La rabbia degli agricoltori britannici cresce mentre la carne bovina australiana si riversa in Gran Bretagna – Le importazioni di carne aumentano dell’80% mentre l’accordo di libero scambio suscita critiche per l’impatto sui produttori locali
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/26/farmer-anger-grows-as-australian-beef-floods-into-britain/
di ByGollie
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I mean …they all voted for Brexit. They are the authors of their own pain in just about every facet of their voting intentions.
Why should they/The Telegraph expect average consumer to avoid Australian produce in some sad protest when practically every polling event over the last decade has landed us in the very position where Australian produce now ends up on our shelves?
Feels like everyone’s stuck between “cheap food” politics and actually valuing local producers. One tiny thing people could do is check labels and buy British when prices are close, at least.
Don’t buy it. Either buy the local beef or live for a while without it would be my suggestion.
This is part of the point of a free trade agreement, and there are tariff free quotas to be filled, after that point the imports will have tariffs applied.
But watching Landline (Australia’s weekly news devoted to farming) and seeing the scale of our farms, and then seeing things like Clarkson’s Farm, the scale difference is mind boggling. Combined with the population difference, and scale efficiencies, I can see why UK farmers are pissed. I’m kinda surprised that this FTA got through, it’s great for Australia, for the UK it seems to only replace a tiny amount lost from Brexit.
French farmer’s protectionism doesn’t sound as bad now does it
* April 2023 – [Australia is a huge opportunity for British business – if it takes it.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/08/australia-huge-opportunity-british-business/) – The Telegraph
* Dec 2021 – [Having signed the trade deal with Australia, Global Britain is just getting started](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/16/having-signed-trade-deal-australia-global-britain-just-getting/) – The Telegraph
* June 2021 [Don’t be fooled by Remainers, the Australia trade deal is better than anything we had in the EU](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/15/dont-fooled-remainers-australia-trade-deal-better-anything-had/) – The Telegraph
[Australia free trade deal a failure for UK, says George Eustice –
Former environment secretary George Eustice has savaged the UK’s free trade deal with Australia and criticised Liz Truss’s role in negotiating it.
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> Mr Eustice, who helped secure the agreement, told a Commons debate that it was “not actually a very good deal for the UK”.
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> It was the first post-Brexit deal negotiated from scratch.
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> But Mr Eustice argued it gave away “too much” after the then trade secretary Ms Truss “shattered” the UK’s negotiation.
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> At the time the government estimated the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement, signed on 17 December 2021, would unlock £10.4bn of additional trade while ending tariffs on all UK exports.
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> Mr Eustice told the Commons that now he is on the backbenches he “no longer has to put such a positive gloss on what was agreed”.
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> Overall the UK “gave away far too much for far too little in return”, he told MPs.
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> This includes giving Australia or New Zealand full access to the UK market to sell beef and sheep, while Australia still bans the import of British beef, he added.
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> Mr Eustice worked in the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for nearly a decade – first as a minister before being appointed secretary of state by Boris Johnson.
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> The UK started negotiations “with the strongest possible hand” but Mr Eustice said negotiators were put “on the back foot” by Ms Truss demanding that the terms of the deal were agreed before a meeting of the G7 in Cornwall on 11 June 2021.
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> To meet this deadline civil servants at the Department for International Trade (DIT) allowed Australian negotiators to “shape the terms” of the agreement, Mr Eustice argued.
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> He said the UK needed to learn from these “failures” and move responsibility for negotiations on agriculture and food to Defra.
Well well well
Trade deals that require transport across the globe for produce that can be farmed domestically shows the climate emergency up to be absolute bullshit.
Remember when the Australian news readers were laughing when the deal was signed? This is why.
Global Britain.
Man up buy frozen imported meats like we do because of lobbyism
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I’m sure most British consumers prefer cheaper food than more expensive.
Laughs in Australian.
Customers pay less. Propping up unproductive, inefficient farmers is just not a regular grocery buyer’s job.
Never understood how the tories got away with the mental gymnastics required to sell people on trade deals with everyone EXCEPT the EU. Somehow single market with our big neighbors next door who we have alignment in standards with was bad but all other free trade agreements were good.
British farmers were warned and they didn’t listen. Now they face the consequences of their insane vote for brexit.
Much as I would love to support them. If I am shopping and Australian beef is cheaper, that is what I am buying.
That is the consequence of a cost of living crisis.
The Australian wool industry did this to England before as well, no learning from their mistakes in England lmao.
These idiots all vote tory and brexit.
I get cheap food, they get fucked. Oh well.
I’m paying £43/kg for Scottish rib-eye.
Lol
So are they gonna do an Ausexit next?
Maybe their angry because Australian beef is better and cheaper..
Thanks Boris.
Didn’t Britain’s farmers vote to leave the EU for better trade deals with everywhere else instead? Guess you can say they reap what they sow.
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-referendum/survey-reveals-58-farmers-back-eu-exit
“In an exclusive poll, we asked our readers exactly how they planned to vote in the upcoming referendum. Of 577 farmers who completed the survey, 58% said they wanted to leave, while just 31% said they wanted the UK to remain in the trade bloc”, April 2016
The big difference between intra-EU trade and general global trade is that the EU institutions motive is to promote trade within Europe and to create level playing field internally – it’s a community of members. The whole foundation of the EU is to underpin European economic security in the joint interest of its members. The same will never be true in general global trade and trade agreements.
The simple reality of it is they always have a transactional underpinning and they’re not negotiated with a philosophy of neighborlyness, or a socioeconomic motive – it’s just cold hard trade economics. There isn’t any altruistic or solidarity based motive to any of that. It’s just transactional, which is the kind of thing that the Tories dream about …a kink for brutal market economics.
I don’t know about anyone else but I buy beef at least once a week and I’ve seen fuck all Aussie beef in any shop I’ve been in. Flooding the market my arse. I do, however, smell a lot of bullshit with this article.
On the bright side, it won’t even slightly reduce the cost of beef for consumers.
Of course, it’s only the bright side if you are a supermarket.