BodyButter
Vital Football Legend
Trade Minister Greg Hands has said British farmers have nothing to fear from a proposed free trade deal with Australia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57271929
I've just run that through our 'world class' translation software and it comes out as:
Be afraid, prepare to shit yourself, Google nearest Job Centre.
It's really fascinating to watch the whole process from a far.
Having thrown the fishermen under the bus, they are now going to throw the farmers under the bus. The biggest farm in Australia is bigger than Wales. Compete with that scale.
Traditionally, rural areas vote blue and urban areas vote red. It looks like the Tories are throwing their traditional voters overboard in favour of those sexy new Tory voters from Bolton and Stoke.
It's not a bad strategy if they can keep the support of the urban poor. It's a ruinous strategy if the Tories are going to kick Boris to the curb and bring in a more traditional Tory government and swing back against the urban poor.