Right-wing Brexit bros say agriculture, farms and fisheries are not needed in the new UK !
Conservatives and Trumpscalions are all the same, all the world round.
Britain doesn't need farmers, reveal leaked emails - dailymail.co.uk
One of the Government's most senior officials has made the incendiary suggestion that Britain does not need its own farming industry.
In leaked emails obtained by The Mail on Sunday, powerful Treasury adviser Tim Leunig argues that the food sector is not 'critically important' to the economy – and that agriculture and fishery production 'certainly isn't'.
In his astonishing remarks Dr Leunig implies that the UK could follow the example of Singapore 'which is rich without having its own agricultural sector'.
Dr Leunig is a long-standing colleague of Boris Johnson's No 10 enforcer Dominic Cummings, and his intervention exemplifies the radical thinking within Boris Johnson's inner circle against bastions of the Establishment such as the Civil Service and the BBC.
Boris Johnso's right-wing brainiac, Tim Leunig, is ready to ditch UK farmers
Dr Tim Leunig – a powerful voice in Whitehall – claims that the agriculture and fishing industries make a negligible contribution to the economy, and points out that the former British outpost 'is rich without having its own agricultural sector'.
In his controversial comments, he also suggests farmers should not be given tax breaks denied to other industries.
Dr Leunig then questioned the special tax breaks given to farmers, saying: 'We know that supermarkets also make very little, and that lots of restaurants go bust.
'Not sure I buy a 'life is tough for farmers, easy for restaurateurs' approach.'
Tim Leuing most controversial policy idea – until today – was to pull all Government support from 'failed' Northern cities and encourage the inhabitants to migrate South.
The UK's approach to the future relationship was clearly set out by the Prime Minister during the Election campaign and again in his Greenwich speech last month.
The vote to leave the EU and Boris's victory in the General Election means we can now ensure the UK shapes a new era in a positive way, says Michael Gove
PM Boris Johnson points out the UK has a proud record of exceeding EU standards and having led the way to improving global standards in a number of key areas.
On environmental standards, we were the first country in the world to introduce legally-binding greenhouse gas emission targets, in the 2008 Climate Change Act. More recently, we were the first major global economy to set a legally-binding target of net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050. Far from diluting existing protections, we wish – as our Environment Bill shows – to go further and faster than the EU in helping the natural world.
Clearly and emphatically, the British people decided the next chapter in our island story meant letting the UK PM take back control. |
