Briefings for Britain, April 7, Catherine McBride
The FT is determined to convince its video viewers that the UK needs to rejoin the EU. This time they are claiming we need a Veterinary Agreement to reduce border friction – we don’t. Only 0.5% of UK exports would ever need this, and we have continued to export beef and dairy products to the EU since Brexit, without one. So, what is the FT’s real agenda?
I wrote an article in March asking if the FT would ever get over Brexit. Their response seems to be a resounding ‘No’ as they have just released a 25-minute video entitled We need to talk about Brexit.
The FT chose to interview a Micro company with under 10 employees, a Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) and a beef farmer but not any of the UK’s major exporting companies. The UK’s largest exports are: Business services; Machinery and transport equipment; Financial Services; Travel; Chemicals; Telecoms, Computers and information services; Miscellaneous manufactures; Material manufactures; Insurance and pensions; and Fuels. So, should we be concerned with the issues of these three companies and are their complaints really Brexit related?
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