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Gove, Fox, and many others were part of the discredited and dis-banded Atlantic Bridge, 'charity'.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-atlantic-bridgeTheir intent was, and clearly remains to ditch the EU standards for food, food production and animal welfare standards to allow US manufacturers free access to the UK market. The US has some obvious areas where the EU standards are clearly different, and higher than the US;
gmo feedstuffs are routine in US livestock production, and food production,
most US milk is from gene-modified cattle,
the oft-invoked 'chlorine washed' chicken.If at Brexit+1 minute, DExEU introduces legislation to 'copy'n'paste' EU Food Regulations,
the Atlanticists and their backers cannot start importing US food,
and,
the UK will be subject to legislation, ultimately enforced by the ECJ, that we have no part in writing, (='vassalage' J Rees Mogg, '= satrapy' A dePfeffel), one of TMay's Lancaster House speech Red Lines.I'm also fairly certain that the UK arbitrarily adopting EU Food regulations goes against the indissolubility of the EU's Four Freedoms,
unless specifically negotiated and agreed by the EU27.
mespilus-
I totally get that aside from the now addressed WTO issue, doing what I suggested wouldn’t be in the interests of Brexiteers, but I was thinking it was a possibility to minimise any potential border issues to keep food coming in, but since the WTO thing has been brought up I understand that wouldn’t work.
NurseHolliday
Yes I understand that, but the concept that there would be carnage at borders due to food coming into the country, seems to be overstated.
At the moment, food comes into the country fine because it's been produced in the EU and therefore conforms to EU regulations for food manufacturing.
If we leave the EU it doesn't stop us saying, "EU food can enter without checks".
That doesn't address the potential cost increase, but honestly, what is stopping us writing a law that comes into affect the day we BREXIT (if we do), that says anything that comes in from the EU conforms to our own standards?