Steps that must be taken for crofting to thrive post Brexit By Contributor Published: 13:00, 19 December 2020 Get the Northern Times sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper As I write, we still donât know whether we will get a Brexit deal or not. The UK Government seems to think that you can have all the benefits of being in a club without paying a membership fee or obeying the current and future rules â ignorance, arrogance or incompetence? Either way, we are ill-served by our elected representatives in Westminster. If an MPâs pension was linked to the average price of a wether lamb at Lairg, then they might not be so cavalier with the livelihoods of others.