“Farmers ‘on the brink’ after record rains, phasing out of EU subsidies and price volatility”
It's almost as if going for Brexit while denying climate change was, and still is, a terrible idea.
Ah, yes, this will solve that;
“The National Farmers’ Union lobbied to increase the amount of pesticides allowed in the UK’s drinking water and to allow farmers to spread manure more frequently as part of a post-Brexit loosening of environmental regulations, it can be revealed.”
It's not Brexit that put farmers 'on the brink’, or the lack of action on climate change, but the fact that they aren't allowed to poison the earth 🙄
@sindarina I've read that article, and to be fair to the Guardian it's actually making your point. It wasn't arguing that the NFU was *correct* to say those things, it was reporting that they were things the NFU said on the basis that its readership might like to know the NFU was arguing for more poison in the water supply.
It wasn't quite that explicit about it, but that was definitely the tone of the article.
