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With everything else going on, the Agriculture Bill was quietly voted through the commons last night. Proof, if ever it were needed, that we remain on this government's course for Brexit at any cost. Putting American farmers ahead of British farmers was how one commentator described it.
Needless to say, our beloved Natalie acquiesced without murmur. Further up the coast one of the few remaining true Tories, Sir Roger Gale, stuck by his priniciples. So, after years of leading the EU in the quest for high food standards upheld by law, we now are asked to trust this bunch of untrustworthy careerists to maintain them for us. I wonder how the NFU and the others who campaigned so vigorously are feeling now.
The fisheries bill is the next to come back to MPs. That should be interesting too. Marine campaigners want stronger commitments from the government that future fishing quotas will be set in line with scientific advice.
Ministers insist that they will ensure future fishing limits are within the “maximum sustainable yield”, but that setting such a commitment in law would tie the hands of negotiators in the expected annual talks with the EU and other countries over shared fishing grounds.
The government is also resisting calls to require fishing vessels to carry monitoring equipment, in order to ensure they are landing their catch in line with the rules, and to end destructive fishing practices such as “bottom trawling” in marine protected areas. The con continues.