Sir,

I agree with Mr Taylor from Northern Ireland that the quangos are letting farming down, and also the unions, as they follow their own ideology. Pocket lining.

Did it take a young banker turned politician – French president Emmanuel Macron – to realise that the way food production stands at present will not survive?

There are very few businesses in food production at present that could survive without subsidies, a lot of them are in a situation “gun to the head” and it is a matter of time before the trigger will be pulled!

If the Global community accepts Macron's proposal that the producer has the right to fix the cost of production, food for the city dweller will get more expensive, there will be no more cheap food, so the housewife will have to get more prudent, no more food going into the bin.

We have all heard the braying of Eustice, Gove, Grayling, Leadsom – produce more, keep food cheap – they haven't a clue how food is produced. Their stock and trade is lies. They should try the truth for a change, truth you cannot add to it or subtract from it, lies know no boundaries.

So what is going to happen to UK food production? Will it collapse after Brexit? Remember no promises to support agriculture, only butterflies and blocked drains, that’s Gove's policy. Environment – but whose environment? Lloyds Bank and the Lynx Trust?

At present we are on Death Row. We just have to await our fate, we all know that we got sentenced by a court of lies, and our judges are running about like headless chickens!

All those aged persons that voted to leave Europe were very selfish. They forgot it is the young that must look after them, and the clock cannot be turned back, and you cannot eat money, it is made of metal or plastic.

Maybe poverty will bring people to their senses!!

Angus A Macdonald,

Balivanich,

Benbecula