Extract from PMQs: Musicians - June 23
Thursday, 24 June 2021 08:20
John Nicolson (Ochil and South Perthshire) (SNP) [V]: Every day,
the Prime Minister strengthens the case for Scottish independence.
His recent trade deal sees food producers in Ochil and South
Perthshire subjected to unfair competition from low-welfare
Australian producers—this is a country where animals can be
transported to slaughter for two days in the baking heat, without
water. So farmers join seafood producers, musicians and those in a
host of other sectors who realise that his Brexit...Request free trial
(Ochil and South Perthshire) (SNP) [V]:
Every day, the Prime Minister strengthens the case for
Scottish independence. His recent trade deal sees food producers in
Ochil and South Perthshire subjected to unfair competition from
low-welfare Australian producers—this is a country where animals
can be transported to slaughter for two days in the baking heat,
without water. So farmers join seafood producers, musicians and those in a host of
other sectors who realise that his Brexit assurances were
substance-free hot air. But may I ask him when he is planning his
next covid-safe visit to Scotland? Please will he come soon,
because every visit is a tonic for us and toxic for his Scottish
Tory apologists.
The Prime Minister: I do not want to disappoint
the hon. Gentleman, but I am seldom away from Scotland and cannot
wait to be back there as soon as possible, after the record poll
secured by Scottish Conservatives at the recent election. Yet again
we hear this abuse of Australia, which has high animal welfare
standards, and a negative attitude to the opportunities that free
trade offers this country and the people of Scotland. When is the
hon. Gentleman going to stop running down Scottish agriculture and
the potential of Scottish farming?
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