A message saying "Brexit broke Britain" has been etched onto a field in Wiltshire, England, on the 10^th anniversary of the 2016 referendum which saw a majority of UK voters vote to leave the EU.

A video posted to YouTube appears to show a tractor and what appears to be a power harrow being used in the process of 'writing' the message.

The message was created by anti-Brexit campaign group Led by Donkeys (the name of which is a reference to historical criticisms of British army generals in the First World War).

Led By Donkeys claimed on its YouTube channel that the letters are large enough to be seen from space.

The organisations posted a video showing the message being 'written', with farmer David Catt speaking over the video (although the video does not say that he is the farmer who owns the field shown in the video)

In the video, he said that Brexit "has put a barrier between us and our biggest customers".

"A fisherman can't sell their fish because it's too expensive. We can't sell out products, and our exports to the EU have dropped phenomenally over the last decade," Catt said.

The farmer, who said that he has been farming for 52 years, added: "The problem I feel is these politicians have never been hungry. Without food, you have no economics. Without food, you have no politics."

According to Catt, farming in the UK is "on its knees, quite simple".

He claimed: "There isn't a 'Brexiteer' that's given me a positive out of what's happened. There aren't any."

Catt went on: "I'm at the stage of my life now where its my grandchildren's futures I'm concerned about. It's my grandchildren's futures I want to enhance.

"And the only way I think we can do that is by being part of Europe," he claimed.

Veterinary medicines

Brexit impacts are also being felt in the veterinary sector in Northern Ireland.

The UK government was warned earlier this month about the impacts that post-Brexit arrangements are having.

The details of how farmers and vets are being affected by these new arrangements were described in a letter addressed to the parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) with responsibility for biosecurity and animal welfare, Baroness Hayman.

The letter was written by the chair of the UK's Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Alistair Carmichael MP.

In his letter, Carmichael told Hayman about anecdotes that he has heard from farmers and vets since Northern Ireland's grace period expired at the end of 2025, which previously allowed the supply of veterinary medicines from Great Britain (GB) into Northern Ireland post-Brexit.