One-percent Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37493956 funny how for the last fifty years, rich farmers have been showered with taxpayers money and nothing said (other than on here but I can't find the thread). me thinks that this is a ploy to encourage the general populace to begin to see brexit as maybe a good thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knock out johnny Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 Do you think the land owning class are gonna give up their free money without a fight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libspero Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 They were never going to continue giving farmers the same silly subsidies the EU insisted on. This is just a PR exercise in getting the public on side with the cuts. Politics of envy etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One-percent Posted September 29, 2016 Author Share Posted September 29, 2016 No and as those that seem to get the most are in charge, I don't for a minute think they will even be asked to. my guess is that this is the first in a long line of articles that explain how stupid/corrupt/inefficient/unfair/costly etc the EU is and that we are far better on our own. Then, once the dust has settled, it will be business as normal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellerkat Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 1 hour ago, libspero said: They were never going to continue giving farmers the same silly subsidies the EU insisted on. This is just a PR exercise in getting the public on side with the cuts. Politics of envy etc. You don't surely don't think a little thing like Brexit is going to separate the troughers' snouts from the swill? 1 hour ago, One-percent said: Then, once the dust has settled, it will be business as normal Absolutely. There'll probably be super-injunctions to prevent people knowing about it. Nobody does secrecy quite like we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 There was a report on countryfile about how farm payments are going to stop. But sadly they competely missed the point as they ranted on about declining wildlife levels and how that will get worse when payments stop. Well as the declining wildlife levels have got worse whilst payments have been made, it can't do much worse than stopping them and seeing what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One-percent Posted September 29, 2016 Author Share Posted September 29, 2016 10 minutes ago, SarahBell said: There was a report on countryfile about how farm payments are going to stop. But sadly they competely missed the point as they ranted on about declining wildlife levels and how that will get worse when payments stop. Well as the declining wildlife levels have got worse whilst payments have been made, it can't do much worse than stopping them and seeing what happens. Quite. In addition 'food' or what passes for it is cheaper today than it has ever been. Heretical i know, but why not try the novel idea of free markets in all areas. Take out CAP, tax credits, housing props, and lets see where things settle? Then if working people can't pay their own way, feed, house and clothe themselves, we know that the system is broken and start doing something about it. the way it is going, we're all going to be special cases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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