Many farmers highly sceptical about the benefits of Brexit

PETER Auty states we should be patriotic and give UK farmers the support they need.

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A good initiative, but of course the best way of supporting our farmers is through measures to reduce the devastation of their industry as a result of Brexit.

The majority of British farmers feel that, despite pre-Brexit promises of a “bonfire of red tape” once the UK had left the EU, the reverse is true. Some 86 per cent of farmers and industry stakeholders taking part in a recent survey believed that politicians’ Brexit promises had been broken.

The survey also showed a high level of scepticism amongst farmers about the free-trade deals the UK government has been so keen to forge since leaving the EU, with 31 per cent saying the deals done so far were “fairly bad” for British farming, and 48 per cent saying they were “very bad”. That's 79 per cent negativity.