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[hauxwell 243]

7 hours ago, Anna B said:

Maybe someone can help me with this.

Re: trade negotiations with USA.

What exactly have we got to sell that the USA can't make or do itself, or buy cheaper from other countries?

Genuine question. 

Could be because they just like brand Britain products.  Scotch Whisky use to be popular in America, even though they produce their own which I was told was awful, however that’s a few years ago.

Edited December 21, 2019 by nikki-red

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Hm, they like our British products so much they have bought most of the companies and turned the products into their own idea of how they should be made.

 

[tinfoilhat 11]

34 minutes ago, West 77 said:

At the moment the USA has a 25% tariff on EU goods that include Scottish malt whisky. The UK now has the opportunity of negotiating future free trade agreements with both the USA and EU.

And we get to sell off chunks of the NHS and import food with a certain set of allowed "defects". http://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook

 

Yum yum.

[melthebell 862]

2 hours ago, tinfoilhat said:

And we get to sell off chunks of the NHS and import food with a certain set of allowed "defects". http://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook

 

Yum yum.

And we will pay massive tariffs to them instead as they bend us over backwards

[retep 68]

4 hours ago, tinfoilhat said:

And we get to sell off chunks of the NHS and import food with a certain set of allowed "defects". http://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook

 

Yum yum.

What yum yum do you think we already have,

 

"The inference, of course, is that somehow US standards are inferior to those set by the munificent, caring European Union which would never allow its fragile citizens to be exposed to the "filth" so cavalierly permitted by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)."

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87019

[RJRB 688]

1 hour ago, retep said:

What yum yum do you think we already have,

 

"The inference, of course, is that somehow US standards are inferior to those set by the munificent, caring European Union which would never allow its fragile citizens to be exposed to the "filth" so cavalierly permitted by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)."

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87019

As I understand it one of the main concerns is in the rearing and processing of meat products.

Steroid injected beef cattle is accepted in the US,and whilst chlorine washed chicken is not considered harmful by many experts,it is only necessary because of the low standards in rearing poultry which increases the risk of harmful bugs reaching the consumer.

I do believe that there is constant pressure to improve standards of food production in Europe and the UK and we do not need a backward step.

Edited December 21, 2019 by RJRB

[tinfoilhat 11]

1 hour ago, RJRB said:

As I understand it one of the main concerns is in the rearing and processing of meat products.

Steroid injected beef cattle is accepted in the US,and whilst chlorine washed chicken is not considered harmful by many experts,it is only necessary because of the low standards in rearing poultry which increases the risk of harmful bugs reaching the consumer.

I do believe that there is constant pressure to improve standards of food production in Europe and the UK and we do not need a backward step.

But we will get a backward step. One of the papers today were proudly proclaiming how we were going to get rid of EU standards. This is what we’ll get instead.

[altus 538]

1 hour ago, tinfoilhat said:

But we will get a backward step. One of the papers today were proudly proclaiming how we were going to get rid of EU standards. This is what we’ll get instead.

That's especially ironic given how much of a driving force we've been behind the creation of so many EU standards.

[RiffRaff 10]

And on a lighter note, Brexit or no, it's the equinox!

The days start lengthening from today...

[andyofborg 11]

7 hours ago, RiffRaff said:

And on a lighter note, Brexit or no, it's the equinox!

The days start lengthening from today...

actually, its the solstice 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ShwcA8KkkM

 

Edited December 22, 2019 by andyofborg

[apelike 10]

On 21/12/2019 at 18:50, tinfoilhat said:

But we will get a backward step. One of the papers today were proudly proclaiming how we were going to get rid of EU standards. This is what we’ll get instead.

Even with EU standards we have had; tainted olive oil, benzene in perrier water, dioxins in poultry feed, E.coli scare from contaminated imported beans, the horsemeat scandal, contaminated chicken eggs, salmonella in baby milk, unsafe Polish exported meat.

[Baron99 778]

Finally the realisation has started to kick in.  Pity it's taken over 3. 5 years. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7818815/amp/New-Commons-Speaker-Sir-Lindsay-Hoyle-vows-Big-Ben-chime-Britains-historic-EU-departure.html#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %1%24s

 

I'd make Bercow stand in the clock tower to get a front row view.