Via: White Papers Institute

 

 

Keir Starmer Attacks British Farmers

 

For decades the British agricultural sector, like those in numerous other Western nations, has come under sustained attack by the government in Westminster. When Britain joined the European Union’s Common Market in 1973 the regulatory environment of Brussels immediately began to squeeze the agricultural producers of this country.

Many people forget, but at one point Cumbria was turned into a massive killing field for British livestock because this nation had turned over its agricultural health regulations to Brussels. Many farms were forced out of business, and British farmers suffered immensely.

Before this country joined the European Union more than 1,890 local abattoirs (slaughterhouses) operated across this country, but stringent regulations in Brussels steadily forced the locations to close because they could not keep up with the unreasonable regulatory burdens. Today just 249 abattoirs remain in this country, many of them gargantuan in scale and staffed immigrant workers rather than Britons working in their local communities. The British state has made no effort to reverse the EU regulations left ‘on the books’ here in this country, and abattoirs continue to close at a pace of roughly 10% each year.

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