Australian feedlot style beef production is of a scale and intensity unimaginable for Scottish extensive producers (Pic: Sydney Morning Herald) SCOTTISH FARMERS and crofters will be put out of business if an Australian Free Trade agreement, with no tariffs or quotas on sensitive products - particularly beef and lamb - is agreed by the UK government. As concern escalates over Boris Johnson s apparently headlong rush to strike post-Brexit trade deals with Australia and New Zealand, farmers leaders have warned that, however it is dressed up, fully opening the UK market to the agricultural powerhouses of the Antipodes will doom farm businesses closer to home – and set an awful precedent for future trade deals with North and South America.
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PRIME minister Boris Johnson says the UK Government is âkeen to see power sit at the most appropriate levelâ after being contacted by Shetland Islands Councilâs political leader on the issue of self-determination for the isles.
In a letter sent to council leader Steven Coutts in November, the prime minister also said he hoped to visit Shetland this year.
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Councillors voted overwhelmingly in September to explore options for financial and political self-determination amid frustration over the financial settlement and decision-making abilities offered by central government.
Coutts wrote to Johnson and Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon a week after the 18-2 vote to request meetings with the political figureheads and senior ministers to discuss options for self-determination.