SIR, – Probably we are the only Europeans that have a high degree of history in running referendums, and, as always, there are winners and losers – or are we all losers in the long term?
What will the future of agriculture look post 2017?
Will we be better off or worse off? Will we be getting better prices for the goods we produce if we are going to see a setback in the amount of public support given so that the modern housewife can go and buy more excess food than is required and half her purchases end up in the bin?
Is food going to be valued once more, when world markets will disappear or are we going to be flooded with cheap sub-standard food where it is produced regardless of humane policy?
Can we trust the politicians to deliver a future to young farmers after what we learned at the referendums?
So, to end 2016, I have re-engineered the rhyme of the Ancient Mariner:
“Lies here, lies there, lies everywhere and not a drop of truth, to think!”


Angus A Macdonald,
Balivanich,
Benbecula