Food sales to the EU have crashed by a fifth since Brexit, a minister has revealed, as Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure to slash red tape for UK firms selling in Europe www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... - ThreadSky

peterstefanovic.bsky.social • 52 days ago

Food sales to the EU have crashed by a fifth since Brexit, a minister has revealed, as Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure to slash red tape for UK firms selling in Europe

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-starmer-brussels-food-b2669558.html

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liquidsound32.bsky.social•52 days ago

But, but, Mogg said we would be dropping in cheap food/clothes…

rhernamanallen.bsky.social•52 days ago

Pity he isn't brave enough to rejoin the single market

threepot900.bsky.social•52 days ago

He could ask, but it depends if the club want s to risk a new, potentially troublesome member. They’d need guarantees that the Tories/Reform won’t just cock it up if they get back into mismanagement, and Starmer can’t do that.

rhernamanallen.bsky.social•52 days ago

I agree, but with their economies faltering, there's some pressure to get a deal. But I suspect we'd have to sign up for at least 10 years, probably longer.

prettyhatmachine.bsky.social•52 days ago

Starmer would rather be dead than save the UK economy from Brexit.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/brexit-jonathan-reynolds-carmarthen-british-chambers-of-commerce-london-b2573465.html

smenor.com•52 days ago

How tf does he / UK Labour suck this badly ‽

prettyhatmachine.bsky.social•52 days ago

Mostly because they started to believe in the Westminster system, rather than wanting to challenge it.

corbynwasrobbed.bsky.social•52 days ago

He is dead, dead in the water. Having to relaunch your ailing Premiership 6 months after getting the job is pitiful.

whynotwhy.bsky.social•52 days ago

He said that before the election too but the voting public gave him a mandate anyway. Why would he change his mind now?

prettyhatmachine.bsky.social•52 days ago

Because intelligent people can admit they were wrong.

Unfortunately Starmer is an idiot, like those still making excuses for his stupidity.

whynotwhy.bsky.social•52 days ago

If his objective is doing what’s good for him & his donors instead of doing what’s good for the citizens , acc to him, his strategy is correct. He said he was committed to the SEZs, deregulation and Zionism before the election & voters weirdly seemed ok with that.

corbynwasrobbed.bsky.social•52 days ago

No! That’s incorrect Starmer is a loveless leader, he got less votes than Corbyn in 2019. The fact the Tories were so corrupt and FartRage leeched the racists gifted Starmer a majority. Then Starmer blew it by attacking the pensioners, disabled and kids. While allowing Palestinians to be massacred.

prettyhatmachine.bsky.social•52 days ago

Oddly that is his defence in a way. He didn’t hide he was a continuation of the Tories; however people voted for more of the same under new management.

kenfrequed.bsky.social•51 days ago

Sounds like you need Corbyn

bigchris6.bsky.social•52 days ago

Always clearing up someone else's mess. Does anyone know where Bozo is? Somewhere far away making lots of money?

troybairn.bsky.social•50 days ago

Except that Labour aren’t clearing up the mess.

redscouse.bsky.social•52 days ago

What red tape ? Brexit uplands said there would be none? How can there be more ???

sianlw.bsky.social•52 days ago

I see an animal in the photo, not food.

poohbearcorner.bsky.social•52 days ago

#Farage's #Brexit killed uk food exports.

jonathanmlewis.bsky.social•52 days ago

You have to undo Brexit, Labour.....

mjv68.bsky.social•52 days ago

And just bloody get on with it.

espengis.bsky.social•52 days ago

Hmm, here I was thinking Brexit was all about slashing red tape... :D Should we start publicly accusing Farage, Johnson et al for what they have done instead of moaning? It IS done (for now), now let's hold them to account! The Bastards!

mjv68.bsky.social•52 days ago

youngralph.bsky.social•52 days ago

It's quite simple. At the next EU meeting, we should just put forward our... Oh, forget that.

bellhui1b.bsky.social•52 days ago

Is it Red Tape or Blue Tape Holding Back the UK Economy They wanted Brexit but Never Did the Work for UK firms selling in Europe Tories Never Do the Work They Steal The Profits!

corbynwasrobbed.bsky.social•52 days ago

Starmer is doing himself no favours,he won a majority not because he was liked or people wanted his minor changes to Tory policy. The country needs restoring and he isn’t the man to do it.

stevea53.bsky.social•52 days ago

So what food is mainland Europe no longer eating? I haven't noticed much missing from our local Normandy supermarkets!

davehaterofracism.bsky.social•52 days ago

There was for a short while a shortage of cheddar cheese , then the Irish stepped up - same sort of thing will have happened wit everything else us Brits dont export anymore.

its not just human food , my friends in Malta used to buy cat food imported from UK now it comes from Italy - same brand.

stevea53.bsky.social•52 days ago

I noticed the cheddar thing, but there never was much of it on the shelves. And what is there is bought by Brits! However, Normandy produces a lot of dairy products that the locals prefer so they aren't really impacted. We have a huge cat food factory 15km away that produces most brands!

ruskienboots.bsky.social•52 days ago

I would suggest that Normandy does not equal all of Europe.

stevea53.bsky.social•52 days ago

But do you have an answer from a broader EU perspective? What might Europeans be unable to buy without supplies from the UK? Does it affect them as much as it hits the UK economy?

davehaterofracism.bsky.social•52 days ago

Europeans can buy anything produced in the UK ( THERE MAY BE INDIVIDUAL FOOD PRODUCTS DONT COMPLY ) the thing is everything will cost more now and of course the effect on EU economy is a fraction the effect on the GB economy.

stevea53.bsky.social•52 days ago

True, but it's where I live, and now retired, I don't travel much.

troybairn.bsky.social•50 days ago

Irish now making and selling haggis. Every single product and service the UK used to produce is now made and sold by an EU member state. Usually by more productive workers, to a higher standard, at a better price.

davehaterofracism.bsky.social•50 days ago

Also too few British companies took advantage of NI privileges , a Scottish company should have moved haggis production to there and had the best of both worlds.

davehaterofracism.bsky.social•50 days ago

It doesnt need to be cheaper , could even be slightly more expensive - the ease of buying from another single market country member just wins easily.

gavintc.bsky.social•52 days ago

A friend opened a 2nd factory in France to ease the export issues.

baggiesman.bsky.social•52 days ago

Let’s hear Starmer actually use the phrase ‘BREXIT disaster’. Let’s also hear him demand that Fartage explain exactly how we have benefited.

pascalr57.bsky.social•50 days ago

It is not within his gift to do that.

davidpeacock40.bsky.social•52 days ago

We did tell them thus would happen #Rejoin

uncle-duck-60.bsky.social•52 days ago

A 5th is an understatement. What about all the food distributors who imported from outside the EU used the UK as a base and sold 75% of their stock to the EU.
That business model has gone and guess where to the EU.
Starmer has got this wrong

timw03.bsky.social•52 days ago

Well who'd have guessed!

shockingbeige.bsky.social•52 days ago

Two things you don't hear a lot about these days are, a) The Will of the People, and, b) how much the British are enjoying wallowing in their freshly reclaimed sovereignty.

troybairn.bsky.social•50 days ago

The folk who brought you Brexit now want to be run by the USA.

marksheekey.bsky.social•52 days ago

They can't slash EU red tape though.

sthwestaus.bsky.social•52 days ago

Why are the Labs saddled with fixing your Tory fuckup?

troybairn.bsky.social•50 days ago

Because Labour won a landslide parliamentary majority in July. It’s now Labour’s Brexit.

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