Robert Currie Speaks Against The C.A.P. In The Yorks Post.

The elephant in the room is the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its effect on the people of the UK as a whole who pay for it.

The CAP costs our country £5.5bn each year. That is over £100 each year for every adult in the UK, or an Olympic Games every year without the fun. In recent times the money has been changed from food production to environmental (decoupling).
It is paid out to farmers and rich landowners simply to look after the land they own regardless of any food it produces. The result is that production has and will increasingly drop particularly in grassland areas, resulting in higher prices in the shops for everyone and an increase in the nation’s dependance on imported food.
The farmers on the other hand can now dispense of their dairy herds and lie in bed till late knowing that if they have a couple of hundred hectares they will draw a cool £50,000 per year for life so long as they keep their land tidy.
The CAP is a waste of taxpayers’ money and serves nobody. It is immoral globally allowing subsidied farming products from the EU to compete unfairly with food produced in developing countries. Support for farming if deemed necessary should benefit all particularly those who pay it. Those farmers who say they cannot survive without the drug should try a little cold turkey or leave the industry just like any other business. Good luck those farmers from Thixendale that buck the trend and diversify to develop their businesses.
ANOTHER reason to quit the EU!