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It's so bracing.
I bet it is too, at the moment.
It's so bracing.
Globalism - closely followed by Atlanticism, declinism and mercantilism ??
You's just 'avin a larf wiv'em now EV..
I rather enjoyed the empty austerity of lockdown V1.0. I took the Bentley out for a run, and was rewarded by endless miles of almost empty roads. It just made me want to keep driving.
While you're on the "in all fairness" tack, how about recognizing that the CAP these days has almost nothing in common with the CAP of old?In all fairness to him, I don't think that Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski is quite as much of a zealot as many of his predecessors. He has expressed deep concern about the loss of small scale family farms - nearly 200,000 in the last decade - and concedes that the CAP is the likely culprit. Whether that will lead to reform or not, who knows.
Wow, never saw that coming.
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...-eurozone-us-jobs-stock-markets-business-live
When does the no food and no medicine prediction kick in ?
Should we have had that slogan on our bus ?
Precisely, not even the government’s own modelling showed any growth advantage scenario- quite the opposite and only one loon of an economist forecast a gain- he was some pickled octogenarian who shared his fags with Farage.A 7.25% growth this year to offset the 9.9% fall the previous year. Whose to say that the growth wouldn't have been higher if we'd stayed in the EU?
I think that everyone is thankful that Brexit hasn't been a catastrophe.
While you're on the "in all fairness" tack, how about recognizing that the CAP these days has almost nothing in common with the CAP of old?
I agree with a lot of that. Whenever there is money around, powerful connected people come up with schemes to try to get their hands on some of it. There have been several proposals in recent years to put a cap on payments. The last time this was attempted, it was defeated by vociferous opposition from the UK (NFU and CLBA) and Germany, among others. The idea will certainly come back.Who said that I didn't.
The CAP is a gradually moving feast, and on a 7 year cycle, so it is being rehashed again this year.
The most significant changes have been to unlink the payments from production to hectarage, and most recently to link a proportion of the Single Farm Payment (which is now called the Basic Payment Scheme) to environmental initiatives, I think to the tune of 30%. There's also a rural initiatives scheme to promote rural businesses and diversification, and money to bring young blood into what is an ageing profession. These are called 'Pillar 1' and 'Pillar 2', the former being the BPS, the latter the rest. Between them they account for about 45% of the EU budget.
Is that sufficient, or shall I start on how it isn't working - how the SFP/BPS means that 80% of the dosh goes to 20% of the farmers, without exception industrial scale 'linear' farms, further enriching some of the richest people in Europe, and causing environmental havoc - there has been massive loss of diversity even in the last decade - how only about a third of farmers paid for green initiatives are actually compelled to carry out those initiatives, how subsidiarity is permitting massive scale fraud in Bulgaria, Slovakia and most controversially Hungary, where Orban clambered to power on the backs of small farmers then annexed their land and gave it to his mates, family and government officials, earning them millions in EU subsidies. The loss of small scale farms to mafia and government run fraud probably accounts for a good percentage of the 200,000 small farms that the current EU Agricultural Commissioner is getting in a sweat about.
I think that everyone is thankful that Brexit hasn't been a catastrophe.
You missed out know how and contacts, it could well be a positive.Comin' over 'ere, with their second-to-none education and qualifications, stealing all the high paying professional jobs from the salt of the erffff locals.
I agree with a lot of that. Whenever there is money around, powerful connected people come up with schemes to try to get their hands on some of it. There have been several proposals in recent years to put a cap on payments. The last time this was attempted, it was defeated by vociferous opposition from the UK (NFU and CLBA) and Germany, among others. The idea will certainly come back.
... Europe also largely comprises a group of ex-empires, several of them considerably more oppressive than our own, particularly the most recent and short lived one. It is ironic that, given that chequered history, the EU itself is driven by aspirations of empire, and manifests as a mercantilist project not averse to its own streak of mindless ruthlessness.
Wait until you find out Jean-Claude Junke is your Father, i can't wait to see the look on your face...
I take it that they voted remain.Apart from those for whom Brexit has been a catastrophe - like the many small businesses who did significant export business with the EU.