Heather Anderson

IN April 2019, I did a wee film during the European election campaign saying that everyone in Scotland was an EU national. Back then, wrenching Scotland out of the European Union against our will and without our consent meant that all of us would lose the right to work, study, retire and live in Europe as citizens.

WE now have very little time to respond to the four-week consultation on the UK Internal Market white paper. This speedily cobbled together bill fundamentally breeches the devolution settlement. There are no barriers to trade within the UK at present, so the haste with which this bill is being pushed through can only suggest one thing: it gives Westminster the power it needs to lower standards and open up the whole of the UK to a trade deal with the current, hopefully outgoing, US administration.

LAST week Boris’s Brexit Batman, Gove, announced £500 million had been set aside to buy slaughtered lambs as part of the No Deal “planning”. Although we have predicted this for over 3 years, it appears that the UK Government have just worked out that No Deal means no market for UK lamb.

NO matter what happens after a hard Brexit, future financial support for Scottish farming is now a matter for public debate.