Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 4 days agoReread.
Alignment of UK food standards. Means our own standards must continue to meet the EUs.
This is the only reason the EU will ever accept removal of documentation confirming the standards followed in food it will eat.
And exactly what remainers claimed about EU trade throughout the ref.
It is also the exact reason the US trade deals keep failing. Their food standards do not meet ours. So importing US food into the UK would mean deals like this. Where our food standards must align are impossible.
It really is not that complex. If your standards don’t meet those of the folks your selling to. Your companies are required to proove the items sold meet their standards not yours. Hence all the last 4 years of difficulties selling to the EU.
rah@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Doesn’t contain the words “domestic sales” and is open to interpretation.
How have you determined that? I couldn’t find any explanation of what this means, or the text of the agreement.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Your need for an ELI5 is not my issue.
It’s not a confusion. Our standards are what we require folks to sell food in the UK. If our standards and the EU are aligned. You have to be pretty fucking stupid to keep insisting that dose not relate to domestic sales.
What the fuck else do you think standards aligned actually means.
rah@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I haven’t insisted that.
I’m not making any claim about what it means, you are. It’s on you to show that what you’re saying is true.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Yes I am. Based on a whole history of treaty talks since Brexit where the whole topic was based on trading standards and how alignment was why we could not join the customs union.
Expecting a fucking news article to teach you the topics you seem to have missed. Is expecting ELI5
And you you did suggest a meaning, when you openly interpreted the article as a good benefit of Brexit. And stated that it said nothing about domestic food standards.
You were specifically claiming we had some form of double standard that applies to food we export and food we don’t.
Nothing in the article claims that. And I can assure you we as a nation do not. So you invested that meaning to make your rather pathetic point about the deal matching some Brexit benefit.
I made a very clear pretty close to ELI5 maybe 10. Of why I and the other poster was able to interpret the “aligned to EU standards” as relating to domestic sales. Based entirely on facts differing news have covered in detail while May and Bojo were negotiating.
Your failure to understand such simple points. Is likely why you voted Brexit.