The Telegraph has been mocked for its attempt to criticise Andy Burnham’s food and drink deal with the European Union.
This month, the UK and the EU finalised a deal to remove red tape for food producers as part of Labour’s ‘reset’ of relations with the trading bloc.
Ahead of a crunch summit between the two, a draft statement showed that an agreement had been reached for paperwork requirements to be scrapped on a several products being exported to the EU from Britain.
Although this would sound like a broadly good thing to most Brits, the Brexiteer Telegraph decided that this is in fact bad for British food because the UK in return will have to align with EU plant, animal and food trading standards.
But when they laid out exactly what this would mean using the example of a full English, people were left confused as to what point the right-wing publication was trying to make.
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In a diagram, the Telegraph seemed to be complaining that Burnham’s food deal would mean there were new laws on pesticides that would affect tea and coffee, minimum fruit requirements in jam, reduced sugar in juices and less chemicals in bacon.
They also daftly claimed sausages were now ‘banned in the EU.’
The diagram was mocked by many, who joked that they actually would like more pesticides and chemicals in their food.
One person wrote: “Confused by this diagram. Lower nitrates in my bacon. Real fruit in my jam. No pesticides in my tea. Is this supposed to be a bad thing?”
Another said the Telegraph and Brexiteers would “rather drink pesticides than join the EU.”
Tory minister Victoria Atkins was also roasted after she shared the diagram and accused Labour of “serving up our food laws to the EU on a silver platter.”