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Brexit Food Price Scare Mongering!

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

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Here we go again, more doom, gloom and scaremongering from the Remainers - this time led by the House of Lords!

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Before I go on, yes I am still using the word 'Brexit' and not the 'Full Withdrawal of the UK from the EU' or 'FWUKEU', because all the interweb search engines are optimised for the word 'Brexit'.

Now back to Remoaner scare-mongering.

What a surprise, the Lords EU Environment Committee has said that food bills could rise sharply after Brexit if no deal is reached with the bloc.

"In the event of the UK leaving the EU in March 2019 without any deal, it said, the UK could face an average 22% tariff on food imports from the Continent. Reports the BBC.

"While this would not equate to a 22% increase in food prices for consumers, there can be no doubt that prices paid at the checkout would rise.

"To counteract this, the government could cut tariffs on all food imports, EU and non-EU, but this would pose a serious risk of undermining UK food producers who could not compete on price."

Of course the obvious question would be, why would our own government slap a 22% tariff on food imports? What is there to gain by doing this? This is just complete nonsense! Post-Brexit the UK can set its own tariff rates and only apply them where needed to protect UK producers.

And as Jacob Rees-Mogg said on the BBC2 Daily Politics programme about this today, firstly he said food prices will come down when we leave the EU, and then he went on to say:

"The House of Lords has missed one very important thing, and that is that if you are in negotiation for a free trade agreement you can maintain your existing standards for ten years under WTO rules.

"So we have ten years from the point at which we leave the European Union to negotiate a free trade agreement with the EU which would mean we could continue with zero tariffs. So this is something the report just ignores, it's unaware of."

And he went on to say that basically the lords did not know what they were on about.

Either that or that Lords committee is wilfully trying to mislead people - I'll leave it to you to decide which.

Appearing on the programme with Jacob Rees-Mogg was the English historian Lord Hennessey, and he said that much of the anti-Brexit feeling amongst the peers stemmed from alarm that their life's work would be destroyed. People approaching their twilight years, he said, could see their careers being shredded.

John Redwood on EU negotiations.

UK universities, education and the imaginary 'Brexodus'.

Sources:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44060430

http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2018/05/09/how-to-negotiate-with-the-eu/

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/our-great-universities-are-struggling-but-not-because-of-brexit/

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