The Meghan Markle UK Experience Is Reflective of the State of the Nation
Escaping despotic Conservatives and a ‘majority population under the influence of lies, racism, and hatred is vital to our health and prosperity.
As you know, Britain and the European Union parted ways a few months ago. The United Kingdom remains divided. Much like America was with Trump running his reality show.
I’m embarrassed to be British. I will never live in England again. Living in Scotland, I beg everyone to vote for the Scottish National Party in the May election. We must secure a second Independence Referendum.
Since 2007, the Tories have chosen every wrong turn imaginable. In their eyes, though, it could very well have been by design.
Sensible and decent human beings know that the EU, and what it stands for, is good for everyone.
Followers of nationalistic pride politicians (read Fascism) and self-inflicted austerity leads me to imagine the religious zealots who self-flagellate. The people who voted to leave the EU and still believe it is the right thing to do, continue to fall for so many lies.
Hindsight doesn’t even come into what has happened and is still happening. We have yet to survive direr circumstances in the UK.
The blatant lies told recently by the Prime Minister and his lackeys:
Bureaucracy
Since Brexit red tape cut export businesses off at the knees, the British economy lost £5.6 billion worth of EU business income.
The bountiful, low-priced fish and shellfish in my local supermarkets are because of Scottish businesses not being able to get their fish transported to the EU. The motorway queues, the fines for being in the queue, and the 71 pages of export documents required are a game-changer for the fishing industry.
As luck would have it, EU imports have reduced by only 28.8% so food and medicines are still getting into the UK, compared to the 40.7% of export goods in January that didn’t leave Britain because of obscene amounts of delays and paperwork.
Once admired for our national institutions, the world now ridicules the UK for selling 49 NHS General Practices off to South American Insurance company Centene in London. Keep Our NHS Public stated on February 26h 2021 that this sale happened without consultation with the public.
The government also wrapped and presented, with a big shiny red bow, the National Health Service to the USA. Of course, they said they would not sell off an institution that the public pays for and owns. The UK government says a lot of things that we regularly discover are not true.
According to Full Fact, along with already being able to bid for NHS contracts in England, the US is also keen to charge the UK 2.5% more for pharmaceuticals than they have in a deal with Australia. The devolution of Scotland and Wales means the deal will not affect their health services. Again, I’m relieved to live in Scotland.
We Own It asks us to sign their petition to stop further NHS GP surgery sell-offs.
How far will the Tories permit the worst aspects of the American way of living to invade the once democratic, for the people, UK?
Chlorinated Chicken
Specifically, chlorine-washed chicken. Chlorine disguises the dreadful unsanitary conditions battery chickens have to live in.
Perhaps US citizens are used to the unpleasant flavour of their chicken or, more likely, it’s very well hidden under layers of spices, dressings or coatings.
Should we allow more delicious tasting processed food abominations to join the already glutted UK processed food market?
The UK government wanted to rush ahead with a trade deal that will permit the sale of chlorinated chickens. They had until November 2020 to make this deal with Trump. It could be at the cost of doing a healthy choice deal with the EU.
First, let’s think about the reason for chlorinated chickens. Greenpeace tells us chlorine is used to wash the chickens to kill bacteria, salmonella, for example.
It’s not the chlorine-washing itself that’s the problem, but what it’s supposed to be hiding: detritus and bacteria that come from poor industrial farming practices.
Second, why would we want to eat one? Besides the taste, which would be enough to put most people off, they will be cheaper. Cheaper than the already cheap chickens on UK shelves. You can buy a chicken big enough to feed four for about the same price as a cup of coffee. Farmdrop shares the price chickens pay that supermarkets don’t want you to know about:
94% of chickens sold in the UK are allowed by law to have an A4 sheet sized allowance of space in a shed.
Chickens are kept in constant dim light day and night to discourage rest and speed up growth.
Antibiotic use is routine resulting in 1/4 of chickens testing positive for antibiotic resistant e-coli.
2.2m chickens consumed daily in the UK. Around a billion chickens are slaughtered every year.
The UK saved from chlorinated chicken
On Sunday 1 November, The Guardian headline: UK will not import chlorinated chicken from the US, ministers say, assured us the UK is safe from disgusting cheap chicken.
The UK still has plenty of cheap British chicken, though.
Photo by Artem Beliaikin from Pexels
The treatment of Meghan Markle by the UK forced her and Prince Harry to move to Canada. If Scotland’s bid for independence fails a second time, I will move to Europe or Canada.
In the meantime, millions of UK citizens desperately need free fresh food forests like the one in Atlanta, GA, near or in every poverty-stricken area caused by Tory austerity in the UK. If we start now, we might reap the harvests in a few years.
The Trussell Trust is looking for a way to close its food banks. Food forests could solve mental health and poverty issues. By getting communities involved in planning growing, and tending to many crops, locals will feel part of a project that, in time, will produce free fresh food for them.
Thank you for reading.
