Originally Posted by
Geoff Parkstone
As will have every farmer in the UK, because the control of the necessary agricultural subsidies rests in Europe with the CAP bureaucracy. With the probable exception of the French and the Italians, who cheat the subsidy system with seeming impunity, no farmer could survive otherwise, as the world grain price is by and large lower than the cost of producing the grain.
The cheap food policy, which has been a beacon of UK government policies since 1945, only works because of these subsidies - which existed long before the Common Market slid out of the Treaty of Rom's orifice in 1958 or indeed we joined up to the organisation.
If Cummings is two faced, then so are just about every farmer in the country, the majority of whom voted leave, although some later regretted and recanted it. Without these subsidies we would produce virtually no farm commodities ourselves and have to import near 100% of our food. One of BJ's biggest challenges will be to put in place viable support payments to the industry, or it will be ****ed