UK farmers sold down the river

Around here in East Kent, farmers seemed to be at the forefront of the campaign for Leave.

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was seen as the root of all evil. And waste.

Farmers were promised protections of their industries and not reducing of standards, so to protect them and the public.

So far, so good.

Then it became clear that the Brexiteers dream is a trade deal of some kind with the US.

The bete noir is chlorinated chicken.

Chicken is chlorinated in the US because the US's health standards are far lower than the EU's and UK's, so to compensate for this, chickens are washed with chlorinated water.

I hate to repeat myself, but:

Chlorinated chicken and hormone injected beef are illegal in the UK and EU at the moment. It will remain against regulations and standards in the US even if the UK lets it in. But then the EU will be concerned that chicken meat from the UK is to EU's standards, and will need confirmation to their satisfaction as to what is let into the EU is to their standards. Once US stand goods are allowed into the UK then it will make UK farmers exporting to the EU more difficult and expensive.

Not only that, this will further fracture the UK single market, with such goods from the US against regulations on the island of Ireland. How is that going to be managed? Has the UK Government even thought about this?

This will be the price of any trade deal with the US, cheap sub-standard imports into the UK, or Great Britain, whilst our own farmers will have to produce at current or enhanced standards, whilst their markets in the EU will be blocked either due to regulations or tariffs.

This is Brexit.

Well done, UK electorate, own this clusterfuck.

And Nissan has said, no trade deal with the EU then the Sunderland factory is longer viable, just as project fear said and was mocked by the brave Brexiteers.

Well done.