In the Guardian today, the above, typically ill-informed and inaccurate, but tragically irrelevant.
You can read here, in some detail, on the risk of deadly measles spreading north as vaccination levels plummet in England and the plague of cheap drugs and associated crime spreading across 60 locations in Scotland from County Lines gangs based in large English cities.
Today, you can add to the case for full independence and a hard border, this news that much of the food you now eat has been dusted by a range of pesticides associated with increased risk of a range of cancers and other harms to your body which are banned in the EU.
And yet, the Guardian report is, strictly-speaking, inaccurate, because:
The control of pesticides is a devolved matter, and Scottish Ministers can choose to withdraw a pesticide product authorization for use in Scotland.
Why only strictly-speaking?
Well, though more food travels south across the border still a great deal comes the other way and there’s the prevailing south-westerly winds.
Source:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I know its an old story but it just shows the type of man he is,stuff the pensioners.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-keir-starmer-billed-taxpayer-nearly-250000-for-travel-expenses-at-cps/
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Much of the vegetables in our shops, more so recently, rather than say from Italy or Netherlands, is grown in England, Linc’s, Essex and other areas of the South East. I hadn’t thought about the English Brexit impact on pesticides etc. Another EngBrexit bonus then.
That will add to the ill health of more people needing NHS treatment, and lots of profits for the drugs companies and private healthcare corporations. There’s always an up side to making people ill. I buy organic, but pesticides sprayed will no doubt not be confined on large farms.
I’d say grow your own if you can, not always easy and this year with rotten weather, huge slug invasion etc, has not been good for our allotment veg growing. Scotland needs to take back the land and start growing more food for the people of Scotland, can’t see that happening though.
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With so much negativity abound in Scotland, and nothing, seemingly can help us, not even our poor and stupid selves, according to the media, it begs the question,(yet again), Why, oh why do the unionists wish to hold on to us so strongly, I wonder?
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‘The control of pesticides is a devolved matter, and Scottish Ministers can choose to withdraw a pesticide product authorization for use in Scotland.’
I wonder how the UK Internal Market Act 2020, with its ‘market access’ regulations and its principles of ‘mutual recognition for goods’ and ‘non-discrimination for goods’ across Great Britain, impacts on all this? What practical effect would this Act have on the availability of products within Scotland even if the Scottish Government chose to use its devolved powers to change food standard regulations?
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It was only yesterday, through reading M.N.R, that I discovered that tea is one of the items laced with pesticides. Coffee from now on for me as it seems to be the safer option.
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