betrayal after another. With our fishing sector still suffering from the impact of Brexit, Boris Johnson is intent on going further by now selling out our farmers and crofters. Reported plans to grant tariff-free access to Australian farmers would have disastrous consequences for our farmers - with many being pushed out of business altogether. “Rather than ploughing ahead with their blatant betrayal of Scotland s farming and crofting communities, they must ditch these proposals.
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