Larry Williams Drive

Well, that’s a rubbish free trade deal.I think we can accept that as fact given pretty much everyone who knows anything about what they’re talking about is unimpressed with it.Meat and dairy have been shafted. There is nothing to celebrate in this for them.Beef exporters are only allowed to provide 0.1 percent of the meat that Europeans eat.Cheese exporters are only allowed to provide 0.14 percent of the cheese they eat.If meat and dairy are not happy, this is a rubbish deal, because these guys are our big hitters in this country. They make up about 40 percent of our exporters between them.Some with skin in the game will be happy with what they’ve got overnight – kiwifruit for example – but fruit only makes up 5 percent of our exports. So for everyone, it’s actually rats and mice.The question actually here is not whether or not this is a good deal, because it isn’t, but whether we should’ve signed it. I don’t think we should’ve.I went to bed last night convinced we weren’t going to sign this deal for all the