• maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    it’d permit the UK lower barriers to agricultural imports more than the European Union Customs Union would permit for.

    Is this still about the shitty US chlorinated chicken that we’ve already had a long-ass trade war about?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      7 months ago

      It was hardly a trade war. It was one MP that thought that maybe this would be a good idea and the US going “er, maybe”. The UK is such a non-market as far as the United States is concerned, especially once you calculate in all of the costs of shipping, that it was never really going to happen.

      The only real reason that it got brought up so much was that it was a good demonstration of the utterly delusional attitude of brexitiers. That somehow we’d be better off with lower food quality standards and that should be something we would celebrate. I do not think it got much further than the vague idea stage because it really wasn’t viable for the United States so they never agreed to it. No matter what some nutcase MP may have thought.

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      7 months ago

      You don’t want chlorine in your food? Why do you hate freedom? Are you a communist?

      • Brexiteers, probably