Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Get orf my land.
Farmers' Weekly: RPA millionaires
Cuts dear boy? Oh gosh no. Only for the proles don't you know?
Posted by chrisch @ 10:22 PM (579 views) Add Comment
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1. vinrouge said...
I didn't realise there was so much agriculture in EC1 !
2. Sin Nick said...
oink oink piggies at the trough
3. mark wadsworth said...
That is an excellent spot, thanks. Big picture wise, £2 billion divided by 100,000 recipients = £20,000 each, on average, a tidy sum of money.
This explains why farmers always wail about having to sell their milk to supermarkets at below cost (but miraculously stay in business), NB- the supermarkets have the upper hand and deduct the value of the subsidies from the price they are prepared to pay.
4. Wario said...
Good link, fills in the figs. for the Black Hole in SE Scotland previously unobtainable even on http://farmsubsidy.org/GB, a Hole which incidentally harbours some of the most opulent latifundia in the country.
It's actually worse than the raw figures suggest, as the obsessive secrecy over land ownership means that it is not immediately obvious to those without local, basically word-of-mouth knowledge that even the smaller recipients are not sturdy kulaks in the english style, but the tenantry of (e.g.) the Dukes and Marquesses of Buccleuch, Roxburgh and Lothian.
So the Gentry are really coining it with this "tax the urban poor" wheeze.
Happy days!
5. Fraggle said...
I love how the EU consider our democratic process and safeguards as problematic. How dare we encourage civil service impartiality? That said, I'm not sure who they thought the info would help/hinder?