Ten years of Brexit: a small farm future special

There are a few anniversaries in the air at the moment. The one that looms in British politics is the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum, which was held on 23 June 2016. I daresay the media will soon be full of opinion pieces about it, so I thought I’d get mine in early and move on. It would be possible to write at great length about the numerous ins and outs of the Brexit process over this last decade. If you don’t believe me, take a look at Chris Grey’s Brexit Blog – a weekly compendium of heavyweight political and economic analysis that makes my posts here look like airy haikus by comparison. I’m not going to try matching that. Instead, I’ll content myself with a few remarks on some overarching political aspects and then a few more on the agricultural side of things. Finally, to add a frisson of personal interest I’ll wrap up by revealing what I voted in 2016 and what I’d vote in the unlikely event of a future Brentry referendum. No cheating and skipping ahead now… On the…