Big Farmer is on the march to Westminster
This week Westminster played host to a steady array of colourful tractors and farmers with placards and Union Jacks
If you would like the “it’s all Brexit’s fault” school of thought here, then look away now. This is more symptom than cause: Brexit robbed farming of some Common Agricultural Policy-related subsidies, and created headaches for those exporting across the Irish Sea and many new and puzzling categories of cross-border bureaucracy. But the real beef for many on this motorised march is that free-trade food deals have been on the rise for far longer than Brexit has existed.
In truth, the Big Farmer movement is based on a problem which haunts the current UK Government and its likely Labour successors. It is a variant of the same headache which has plagued Emmanuel Macron. The French leader has stymied an entire EU trade deal with Mercosur – the collective of South Amercan nations – to appease French famers, denting his globalising reputation to dial down unrest at home.
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