tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post3039956761334712358..comments2023-08-19T16:44:23.150+01:00Comments on National Left: Tories have decided that they can snub Assembly over Brexit.glynbeddauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09933352430631144936noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-91236659281869435472017-02-12T16:02:38.263+00:002017-02-12T16:02:38.263+00:00Apparently the majority of welsh farmers voted for...Apparently the majority of welsh farmers voted for brexit - seduced by the leave campaigns bogus promises that westminster would match and continue levels of farm subsidies from the EU and that there were huge new markets out there just waiting for farming produce from wales. Indeed i still chuckle when recalling hearing one leave campaigner telling a group of welsh farmers during the campaign that Uganda offered them the kind of lucrative new trading opportunities leaving the eu would offer them - Uganda has got 20 around million cattle and i don't think the good folk of kampala will be tucking into welsh beef sarnies any time soon. <br /><br />And it didn't taken long since the referendum result for reality to hit farmers in wales. Within a month of the result the secretary of state for wales was saying eu levels of subsidies for welsh farmers wouldn't be continued by westminster. And in the last couple of weeks rumours of a UK New Zealand trade deal that could flood welsh shops with diary products from new zealand have emerged.<br /><br />All the protections and benefits the welsh farming industry enjoyed as a result of membership of the eu were stripped away with the leave vote on june 23rd. The fact a majority of welsh farmers voted to leave is a reminder that turkeys do indeed sometimes vote for christmas. <br /><br />P.S. something like 80 percent of welsh agricultural exports are to the EU single market - a single market the UK is about to leave. Leigh Richardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10598475954140926742noreply@blogger.com