Thursday 8 June 2023

No US Trade Deal A Good Thing

Rishi Sunak has found a good way of getting out of being held to account on a Wednesday Afternoons at Prime Ministers questions, he nicks off out the country and this Wednesday he jetted to to America with the aim of sorting out some sort of trade deal but he has returned without it moving any further forward and he blamed the macroeconomic situation and the war in Ukraine but i don't care why he came back empty handed, i say bloody good because any trade deal with those guys would not be great for us as America has some very different standards when it comes to environmental and animal welfare.
Antibiotics in farm animals is five times higher in US farming and chicken is acid and chlorine washed at the end of the production chain and although steroid hormone drugs for use in beef production is banned in Europe due to it being possibly carcinogenic, in the USA hormone-treated beef is the norm and in the US, 88% of corn and 93% of soy are genetically modified and in Britain public concern remains firmly against it but don't expect to see it on the nutritional label, none of those either as they are considered 'a barrier' by the Americans.
American food standards mean that incidences of food poisoning in the US affect 14% of the population annually in the UK its 1% and as any UK-US deal is likely to include public services provisions including NHS services, education, transport and prison services opening them up to US firms and privatisation.
That we are even considering a trade deal which will see us chancing food poisoning and more of the privatisation which has proved so appalling for the British public while we have the largest single market is literally on our doorstep is madness, hopefully we will get a Government that agrees and reverses Brexit sooner rather than later.

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